 There were continuing exchanges between colleagues in the less developed countries and developed countries, but the dominant focus was the latter.Between 1996 and 2008, the commission met 14 times, in Delft, Tokyo, Taipei, Washington, DC, Mexico City, Brighton (UK), Helsinki, Paris, Hong Kong, and Muncie, Indiana (USA), on a few occasions with other CIB Commissions, and at several of the triennial CIB World Congresses.The most recent conference in the US (2008) focused on education, and included an international student competition, with winners from Korea, China, Singapore and the USA.