Initiating Members

The Global Consensus on Sustainability in the Built Environment (GLOBE) was written with the participation of the following signatories:

• Prof. Dr. Mark Alexander, Emeritus Professor, Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa;
• Prof. Dr. Carmen Andrade Perdrix, Visiting Research Professor, CIMNE: International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Spain;
• Prof. Dr. ir. Robby Caspeele, Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Structural Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium; 
• Dr. Pedro Castro, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN Unidad Mérida, (CINVESTAV-Mérida), Mexico; 
• Prof. Jian-Bing Chen, Professor, School of Civil Engineering & State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China;  
• Prof. Dr. Bruce Ellingwood, Professor and College of Engineering Eminent Scholar, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University; 
• Prof. Michael Havbro Faber, President of the Joint Committee on Structural Safety; 
• Prof. Dongping Fang, Professor and Chair, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, China; 
• Prof. Paolo Gardoni, Professor and Excellence Faculty Scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States; 
• Prof. Dr. Ravindra Gettu, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India; 
• Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert, Chair of Sustainable Construction and Associate Professor, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 
• Prof. Dr. Petr Hajek, Head of the Department of Building Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic; 
• Mrs. Judith Hardy, RILEM Secretary general, France; 
• Prof. Dr. Vanderley M. John, Professor of Building Materials, Department of Construction Engineering, Polytechnic School, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; 
• Prof. Dr. Jochen Köhler, Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; 
• Prof. Dr. Jie LI, Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, Tongji University, China;
• Dr. Jose C. Matos, Assistant Professor, ISISE, University of Minho, Portugal; 
• Prof. Mauricio Sánchez-Silva, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia; 
• Prof. Dr. Alan O’Connor, Professor, Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; 
• Dr. Patience Tunji – Olayeni, Senior Lecturer, Covenant University, Nigeria; 
• Dr. Kolawole Olonade, Senior Lecturer, University of Lagos, Nigeria; Dr. David Fernández-Ordóñez, Secretary General, International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), 
• Dr. Mike Otieno, Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 
• Prof. Yongbo Peng, Research Professor, Shanghai Institute of Disaster Prevention and Relief, Tongji University, China; 
• Prof. Giovanni Plizzari, Professor, DICATAM Department, University of Brescia, Italy, 
• Prof. Dr. John Provis, Professor and Deputy Head Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 
• Dr. Nicolas Roussel, Senior Researcher, IFSTTAR, Université Gustave Eiffel, France; 
• Dr. Dipl.-Ing Wolfram Schmidt, Senior Researcher, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany; 
• Prof. Dr. Karen Scrivener, Head of Laboratory of Construction Materials at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; 
• Prof. Dr. Raphael Steenbergen, Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Structural engineering, Ghent University, Belgium; 
• Prof.ir. A.C.W.M. Ton Vrouwenvelder, Senior Researcher, TNO Building and Construction Research, Netherlands; 
• ir. Johan Vyncke, Director Research & Innovation, CSTC – WTCB – BBRI, Belgium; 
• Mr. Don Ward, CEO, International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB), Canada