1 2021 Virtual Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and Management June 14-15, 2021 GLF-CEM Website: https://cem.ecn.purdue.edu/glf/ Message from Conference Chair Professor Edward Jaselskis I hope that you are doing well during these unusual and challenging times. The GLF-CEM is an organization which began about 11 years ago to bring leaders from academia and industry from around the world together to share ideas on building stronger academic programs and help shape our future construction industry leaders. We come together once a year to discuss and share common concerns in research, teaching, academic administration, and opportunities for collaboration. This year’s forum theme is “Looking into the Future: Challenges and Opportunities for CEM Research and Education.” The program consists of a keynote speech by Gerald Buckwalter on the future of resilient and sustainable infrastructure and three panel sessions addressing the following topics: the future vision of research and education in CEM, strengthening collaboration between academia and industry, and increasing women participation in both academia and practice. I sincerely thank the planning committee for their assistance in organizing this year’s conference . We hope that you gain useful insights as academic or practitioner leaders to continue improving the global construction industry. PROGRAM [All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)]: • Monday, June 14, 2021 Join Zoom Meeting (When logging in please use your full name, title, and affiliation): https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/97332978047?pwd=TkJTODZqV2lJSEwzWHpkUTNFNDNldz09 Time Topic Speakers 9:00 am Welcome with GLF Overview Drs. Edward Jaselskis and Makarand Hastak 9:15 am New Member Introductions Dr. Carlos Formoso New Members: Dr. Dayana Bastos-Costa; Dr. Patricia Tzortzopoulos, Dr. Islam El- Adaway; Dr. John Matthews, Dr. Elvira Maria Vieira Lantelme, E.I. Clancy Distinguished Professor Edward Jaselskis North Carolina State University
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2021 Virtual Global Leadership Forum
for Construction Engineering and Management
June 14-15, 2021
GLF-CEM Website: https://cem.ecn.purdue.edu/glf/
Message from Conference Chair
Professor Edward Jaselskis
I hope that you are doing well during these unusual and challenging times. The GLF-CEM is an organization which began about 11 years ago to bring leaders from academia and industry from around the world together to share ideas on building stronger academic programs and help shape our
future construction industry leaders. We come together once a year to discuss and share common concerns in research, teaching, academic administration, and opportunities for collaboration. This year’s forum theme is “Looking into the Future: Challenges and Opportunities for CEM
Research and Education.” The program consists of a keynote speech by Gerald Buckwalter on the future of resilient and sustainable infrastructure and three panel sessions addressing the following topics: the future vision of research and education in CEM, strengthening
collaboration between academia and industry, and increasing women participation in both academia and practice. I sincerely thank the planning committee for their assistance in organizing this year’s conference. We hope that you gain useful insights as academic or practitioner leaders to
continue improving the global construction industry.
PROGRAM [All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)]:
• Monday, June 14, 2021
Join Zoom Meeting (When logging in please use your full name, title, and affiliation): https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/97332978047?pwd=TkJTODZqV2lJSEwzWHpkUTNFNDNldz09
Time Topic Speakers
9:00 am Welcome with GLF Overview Drs. Edward Jaselskis and Makarand Hastak
9:15 am New Member Introductions Dr. Carlos Formoso New Members: Dr. Dayana
Bastos-Costa; Dr. Patricia Tzortzopoulos, Dr. Islam El-Adaway; Dr. John Matthews, Dr. Elvira Maria Vieira Lantelme,
o Dr. Simaan AbouRizk, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
o Dr. Irtishad Ahmad, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE o Dr. Hans-Joachim Bargstädt, Bauhuas-Universitat Weimar, Weimar, Germany o Dr. Dongping Fang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China o Dr. Carlos Formoso, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
o Dr. Makarand Hastak, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA o Dr. Edward Jaselskis, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA o Dr. Michail Kagioglou, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia o Dr. Lucio Soibelman, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
o Dr. Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA o Dr. Geoffrey Shen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong o Dr. Koshy Varghese, IIT-Madras, Chennai, India o Dr. Jan Wium, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Speaker Biographies
Conference Chair
Professor Edward Jaselskis
Professor Jaselskis is the E.I. Clancy Distinguished Professor in
the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental
Engineering at North Carolina State University. He began his
academic career at Iowa State University (ISU) where he
achieved the rank of full professor. During his 22 years at ISU,
Dr. Jaselskis held several administrative positions including
professor-in-charge of the construction engineering program,
director of the Engineering Policy and Leadership Institute in the
College of Engineering, and interim chair for the Department of
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. He has also
served as a program director for the Information Technology and
Infrastructure Program at the National Science Foundation and as
Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. His
primary research interests relate to modeling construction project success and integrating
innovative construction technologies (e.g., laser scanning, RFID, and virtual project teams) into
the construction process and has performed research for CII, DOE, NSF, NCHRP, AGC,
Departments of Transportation, Ames Laboratory, and several private companies. This research
has led to over 130 refereed publications and reports; two book chapters; three patents; numerous
invited lectures; and consulting opportunities with the Department of Energy, Ministry of
Transportation and Communications in Taiwan, and other private companies. He has also
worked for Exxon as a cost and schedule engineer and field engineer, Perkins and Will as an
electrical designer, and Bechtel as a field engineer. Professor Jaselskis is a member in several
organizations including American Society of Civil Engineering, Construction Institute,
Transportation Research Board, American Society for Engineering Education, Sigma Xi,
National Society of Professional Engineers, and National Academy of Construction.
Professor Jaselskis holds a bachelor’s degree in general engineering from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, master’s degree in civil engineering from MIT, and PhD degree in
civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a registered professional
engineer in the State of Iowa.
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Day 1: Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and
Management Welcome and GLF Overview
Conference Chair: Dr. Edward Jaselskis
Chair, GLF Advisory Board: Dr. Makarand (Mark) Hastak
Dr. Hastak is Professor and the Dernlan Family Head of Construction Engineering and Management as well as Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He has assisted the
construction industry for the past 33 years through consulting, research, teaching, and service to the community. His areas of expertise within construction engineering and management include profitability of construction companies, disaster risk
reduction, infrastructure management, cost control, project management decision-making, risk management, factory-built housing, contracts, warranties, modular construction, and strategic planning. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE), a
Construction Risk Insurance Specialist (CRIS), and a Certified Cost Professional (CCP). Prof. Hastak has worked on numerous projects sponsored by the NSF, State DOTs, City Agencies, and the Construction Industry Institute (CII). As a Fellow of the American Council on Education
(cohort of 2013-14) at Cornell University, his work focused on the various facets of Hybrid RCM budget, engaged institution, and Public-Private Partnership in academia.
He has given over 50 keynotes and invited lectures around the world. Prof. Hastak has authored/co-authored over 200 publications and reports in his area of expertise as well as co-
authored and edited three widely used books (1) Infrastructure Planning, Engineering, and Economics (McGraw-Hill 2006 and 2015), (2) Skills and Knowledge of Cost Engineering (AACE 6th Ed. 2015), and (3) CCP Certification Study Guide (AACE 2nd Ed. 2016). He served on the AACE Education Board from 2004-2016. He is the current Vice President of the Board of
the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) (https://cibworld.org/). Also, he serves as the Academic Advisor to the CII Downstream and Chemicals Committee (DCC). He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering (2009-2016) and currently serves on its board. From 2008-2010, he
served as the Chair of the National Consortium of Housing Research Centers (NCHRC) and was the invited Scholar-in-Residence (2006) at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center. Dr. Hastak has developed and managed (2007-2019) several websites as a public service to the construction industry including: Emerging Construction Technologies
(ECT), Academic Breakthroughs, and Purdue Index for Construction (Pi-C). Dr. Hastak received his BE (Civil) from Nagpur University, India, MSCE from the
University of Cincinnati, and PhD (Civil) from Purdue University, USA. In addition, he is a trained university planner through SCUP and has received training at Cornell University in
Executive Leadership, Financial Management, and Advanced Strategic Human Resource Management. He has worked at Georgia Tech, NYU, University of Cincinnati, and currently at Purdue University.
Day 1: Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and
Management New Member Introductions
Dr. Carlos Formoso is a full professor in Construction Management at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. His main research interests are lean construction, mass customisation, production planning and
control, safety management, social housing, and value management. For thirty years of his academic career, he has developed several research projects in partnership with industry, including contractors, real estate developers, housing funding
agencies, and companies that deliver prefabricated systems. He has been a senior advisor of the Brazilian Ministry of the Cities for the National Program for Quality and Productivity in the Habitat (PBQP-H) for eleven years. Prof. Formoso has published
more than 100 journal papers and around 40 books and book chapters. He has also supervised 112 M.Sc. dissertations and 23 Ph.D. theses.
Regarding international academic collaboration, he has been a visiting scholar in several
universities and research institutions outside Brazil, including the University of California, Berkeley (USA), Norwegian Building Research Institute, University of Agder (Norway), Strathclyde University, University of Huddersfield, and University of Salford (UK), Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile), and Escuela Politécnica del Ejército (Ecuador). Also, he is
currently a member of the editorial boards of six international scientific journals. Prof. Formoso received his Degree in Civil Engineer and M.Sc. from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and his Ph.D. from the University of Salford, UK.
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Day 1: Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and
Management Keynote Presentation and Discussion
Keynote Speaker: Gerald E. Buckwalter, Chief Innovation Officer, American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Gerald (Jerry) E. Buckwalter has more than 35 years of varied
executive leadership in general management, business
development, strategy and innovation, program operations and
policy development. He has worked in infrastructure, electronics,
information technology, commercial security, and technology
Mr. Buckwalter is the Chief Innovation Officer of ASCE
and was formerly the Chief Operating and Strategy Officer. In
that role, Jerry directs a forward-leaning strategic assessment and
visualization project called Future World Vision where ASCE is
creating a virtual and interactive computer model to assess
potential built environments 50 years into the future. He also has
his own consulting firm, Strategy Essentials, where he specializes
in business, market, and technology strategic planning.
Prior to joining ASCE, Mr. Buckwalter was a Northrop Grumman Corporate Director of
Strategy. His responsibilities included reshaping the company’s business portfolio, mergers and
acquisitions, long-term strategies, innovation initiatives, and professional development. Jerry
worked for many years coordinating company-wide homeland security business in border and
transportation security, emergency preparedness and response, critical infrastructure protection,
and intelligence gathering.
Mr. Buckwalter has also served in several other advisory and management roles such as:
• Member of the ASCE Industry Leaders Council from 2006 to the present
• Created the first global Innovation Contest for ASCE
• Member for the National Infrastructure Advisory Council reporting to the White House from 2008 to 2012, leading two studies, “Defining Infrastructure Resilience” and “Improving Infrastructure Information Sharing”
• Recipient of the ASCE William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award in 2018
• Selected as an Engineering News-Record Top 25 Newsmaker in 2019 for imagining tomorrow’s infrastructure
• Executive in residence at the University of Chicago for market strategy education from 2010 to 2019
• Board member of the Center for Public Policy Innovation since 2012
• Chairman of the Board of a non-profit foundation providing support services to adults
with challenges
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• Author of several reports, such as “Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure”, “Cellular Telecom Infrastructure in Afghanistan: Implications for National Stability”, and “Cyber
and Physical Security for Critical Infrastructure”
• Board member of the National Homeland Defense Foundation from 2009 to 2012
• Participant in the 2007 Defense Science Board study “Defending Against Domestic Catastrophe during War”
Mr. Buckwalter earned a degree in Physics from Monmouth University and has extensive continuing
education at George Washington University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Moderator: Dr. Lucio Soibelman
Professor Soibelman obtained his bachelor and master’s degrees
from UFRGS, Brazil. He worked as a construction manager for 10
years before moving in 1993 to the U.S. where he obtained his
PhD at MIT in 1998. He then started as an Assistant Professor at
the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In 2004 he moved
to Carnegie Mellon University as an Associate Professor and then
was promoted to Professor in 2008. In 2012 he joined the
University of Southern California as the Chair of the Sonny Astani
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. During the
last 25 years he focused his research on advanced data acquisition,
management, visualization, and mining for construction and
operations of advanced infrastructure systems. He published over
200 books, book chapters, journal papers, conference articles, and
reports and performed research with funding from NSF (NSF
career award and several other NSF grants), NASA, DOE, US
Army, NIST, IBM, Bosch, IDOT, and RedZone Robotics as well
as many other funding agencies.
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Day 1: Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and
Management First Panel Session
Future Vision of Research and Education in Construction Engineering and Management
Description:
In 2020, the GLF created the new future leaders committee as an opportunity to learn from the current junior faculty in construction engineering and management (CEM) about their vision for
the future of both challenges and opportunities in CEM education and research. The committee was joined by a significant number of the most respected and successful junior faculty from all over the world. This group was then divided in two subcommittees, one to discuss education issues lead by Professor Thais Alves, and the other one to discuss research issues lead by
Professor Nora El-Gohary. The two subcommittees identified major areas of interest regarding the future vision of research and education in construction engineering and management, such as future research opportunities and challenges; curriculum overhaul changes; teaching methods, resources, and facility needs; and potential partnerships with industry and NGOs. In this panel, Drs. El-Gohary and Alves will report the findings and recommendations of their efforts
with presentations that will outline different approaches to engage students, faculty, and the industry at large to shape the future of CEM research and education.
Moderators: Drs. Lucio Soibelman, University of Southern California, and Jan Wium,
Stellenbosch University
Professor Lucio Soibelman is the Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering Professor at the CEE Astani Department at USC. He obtained his bachelor and master’s degrees from UFRGS, Brazil. He worked as a construction manager for 10
years before obtaining his PhD in 1998 at MIT. He was a faculty at UIUC and CMU before he joined USC as the Chair of the CEE department in 2012. During the last 25 years he focused his research on advanced data acquisition,
management, visualization, and mining for construction and operations of advanced infrastructure systems. He published over 200 books, books chapters, journal papers, conference articles, and reports and performed research with funding from
NSF, NASA, DOE, US Army, NIST, IBM, Bosch, IDOT, RedZone Robotics among many others funding agencies. He received the ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award, the FIATECH Outstanding Researcher Celebration of Engineering
& Technology Innovation, or CETI, Award, the ASCE Richard R. Torrens Award, and the ASCE Construction Institute Construction Management award. He is an ASCE fellow, an ASCE Distinguished member, a member of the National Academy of Construction, and a member of the Pan American Academy of Engineering.
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Professor Wium is the Chair in Construction Engineering and Management at Stellenbosch University. Professor Wium qualified with a BScEng and MScEng in civil
engineering from the University of Pretoria in South Africa and holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He worked in industry as a structural engineering consultant and project manager for 20
years. In 2003, he joined Stellenbosch University as a specialist in structural concrete and structural dynamics. He was appointed in 2010 to the Chair in Construction Engineering and Management. His research interests are
modular construction, collaboration for better constructability, design management, and risk management.
Panel Members:
Professor Nora El-Gohary, University of Illinois
Dr. El-Gohary is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her PhD in Civil
Engineering from the University of Toronto. Dr. El-
Gohary’s research focuses on data analytics and artificial
intelligence (AI) for the development and operation of
sustainable buildings and infrastructure systems, including
information modeling, information extraction, data fusion,
machine learning, and big data analytics. Her research has
been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF),
Illinois Department of Transportation, Qatar Foundation, and Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council (NSERC) of Canada among other funding agencies. The outcomes of her
research have been published in over 140 journal and conference publications. She has received
several research awards including the NSERC’s Discovery Award in 2009, the NSF’s CAREER
Award in 2013, the Center of Advanced Study Award in 2015, the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Award in 2018, and the Institute for Sustainability,
Energy, and Environment (iSEE) Award in 2019. Dr. El-Gohary currently serves as the Chair of
the Executive Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)’s Computing
Division, the Chair of the Executive Committee of the ASCE’s Construction Research Council,
and the Co-Chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Information Systems in Construction
Management Subcommittee. She also currently serves as Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal
Professor Alves is an Associate Professor, and the AGC Paul S. Roel Chair in Construction Engineering and Management, at San
Diego State University. For more than 15 years, she has been teaching, mentoring students, researching, and collaborating with construction companies in the fields of production planning and control at construction sites, teaching lean production concepts via
simulations, and collaborative construction contracts. Dr. Alves is currently the secretary general of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) and the leader of the Lean Construction Institute Community of Practice in San Diego, California.
Day 1: Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and Management First Day Summary and Wrap-up Day 1 Summary
Professor Hans-Joachim Bargstädt
Professor Bargstädt is Professor for Construction Engineering and Management at the Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar. His research fields are in construction technologies, construction operations, and construction logistics. Special focus is given to the development of software applications
like building information modeling for project management and construction site operations as well as simulation of construction operations. Other areas of activity are in construction management, for example in claim management and arbitration.
After studying civil engineering at the Technical University Braunschweig, at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, and at the Institut Superieur du Beton Arme in Marseille, Prof. Bargstädt was a structural engineer in a large construction
company. From 1986 to 1989, he worked for his PhD in structural engineering at the Technical University Braunschweig. Then, a career in the construction industry followed from working as site engineer to being director of a regional division of a large construction company.
He has been a university professor since 1999. In 2012 and 2013, he was a guest professor at the National Taiwan University in Taipei. Since 2011, he has been regularly teaching as a guest lecturer at Stellenbosch University. Prof. Bargstädt served many years as students’ dean and as dean of the faculty. He is spokesman of the German Association of
Professors in Construction Engineering and Construction Management. He serves as Chairman of the German association of civil engineering facilities. Since the beginning of 2017, he is also president of 4ING e.V.—the German Council of University Faculties in Engineering and Informatics.
Day 1 Wrap-up
Dr. Edward Jaselskis
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Day 2: Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and
Management Second Panel Session
How Industrial-Academic Partnerships Build Opportunities in Construction
Description:
This panel brings together a diverse group of scholars and industrial leaders to discuss the future
vision of the construction industry and how this vision can be supported by academia. The panel
will focus on emerging opportunities in industry, including leveraging industrial-academic
partnerships to promote the advancement of women in construction. Developments in academic
research and teaching that help industry achieve this vision will be proposed, and contributions
that can be made by industry to promote CEM education and innovation will be discussed.
Moderators: Drs. Simaan AbouRizk, University of Alberta, and Makarand Hastak, Purdue
University
Dr. Simaan AbouRizk a Distinguished University Professor,
Interim Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and a Tier 1 Canada
Research Chair in Operations Simulation at the University of
Alberta. For almost 30 years, Dr. AbouRizk and his research
team have focused on advancing simulation modeling for
improved management and control of large-scale construction
projects. His work has resulted in several long-standing industrial
research partnerships and in the development of numerous
simulation tools that have been implemented throughout the
construction sector. Partnering with over 40 construction
organizations and receiving over $4.5 million in research funding
from industry alone, the success and distinctiveness of Dr.
AbouRizk’s research program are a consequence of building
strong industrial research partnerships focused on advancing research, teaching, and overall
practice. This collaborative approach has garnered widespread support from numerous funding
agencies, policy makers, and industrial practitioners and has been instrumental in the expansion
of the University of Alberta’s Hole School of Construction Engineering into one of the most
reputable and well-respected Construction Engineering and Management Programs in North
America.
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Dr. Makarand Hastak is Professor and the Dernlan Family Head of Construction Engineering and Management as well as Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He has
assisted the construction industry for the past 33 years through consulting, research, teaching, and service to the community. His areas of expertise within construction engineering and management includes profitability of construction companies,
disaster risk reduction, infrastructure management, cost control, project management decision-making, risk management, factory-built housing, contracts, warranties, modular construction, and strategic planning. He is a licensed
Professional Engineer (PE), a Construction Risk Insurance Specialist (CRIS), and a Certified Cost Professional (CCP). Prof. Hastak has worked on numerous projects sponsored by the NSF, State DOTs, City Agencies, and the Construction Industry Institute (CII). As a Fellow of the
American Council on Education (cohort of 2013-14) at Cornell University, his work focused on the various facets of Hybrid RCM budget, engaged institution, and Public-Private Partnership in academia.
He has given over 50 keynotes and invited lectures around the world. Prof. Hastak has
authored/co-authored over 200 publications and reports in his area of expertise as well as co-authored and edited three widely used books (1) Infrastructure Planning, Engineering, and Economics (McGraw-Hill 2006 and 2015), (2) Skills and Knowledge of Cost Engineering (AACE 6th Ed. 2015), and (3) CCP Certification Study Guide (AACE 2nd Ed. 2016). He served
on the AACE Education Board from 2004-2016. He is the current Vice President of the Board of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) (https://cibworld.org/). Also, he serves as the Academic Advisor to the CII Downstream and Chemicals Committee (DCC). He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of
Management in Engineering (2009-2016) and currently serves on its board. From 2008-2010, he served as the Chair of the National Consortium of Housing Research Centers (NCHRC) and was the invited Scholar-in-Residence (2006) at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center. Dr. Hastak has developed and managed (2007-2019) several websites as a
public service to the construction industry including: Emerging Construction Technologies (ECT), Academic Breakthroughs, and Purdue Index for Construction (Pi-C).
Dr. Hastak received his BE (Civil) from Nagpur University, India, MSCE from the University of Cincinnati, and PhD (Civil) from Purdue University, USA. In addition, he is a
trained university planner through SCUP and has received training at Cornell University in Executive Leadership, Financial Management, and Advanced Strategic Human Resource Management. He has worked at Georgia Tech, NYU, University of Cincinnati, and currently at Purdue University.
Jamie Feuffel, Area Manager, PCL Industrial Constructors Inc.
Jamie Feuffel oversees PCL Industrial Constructors’ western
Canadian operations, including the company’s fabrication and the module facilities in Nisku, Alberta. Jamie began his career at PCL in 1996 as a coordinator, spending considerable time learning the ropes in the same operation he now oversees. In
2004, he moved into the field to act as the construction lead on PCL’s first greenfield SAGD oil sands project – Husky Tucker Lake.
Jamie moved into Industrial’s head office in 2010 to
oversee the project controls, construction engineering, and business systems teams. In 2013, as operations manager, his responsibilities grew to include oversight of the field coordination, material control, and communications groups. In 2021, he was promoted to area
manager for PCL Industrial Constructors.
Jamie graduated from the University of Alberta with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1995 and earned his Master of Engineering degree in Construction Engineering and Management in 1997. His association with the University of Alberta continues as he currently sits on the
Scientific Advisory Committee of the university's Construction Innovation Centre.
Rod Wales, Vice President Pursuits and Strategic Development, Ledcor
Rod joined Ledcor in 2008 and possesses over 27 years of project management and execution
experience primarily in the heavy civil, mining, and infrastructure sectors in western Canada. Rod’s diverse project knowledge and experience has been a considerable asset in his management of Ledcor pursuits.
As Vice-President at Ledcor, Rod leads major project
design-build and public-private partnership pursuits. His responsibilities include: early engagement with potential construction and engineering partners; preparation of teaming joint venture arrangements; and managing the development of
request for qualifications and request for proposals. Rod holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (1992), as well as a M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Management (1994) from the University of Alberta.
Rod is actively involved with the University of Alberta where he acts as a corporate liaison to the Construction Engineering and Management program and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Collaborative Research and Development project, entitled “Simulation
Based Analytics for Industrial Construction.” Rod is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee serving the Center for Innovation in Construction at the University of Alberta. His in-kind university contributions include guest lecturer and student research advisor, where he provides graduate students access to industry-based research projects.
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In addition to his involvement with the University of Alberta, Rod has contributed to academia in the field of simulation and artificial intelligence through authorship of several journal papers, conference proceedings, and reports.
Dr. Stephen Mulva, Director, Construction Industry Institute
Dr. Stephen Mulva directs the Construction Industry Institute (CII), a research component of The University of Texas at Austin. His
current research projects are focused on the performance and productivity of capital projects in most sectors of the modern economy. In addition to his responsibilities at CII, Stephen teaches graduate courses in Construction Engineering and Project
Management at The University of Texas. Before coming to CII in 2007, Stephen taught Construction Management at Texas State University. He has held industry positions at Fluor, Bechtel, Phillips Petroleum, and as a project management consultant for
ePM. Stephen holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Construction
Engineering and Management) from Georgia Tech and two degrees from The University of Texas at Austin: a Master’s in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor’s in Architectural Engineering.
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Day 2: Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and Management Third Panel Session Increasing Women Participation in Construction Academia and Practice
Description:
The panel discusses the critical issue of increasing women’s participation in architecture and construction in both academia and practice. Discussions will include issues of equality, diversity, inclusivity, and leadership. Existing challenges and opportunities will be presented and
discussed.
Moderators: Professor Patricia Tzortzopoulos, University of Huddersfield, UK, Professor
Mike Kagioglou, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Professor Patricia Tzortzopoulos Fazenda graduated in Architecture and Urbanism in Brazil and has industrial experience in collaborative design integration and management. She is Professor of Integrated Design, Associate Dean for Research at the School of Art
Design and Architecture, and Director of the Innovative Design Laboratory and Head of Department of Architecture and 3D Design since September 2014. Patricia joined the University of Huddersfield in May 2014 as Head of Department for Architecture and 3D Design
(up to January 2018). Her role combines research, administration, and teaching activities. She has taught on the areas of Design Management, Value Generation, and Building Information Modelling in architectural design, completed several research
projects, supervised research students, and published widely. Patricia’s career encompasses design, architecture, new product development, and the built
environment, with a focus on multidisciplinary integration between design and construction through collaborative working and value generation in design. She initially specialized in design management
through a masters at the Postgraduate Programme of Civil Engineering -UFRGS, Brazil. As a design manager, she was responsible for managing client requirements and implementing process innovation to improve effectiveness and efficiency of design and its interfaces with construction. This practical experience underpins her research and teaching interests.
Patricia’s PhD was awarded in 2004 by the University of Salford, UK, and focused on the design and implementation of product development process models in construction companies. Before completing her PhD, Patricia joined the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford as a research assistant on the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council) funded Salford Centre for Research and Innovation in the Built and Human Environment (SCRI). She became an Academic Fellow, developing research on the design of healthcare built environments, and developed the MSc Built Environment for Healthcare. Patricia was appointed as research coordinator at HaCIRIC (Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre,
EPSRC IMRC). She has developed and lead the MSc BIM and Integrated Design, launched in 2011. Following, she became Director of the Design and Property Management Directorate at the School of the Built Environment.
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Professor Kagioglou became the Dean of Engineering at Western Sydney University on the 9th of March 2020. The School consists of Civil, Electrical and Electronic, Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering. Previous to that, he was the Dean of Art, Design and Architecture at
the University of Huddersfield in the UK from the 4th of November 2013. The School consisted of three innovative departments: Art and Communications; Fashion and Textiles; and Architecture and 3D design. He was
previously at the University of Salford in the UK where he was the Head of the School of Built Environment since 2009, the No.1 Research Power School in the 2008 RAE for Architecture and the Built Environment.
His career spans Engineering, Manufacturing, Creativity, Design, Architecture, and the Built Environment, engaged in inter and multi-disciplinary research at a global level. Professor Kagioglou’s
commitment to inter and multidisciplinary endeavours was evident from the beginning of his academic career. Receiving his PhD in 2009, he joined the University of Salford as the Manager of the £8M EPSRC (Engineering
and Physical Sciences Research Council) Salford Centre for Research and Innovation (SCRI) in the built and human environment. He became the Director of SCRI in 2008.
Professor Kagioglou’s more recent work over the last 7-8 years focused on process issues in healthcare infrastructure, and he was an Academic Director for the £11M EPSRC funded
interdisciplinary IMRC in Health and Care Infrastructures Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC). His current research is around healthcare infrastructure and better decision-making in complex settings, following an outcomes/benefits based philosophy. He is also working on platform design in a number of sectors and Lean thinking. He has published more than 200
academic refereed papers, many industrial reports, and three books. He has taken part in international evaluations and consultancy activity.
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Panel Members:
Karen Godfrey, SHE Manager, Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure Ltd.
Karen is the SHW manager for Morgan Sindall’s Construction
business in the North and has been named the SHE winner of the
‘Best Woman in Health and Safety’ award at the 2018 Women in
Construction and Engineering (WICE) awards. She has spent the
last 15 years of her career working in the health and safety arena
across the civil engineering and construction industries. Karen is
an advocate for women in the construction industry and is part of a
core team of people within her organization looking at how we
tackle the challenge: how to encourage women/young women to
enter the industry when they know so little about the diversity and variety that it offers. As a
mentor for IOSH, an active member of the Women in Health and Safety network, and a STEM
Ambassador, Karen believes that we cannot underestimate the importance of encouraging the
women across our industry to use their voices to promote the breadth of roles available in the
construction industry alongside how agile a working environment it can be for anyone looking to
decide on their academic or work-based career path. As a full-time working mother of three,
Karen represents what is often unseen by those looking into the construction industry –
flexibility, balance, and diversity.
Associate Professor Rebecca Yang, Leader of Solar Energy
Application Lab, School of Property, Construction and Project
Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Yang is a building and construction scholar working in the
subfield of innovation adoption. Her area of expertise is applied
distributed renewable energy, and she is particularly known for her
research on solar building envelope applications. Her research has
led to the publication of over 100 publications with about 2,900
citations, placing her in the Top 1% most cited researchers (230th
out of 27,014) in the world in the building and construction field in
2019, accordingly to Mendeley Data for “Updated science-wide
author databases of standardized citation indicators”.
She actively represents Australia as an Expert in the International Energy Agency (IEA)
collaborative programs. She is the Australian lead in the Photovoltaic Power Systems
Programme (PVPS) Task 15 Enabling Framework for the Development of BIPV
(https://apvi.org.au/pvps-task-15/), and the Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (SHC)
recently approved Task 66 Solar Energy Buildings. She leads the theme of “BIPV
Digitalization”, which includes 33 experts from 15 countries and 28 organizations in Europe,
