The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) serves as an unbiased forum for addressing common challenges and identifying opportunities within the building community. The NIBS Consultative Council is comprised of high level building community leaders who make collective recommendations directly to policymakers on how to improve our nation’s buildings and infrastructure. Members of the council include organizations representing consumers, architects, engineers, standards-setting bodies, government officials, contractors, researchers, and housing officials.

The goals of the council are three-fold:

• Convening Thought Leaders: Bringing together industry leaders and experts across the built environment to improve our nation’s infrastructure and buildings.
• Identifying Challenges: We maximize the collective knowledge of our experts to identify current and emerging key issues they believe the industry will face in the year ahead.
• Finding Solutions: Developing and publishing a yearly report that offers solutions to key challenges the built environment faces.

Each year, the Consultative Council publishes the Moving Forward Report to investigate critical challenges facing the building industry and make recommendations to both industry and policymakers to help overcome those challenges. These reports provide a reference point on the state of the industry at a specific time.