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Fidelis Emuze Author & Editor

Patrick Manu is a Senior Lecturer in Project Management at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He has held academic posts in the United Kingdom and Ghana. Amongst his research interests are occupational health and safety, digital construction, sustainable construction, and procurement. He has over 70 publications including articles in leading multi-disciplinary and construction journals. His research, which has been published in several outlets, has been funded by several organisations including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

Fidelis Emuze is a Professor and head of the Department of Built Environment, and the Unit for Lean Construction and Sustainability at the Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa. He is a member of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management and the Lean Construction Institute. He is the International Coordinator of CIB TG59 (People in Construction), and in 2017, he co-organised and hosted the Joint CIB W099 and TG59 International Safety, Health, and People in Construction Conference.

Tarcisio Abreu Saurin is an Associate Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). He has a BS in civil engineering, MS in construction management and PhD in industrial engineering. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Salford (United Kingdom) and at Macquairie University, at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation. His main research interests include the modelling and management of complex socio-technical systems, resilience engineering, safety management, lean production, and performance measurement.

Bonaventura H. W. Hadikusumo is a Professor at the School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Safety management, system dynamics, project visualization, intelligent agent system, knowledge management tools, IT applications like building information modelling (BIM) and simulation in construction site improvement, and web-based project management are some of his key expertise areas and interests.