The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction postgraduate programmes are broad and deeply influenced by practice, taking in construction economics, infrastructure finance and project leadership. Details of our current research students and their topic of research are listed below.
Current students
Abdelkawy Abdou
Meta-architecture: building information modelling for facilities management
Supervisory team: Professor Micheal Pitt and Professor Tim Broyd
Ahmed Mohamed Alnaggar
Supervisory team: Professor Michael Pitt and Dr Claire Andrew
Khalid Amin
Developing a Business Case for Augmented Reality in Healthcare Construction Projects
Supervisory team: Dr Grant Mills and Dr Karim Farghaly
Raed Ashour
The adoption and implementation of Digital Twin in integrated hospital projects
Supervisory team: Dr Grant Mills and Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki
Zeynep Kubra Atli
How Nudge theory affects complex infrastructure leaders value options and use flexibility under uncertainty
Supervisory team: Dr Zhen Ye and Dr Ilias Krystallis
Yunqing Bi
Explore net-zero emissions pathways at city-level from both production and consumption-based perspectives
Supervisory team: Prof. Jing Meng and Dr Heran Zheng
Kathryn Bourke
The role of service life in decision making about existing buildings and infrastructure
Supervisory team: Prof. Tim Broyd and Dr Simon Addyman
Rafaella Broft
The design of a Lean Production System to successfully implement SCM at the lower tiers of construction supply chains
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth
Peipei Chen
Cost and potential emission reduction of low-carbon technologies: from the micro perspective of power, steel and petroleum refining enterprises
Supervisory team: Dr Jing Meng and Professor D'Maris Coffman
Honghu Chu
Deep learning and UAV-based bridge crack inspection
Supervisory team: Dr Chen Weiwei
Israel Simon Mariaca Clavel
Construction operations scheduling based in hybrid simulation and uncertainty for girder bridges
Supervisory team: Dr Laura Florez-Perez and Dr Carlos Galera Zarco
Guilherme Duch Crosta
Urban farming in the built environment
Supervisory team: Professor Jacqui Glass and Dr Armando Castro
Oscar Cruz
Geopolitical influences on infrastructure projects in the context of climate change
Supervisory team: Dr Effie Konstantinou and Dr Jenny McArthur
Argyrios Delithanasis
A digital ontology for human-centred decision-making in a circular built environment
Supervisory team: Dr Selcuk Cidik and Dr Karim Farghaly
Shiyu Deng
The environmental and health co-benefits of decarbonizing the UK's heating system
Supervisory team: Professor Zhifu Mi and Dr Shen Wei
Loan Diep
Politics of Green Infrastructure in favelas
Supervisory team: Dr Priti Parikh and Dr David Dodman
Mohamed Elkaddah
Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki
Adam Golden
Managing innovation in major projects and programmes
Yasmin Garcia-Sterling
Supervisory team: Professor Michael Pitt and Dr Qiuchen Lu
Kehan He
Embodied emissions; environmental economics; climate change
Supervisory team: Dr Zhifu Mi and Professor D'Maris Coffman
Qi He
Supervisory team: Dr Stani Milcheva and Dr Stefano Miraglia
Wenjie Hu
Exploring Prefabricated Construction in China
Supervisory team: Prof. Jacqueline Glass and Mr Oliver Wilton
Yunlong Huang
Economic analysis of the Real Estate market with statistical machine learning and big data
Supervisory team: Dr Stani Milcheva and Dr Stefano Miraglia
Hang Lai
Real Estate Finance and Economics
Supervisory team: Professor Stanimira Milcheva and Dr Evangelia Chrysikou
Anam Latif
Betwixt and Between: Navigating the emergence of belonging paradox through the dynamics of power & disequilibrium
Supervisory team: Dr Stefano Miraglia and Associate Professor John Kelsey
Andrea Gonzales Lazo
Knowledge Management in Projects
Supervisory team: Dr Selcuk Cidik and Dr Simon Addyman
Xuhui Lin
Optimizing Emergency Response Transportation Plans under Flooding Conditions using Field Theory
Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Qiuchen Lu
Flavio Pinheiro Martins
The Role of Infrastructure in Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Brazilian Communities
Supervisory team: Professor Priti Parikh and Professor Monica Lakhanpaul
Jiayin Meng
Green Infrastructure Investment and Finance
Supervisory team: Dr. Zhen Ye and Dr. Jing Meng
Jessy Gomes Moreira
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth and Dr Meri Duryan
Oscar Cruz Navarro
The geopolitical and geo-economic challenges facing project management in tackling the impacts of climate change on infrastructure projects
Supervisory team: Dr Vedran Zerjav and Dr Effie Konstantinou
Nicholas Nisbet
Regulatory Compliance and Knowledge capture
Supervisory team: Dr Ling Ma; Dr Gulnaz Aksenova and Professor Tim Broyd (Director of Studies)
Katharina Oemmelen
From mini grid to sustainable development? An analysis of the benefits and trade-offs of the renewable energy transition in rural Madagascar
Supervisory team: Prof. Priti Parikh and Dr Ben Page (Geography Department)
Beatrice Mensimah Ossei-Gudom
Implementation of Building Information Modelling by Project Managers on Construction Projects in Ghana - Level 2 Implementation
Nicoleta Panagiotidou
Optimising beps, understanding the role and development of the bim execution plan
Supervisory team: Prof. Michael Pitt and Dr. Shen Wei
Juan D. Gutés Pascual
The dynamics of trust elements in construction projects
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth and Dr Effie Konstantinou
Baker Rickaby
Dealing with Uncertainty in Megaprojects
Supervisory team: Professor Andy Davies, Honorary Professor and Dr Ilias Krystallis
Irinie Roufaeel
Emergency Department evaluation and optimization using space syntax and hybrid simulation techniques
Supervisory team: Dr Grant Mills and Prof Alan Penn
Saule Sakenova
Exploring project portfolio selection processing project-based organisations
Denis Scott
Utilising Smart Contracts and Blockchain Technology for Infrastructure Industry Transformation
Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Ling Ma
Gagandip Sehmbi
Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Ling Ma
Clark Stacey
Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Natalya Sergeeva
Gatot Subroto
Why and How (Fear of) Corruption Hinders Projects, Evidence from Indonesia
Supervisory team: Dr Effie Konstantinou and Dr Vedran Zerjav
Ning Sun
Value co-creation in public projects: from a paradox perspective
Supervisory team: Dr John Kelsey and Dr Jing Xu
Xinlu Sun
Region- and city-level climate change mitigation and sustainable development
Supervisory team: Dr Zhifu Mi and Prof D'Maris Coffman
Mohamad El Tannir
The implementation of lessons learned and knowledge management at the front end of projects
Supervisory team: Dr Grant Mills and Dr Ilias Krystallis
Sandeep Thakur
The Role of Consortium leader in the governance of Megaprojects
Supervisory team: Dr Mustafa Cidik and Dr Natalya Sergeeva
Angeliki Maria (Marilina) Toli
Studying resource exchange through actor interactions in the smart city service ecosystem, using the service dominant logic
Supervisory team: Dr Niamh Murtagh and Dr Meri Duryan
Kang Tong
Value drivers of modularisation extent
- View Kang's research profile
- Supervisory team: Dr Grant Mills and Dr Selcuk Cidik.
Alejandro Vargas-Ramirez
Uncertainty and innovation within business-critical projects
Supervisory team: Professor Andy Davies, Honorary Professor and Dr Stefano Miraglia
Florence Walker
Supervisory team: Professor Aeli Roberts and Professor Niamh Murtagh
Shizhen Wang
Real Estate Finance
Supervisory team: Prof. Stanimira Milcheva and Dr Nikodem Szumilo
Taige Wang
Targeted BIM Use Selection for Projects: A Mixed Methods Explanation of BIM Use Contributing to Project Management
Supervisor team: Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki and Dr Natalya Sergeeva
Cheng Wu
Exploring The Compatibility between Lean Information Flow and Emergency Projects
Supervisory team: Prof. Grant Mills and Dr Simon Addyman
Yiming Xiang
Supervisory team: Dr Abdul-Majeed Mahamadu and Dr Laura Florez-Perez
He Xiao
The use of blockchain technology to address the collaboration/trust problems of BIM in the UK's construction industry: from the perspectives of technology, process, behaviour
Supervisory team: Professor Tim Broyd and Dr Mustafa Selçuk Çıdık
Lingshan Xie
Real Estate Finance
Supervisory team: Dr Stani Milcheva and Dr Peter Ye
Qiuhao Xie
Coopetition of international construction joint ventures and its performance outcome
Supervisory team: Prof. Grant Mills
Pu Yang
Patterns of carbon emissions in European and Chinese cities
Supervisory team: Dr Zhifu Mi and Professor D'Maris Coffman
Wu Yanga
Bridging the energy performance gap: a process study of routine intersections at project handover stage
Supervisory team: Professor Hedley Smyth and Dr Stefano Miraglia
Zhiqiang Yin
Climate change economics; Climate change risk assessment; Climate change adaptation; Numerical modelling
Supervisory team: Professor Dabo Guan and Dr Jing Meng
Chunlin Yu
Coping with Complexity in Megaprojects
Supervisory team: Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki and Professor Andy Davies, Honorary Professor
Fei Yuan (Sophie)
Understanding Employees’ Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) from the Organisational Psychology Perspectives
Supervisory team: Professor Niamh Murtagh and Dr Eleni Papadonikolaki
Zijing Zhang
Automatic code compliance checking of healthcare facilities
Supervisory team: Dr. Ling Ma and Prof. Tim Broyd
Former students
A | B | C | D | G | I | L | O | P | S | U | V | X
Imad Ahmed
Political economy of infrastructure investment
Diyana Syafiqah Abd Razak
Cost of quality during construction post-handover
Simon Addyman
Management of projects, networks and supply chains
Huda Almadhoob
Self-organised networks in large construction projects
Ahmed Mohamed Alnaggar
Supervisory team: Professor Michael Pitt and Dr Claire Andrew
Luc Bardin
Roberto Cardinale
The transition from the national to the EU model of energy governance: a comparative case study of the Greenstream, Galsi and Medgaz gas pipelines
Yan Chen
Driving factors of carbon emissions in the built environment: a comparison between London and Beijing
Lu Cheng
Life-cycle carbon emissions in the construction sector: Comparisons between China and the UK
Nafiseh Darvish
Capability building to deal with time delays in gas upstream megaprojects
Juliano Denicol
Designing client organisations and supply chain strategies to deliver megaprojects
Zigeng Fang
Machine learning applications in Facility Management
View Zigeng's research profile
Marcos Gonzalez Fuentez
The co-creation of project/service valued outcomes: a client service (dominant logic) perspective
Tehreem Husain
Railway mergers in the early twentieth century: an exploratory study
Roselyn Itopa
Lois Yixi Liao
Herding behaviour in housing markets
Omoleye Ojuri
Prescribing a management agenda for the Nigerian water supply system: value co-creation and networks prescriptions
Pouria Panahi
Mostafa Safar
Giuseppe Sassano
Anne Symons
Tan Tan
Beyond Building: Digital Transformation to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA)
Prompt Udomdech
Project-based learning to advance building information modelling innovation adoption in the built environment SMEs
Daan Vermeer
Collective learning in strategic Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement systems for social infrastructure
Francesca Vinci
Project leadership and project capabilities for innovative and successful project delivery
Jing Xu
The value of trust in construction supply chains