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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 MaDr 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


    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


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    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