Martin Fischer: Background Information: Professional Affiliations and Service
National Research Council (NRC)
2001 to present: Member, Panel for Building and Fire Research of the Board on Assessment of NIST Programs
2005 to present: Member, Committee on Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management, 2005-2020
International Institute for Construction Technology Information (I2CTI)
2005 to present: Director
PSIBouw
2004 to present:

Member, International Advisory Board
Construction Users Roundtable (CURT)
2003 to present: Member, A&E Productivity Committee
Virtual Builders Roundtable
2001 to present: Founder and Member, Steering Group
FIATECH
2003 to present: Member, Roadmap Element #1 (Scenario-Based Project Planning) Working Group
SABLE (Simple Access to the Building Lifecycle Exchange) Project
2004 to 2005: Reviewer
Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF)
2004: Member, Selection Jury, 2004 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2004: Member, Review Committee, Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Architecture
2003 to 2004: Member, Advisory Board to the Project on 'Collecting, Archiving, and Exhibiting Digital Design Data'
American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)
2003 to 2004: Co-Organizer and Chair, AISC eCommerce Strategies Roundtable, Long Beach, CA, March 23, 2004
2005: Facilitator, 2nd AISC eCommerce Strategies Roundtable, Montreal, Canada, April 5, 2005
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
1993 to present: Associate Member
1993 to present: Member, Construction Research Council (CRC)
1993 to present: Member, ASCE Database Committee
1993 to present: Member, ASCE Expert Systems & Artificial Intelligence Committee
2001 to present: Member, Construction Institute
1996 to 1998: Liaison to Association of European Civil Engineering Faculties (AECEF)
1993 to 1997: Faculty Advisor, Student Chapter at Stanford University (incl. organization of 1995 Mid-Pacific Regional Conference with Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge Competition)
1995: Session Chair, 2nd Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Atlanta, June 5-7, 1995
1996: Session Chair, 3rd Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Anaheim, June 17-19, 1996
1997 to 1998: Session Chair, 5th Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Boston, Oct. 18-21, 1998
1997 to 1998: Member, Technical Advisory Committee, 5th Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Boston, Oct. 18-21, 1998
1998 to 2000: Local Co-Chair, 8th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Stanford, August, 2000
Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA)
1984 to present: Member
International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)
1995 to 2001: Member
Collaborative Process Institute (CPI), Northern California Chapter)
1997 to 1999: Member
1997 to 1998: Chair, Education Committee
CIB, Working Group 78, Information Technology in Construction
1994 to present: Board Member and West Coast Representative
1993: Session Chair, IRMA-tica 93, International e-mail Conference on the IRMA model: an Information Reference Model for AEC, Nov. 7 to Dec. 2, 1993
1995: Head, Organizing Committee, Joint International Workshop on "Modeling of Buildings through their Life-cycle," The Working Commission on "Information Technology in Construction" (W78) and the Task Group on "Computer Representation of Design Standards and Building Codes" (TG10) of the International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation (CIB), Stanford, August 21-23, 1995
1995 to 1996: Member, Organizing Committee, International Workshop, Bled, Slovenia, June 10-12, 1996
1997 to 1998: Member, International Advisory Committee, International Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, June 3-5, 1998
1998 to 1999: Member, Technical Review Committee, CIB W78 Workshop "Information Technology in Construction," 8dbmc (Durability of Building Materials and Components 8), Vancouver, Canada, May 30 - June 3, 1999
1999 to 2000: Member, International Scientific Committee, CIB W78, IABSE, EG-SEA-AI Conference, "Construction Information Technology 2000 - Taking the Construction Industry into the 21st century", Reykjavik, Iceland, June 28-30, 2000
2000-2001: Member, International Scientific Committee, CIB W78, International Conference on IT in Construction in Africa, Mpumalanga, South Africa, May 30 - June 1, 2001
2001 to 2002: Member, International Scientific Committee, CIB W78, Annual Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, June 19-21, 2002
2002 to 2003: Member, International Scientific Committee, CIB W78, Annual Conference, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand, April 23-25, 2003
2004 to 2005: Member, Scientific Committee, 22nd CIB-W78 Conference on Information Technology in Construction, July 19 - 21, 2005, Dresden, Germany
2005 to 2006: Co-Organizer, 23rd CIB-W78 Conference on Information Technology in Construction, August 28-31, 2006, Santiago, Chile
Conference Committees
1997: Member, International Advisory Committee for CPR-97 (International Conference on Construction Process Reengineering), 14-15 July 1997, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
1998 to 1999: Member, International Technical Committee for CPR-99 (International Conference on Construction Process Reengineering), 12-13 July 1999, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1998 to 1999: Member, Editorial Board, The Fifth International Conference on The Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil and Structural Engineering (CIVIL-COMP99 & AICIVIL-COMP99), 13-15 September, 1999, Oxford, UK
1998 to 1999: Member: International Technical Committee, Civil & Environmental Engineering Conference - New Frontiers & Challenges, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 8-12 November, 1999
2000 to 2001: International Technical Advisor, 2nd Worldwide ECCE (European Council of Civil Engineers) Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Practice of Building and Civil Engineering, Espoo, Finland, 6-8 June, 2001
2001 to 2002: Member, International Advisory Board, AID'02 - The Seventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design, Cambridge University, UK, July 15-18, 2002
2001 to 2002: Member, Program Committee, 4th ECPPM (European Conference of Product and Process Modeling) Conference, e-Work and eBusiness in AEC, Portoroz, Slovenia, September 9-11, 2002
2001 to 2002: Member, Steering Committee, 19th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2002), Washington, DC, September 23-25, 2002
2002 to 2003: Member, International Technical Committee, CONMAT 2003 (International Construction Management and Materials Conference and Workshop, IIT-Kharagpur, India, January 9-11, 2003
2001 to 2003: Member, International Scientific Committee, CIB W89 International Conference on Building Education and Research (BEAR 2003), Salford, UK, April 9-11, 2003
2003 to 2004: Member, Scientific Committee for World IT in Construction Conference (INCITE '04), Langkawi, Malaysia, Feb. 18-21, 2004
2003 to 2004:

Member, Scientific Committee, 4th International Postgraduate Research Conference in the Built and Human Environment, Salford, UK, April 1-2, 2004
2004:

Host, Seminar, Alliance for Sustainable Built Environments , Stanford University, May 5, 2004
2004:

Organizer and Chair, Symposium on Virtual Built Environments, Stanford University, June 14-15, 2004
2004:

Co-Organizer and Conference Chair, AEC Technology Strategies: Tactics for Today, Strategies for Tomorrow, 5 th Annual Meeting, ZweigWhite, Las Vegas, June 16-17, 2004

2004:

Member, Scientific Committee for ECPPM 2004, Fifth European Conference on Product and Process Modeling in the AEC Industry: eWork and eBusiness in AEC, Instanbul, Turkey, Sept. 8-10, 2004
2005 to 2006:

Member, Scientific Committee for BEAR 2006 Conference (CIB W89 International Conferencen on Building Education and Research): Construction Sustainability and Innovation, Hong Kong, April 10-13, 2006

Northern California Construction Institute (NCCI)
1992 to 1993: Associate Director
1993 to 1999: Director
1994 to 1995: Secretary
1995 to 1996: 2nd Vice President
1996: Head, Organizing Committee, 34th Annual Spring Seminar, May 11, 1996, Stanford, CA
1996 to 1997: 1st Vice President
1997: Head, Organizing Committee, 35th Annual Spring Seminar, April 25-27, 1997, Napa, CA
1997 to 1998: President
1998: Moderator, 36th Annual Spring Seminar, April 25, 1998, Stanford, CA
American Concrete Institute
1993 to 1994: Member
International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE), San Francisco Section
1994 to 2003: Member, Technical Advisory Board
Construction Management and Economics
1994 to present: Member, Board of Editorial Correspondents
Construction Innovation (formerly known as International Journal of Construction Information Technology (IJCIT))
1995 to present: Member, Technical Advisory Board
Revista Ingeniería de Construcción
1995 to present: Member, Editorial Board (Comité Editorial)
ITcon (Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction)
1998 to present: Member, Editorial Advisory Board
L'association amicale des anciens élèves de l'école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
1984 to present: Member
American Alumni Association of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology
1999 to present: Member
Reviewer
  • Journals:
  • ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
  • ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
  • ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering
  • ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice
  • Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
  • Microcomputers in Civil Engineering
  • Construction Management and Economics
  • Automation in Construction
  • Building Research & Information
  • The International Journal of Construction Information Technology
  • Construction Innovation
  • ITCon
  • Engineering Construction and Architectural Management
  • International Journal of Computer Integrated Design and Construction (CIDAC)
  • Computing Systems in Engineering
  • Structural Engineering Review
  • Computers and Structures
  • ACI Publications
  • Journal of Construction Procurement
  • Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
  • Kuwait Journal of Science & Engineering
  • Revista Ingeniería de Construcción
  • Funding Agencies:
  • National Science Foundation
  • National Research Council
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • Hong Kong Research Grants Council
  • Australian Research Council
  • Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science
  • Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • Academy of Finland
  • EPSRC (The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), UK
  • Publishers:
  • McGraw Hill
  • Addison Wesley
  • Prentice Hall
  • Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Plenum Publishing Corporation
  • CRC Press LLC
  • Chronicle Guidance Publishers
  • The Internet Encyclopedia
  • Wiley
  • Conferences:
  • ASCE Construction Congress V
  • CPR-97
  • CPR-99
  • CIB W78 Workshop '97
  • CIB W78 Workshop '98
  • CIB W78 Workshop '99
  • ASCE 5th Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering '98
  • Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering: Information Technology for Design, Collaboration, Maintenance, and Monitoring, European Group for Structural Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (ES-SEA-AI), Ascona, Switzerland, July 26-31
  • 7th Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
  • 6th EG-SEA-AI Workshop in Wierzba
  • 2nd Worldwide ECCE Symposium Information and Communication Technology in the Practice of Building and Civil Engineering, Espoo, Finland, June 6-8, 2001
  • CIB W78 Annual Workshop, International Conference on IT in Construction in Africa, Mpumalanga, South Africa
  • ASCE FIAPP Specialty Conference
  • CIB W78, Annual Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, June 12-14, 2002
  • CECONF'02
  • 4th ECPPM (European Conference of Product and Process Modeling) Conference, e-Work and eBusiness in AEC, Portoroz, Slovenia, September 9-11, 2002
  • 19th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2002)
  • CIB W89 International Conference on Building Education and Research (BEAR 2003)
  • CIB W78, Annual Conference, Waiheke Island, New Zealand, April 23-25, 2003
  • World IT in Construction Conference (INCITE 2004), Langkawi , Malaysia , Feb. 18-21, 2004
  • CIB 2004, Tri-annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 5-8, 2004
  • 4th International Postgraduate Research Conference in the Built and Human Environment, Salford, UK, April 1-2, 2004
  • First International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition - DCC'04, Cambridge, MA, July 19-21, 2004
  • Siggraph 2004
  • ECPPM 2004, Fifth European Conference on Product and Process Modeling in the AEC Industry: eWork and eBusiness in AEC, Instanbul, Turkey, Sept. 8-10, 2004
    External Examiner
    • Kajewski, Steven (1997). Ph.D. Thesis, School of Construction Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
    • Laitinen, Jarmo (1998). "Model-based Construction Process Management." Ph.D. Thesis, IT-Bygg, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.
    • Li, Bing (1999). "Risk Management in International Construction Joint Ventures." M.S. Thesis, Division of Structures and Construction, School of Civil & Structural Engineering , Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore.
    • Kuhne, Carsten (2000). "Grundlagen und Entwurf eines Produktionsmodells fuer das Bauwesen." Ph.D. Thesis, Abteilung fuer Bauingenieurwesen, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany.
    • Ripberger, Albert (2000)."Kosten- und Terminsteuerung mittels eines Produktionsmodells." Ph.D. Thesis, Institut fuer Tunnelbau und Baubetrieb, Abteilung fuer Bauingenieurwesen, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany.
    • Yang, Yi Quing (2003). "Modeling a Decision Support System for Buildable Designs." Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore.

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