The initiative to adopt a common international construction classification system has was born out of the need to increase international competitiveness, improve cooperation and knowledge sharing and to enable faster adoption of digital working methods in our construction and real estate sectors.
The Construction Classification International Collaboration (CCIC) was established as an International Non-Profit Association in Brussels, Belgium on 11th of September 2020 by the Estonian Construction Information Foundation and Czech Standardisation Agency with support from Molio in Denmark.
Establishment
Principles
This collaboration model has been used successfully in several international standards
projects with a total of over 250 different organizations participating (eg. www.icms-coalition.org).
The model is created to ensure that the content is shared and adopted successfully in the market. In doing so the model is designed to address historically troublesome topics such as IP ownership, cost and shared credit.
The coalition foundational principles are:
● Not holding or having money;
● Owned and run by the member bodies;
● Separation of technical content production from representation and politics;
● IP is owned by the coalition; thus all the member bodies equally;
● The technical content is distributed for free to the world.
Costs
The funding of individual CCIC activities will have to be covered by each member organization by themselves. There is no financial plan for the CCIC and no payments. There are also no large cost items. The main cost will be the time spent by subject matter experts in meetings and technical discussions. But this will be a joint effort where participants will benefit much more from knowledge sharing.
Marginal costs for the CCI website and communication tools will be covered on a voluntary basis.
Benefits
From dialogue with software vendors and major companies within consulting, construction and product manufacturing we know that the international approach is very important. Therefore, national representatives will have a much stronger position in their own country by joining the coalition, and this will be strengthened when more countries join.
CCIC members will benefit from the sharing of best practices and domain knowledge with other countries. The coalition will also be a strong incentive for international software vendors to include CCI integration in their software products.
Charter and Bylaws
Download the Charter and Bylaws governing the CCIC.
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Join us!
Application is open to any international, national or regional association, organization, not-for-profit entity or governmental body (regardless of its legal form) serving the construction industry.
In order to become a member (Trustee) of the Collaboration, the Applicant should complete all sections of the membership application form, sign it (the signature of the legal representative is required ) and return the scanned copy to info@cci-collaboration.org.
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