Author: Henry Jacobs

the challenges and opportunities of delivering infrastructure.

Professor Tim Broyd, founding director of University College London’s Institute for Digital Innovation in the Built Environment, presented insights from research into how the construction industry should approach climate change.

The University of Queensland and Imperial College London’s Professor Mark Dodgson AO visited to share his expertise on Innovation in Professional Services Firms.

Dr Marzena Baker and her co-authors have received the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 2022 Best Paper Award for their publication “Leadership Diversity and Its Influence on Equality Initiatives and Performance: Insights for Construction Management”.

Professor Stewart Clegg and his co-authors have received the Association for Information Systems Network College Best Paper Award for their publication “Watchers, Watched, and Watching in the Digital Age: Reconceptualization of IT Monitoring as Complex Action Nets” in Organization Science Journal.

As the purpose of megaprojects widens towards the production of “socially valuable outcomes”, projects become instruments not only of production of economic returns to be captured by the capital investors based on user willingness to pay, but also instruments of distribution of value to be appropriated by non-users.

Mr Gill is a Professor of New Infrastructure Development at the University of Manchester’s Alliance Manchester Business School and will continue his research on the design of structures and processes to create economic and social value.