The third CIB President’s seminar series has been hosted in partnership with Purdue University during Autumn 2023 and Spring 2024, with a focus on distinguished women researchers in the built environment.
We have been fortunate to receive some excellent, thought provoking seminars on a broad range of subjects, from leading researchers from many institutions across the globe. The videos can be viewed by clicking on each thumbnail below.
Seminar presenters
| Modeling our built environment: re-thinking how we design and build – Fernanda Leite | Carbon neutral hybrid energy solutions in buildings – Piia Sormunen | People-centric built environments – Burcin Becerik-Gerber | Rethinking construction to reduce disaster risks – Dilanthi Amaratunga |
| Is equitable water service in the Arctic a pipe dream? – Kasey Faust | Regenerating a collapsing world – Chrisna Du Plessis | The house of Toyota – an inspiration for lean design and construction – Iris Tommelein | Fuzzy logic solutions in construction engineering and management – Aminah Robinson Fayek |
| Advancements in sustainable building technologies: climate resilience and adaptation strategies – Aslihan Karatas | Journey to net zero carbon in construction through life cycle excellence – Niluka Domingo | Thirty years of time travelling through a construction management career in academia – Suzanne Wilkinson | Holistic investigation of the pipeline leaks and lessons from women in engineering – Ruwini Edirisinghe |
| Sustainable urban development and management in African cities: in search of Birnin Zana – Kathy Michell | Journey to net zero carbon in construction through life cycle excellence – Sayanti Mukherjee | Sustainable construction, various ways of shaping attitudes in the built environment – Anita Terjek | VR experiment for the effects of colors and noise on health of underground space users – Isabelle Chan |
| Design management in the digital era: challenges and opportunities – Monica Santos Salgado | User value in social housing retrofit – Patricia Tzortzopoulos | Smart construction: application of digital technologies for construction site monitoring – Dayana Bastos Costa | Value for money analysis for renewable energy PPP projects – Rana Khallaf |
| How can external stressors affect workers’ productivity and safety performance – Sogand Hasanzadeh & Shiva Pooladvand |
The CIB President’s seminar series with distinguished women researchers in the built environment is held in collaboration with Purdue University.