Biographies

Conference Chair

Professor Michail Kagioglou

Western Sydney University, Parramatta, Sydney, Australia

Professor Mike Kagioglou is Dean of Engineering, Design and Built Environment at Western Sydney University in Australia, and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Global Development (Europe and the UK). Mike was based in the UK for the past 25 years and was Dean of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield and prior to that at the University of Salford where he was the Head of the School of Built Environment. Mike's career spans Engineering, Manufacturing, Creativity, Design, Architecture and the Built Environment, engaged in inter and multi-disciplinary research at a global level.

Mike has taught in product design and development, manufacturing and production systems, lean construction/manufacturing/healthcare, requirements management, among other subject areas. He has been involved in more than £25m of research across many funding agencies in the UK and Europe. He was an Academic Director for the £11M EPSRC funded interdisciplinary IMRC in Health and Care Infrastructures Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC) and was previously the Director of the £8M EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Salford Centre for Research and Innovation (SCRI) in the built and human environment. Mike has published more than 230 academic referred papers, industrial reports and two books, one of which in Healthcare infrastructure. His current research is around Healthcare infrastructure and better decision making in complex settings, following an outcomes/benefits based philosophy – benefits realisation. He is also working in diverse areas, such as living labs, location based and project planning, decision making, BIM and automated regulation capture.

Mike frequently acts as research proposal reviewer for all major UK research councils and has participated and lead international reviews in Civil Engineering in Holland and Greece and have reviewed proposals for EU, Denmark and other countries. Mike is board member of the Global Leadership Forum in Construction Engineering Management, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Chair Executive Committee

Professor Edward Jaselskis

Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Professor Jaselskis is the E.I. Clancy Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University.  He began his academic career at Iowa State University (ISU) where he achieved the rank of full professor.  During his 22 years at ISU, Dr. Jaselskis held several administrative positions including professor-in-charge of the construction engineering program, director of the Engineering Policy and Leadership Institute in the College of Engineering, and interim chair for the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering.  He has also served as a program director for the Information Technology and Infrastructure Program at the National Science Foundation and as Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.  His primary research interests relate to modeling construction project success and integrating innovative construction technologies (e.g., laser scanning, RFID, and virtual project teams) into the construction process and has performed research for CII, DOE, NSF, NCHRP, AGC, Departments of Transportation, Ames Laboratory, and several private companies. This research has led to over 130 refereed publications and reports; two book chapters; three patents; numerous invited lectures; and consulting opportunities with the Department of Energy, Ministry of Transportation and Communications in Taiwan, and other private companies. He has also worked for Exxon as a cost and schedule engineer and field engineer, Perkins and Will as an electrical designer, and Bechtel as a field engineer.  Professor Jaselskis is a member in several organizations including American Society of Civil Engineering, Construction Institute, Transportation Research Board, American Society for Engineering Education, Sigma Xi, National Society of Professional Engineers, and National Academy of Construction.

Professor Jaselskis holds a bachelor’s degree in general engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, master’s degree in civil engineering from MIT, and PhD degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.  He is also a registered professional engineer in the State of Iowa.

Chair, GLF Advisory Board

Professor Makarand (Mark) Hastak

Professor and Head of Construction Engineering and Management / Professor of Civil Engineering
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Dr. Hastak is Professor and the Dernlan Family Head of Construction Engineering and Management as well as Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He has assisted the construction industry for the past 33 years through consulting, research, teaching, and service to the community. His areas of expertise within construction engineering and management include profitability of construction companies, disaster risk reduction, infrastructure management, cost control, project management decision-making, risk management, factory-built housing, contracts, warranties, modular construction, and strategic planning. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE), a Construction Risk Insurance Specialist (CRIS), and a Certified Cost Professional (CCP). Prof. Hastak has worked on numerous projects sponsored by the NSF, State DOTs, City Agencies, and the Construction Industry Institute (CII). As a Fellow of the American Council on Education (cohort of 2013-14) at Cornell University, his work focused on the various facets of Hybrid RCM budget, engaged institution, and Public-Private Partnership in academia.

He has given over 50 keynotes and invited lectures around the world. Prof. Hastak has authored/co-authored over 200 publications and reports in his area of expertise as well as co-authored and edited three widely used books (1) Infrastructure Planning, Engineering, and Economics (McGraw-Hill 2006 and 2015), (2) Skills and Knowledge of Cost Engineering (AACE 6^th Ed. 2015), and (3) CCP Certification Study Guide (AACE 2^nd Ed. 2016). He served on the AACE Education Board from 2004-2016. He is the current Vice President of the Board of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) (https://cibworld.org/). Also, he serves as the Academic Advisor to the CII Downstream and Chemicals Committee (DCC). He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering (2009-2016) and currently serves on its board. From 2008-2010, he served as the Chair of the National Consortium of Housing Research Centers (NCHRC) and was the invited Scholar-in-Residence (2006) at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center. Dr. Hastak has developed and managed (2007-2019) several websites as a public service to the construction industry including: Emerging Construction Technologies (ECT), Academic Breakthroughs, and Purdue Index for Construction (Pi-C).

Dr. Hastak received his BE (Civil) from Nagpur University, India, MSCE from the University of Cincinnati, and PhD (Civil) from Purdue University, USA. In addition, he is a trained university planner through SCUP and has received training at Cornell University in Executive Leadership, Financial Management, and Advanced Strategic Human Resource Management. He has worked at Georgia Tech, NYU, University of Cincinnati, and currently at Purdue University.

Lucio Soibelman

Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering Professor
Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Southern California

Professor Soibelman obtained his BS and MS Degrees from UFRGS, Brazil. He worked as a construction manager for 10 years before moving in 1993 to the US where he obtained in 1998 his PhD in Civil Engineering Systems from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During the last 25 years he focused his research on advanced data acquisition, management, visualization, and mining for construction and operations of advanced infrastructure systems. He published over 200 books, books chapters, journal papers, conference articles, and reports and performed research with funding from NSF (NSF career award and several other NSF grants), NASA, DOE, US Army, NIST, IBM, Bosch, IDOT, RedZone Robotics among many others funding agencies. He is the former chief editor of the American Society of Civil Engineers Computing in Civil Engineering Journal. In 2010 he received the ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award, in 2012 received the 2011 FIATECH CETI, Award, in 2013 he was elected an ASCE fellow, in 2016 he received the ASCE Richard R. Torrens Award, in 2017 he received the ASCE CI Construction Management award, in 2019 was elected to the National Academy of Construction, and in 2020 he was appointed as the Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering Professor at USC, in 2021 was elected as an ASCE Distinguished Member, and in 2022 received the ASCE Peurifoy Construction Research Award.

Nora El-Gohary

Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nora El-Goharyis an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. El-Gohary’s research focuses on data analytics and AI for the development and operation of sustainable buildings and infrastructure systems, including information modeling, information extraction, data fusion, machine learning, and big data analytics. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Illinois Department of Transportation, Qatar Foundation, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada among other funding agencies. The outcomes of her research have been published in over 140 journal and conference publications. She has received several research awards including the NSERC’s Discovery Award in 2009, the NSF’s CAREER Award in 2013, the Center of Advanced Study Award in 2015, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Award in 2018, and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) Award in 2019. Dr. El-Gohary currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Information Systems in Construction Management Subcommittee, the Past Chair of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)’s Computing Division, and the Past Chair of the Executive Committee of the ASCE’s Construction Research Council. She also currently serves as Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.

Professor Patricia Tzortzopoulos

Professor of Integrated Design
Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise
Director of the Innovative Design Lab research centre at the School of Art, Design and Architecture,
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK

Professor Patricia Tzortzopoulos Fazenda graduated in Architecture and Urbanism in Brazil and has industrial experience in collaborative design integration and management. She is Professor of Integrated Design, Associate Dean for Research at the School of Art Design and Architecture, and Director of the Innovative Design Laboratory and Head of Department of Architecture and 3D Design since September 2014. Patricia joined the University of Huddersfield in May 2014 as Head of Department for Architecture and 3D Design (up to January 2018). Her role combines research, administration, and teaching activities. She has taught on the areas of Design Management, Value Generation, and Building Information Modelling in architectural design, completed several research projects, supervised research students, and published widely.

Patricia’s career encompasses design, architecture, new product development, and the built environment, with a focus on multidisciplinary integration between design and construction through collaborative working and value generation in design. She initially specialized in design management through a masters at the Postgraduate Programme of Civil Engineering -UFRGS, Brazil. As a design manager, she was responsible for managing client requirements and implementing process innovation to improve effectiveness and efficiency of design and its interfaces with construction. This practical experience underpins her research and teaching interests.

Patricia’s PhD was awarded in 2004 by the University of Salford, UK, and focused on the design and implementation of product development process models in construction companies. Before completing her PhD, Patricia joined the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford as a research assistant on the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) funded Salford Centre for Research and Innovation in the Built and Human Environment (SCRI). She became an Academic Fellow, developing research on the design of healthcare built environments, and developed the MSc Built Environment for Healthcare. Patricia was appointed as research coordinator at HaCIRIC (Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre, EPSRC IMRC). She has developed and lead the MSc BIM and Integrated Design, launched in 2011. Following, she became Director of the Design and Property Management Directorate at the School of the Built Environment.

Professor Hans-Joachim Bargstädt

Professor for Construction Engineering and Management
Dean of Faculty of Civil Engineering
Bauhaus-Universitat, Weimar, Germany

Professor Bargstädt is Professor for Construction Engineering and Management at the Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar. His research fields are in construction technologies, construction operations, and construction logistics. Special focus is given to the development of software applications like building information modeling for project management and construction site operations as well as simulation of construction operations. Other areas of activity are in construction management, for example in claim management and arbitration.

After studying civil engineering at the Technical University Braunschweig, at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, and at the Institut Superieur du Beton Arme in Marseille, Prof. Bargstädt was a structural engineer in a large construction company. From 1986 to 1989, he worked for his PhD in structural engineering at the Technical University Braunschweig. Then, a career in the construction industry followed from working as site engineer to being director of a regional division of a large construction company.

He has been a university professor since 1999. In 2012 and 2013, he was a guest professor at the National Taiwan University in Taipei. Since 2011, he has been regularly teaching as a guest lecturer at Stellenbosch University.  Prof. Bargstädt served many years as students’ dean and as dean of the faculty. He is spokesman of the German Association of Professors in Construction Engineering and Construction Management.  He serves as Chairman of the German association of civil engineering facilities. Since the beginning of 2017, he is also president of 4ING e.V.—the German Council of University Faculties in Engineering and Informatics.

Dayana Bastos Costa

Associate Professor, School of Engineering, Department of Structural and Construction Engineering
Federal University of Bahia - Salvador-Bahia-Brazil

Dayana Bastos Costa has Ph.D. in Civil Engineering - Construction Management. She has industrial experience in the Brazilian construction sector and international experience in research, being visiting research at Salford University-UK and Georgia Institute of Technology-USA. Since 2008, Dr. Costa joined the Structural and Construction Engineering Department of the School of Engineering at Federal University of Bahia–Brazil and is currently an Associate Professor of Construction Management. She is a permanent professor of the Post Graduation Program in Civil Engineering (Academic Master and Ph.D.).

Dr. Costa's research area involves construction management, especially lean construction, production management, performance measurement and benchmarking, and sustainable management in construction, focusing on reducing environmental impacts on construction sites. Currently, she focuses her research to integrating digital technologies into construction management process. Since 2009, Dr. Costa has been the principal investigator in several research projects granted by the Brazilian governmental agencies and industry partnerships. From these research projects, 31 journal papers, 31 book chapters, two edited conference proceedings, one edited book, and more than 130 conference papers. She supervised more than 25 doctoral and master theses.

Professor Wium

Construction Engineering and Management
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Jan Wium qualified in 1979 as civil engineer from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He holds a MScEng degree from University of Pretoria and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL 1992). He worked as structural engineering consultant and project manager for 20 years.

He joined Stellenbosch University in 2003 as specialist in structural concrete and structural dynamics. In 2010 he was appointed to initiate the Chair in Construction Engineering and Management at the Department of Civil Engineering and developed the post graduate programme at Stellenbosch University in this subject field.

His research interests are modular construction, collaboration for better constructability, design management, risk management and the application of new technologies.

Jan was a vice president of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering from 2008 to 2015. He is an executive committee member of the Global Leadership Forum in Construction Engineering and Management which was established in 2011.

He chaired the working group for the revision of the chapter on seismic design of the South African structural loading code, and is also chair of the working group for the revision of the South African design standard for structural concrete.

Jan Wium was chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Stellenbosch University from 2018 to 2020

Panellists

Professor Vahan Agopyan

Rector
University of São Paulo

An academic job, in my point of view, is adherent to what nowadays is considered an ‘intelligent career’, where appointed professionals may continuously monitor their performance and advancement. In 1975, I began as a part-time teaching assistant and later advanced to assistant professor. Subsequently, in 1990, I dedicated myself completely to the University and became full-time associate professor.

Upon reaching full professorship, in 1994, I had the opportunity to engage myself in administrative positions at the University, including Head of Department, Deputy Dean, and in due time, Dean of the Escola Politecnica (School of Engineering).

From 2006 until 2009 – in addition to my previous University positions – I was appointed as CEO of the Institute for Technological Research at the State of S. Paulo and later as Coordinator for Science and Technology at the State Secretariat for Development.

Following my previous assignment, I returned to the University, where I was appointed Provost for Graduate Studies, Vice-President and ultimately President until 25 January 2022.

By all means, I would qualify my career as exciting, challenging, enjoyable, indeed dynamic and attractive. Although local salaries do not match general expectations, I have never regretted pursuing an academic professional path.

President of the University of S. Paulo (USP). Chartered Civil Engineer, Escola Politécnica USP (EPUSP); MEng (Building), EPUSP; PhD (Engineering), King’s College London. Professor of Civil Engineering Materials and Components (EPUSP). Former Board VP of the Int. Council for Research and Innovation on Building and Construction (CIB, Rotterdam); Board Chairman of IPEN (Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research, S. Paulo) and CEO of IPT (Institute of Technological Research of the State of S. Paulo). Founder board member of the Brazilian Council for Sustainable Construction (CBCS). Research topics: development of building materials, mainly fibre reinforced ones; quality assurance of constructions and sustainable construction.

Jessica Qiu

Major Project Executive | Past President - Engineers Australia Sydney | Infrastructure Advisor

Jessica Qiu is a project executive with international charterships. She is a highly experienced project management professional with extensive experience in the conceptualisation, planning, design, management and construction of large infrastructure projects. She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project with her specialist skills in project/program management, commercial management, project governance, quality management, business-focused strategy development and technical engineering knowledge.

She graduated with a double degree in Bachelor in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering, a Master of Environmental Law from the University of Sydney, and an MBA specialising in business operation/efficiency, corporate governance, finance and investment strategy. She held international chartership in civil engineering and leadership and management and was among the youngest members awarded the fellowship in Engineers Australia.

Jessica served as the President of Engineers Australia – Sydney Division from 2020-to 2021 and has led various industry initiatives such as the Innovation Network, the Western Sydney Initiative, and Education Support – Cradle to Graduation, Migrant Engineer Support etc. She is also on the Industry Advisory Board for the University of UNSW, University of Western Sydney, and lectured at the University of Swinburne, linking higher education institutions with the engineering and technology industry.

Timo Hartmann

Professor for Civil Systems Engineering
Civil Engineering Institute
TU Berlin

Timo is Professor for Systems Engineering at the TU Berlin. In his research and practical work, he develops state of the art system visualization and simulation technologies and integrates these technologies with the working processes of construction, engineering, and architectural professionals. Timo believes that such a development and integration is only possible under consideration of both technical and social factors working in close collaboration with practitioners.

Saeed Talebi

Senior Lecturer in Quantity Surveying
Course Leader for BSc Quantity Surveying
School of Engineering & the Built Environment
Birmingham City University

Dr Saeed Talebi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Birmingham City University. He has a PhD in the Built Environment and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). His role combines leadership, research, and teaching. Saeed has developed teaching materials and has been involved in assessment and feedback in four disciplines (Civil Engineering, Facilities and Asset Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying) at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Bringing the practical experience of working on a number of projects, Saeed is researching and helping teams manage the interfaces between theory and practice. He has been engaged as either Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator in more than £425K funded research projects. Saeed has served on scientific committees of major international conferences as well as review boards and guest editor of frontline journals.

Nan Li

Associate Professor
Department of Construction Management
Tsinghua University

Dr. Nan Li is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at the Department of Construction Management, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University. He is also Director of the Institute of Sustainable Urbanization at Tsinghua. Dr. Li’s research focuses on understanding and improving the resilience of the built environments, including buildings, infrastructure systems and humans whose needs they serve, by extensive applications of advanced informatics and computational approaches. His research has produced over 90 academic publications, which have received over 4000 citations. He has received four Best Paper or Poster Awards from international conferences, and nine Outstanding Reviewer Awards from ASCE and Elsevier journals. Dr. Li currently serves as associate editor of Advanced Engineering Informatics, Journal of Management in Engineering, and Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, and editorial board member of several other leading journals. He is also a board member of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC). In addition, Dr. Li was recognized by Forbes China’s “30 Under 30” list in 2017, and MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35 in China” list in 2018. His research outcomes were recognized by a few prestigious awards, including the Grand Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Architectural Society of China in 2021. Dr. Li graduated from the University of Southern California in 2014, where he received his PhD degree in civil engineering and Master’s degrees in civil engineering and computer science. He received the PhD Achievement Award and the Best Dissertation Award upon graduation. Prior to that, he studied at Tsinghua University, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in construction management and a dual degree in economics in 2009.

Jun Wang

Lecturer in Construction Management
School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment
Western Sydney University

Dr. Jun Wang obtained his Ph.D. Degree from Curtin University in 2018. Before joining Western Sydney University, He was a Lecturer in construction management at Deakin University. During the last five years, his research interests are mainly focused on leveraging emerging technologies, such as BIM, Digital Twin, Linked Data and Blockchain, to improve construction and operation performance across building, infrastructure, and oil and gas industries. He has published over 50 journal articles, 7 book chapters, and 16 conference papers. His h-index (Google Scholar) is 30 and total citations are 4027. In 2017, he was recognized as the Top 10 BIM researcher worldwide. As Chief Investigator, he has been involved in three Australian Research Council funded projects (i.e., 1 ARC LP, 1 ARC DP and 1 ARC LIEF), two CRC-P grants, and one Innovation Connection grant. He has received four best paper awards from CRIOCM 2018, ICCBEI 2017, ICCBEI 2015, and ISARC 2014, respectively. In 2018, one of his papers published in the International Journal of Production and Research had been awarded as the Best Journal Paper.

Kathy Michell

Associate Professor 
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
University of Cape Town

Kathy is Deputy Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She holds a Doctorate in facilities management from the University of Salford, an MPhil in cost engineering and BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying from UCT. She is the Director of the Sustainability oriented+Cyber Research Unit for the Built Environment at UCT. She is a registered Professional Quantity Surveyor with the South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession (SACQSP) and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Kathy is a Past-President of the SACQSP, currently holds the Africa Market Seat on the RICS Governing Council, is a guest member of the Board of the International Council for Building and Construction Research, on the Board of the Africa Facilities Management Association and was recently appointed to the International Facilities Management Association Research Advisory Committee.

Joanne Carmichael

Principal at Arup and Regional Transport Planning Lead and Skill Lead for Australasia. South East Asian Executive Member.

Joanne is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Highways and Transportation, Principal at Arup and Regional Transport Planning Lead for Australasia. She has held a board position with the Transport Planning Society in the UK and was previously the UKIMEA Skills Network Leader for Transport Planning for Arup. Over the last 25 years she has worked in the UK, Middle East, Australia and South East Asia on city shaping, innovative projects including the Master Planning of the Seychelles, Dubai Expo, the Surface Transport Masterplan for Abu Dhabi and the Future Transport Strategy for Sydney.

Jane Waldburger

Roads Practice Leader,
New South Wales & Australian Capital Territory
Aurecon

Jane is an engineering executive and has vast experience in navigating her career in balance with elite sport.

A registered professional senior engineer, Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an Olympian, Jane is a recognised project and design manager for major infrastructure projects, as well as a business leader, and was awarded the Australian Financial Review’s BOSS Young Executive of the Year in 2018.

Jane’s most recent roles demonstrate the agility in her career and what can be possible in engineering; having lead Aurecon’s Newcastle business from 2018 she stepped into a Client Leader role for Transport within NSW, managed the concept design of the M5 widening and is the Design Manager for a construction consortium for the Coffs Harbour Bypass tender design and the Western Harbour Tunnel tender design and is now the Roads Practice Leader for NSW&ACT.

Marton Marosszeky

Business improvement specialist and durability expert
Adjunct Professor, c4SMC, Western Sydney University
Western Sydney University

An expert in infrastructure durability providing advice in relation to durability and quality in construction, including design advice at the front end to achieve reliable service life performance and in disputes about durability and quality during construction.

Lauri Koskela

Professor of Construction and Project Management
University of Huddersfield

Lauri Koskela joined the University of Huddersfield in October 2014 when he was nominated Professor of Construction and Project Management. Previously he worked at the University of Salford as Professor of Lean, Theory Based Project and Production Management. Prior that he was involved in applied research at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

Since 1991, Lauri has been involved in research on lean construction. His research has focused especially on the theories of production management as well as project management, underlying lean construction. Since 2005, he has researched theory of design. He has promoted the view that design theorizing started already in Antiquity, with the method of analysis (from geometry) and rhetoric as the first models of design by analogy. It is contended by him that these two models still provide a superior understanding on design.

Lauri is a founding and continuously active member of the International Group for Lean Construction.

With more than 7800 citations according to Google Scholar, Lauri is one of the most cited scholars in construction management and allied fields.

Lauri Koskela’s current research interests cover:

• Lean construction
• Target value design
• Visual management
• Construction product management
• Design management
• Theory of design
• Theory of production
• Relevance of managerial research

Milan Radosavljevic

Vice-Principal, Research, Innovation & Engagement
Construction Innovation and Built Environment Research Group
Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies
Institute of Youth and Community Studies
University of West Scotland

Professor Milan Radosavljevic joined UWS in December 2013 as Professor in Civil Engineering before being appointed to the position of Assistant Dean Research and Enterprise in the then School of Engineering and Computing in September 2014, and University’s Associate Vice-Principal Research and Enterprise between September 2017 and May 2020. In the past, he held leadership positions across all areas of academic activity, including School Director of Teaching & Learning and School Director of Enterprise in addition to several programme leadership and course development roles at the University of Reading. He completed his PhD in Construction Management at the University of Dundee, where, subsequently, for several years he co-managed Scottish demonstration projects on behalf of Constructing Excellence and Communities Scotland.

Professor Radosavljevic has contributed his expertise at institutions globally, including the Norwegian School of Management, Tallinn University of Technology, University of Ljubljana, Shandong University, University of Cambridge, City University London, and has developed and run numerous executive courses in the UK and abroad. His research track record includes predominantly industry-led projects like Built Asset Lifecycle Intelligence (BALI), embodied energy optimisation for concrete structures, Building Information Modelling (BIM) based whole life costing, KanBIM on-site BIM platform development, and the Olympics 2012 Programme Management review, jointly with the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and on behalf of the Olympic Delivery Authority.

Professor Radosavljevic co-authored one of the construction sector’s most comprehensive textbooks on construction management strategies, offering a clear theoretical framework to systematically improve its productivity. He has several years of leadership experience in off-site construction sector in Slovenia and has over the years been a regular keynote or invited speaker at international industry Project Management conferences for the Energy and Construction sectors.

As Vice-Principal, Research, Innovation and Engagement, Milan has Executive responsibility for Advancement, Enterprise and Engagement and Research including the Doctoral College.

Iris D. Tommelein

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

Iris D. Tommelein is Professor of Engineering and Project Management, in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She teaches and conducts research to develop and advance the theory and principles of project-based production management, applied to--but not limited to--the Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) industry, what is termed 'Lean Construction.'

Professor Tommelein is an expert on construction site layout and logistics, as well as materials- and supply-chain management. Her work experience is in commercial building- and industrial construction. Her research focuses on enabling integrated owner-designer-builder teams to continuously improve their process- and product development performance. Current research topics include adaptive project leadership, design- and change management, and 'green' life-cycle engineering. Much of her work builds on using IT to support product and process design, planning, scheduling, simulation, and visualization (such as the development and use of Building Information Models (BIM)).

Professor Tommelein directs the Project Production Systems Laboratory (P2SL - p2sl.berkeley.edu) at UC Berkeley. P2SL is a research laboratory dedicated to developing and deploying knowledge and tools for project management, as well as a learning lab for the Northern California construction industry. She is an active participant in the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC - www.iglc.net) and a Research Affiliate of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI - www.leanconstruction.org). She served on the Executive Committee of ASCE's Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology (TCCIT) and is a member of the Construction Research Council of the Construction Institute of ASCE. She is the 2002 recipient of the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Prize awarded by ASCE "for her research on civil engineering computing for managing project-based production systems in the engineering-architecture-construction industry".

Professor Tommelein's education includes a 5-year Civil Engineer-Architect degree from the VUB (Belgium), an MS (Construction Engineering & Management), an MS (Computer Science), as well as a PhD (Civil Engineering) all from Stanford University (USA).

Zoubeir LAFHAJ

University Professor of Civil Engineering
Central Lille

Prof. LAFHAJ is a full professor in Civil Engineering at Centrale Lille, France, the Founder and President of Istitut Français de la Construction Lean (IFCL) and the Chaire Holder at “Chaire Construction 4.0”. Prof. LAFHAJ is the former dean of International Affairs, member of the Management Committee of Centrale Lille, and member of the Board of Directors of Centrale Lille Institut.

Prof. LAFHAJ is Chairman and Founder of the ACE Workshop (Architecture, Construction and Engineering) where he annually hosts the most important innovation in the construction sector, a place for dialogue, debate and sharing.

Prof. LAFHAJ is a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC), member of the editorial board of several A-rank scientific journals, author and co-author of five books "The Lean Construction Revolution", "The Blockchain in Construction", "Women in Construction", "Logistics in Construction" and "The Vision of the City and the Building Site in 2049" and more than 150 scientific papers, supervisor of more than 30 doctoral theses, expert for European, Canadian, and German commissions.

Srinath Perera

Professor - Built Environment/Construction Management
Dean's Unit, School of Engineering Design & Built Environment, Western Sydney University
Director – Centre for Smart Modern Construction c4SMC
Director of Academic Programs Post Graduate Construction Management

Professor Perera is a world leading authority in construction management and quantity surveying. He joined WSU in June 2016 after serving as Professor of Construction Economics at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK for 7 years.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN). He is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Building (AIB) and a Chartered Surveyor and a corporate member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS) and Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM).  He has over 30 years’ experience in academia and industry and has worked as a consultant Quantity Surveyors and Project Manager in the construction industry.

He holds a PhD from University of Salford, UK. Professor Perera is a pioneer in the field of construction informatics integrating AI technologies to construction and project management. He co-authored a research monograph, “Advances in Construction ICT and e-Business” (2017) and two internationally recognised textbooks “Cost Studies of Buildings” (2015) and “Contractual Procedures in the Construction Industry” (2017) published by Routledge. He has authored over 250 peer reviewed publications and his current research leads work in the areas of Blockchain and IoT applications in construction, BIM, Digital Twin, offsite construction, construction business models and construction performance leading to Industry 4.0.

He recently published the Digitalisation of Construction report indicating the status and future directions of digitalisation of the NSW construction industry. https://www.nsw.gov.au/building-commissioner/how-digital-ready-construction-industry.

Charles T. Jahren

Morrill Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Iowa State University

Charles T. Jahren, Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering was conferred the title of Morrill Professor by Iowa State University in 2019 and was inducted into the National Academy of Construction (https://www.naocon.org/) in 2018. He served as the Professor-in-Charge of Construction Engineering and as an associate chair for his department from 2001 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020 and was the W.A. Klinger Teaching Professor for all but two of those years.  He served as the Editor-in-Chief of ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management from 2006 to 2011 and is the current Chair of the Editorial Board.  He earned his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (1977) and his Master of Business Administration (1982) from the University of Minnesota and his PhD in Civil Engineering (1987) from Purdue University.  He has over six years of industrial experience as a bridge construction project engineer and as a research engineer.  His research interests include the use of advance technologies to improve learning, electronic data exchange in design and construction, and the improvement of road construction and maintenance methods. His teaching interests include construction process design, construction equipment, and cost estimating.