INTRODUCTION
CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction) was established in Holland in 1953 with support of the UN as an association whose objectives were to stimulate and facilitate international collaboration and information exchange between governmental research institutes in the Building and Construction sector. CIB has since developed into a worldwide network of over 5000 experts from over 400 organizations active in the research community, in industry or in education, who collaborate and exchange information in approximately 60 Commissions extending over all fields in building and construction related research and innovation.

The globalization of world economies, today, is creating unprecedented challenges and more than ever, international cooperation and communication are essential. CIB is uniquely able to facilitate this and does this through its network of international Tasks Groups and Working Commissions. The CIB Working Commission 99 (Safety and Health in Construction) will host a pre-conference workshop and the International Conference on Global Unity for Safety and Health in Construction from June 26^th to 30^th, 2006 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

INVITATION
The Organizing Committee is honored to invite researchers, engineers and practitioners, and safety/health professionals to address current fundamental problems and constraints that affect the successful achievement of safety and health in construction. The primary objective of the conference is to communicate information, expertise and research results on construction safety and health in order to assist all nations, especially developing and underdeveloped nations around the world, to make improvement in the well being of the construction workforce. All submitted abstracts and papers will be reviewed by the Scientific and Technical Committee according to the standards reviews procedures. The proceedings will be published and available at the conference. CIB welcomes governmental officers, experts, scholars, and specialists from all over the world to submit papers and attend the pre-conference workshop and the conference. The submitted abstracts should be no more than 300 words, with the manuscript limited to 8 pages of A4 size paper, inclusive of tables, figures, references and appendices.

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE
The submitted papers are to be written only in English for publication in the conference proceedings. The official languages of the conference are English and Chinese. Interpreters will be provided for key note speeches. 

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submitting deadline:                   January 30, 2006
Abstract acceptance notification:              February 1, 2006
Full paper submitting deadline:                March 31, 2006
Full paper acceptance notification:           April 30, 2006
Pre-Conference Workshop:                      June 26-27, 2006
Conference:                                                  June 28-30, 2006　

CONTACT
Chairman of Organizing Committee
Professor Fang Dongping, Tsinghua University
Director, (Tsinghua - Gammon) Construction Safety Research Center
Department of Construction Management, School of Civil Engineering,

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 100084
Tel: +86-10-6279-5113
Fax: +86-10-6277-3661
E-mail: fangdp@tsinghua.edu.cn 

Conference Secretary
All correspondence including submission of abstracts and papers relating to the conference should be addressed and returned to:

Choudhry Muhammad Rafiq
PhD Candidate, (Tsinghua – Gammon) Construction Safety Research Centre (CSRC)
Department of Construction Management, School of Civil Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Telephone: +86 10 62795113
Fax: +86 10 62770380
E-mail: choudhry03@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

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