UICB 50th Anniversary Celebration
06 NOVEMBER 2008
ISTANBUL

The International Union of Building Centres (UICB) celebrated its 50th year anniversary in a special event organized at The Building Information Centre in Istanbul.

Managing directors and other top managers of member companies met in Istanbul to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UICB. The event was open to members and non-members alike and it attracted key people from the construction sector with certain emphasis on the Turkish construction sector professionals with whom The Building Information Centre is closely related.

Opening speeches of Dogan Hasol, chairman of board of  The Building Information Centre, who also chaired UICB twice, and Gunnel Adlercreutz President of The  UICB was followed by an international conference with open participation focusing on the future of the building business. Three experts in international arena delivered lectures in the Future of Building Conference where projections on the future of building sector were conveyed to the leaders of Turkish building sector.

Vincent Cousin, the founder of Palludio Games in 2005 for production of multimedia documents including games, enhancing the image of construction activities in the public or for education and training, was the first lecturer in the Conference. In this lecture he related to the inter-connected relations between building professionals and their roles in the building process and how they are modeled in his Building & Co. video game. He focused on how these relations can be further developed in the e-age. Secondly, Mathieu Mottrie, who is the Operations Manager of CREAX, focused on the ways innovation and success methodology implemented in other areas of profession can be applied to the building sector. The Conference ended with the lecture of Prof. Sirkka Heinonen, who acts currently as Professor of Futures Studies at Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC), Turku School of Economics. In her lecture Prof. Heinonen conveyed to the audience the new phenomena which will shape the future of the building sector, in order to facilitate the relevant decision making process.

After the Conference the laureate of the UICB Logo Competition was announced. This Competition was held in order to chose a new logo for the UICB which would reflect the renewed vision and aims of the union in its 50th anniversary. The winner of the competition, Murat Bektaş, received his prize from Gunnel Adlercreutz, the president of the UICB.