Role
Associate Professor in Construction Management and the Environment.
Undergraduate Programme Manager
Qualifications & background
MRICS
MCIOB
BSc Quantity Surveying
MSc Construction Management
WORK EXPERIENCE.
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Programme Manager, Environmental Building Degrees. University of Plymouth, 2008 – present
- Module Leader, Professional Practice: Final Year Project: Process Management
- Module contributor, Sustainable and Safe ConstructionConstruction Management Process and Practice: Building Law.
- Team Leader.
- Elected member of Faculty of Arts, Faculty Board.
- Member Faculty of Arts Teaching and Learning Committee.
- Development contributor / Module Leader: MSc Partial Distance Learning.
Learning and Development Manager, EME, Davis Langdon LLP. 2001 - 2008
- Award winning Graduate Development Programme, intake 100 pa.
- Develop and deliver training for all staff in Europe and Middle East.
- Implementation of performance management system
- Support teams in developing specific training, such as Olympic and Paralympic Team.
- Developed distance learning provision.
- Created the Davis Langdon Channel - on-line video based training programmes available internationally
- Developed Sustainability Learning Programme for all staff.
- Collaboration with Universities.
- Developing Partner for Masters of Interdisciplinary Management of Projects at UCL.
- Member of Health and Safety Committee
- Member of Sustainability Committee
- Contributor to Sunday Times 'Top100 Best Companies to Work For' list - 19th .
- Building Magazine - Construction Consultant of the Year, winner for past three years.
- International Construction Cost Consultant - winner for past thirteen years.
- Technical advice on Education, Commercial and Regeneration Projects in size range £75m – £1Bn.
Programme Manager / Senior Lecturer, Environmental Building Degrees, University of Plymouth – 1997 – 2001
Programme Manager / Senior Lecturer, Construction Dept Plymouth College of Further Education. 1994 - 1997
Professional membership
MRICS
MCIOB
Roles on external bodies
PROFESSIONAL ROLES.
• Chair of APC Assessors –RICS
• Auditor for APC Final Assessments –RICS
• Appeals Panel Member RICS.
• Professional Assessor CIOB.
Teaching interests
Construction Process Management
Professional Practice and Ethics
Health and Safety
Productivity
Human Resource Management
Management
Staff serving as external examiners
• External Examiner. Sheffield Hallam University & TARC College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. BSc Construction Management and BSc Quantity Surveying 2005 -10
• External Examiner Northumbria University. Construction Related Programmes, School of Natural and Built Environment; 2010 - present
Developing Partner for Masters of Interdisciplinary Management of Projects at UCL - 2005.
Research interests
Lean Thinking
Procurement
Cost Certainty
Learning Organisations
Pervasive Media
Ubiquitous Computing
UoP Research group membership
Environmental Building
Other research
PhD supervision with Professor Phil Stenton - Falmouth College of Arts -
Can Pervasive Media deliver significant understanding of a building’s history, engineering and performance?
Other academic activities
UPC Academic Liaion Person for six colleges.
Member of several internal validation panels.
Member of Extenuating Circumstances panel -Faculty of Art.
Faculty Board member.
Member Faculty of Arts Teaching and Learning Committee.
