Aled Williams – Chair, CHOBE

VISION AND OBJECTIVES
We support and represent with a voice of influence those with strategic responsibility for the development and delivery of graduate and postgraduate education and research within the disciplines of construction, property and surveying. This includes:

• A forum for Heads and their colleagues to share, collaborate, and provide support at an individual and institutional level
• The opportunity to network and foster relationships to achieve educational and research aims
• Representation on professional statutory regulatory bodies and other organizations
• The primary point of consultation by external stakeholders for education in our sector

WHO WE ARE
We comprise Heads of Schools/Departments in UK Universities responsible for research, knowledge transfer and learning in the fields of construction, property and surveying. Our aim is to work with colleagues to ensure that our disciplines are well supported within our institutions and to act as a representative body for our constituency. Our membership includes the majority of HEI’s in the UK.

Whilst we are a UK-based organisation, we are developing links with other overseas organisations such as the Associated Schools of Construction (http://ascweb.org/) and we would welcome the opportunity to make further international links with similar organisations.

HOW WE OPERATE
We operate democratically with a Chair, Vice-Chair, and an Executive Group elected annually at the AGM, supported by a part-time Executive Officer and Treasurer. Membership of the Executive Group, when available, is open to senior academics with strategic responsibility for education and research in construction, property and / or surveying.

If you represent a department interested in joining CHOBE, get in touch with us here.

WHAT WE DO
Being a membership organization, what we do depends on identified member needs. We seek to meet on an annual basis with our main accrediting organisations, such as RICS, CIOB, CABE, and we run regular events for our members. We also undertake and commission research on themes of interest to our constituency. Funded project reports of these investigations are available to our members in the CHOBE Grants section of this website.

Also on this website you will find further information regarding our activities and news of recent activities. Of course beyond our formal programme we constantly seek to provide intelligence sharing and mutual support for our members.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you wish to get involved and be part of the CHOBE family! You can email us on info@chobe.org.uk or use the contact form on this website.