Dear UICB members,

UICB has a Vision of what the future we want to be moving towards looks like and a Mission that describes what our role is, today as well as in that future. We want to reactivate the UICB, engage its members – old and new – in this attempt to spread our message, which is:

A good built environment is a worthwhile investment for all.

The UICB members as professionals in information services for the construction sector can help to make the built environment better. A high quality built environment is energy conscious, practical, durable and aesthetically pleasing in accordance with Vitruvius’ famous Utilitas, Firmitas, Venustas .

In an increasingly competitive society, knowledge as to how to build, improve and maintain this environment is a tool which makes its user more competitive and gives added value to the end product.The UICB as a world-wide organisation works for the shaping, distribution and use of valid information for all players in the construction field towards a good built environment as a wide concept.

The UICB is now making new efforts to activate the members. We want to enable you, our members, to profit from each others’ experiences and thus give added value to each other in your everyday work. We are launching new cooperation models already this year, as the Secretary General will report.  Together we are so much stronger than the sum of our separate building centres.

So join the work forces of the UICB and spread the word! The more numerous we are the better we can be heard, the more we can influence our whole built environment and the better the tools we possess will become.

Gunnel Adlercreutz

President