Research Cores
The Department’s main focus areas of research for the core competencies are:
Project Management and Construction Law
Project Management- Procurement management
- Finance management
- Risk management
- Safety, quality, productivity and environmental management and benchmarking
Business and Organisation Management
- Business strategies for construction firms
- International construction
Information and Communications Technology
- Building Information Models and their applications
- Use of web-based tools for project management
Construction Law and Arbitration
- Standard forms of construction contract
- Construction torts
- Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution
Total Building Performance
Indoor Environment and Energy- Indoor environment, human response and productivity
- Airborne infection and control
- Ventilation strategies for improved indoor air performance and energy efficiency
- Environmental control, technologies and optimization
Green and Energy Efficient building
- Building energy performance and management
- Energy performance benchmarking and targeting
- Net zero energy building design and development
- Green technologies
- Greenery performance, rooftop gardens and vertical greening
TBP Process Applications, Integration and Innovations
- Total building performance and diagnostics
- Maintainability of buildings
- Fire performance
- Natural ventilation and assisted natural ventilation systems