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Árpád Horváth (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

horvath1Arpad Horvath is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Head of the Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate Graduate Program, Director of the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing, and Director of the Engineering and Business for Sustainability certificate program. His research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of products, processes, and services, particularly of civil infrastructure systems and the built environment. He is a member of the Environmental Engineering Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, as well as the EPA’s Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Committee, and a frequent consultant to California state agencies and private companies. He is an author of more than 65 peer-reviewed journal papers. He was Conference Chair of the 6th International Conference on Industrial Ecology in 2011, the world’s largest sustainable research conference to that date. Professor Horvath is an Associate Editor of the J. of Infrastructure Systems and a member of the editorial advisory boards of Environmental Science & Technology, J. of Industrial Ecology, and Environmental Research Letters. He is a recipient of the International Society for Industrial Ecology’s Laudise Prize and the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize. Three of his co-authored papers have been voted among the best in Environmental Science & Technology in 2008, 2011, and 2012. 

 

Derek Walker (RMIT University, Australia)

11-Derek-PortraitDr. Derek Walker is Professor of Project Management and Director of Research at the School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University. He worked in various project management roles in the UK, Canada, and Australia for 16 years before commencing his academic career in 1986. He obtained a Master of Science from the University of Aston (Birmingham) in 1978, and a PhD in 1995 from RMIT University (Melbourne). He has written over 250 peer reviewed papers and book chapters and supervised 24 doctoral candidates through to completion. His most recent books include; Steinfort, P. and Walker, D. H. T. (2011) What Enables Project Success: Lessons from Aid Relief Projects, Newtown Square, PA, Project Management Institute; Klakegg, O. J.,  Williams, T.,  Walker, D. H. T.,  Andersen, B. and Magnussen, O. M. (2010) Early Warning Signs in Complex Projects, Newtown Square, PA, USA, Project Management Institute; and Walker, D. H. T. and Rowlinson, S., Eds. (2008). Procurement Systems – A Cross Industry Project Management Perspective. Series  Procurement Systems – A Cross Industry Project Management Perspective. Abingdon, Oxon, Taylor & Francis.

His research interests centre on innovation diffusion of information and communication technologies, knowledge management, project management and project procurement systems.

He also teaches into the Master of Project Management (MPM) academic program at RMIT. He is editor of The International Journal of Managing Projects in Business for Emerald Insight http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?PHPSESSID=j0bm25095pn370h1fvdobdsti4&id=ijmpb and is a member of the editorial board of the Project Management Journal, The Learning Organization, Construction Innovation and several other journals.

URL: http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/derekwalker

 

S. Thomas Ng (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

tngProfessor Ng is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. His recent research interests include low carbon construction, construction industry development, contractor and consultant selection, delays mitigation, time/cost performance, and construction information technology. Over the years, he has secured more than US$5.5 million of research grants and published over 300 scholarly items. Professor Ng is a Member of Technical Committee of Thermal Performance and Energy Use in the Built Environment set up by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/TC163) and an Editor of the Journal of Building Environment Project and Asset Management.

 

John-Paris Pantouvakis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

John_Paris_Pantouvakis_photoJohn-Paris Pantouvakis, PhD, is a Professor of Construction Management, a visiting Professor of Civil Engineering at Nazarbayev University, Kazakshtan and the Director of the Centre for Construction Innovation at the National  Technical University of Athens. He is the President of PM-Greece, the Greek IPMA Member, he Chairs the IPMA Education & Training Board, he is a First Assessor for IPMA Certification in Greece and an Assessor for the IPMA Project Excellence Award. He also serves as a Member of the Scientific Committee of various journals and international conferences. John-Paris was Chair of the 26th IPMA World Congress in 2012.

More information is available at his personal website.

 

Andrzej Cwirzen (Aalto University, Finland)

Andrzej Cwirzen 05Dr. Andrzej Cwirzen is an Associate Professor of Building Materials Technology at Aalto University in Espoo-Finland. Dr Cwirzen received his PhD from Helsinki University of Technology in 2004.

His current research focusses on nanotechnology applied to building materials as well as on sustainable building materials and technologies.  

 
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