Profile

I joined Loughborough as a Lecturer in Construction Management in 2005, following MSc/PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from Stanford University and BA/MA/MEng degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University (Selwyn College). I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2012, and Reader in 2017 and Professor in 2024. From 2019 to 2022, I took on leadership of the Construction Management Group, the largest group in the School by number of academics.

I have had a variety of industrial experience. I spent a year before going to university working for British Gas as a database programmer. During my undergraduate degree at Cambridge, I spent a summer working for the National Centre for Hydraulic Engineering in France, which was then part of Electricité de France, in Chambéry, France. During my studies at Stanford, I worked as a technology consultant with a local design firm, KL&A Engineers in Menlo Park, California.

Professional affiliations

  • Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE) and Chartered Engineer (CEng)
  • Member of th Chatered Institute of Building
  • Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Fellow of HEA 

Awards

  • Highly Commended Teaching Stars Award (medium class sizes) School Awared 2021
  • 3DIR, Highly Commended, Best Research Project at LU Built Environment Awards, 2018
  • Outstanding Reviewer status, Elsevier, Automation in Construction, 2015
  • Top 10 Most Loaded Paper, Automation in Construction, 2015
  • Top 10 Most Downloaded Paper, Construction Management and Econmics, 2013
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award, ASCE J of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2012
  • Stanford School of Engineering Broeren Fellowship, 1999

External activities

  • About 20 research degree external examinations at various universities, including: Cambridge University, Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia, Anna University India, Bath University, Reading University, Cardiff University, Huddersfield University, Northumbria University, Robert Gordon University.
  • External MSc Examiner, 2013-2017, Middlesex University, MSc Building Information Modelling Management
  • External Examiner, Engineering (Levels 4-6). University of Northampton, 2011-2015
  • External Examiner, Postgraduate Programmes in Built Environment, Robert Gordon University, 2010-2014
  • Member of International Advisory Board of India BIM Association since 2018
  • Member of Horizon Group of the Supply Chain Sustainability School since 2018
  • Invited to present at Stanford University's AEC Global Teamwork 25 yr anniversary, 2018
  • China Lecture Tour, Summer 2016.  Trip hosted by ACG China, presented research at over 10 universities, including NCUT, SCUT, Shanghai University, Shandong University.
  • Active member of BIM Academic Forum, contributed to report https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/bim_june2013.pdf
  • Invited to present research at Cambridge University Seminars of Engineering Department (2009) and Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory (2013)
  • Keynote speaker, International Conference on Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering (ICSEE - 2011).with  Indian Concrete Institute, KSR College of Engineering

Key collaborators

My research and enterprise activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners, including:

  • Cambridge University, Centre for Digital Built Britain
  • Stanford University, Project-Based Learning Laboratory