Corporate Plan 2023-28

Our Corporate Plan starts with what matters most to the users and creators of the built environment and how we help the construction industry respond. The plan has been shaped by our Trustees and members across the globe to deliver upon our public benefit remit. It is our roadmap to 2028. 

Driving us forward is our aim to make modern professionalism in construction management widely aspired to and increasingly a reality across the industry. We define modern as innovative, sustainable, and inclusive, and professionalism as ethical, skilled and trusted. Modern professionalism is at the heart of our plan. 

There are 3 priority areas we have in focus:

Quality and Safety

Good quality buildings and infrastructure promote health, safety and wellbeing, as well as delivering social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits. The safety of the built environment should be so fundamental that it can be taken for granted, but recent years have shown that this isn’t always the case.
We will: 

• Bring about a culture change in the industry that ensures quality and building safety are at the heart of everything we do and never sacrificed for profit. 
• Become the leading provider of education, training and standards in quality and building safety in the built environment, globally.

Environmental Sustainability

The construction industry needs to operate in a way that ensures environmental impact is minimal and contributes to a sustainable future. Designing, creating, maintaining and recycling to deliver a built environment that society can live with, use and enjoy.
We will: 

• Equip CIOB members (individual and company) with the knowledge and skills to manage and deliver the construction process in environmentally sustainable ways.
• Embed environmental sustainability into relevant learning programmes across schools, colleges and universities. 
• Support industry and stakeholders in building the case for change through environmentally sustainable activities and metrics.

Skills Gaps

The industry must increase productivity to match other mainstream sectors, ensuring the built environment is fit for changing societal needs and a growing population. Most worldwide construction markets are reporting a skilled labour shortage. The lack of a representative workforce in the sector significantly reduces the available talent pool.
We will: 

• Contribute tangibly to reducing the industry skills shortage across priority skills by 2028. 
• Help the industry bring in people, from a diverse range of backgrounds, who would not have joined without CIOB’s actions. 
• Improve the perception and reality of working in the construction industry, by championing diversity, inclusion and worker welfare. 
• Facilitate smooth, motivating routes within the industry to continually develop the skills of modern professional construction management.

The next five years will throw up new challenges that we have not foreseen but we have every confidence that our plan can and will adapt. You can download our Corporate Plan 2023-28 below.