Lecturer in Construction Management (since 2003) and specialising in construction law and contract administration. Michael is an expert in the New South Wales statutory adjudication system, which is one of two statutory systems (along with the UK model) upon which all other international systems are based. He is an Appointed Adjudicator for NSW and Victoria, and an advisor to the NSW Department of Commerce on matters relating to the performance-based assessment of the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999. Michael has published extensively on construction law and statutory adjudication internationally, and is a former co-winner of the FBE Research Excellence Awards Team Research Prize for an outstanding record of leadership in research. Michael is a founding Coordinator of the CIB Task Group on Statutory Adjudication in Construction (TG67, est. 2007), and a founding Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Law in the Built Environment (Emerald). He is also a Member (Elect) of the Panel of Peer Reviewers for the Construction Law Journal (Sweet & Maxwell). Michael is an external reviewer for numerous international refereed journals, and for the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. Michael is currently the Convenor of the FBE Human Research Ethics Advisory Panel.

Associate Professor Bridge's research interests are in social sustainability and how the built environment (at all scales from interior design of private housing to transport and urban planning) influences people's quality of life, and mental and physical health and wellbeing. Dr Bridge has particular expertise in understanding human-environment transactions for people of all abilities and ages in application of this knowledge as a means of improving design outcomes. For instance, dementia day-centre respite facility guidelines and group home and villa design guidelines for those with high medical-needs and/or aggressive or disturbed behaviours. Dr Bridge is one of Australia's eminent experts on housing solutions for older people. In 2006 the Home Modification Information Clearinghouse Project was nominated for the NSW Premiers Public Service Award, and was awarded a plaque by the Sri Lankan Urban Development Authority for her input regarding the creation of a non-handicapping environment in the National rebuilding initiatives undertaken following on from the Tsumani of 2004.

As Associate Professor and Director of CHAA since mid 2005, strong industry background with over 25 years in architectural practice mainly on health projects; worked in developing countries on health sector facility projects funded by the World Bank, AusAid and NZAid including East Timor Health Infrastructure Restoration, Niue Hospital Replacement, and Nauru Hospital upgrade; strong health sector links within Australasia with industry and State/Territory Health Departments and internationally with bodies such as the European Health Property Network, Netherlands Health Building Institute, HaCIRIC UK and in the US with various researchers such as Professor Franklin Becker at Cornell University. Jane's areas of expertise include health facility briefing and design, development of health facility design guidelines, health service planning, post occupancy evaluation, facility management and strategic asset planning, master planning, emerging trends in health service delivery and facility design, post disaster/pandemic infrastructure preparedness responses, environmental sustainability, climate change adaptation for health infrastructure, planning for diverse populations including the elderly, multicultural populations, preparation of design guidelines She is currently involved with two ARC projects - one is studying the effects of climate change-related extreme weather events on healthcare infrastructure and the other is looking at communication patterns of clinicians and the way that these are affected by the built environment.

Lecturer in Construction Management and Property. Her teaching and research area is Facilities Management, with her PhD focusing specifically on the healthcare sector. Her current interests include sustainability and adaptive capacity of new and existing infrastructure to cope with climate change - Asset Management, Facility Planning and Maintenance, Organisational Learning and Change Management. More recently, she is a chief investigator in a major research project involving the Australian and New Zealand health departments to look at hospitals infrastructural resilience against extreme weather events. Venny has published various journal and conference papers, and research reports; and is currently a referee of the Construction Management and Economics journal.

Patrick Chu is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Assets Australasia (CHAA), a University of New South Wales (UNSW) Research Centre based in the Faculty of the Built Environment. The Centre is funded by the State and Territory Health Departments of Australia and New Zealand to research health asset facility design, procurement and management in order to improve the quality of physical environments that support better delivery of healthcare. Patrick is an Architect and Project Manager with over 20 years of experience in architectural practice and more recently academia. He has extensive experience in a wide range of health, aged care and other institutional projects. His current role with CHAA includes management of the development, review and approval process of the Australasian Health Facility Guidelines. The Guidelines are used in all states and territories of Australia and New Zealand in a variety of forms.

John Cowan has a significant professional career spanning over 32 years in the property development industry. He has held senior project management appointments with Bovis Lend Lease, Parsons Brinckerhoff, and Cadence Australia Pty Ltd., and currently operates a project and development management consultancy working across all sectors of property, throughout Australia. John is the new Program Director for the Master of Construction Project Management, with teaching and research interests in Construction Planning and Buildability Assessment, Managing Construction Risks, Strategic Business Planning, Project Management and Sustainability. John is a Green Star Accredited Professional.

PhD in sustainability, Research interests include architectural and planning theory, post-disaster design applications, indoor air quality (IAQ), material selection, their impacts on occupants, and allied health studies, for healthy and sustainable indoor environments. PhD research presents a new approach to the study of IAQ as one important aspect of an indoor built environment. It attempts to show a possible IAQ mitigation by balancing scientific information and human considerations in a total design plan for public housing and/or post-disaster rehabilitation planning. Current research is on the relationship between healthcare facilities, their indoor environmental quality and the health and comfort of occupants. Areas of expertise: Allied Health Study, Sustainable system for health facility, Building pathology, Post-disaster housing, Indoor air quality, Post occupancy assessment.

Imriyas is a Lecturer in Construction Management, specializing in Construction Informatics and Construction Economics. He is a Quantity Surveyor by undergraduate training and holds an MPhil and a PhD in Construction Management. Imriyas has experience in researching and working in various countries. He has worked as a cost consultant and a researcher before becoming a full-time academic. He has also worked for the World Bank as a short-term consultant. Imriyas is an active researcher, and has published numerous articles in international refereed journals and conferences. He is on the editorial board of the newly launched International Journal of Construction Project Management, and a regular reviewer for Construction Management and Economics, which is the leading journal in the field. His research interests include E-Project Management, Knowledge Management Systems, Knowledge- based Systems, and Cost Management.

Senior Lecturer of Land and Property Economics and Director of Master of Property and Development (MPD) Program. He was President of Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES). In 2005, Jinu organised successfully the 10th International Conference of Asian Real Estate Society at Sydney. He was an Associate Director of the Centre for Real Estate Research (CRER) which was jointly established by the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and the Real Estate Finance and Investment Centre at McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Jinu’s research areas are property and construction market analysis, property development, and facilities management. He has presented his research findings through more than 50 publications including 5 chapters in books.

Professor Dennis Lenard is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, a Fellow of the Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors (awarded the Association Medal in Beijing, June 2001), and a Distinguished International Fellow of the International Cost Engineering Council (2004). He has held executive appointments with the UK Housing Forum (the largest Housing network in the UK), Constructing Excellence (the major business improvement organisation in the UK), and the Centre for Construction Innovation (an enterprise partnership between Manchester City Council and Salford University). Professor Lenard was recently an invited Member of the Strategic Industry Leaders Group (Design Professions Action Agenda) and Chair of the Design Value Working, having held professorial appointments at a number of leading Universities internationally. He is currently working with a team at UNSW to develop a major initiative in property development. Current projects focus on competitiveness public private partnerships and Development Value.

Professor of Construction Management and Associate Dean Research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building. In 2002, Martin was a consultant to the Australian Royal Commission into the Building Industry, advising on international workplace reform and productivity. He advises many leading international companies about their risk management systems and has recently worked in a team to develop the risk management system for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games project delivery process. Martin has published over 150 articles and four books in risk management, crisis management, facilities management, occupational health and safety and human resource management. He has received numerous prizes for his research and has supervised many PhD students to successful completion.

Professor Denny McGeorge is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, and the Australian Institute of Building. Professor McGeorge is a leading building industry practitioner and academic. He has been a consultant to the Royal Commission into Productivity in the Building Industry (Gyles Royal Commission) in New South Wales for the duration of the Commission, was appointed to the expert panel of the federal Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry, and assisted in the Senate Enquiry into the construction industry. He has also worked extensively with the Chinese Ministry of Supervision on a major Australian aid project on the Promotion of Honest Administration in China's Construction Industry. His current interests include education and training for the industry, large-project procurement and process management, and whole of life-cycle costing.

Associate Professor and Head, Construction Management and Property. He gained his PhD from the University of Strathclyde in 1983, for his work on integrated computer modelling of construction costs. Sid has since developed a broad range of expertise in construction, design and education. His current interests include benchmarking, leadership, professional ethics, education and training, and the cost-value-quality nexus. Sid has held various editorial positions with a number of international journals, supervised students at all levels of research, and has published his own work extensively. In 2008, Sid provided consultancy to the Australian Government on their capital budgeting and procurement systems. He is currently an Associate of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors.

Florence Phua received her PhD degree in organisational behaviour and construction management from the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include aspects of organizational behaviour and the interdependent individual- and firm-level factors affecting the dynamics of construction project outcomes. She is currently a senior lecturer in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales.

Associate Professor in the Construction Management and Property program. He is member of Risk Engineering Society of Engineers Australia and Adjudicator of payment claim disputes under the security of payment acts in NSW, Queensland and Victoria. Tom's research expertise is in risk management, sustainable development, project management and construction law. Tom has published over 100 journal and conference articles, and three books on the topics of scheduling, contracts administration and project management. He has also conducted numerous executive training programs across a wide range of project management and contract administration issues in Australia and overseas.

Associate Professor in Construction Management, Director of Research Students and Chairman of the Research Committee in Faculty of the Built Environment (FBE) at The University of New South Wales (UNSW). Also Chair Professor in Hunan University, Visiting Professor in Renimin University of China and Shenzhen University and was Visiting Academic in University of Florida, Tsinghua University and National University of Singapore. He is Regional Vice President (Research and Education) of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Australasia Region, Advisor to some major companies, and editorial board member of several learned international journals. He has conducted several funded research projects and published more than 100 refereed papers and books in construction and project management. His current research focuses and interests include (1) life cycle risk management in projects and enterprises, (2) knowledge management and learning in architecture, engineering and construction organisations, (3) safety management in construction projects, and (4) e-learning, team learning and student skill development in construction management education. He has received two major awards for his research: (1) Winner of the International Innovation and Research ICPMA Award May 2008 from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) UK and (2) Professional Excellence in Building High Commendation Award from the Australian Institute of Building (AIB) (NSW Chapter) in May 2003; He has supervised many PhD, Master and Undergraduate students.