Editorial Board
James Rotimi
Founding & Chief Editor
James O. B. Rotimi, Founding Editor, is Professor of Construction Economics and Management at the School of Built Environment, Massey University, New Zealand. James has over 30 years of tertiary teaching and research experience in academic institutions in Nigeria, UK, South Africa and New Zealand. He holds various qualifications in building construction management, civil engineering, commerce, and education. As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) in the UK and a member the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), New Zealand Institute of Building (NZIOB), and the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), he demonstrates a strong professional commitment to advancing the built environment field. Professor Rotimi’s research focuses on creating transformative improvements in construction industry performance and optimizing the supply chain to enhance the delivery of construction projects. James is an active researcher and publishes extensively. In 2011, James founded the International Journal of Construction Supply Chain Management (IJCSCM) to advance knowledge dissemination in the fields of construction supply chain, economics, and performance.
Funmilayo Ebun Rotimi
Dr Funmilayo Rotimi has rich and varied work experiences from analytical skills and research to much more interpersonal skills in mentoring and teaching students. Funmilayo began her career as a Structural Design Engineer in a civil engineering consultancy practice in Nigeria, where she delivered some complex but exciting concrete building structures. Also, in Nigeria, she worked in facilities management for an oil company (NNPC) and with a university’s building maintenance service department. In New Zealand, Funmilayo worked as a Development Engineer in a consultancy firm involved in stormwater design and land sub-divisions. After her PhD, she became the pioneer lecturer for the Diploma in Construction Management (Quantity surveying strand) at Northland Polytechnic (NorthTec international campus). Funmilayo is currently Senior Lecturer in Construction Management at Auckland University of Technology’s Built Environment Engineering department. She has active research interests in Building quality and performance; Construction project management; Offsite Construction, Women’s health and wellbeing; and Construction Productivity.
Jasper Mbachu
Editorial
Dr Mbachu is an Associate Professor of quantity surveying and construction management in the Faculty of Society & Design, Bond University. He has 20+ years of university teaching experience in Nigeria, South Africa, USA and New Zealand, and 12+ years of construction work experience in various roles: quantity surveyor, contracts manager, construction manager & planner. He has supervised many PhDs to successful completion in his research interest areas, including productivity, supply chain management, innovation, prefabrication and digital technologies in construction. He serves on a number of boards for the industry and professional organisations, including the RICS Regional Engagement Group for Queensland & Northern Territory. He is also a member of the Earned Value Management Consulting Group to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Jack Goulding
Jack is currently Professor of Construction Project Management at Wolverhampton University (UK) – former Joint Coordinator of CIB TG74 “New Productions and Business Models in Construction” and current Joint Coordinator of CIB W121 “Offsite Construction”. He has authored over 200-refereed papers/reports and book chapters, including two co-edited books [Construction Innovation; and Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction]. Expertise includes: People (skills/training/culture/supply chain management); Technology (strategy/adoption/absorption/diffusion); Process (approaches/optimisation and project management); and Business (models/strategy/organisational learning, and innovation strategies).
John Tookey
Associate Editor
Professor John Tookey is Deputy Head of School External Engagement at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He completed his PhD dealing with concurrent engineering in the aerospace industry. From 1998 to 2006, Professor Tookey worked at Glasgow Caledonian University as first a researcher then as a lecturer. In 2006, he moved to the University of Auckland and then moved to AUT in 2009. Professor Tookey has had an extensive track record of research and programme development. In the UK he managed one Masters programme in construction management; then developed a new programme in project management to run alongside. At AUT he introduced two new Masters programmes in construction management and engineering project management, as well as unique undergraduate programmes in Architectural Engineering and Construction Engineering. In addition to his programme governance and development roles, Professor Tookey is the director of the Centre for Urban Built Environment in NZ (CUBE-NZ). He also regularly consults for industry and acts as Associate Editor for IJCSCM and peer reviewer for numerous Journals and conferences.
Suzanne Wilkinson
Professor Wilkinson is the Dean of the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies (DCT) at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). She is a professor specialising in construction management, disaster recovery, and resilience. Suzanne has a PhD in Construction Management and a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering, both from Oxford Brookes University, UK. She also has a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies (Dispute Resolution) from Massey University. Her current research focuses on disaster management, construction innovation, resilience and smart cities. She is interested in how cities, communities and organisations, including construction organisations, plan for disasters and manage hazard events and how to make them more resilience. She is involved actively in construction climate mitigation research.
Abimbola Windapo
Professor Abimbola Windapo is a Professor of Construction Management at the Department of Construction Economics and Management, University of Cape Town, with more than 30 years of experience in the construction industry. She is a Registered Construction Project Manager and Professional Construction Mentor with the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Profession (SACPCMP) and Registered Builder with the Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON). Her research is in the area of construction industry development, business and project management from a supply chain, performance and practice perspective. She is the Director of the Construction Business and Management Research Group; Editor of the Construction Business and Management Journal, published by the University of Cape Town Library (http://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/jcbm/index); and Deputy Editor of the Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management ECAM Journal. Professor Windapo’s detailed CV and publications are available at https://abimbolawindapo.academia.edu/.
Kabir Bala
Professor Kabir Bala is the current Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University ABU, Zaria-Nigeria. He graduated with B.Sc. (Hons) Building in 1985 from the Department of Building, ABU, Zaria. He worked briefly at Amana Development Company in Kaduna before joining the services of ABU, at the Department of Building in 1987. He obtained the Master of Science in Building Services in 1990, Masters in Business Administration in 1998 and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Construction Management in 2001, all from ABU. He was at the Department of Civil Engineering, Surveying and Building, University of Abertay, Dundee Scotland as a Visiting Scholar in 1994 /1995. At ABU, Professor Bala was two-time Head of Department of Building from 2001 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2014; he was the pioneer ICT Coordinator of the University from 2005 to 2006 and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Environmental Design from 2006 to 2008. He served as Director of Academic Planning and Monitoring from 2010 to 2013, Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies from 2015 to 2017, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) of the University from 2017 to 2019.
Chika Udeaja
Professor Chika Udeaja joined London South Bank University (LSBU) in May 2020 as Professor of Project Management and Construction within the College of Technology and Environment, where he also serves as Postgraduate Research Director. Before this, he was Programme Director for Construction Project Management at the University of Salford and held academic roles at Northumbria University and Newcastle University. He began his academic journey with a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Nigeria, followed by an MSc in Concrete Structures at Imperial College London and a PhD in Construction Management from LSBU. He later undertook a research role at Newcastle University, contributing to the CAPRIKON project. His research focuses on the application of digital technologies in construction, particularly in urban simulation, procurement decision-making, collaboration, and knowledge management, as well as sustainable construction practices. With over 21 years of academic experience, he has developed a strong multidisciplinary profile, contributing to four books and over 100 journal and conference publications. He has supervised numerous PhD students and examined more than 25 candidates (https://researchportal.lsbu.
Fei Ying
Fei is a senior lecturer in Quantity Surveying at Massey University’s School of Built Environment. Prior to joining academia, she advised and acted for public and private sector clients in the transportation, water, and construction sectors, with a track record in delivering successful outcomes for clients in New Zealand, China and Germany. Fei’s research covers procurement management, supply chain management and decision-making in construction management. Her current research pivots to the interdisciplinary field of construction informatics, focusing on digitalising the construction process through a social science lens on human behaviour change.