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Professor Chimay Anumba
BSc PhD PGCE CEng FIStructE FICE FCIOB MASCE

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Background

Professor Anumba graduated at 18 with a First Class Honours degree in Building. He worked briefly as a Site Engineer and as a Design Engineer before undertaking postgraduate research in Computer-Aided Engineering at the University of Leeds. On completion of his PhD in 1989, he joined Curtins Consulting Engineers plc, and was involved in a wide range of civil and structural engineering projects. This was followed by a period as a Senior Lecturer and Reader in Computer-Aided Engineering at the University of Teesside. Professor Anumba was the founding Director of the Centre for Innovative and Collaborative Engineering (CICE) and Professor of Construction Engineering and Informatics at Loughborough University.

Professional Affiliations

Chartered Engineer (CEng); Fellow, The Institution of Structural Engineers (FIStructE); Fellow, The Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE); Fellow, Chartered Institute of Building (FCIOB); Corporate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (MASCE); Member, European Society of Concurrent Engineering (ESoCE); Member, International Society for Computational Engineering & Sciences (ISCES).

External Activities

Member, EPSRC Peer Review College for Civil Engineering. Past Chair, European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE); Chair, ICE Information Technology Panel; Founder, CIB TG33 on Concurrent Engineering in Construction; Visiting Professor & Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA and Stanford University, USA (1999-2001).

Broad Interests and Expertise

Concurrent Engineering, Advanced Engineering Informatics, Intelligent Systems

Research Interests

Advanced Engineering Informatics, Computer-Integrated Design and Construction, Concurrent Engineering in Construction, Information and Communications Technologies, Artificial Intelligence/Knowledge-Based Systems/Knowledge Management, Structural Engineering (Design, Rehabilitation etc), Construction (Materials, Safety, Management & Maintenance).

Research Group

Construction Management, EURG

Other Information

• Co-Editor, Electronic Journal of IT in Construction (ITCon).
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, 'Research Focus', Institution of Civil Engineers
• Associate Editor:
  1. 'International Journal of Agile Manufacturing Systems' (IJAMS)
  2. 'International e-Journal of Construction' (IeJC)
• Member, Editorial Board:
  1. 'Industrial Management & Data Systems'
  2. 'Advanced Engineering Informatics'
  3. 'Construction Innovation'