Industrialised, Integrated, Intelligent sustainable Construction - I3con
Industrialised, Integrated, Intelligent sustainable Construction - I3con
Industrialised, Integrated, Intelligent sustainable Construction - I3con
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HANDBOOK 2 SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION<br />
Dr Nicholas Chileshe is currently a Senior Lecturer in <strong>Construction</strong> and<br />
Project Management at the University of South Australia. Prior to his<br />
appointment in July 2009, he worked in the United Kingdom for 10 years<br />
at Sheffield Hallam University. His last appointment was that of a Senior<br />
Lecturer (0.8FTE) and Principal Lecturer (International Business<br />
Developer) responsible for Africa and the Middle East within the Faculty<br />
of Development and Society. Dr Chileshe obtained his PhD in 2004 from<br />
Sheffield Hallam University (UK) and his thesis focused on the application<br />
of Total Quality Management (TQM) within Small and Medium sized<br />
<strong>Construction</strong> Organisations. Dr Chileshe is also a Fellow of the Chartered<br />
Institute of Building (FCIOB); Fellow of Higher Education Academy<br />
(FHEA), Fellow of the Association of Building Engineers (FBEng) and<br />
Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management (MCIM).<br />
Dr Jian Zuo has a PhD from the University of South Australia and a<br />
Masters degree in Engineering from Wuhan University, in the Peoples<br />
Republic of China. Currently he is a lecturer and researcher in the School<br />
of Natural and Built Environments. His main research interests relate to the<br />
<strong>sustainable</strong> built environment.<br />
Michael Arman is a research associate at the University of South<br />
Australia. His study and profession background is in Urban and Regional<br />
Planning where he has worked on a variety of urban, natural resource<br />
management and social planning projects on behalf of local and state<br />
government, and non-government bodies at a leading Adelaide-based<br />
consultancy. At the University of South Australia, Michael has been a key<br />
researcher in an industry-sponsored project considering how to integrate<br />
the concepts of sustainability and housing affordability. Michael also has<br />
research interests in the social impacts of urban planning. Recent<br />
publications include an article published in Ecological Economics, and two<br />
refereed papers presented at international conferences.<br />
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