COBRA 2010 - construction, building and real estate research

CALL FOR PAPERS - COBRA 2010 COBRA, the annual construction, building and real estate research conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is being held on 2-3 September 2010 in Paris, France, and abstracts are now invited for consideration.

COBRA addresses all aspects of the construction, management, planning and use of the built environment, and all papers submitted are fully refereed prior to acceptance. Full details of the conference can be found at: http://www.rics.org/cobra

This year, COBRA will feature four special themes, for which papers are particularly invited, These are as follows:

-Law and dispute resolution, run in association with CIB W113 and coordinated by Julie Adshead of the University of Salford

- Biodiversity and the built environment, coordinated by John Littlewood of the University of Wales Institute Cardiff

- Disaster management, coordinated by Dilanthi Amarantunga of the University of Salford

- Doctoral students session, coordinated by Monty Sutrisna of the University of Salford

Full details of these can be found on the COBRA 2010 website. Abstracts are, however, welcome on any aspect of the construction, management, planning and use of the built environment.

Abstracts should be submitted by Friday 26 February and announcement of acceptance will be by mid-March 2010. The deadline for abstracts for the Law and dispute resolution session is 2 April 2010.