Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - UTM

Faculty Member, Razak School of Engineering & Advanced Technology

Professor

RAZAK School of Engineering & Advanced Technology

About

Since July 2010, I have been a Professor of International Construction Business in the Department of Civil Engineering, RAZAK School of Eengineering and Advanced Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).  From September 2008 to July 2010 I was an Associate Professor in the Department of Quantity Surveying at IIUM (International Islamic University Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur. Prior to this I was for 14 years in the Construction Management Group at the School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK.

I am a joint founder and coordinator of CIB Task Group 082 Marketing in Construction with Professor Low Sui Pheng of the National University of Singapore (NUS).

In June 2011 I was appointed as an international Construction Ambassador by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), to help promote the built environment, sustainability, safety and qualifications.

My specialist research field is in the area of Business and Project Management in the construction and engineering sectors. In addition, I am a recognized authority in international business development and marketing. I am an author of more than 50 books and papers at national and international level. In addition, I have organized several national and international conferences/seminars in the UK and Malaysia

I am joint founder and editor of the Journal of Quantity Surveying and Construction Business (http://jqscb.blogspot.com/)

Since 1994 I have been involved in postgraduate supervision managing many Masters and Doctoral students and have provided seminars on research management at an international level.

I continue to be engaged in developing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and courses.

In addition I have been external assessor for a number of universities in the UK and abroad including for the B.Sc. (Hons) Construction Management programme in the Department of Building and Surveying at Glasgow Caledonian University, the MSc. in Construction Management at UMIST, Manchester, the MSc. in Construction Economics and Management at the University of Capetown, South Africa and for the Master of Applied Science (Research) degree at the School of Construction Management and Property, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

I am currently external assessor for the Advanced Diploma in Technology (Building) at Tunku Abdul Rahman College in Kuala Lumpur.

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