Gunnar Lucko is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and the Director of the Construction Engineering and Management Program at Catholic University of America. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Virginia Tech and a 5-year German diploma in structural and environmental engineering from Hamburg University of Technology. He has over eight years of research experience in project planning, where he has explored novel techniques to model and analyze schedules and their interactions with aspects like resources and costs using singularity functions. His other research interests include construction equipment operations and economics; simulation and optimization methods; and engineering education. In recent research funded by the National Science Foundation he expands scheduling theory with an objective approach to strategically allocate float, which mitigates delays on the critical path and thus reduces risk. In previous funded research projects he has investigated cash flow optimization and related financial phenomena and developed new algorithms for criticality and float calculation in linear scheduling with singularity functions. He serves as past chair of the Construction Research Council, the premier association of North American construction researchers within the American Society of Civil Engineers, and senior specialty editor of the Journal Construction Engineering and Management. He is member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences Simulation Society and the Scheduling Community of Practice of the Project Management Institute.
Professor Low Sui Pheng is Director of the Centre for Project Management and Construction Law at the Department of Building, National University of Singapore. His areas of expertise are in construction project management, productivity, quality and enterprise risk management for international construction firms. He has authored more than ten books in these areas. Professor Low is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building and Coordinator of the CIB Task Group TG82 for Marketing in Construction.
Bożena HOŁA. Professor of Civil Engineering at Wrocław University of Technology, Poland. She has spent over 35 years doing research on construction process modeling, the managerial approach and safety and health protection at construction site. She is the author and co-author of three books, over 100 other publications as well as a lot of research and technical reports.
She is a member of Division of Building Engineering Processes of Polish Academy of Sciences (KILiW PAN) and Polish Association of Civil Engineers and Technicians (PZiTB). She is also a member of the Board of Civil Engineering Faculty and Building Engineering Institute. She was awarded the Gold Medal for Long Service granted by the President of Republic of Poland. She was also awarded by Minister of Building and Building Material Industry, Minister of Infrastructure, and repeatedly by Rector of Wrocław University of Technology, Dean of Faculty of Civil Engineering and Director of Institute of Building Engineering.
Dr. Dongping Fang is a professor and head at Dept. of Construction Management, School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University. He is the founding director of (Tsinghua–Gammon) Construction Safety Research Center. His research, teaching and consulting are in the area of safety and risk management in construction, sustainability and green construction in which more than 200 reports, papers and books in English, Japanese and Chinese have been published.
Dongping is the vice president of CIB（International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction）(2013-2016). He is the chairman of steering committee of Global Network for International Construction (GloNIC) and a member of the executive committee of GLF-CEM (Global Leadership Forum for CEM programs). He has been honored as Visiting Professors in Australia, Sweden and the UK. He also serves as member of editorial board of several international journals.
Neil Eldin is a Professor of Construction Management at the University of Houston in Texas, USA. He is a civil engineer with 30 years of experience in both industry and academia. His research interests focus on project controls, automation technologies, and building materials. He is a past Associate-Editor of the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering and the National Correspondent for the ASCE-News. He received the US Presidential Service Award in 2004 for his services to the construction industry.
