Research
Research and expertise
My research work in the field of innovation management lays on two specific innovation focussed areas: (1) flood and community resilience, specifically on the deployment of blue-green infrastructure to alleviate flood risk in urban areas, and (2) innovation adoption in construction. My areas of expertise include lean construction, productivity, process mapping, applying BIM technologies, scenario planning, and structural and non-structural measures for adaptation and mitigation for reducing flood risk. I have been PI and Co-I on research projects (valued at over £2.5m), funded by governments (EPSRC, NERC, EU, HEA, British Council, UKRI, Newton Fund, GCRF, UKRI) and private companies (Lloyds TSB and Hewlett Packard). I led the award-winning BIM-Hub initiative (http://bim-hub.lboro.ac.uk/), received Premier Award of the CIOB’s International Innovation and Research Awards 2014, and won 4 international best paper awards.
Current research activity
- Principal Investigator, ‘DECONT’ – Digital Enablers for CONstruction Transformation: a new paradigm for rethinking construction (July 2019 – 31 March 2020; UKRI via TCN+, UCL) https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/about-us/transforming-construction-network-plus/small-projects#Digital%20Enablers%20for%20Construction%20Transformation%20(DECONT)[RS1]
- Co-Investigator, ‘FloodFinJava’ - Financial planning for natural disasters: the case of flooding risk in Central Java (January 2018 – 31 January 2020; NERC, DFID, ESRC)
Recently completed research projects
- Principal Investigator, ‘BuGIS’ - Enhancing urban flood resilience for 1 million people through Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) in Semarang, Indonesia, Newton Fund - Institutional Links project (April 2017 – March 2019; British Council & MenRisTekDikti) https://bugis.lboro.ac.uk/[RS2]
- Principal Investigator and Coordinator - British Council Researcher Links (UK-Indonesia) - Towards sustainable building and infrastructure in Indonesia (October 2013 – March 2014), and founder of UK-Indonesia Researcher Network (UKIREN; https://ukiren.lboro.ac.uk/[RS3] )
- Principal Investigator, ‘BIM-Hub’ – A learning hub for international problem-based learning (July 2013 – March 2015; The Higher Education Academy) https://bim-hub.lboro.ac.uk/[RS4]
- Co-investigator in Build Your English (BYE) project (March 2012 – February 2014; EU Long-life Learning Programme)
- Principal Investigator – Hewlett Packard Catalyst Initiative project (January 2011 – December 2012)
- Co-investigator in CREW (Community Resilience to Extreme Weather events) research programme (February 2008 – November 2011; EPSRC)