Research Grants

The purpose of the AIB Research & Education Foundation is to promote and encourage research in the science and practice of building and to facilitate the exchange of related information.  Under the terms of the trust deed projects may be considered for funding if they fall within the following categories:

• To encourage and assist research into any matter of concern to the profession of building and make known the nature and merits of the results of any research which may seem capable of being used by persons engaged in the profession of building.
• To encourage the discovery of and investigate and make known the nature and merits of the results of any research which may seem capable of being used by persons engaged in the profession of building.
• To institute, promote, establish or support or aid in the institution, promotion, establishment or support of any associations or institutions in any way connected with the purposes of the foundation or of chairs and lectureships in any university, college, institution of learning or otherwise and to subsidise or assist the teaching of any subjects relating to the profession of building and kindred matters, arts and sciences or tending to further the purposes of the fund or any of them.

Awards have been granted for overseas research visits, research into specific subjects nominated by the AIB Council and the production of books.

AIB members seeking grants from the Foundation should forward details of the proposed project to the Executive Officer of the Foundation for submission to the Trustees.  Each application is judged on its merits and the value it has in furthering the practice and science of building.  Applications can be submitted at any time of the year.

	The Australian Institute of Building Research & Education Foundation
	Mail: E-mail:	GPO Box 1467, Canberra, ACT, 2601 foundation@aib.org.au