Industrialised, Integrated, Intelligent sustainable Construction - I3con

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Author’s Biography
Prof. Ayman Othman is an Associate Professor at the Architectural
Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, the British
University in Egypt (BUE). He obtained his B.Sc. in Architectural
Engineering from Assiut University, Egypt in 1991. Since then he
has worked as an architect and project manager in different national
and international architectural design firms and government
authorities in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. He
got his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Construction Management from Heriot-
Watt University and Loughborough University, UK in 1999 and
2004 respectively.
Before joining the BUE in 2009, Prof. Othman worked as a Senior
Lecturer at the School of Civil Engineering, Surveying &
Construction, Faculty of Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa. He successfully supervised and graduated a number of
masters and honours research dissertations.
Prof. Othman is an active researcher in the field of Construction Management. To date he published
more than 40 academic papers in refereed journals, conferences and book chapters. He is a registered
referee and member of advisory board of a number of international academic journals. He is a
member of the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate, Egypt; the Project Management Institute (PMI),
USA; the Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE), USA; and the Arab Society for Computer
Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD). His area of research interest includes: value and risk
management, dynamic brief development in construction, sustainability, corporate social
responsibility, partnership, client satisfaction, information management and technology, strategic
management in construction, team building and maintenance management.