Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook

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Dr. C arlos For moso has a PhD awarded by the University of Salford, UK. He is an associate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where he has been teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses, and conducting research in the area of construction management since 1991. He is the head of the Construction Management Research Group at UFRGS, leading a team of around 25 researchers. His research is concerned with the design and management of production systems in the construction industry, including themes such as production control, organizational learning, safety management, performance measurement, and product development. He has led several projects in partnership with the industry in the last 15 years, most of them funded both by the Brazilian Government and private companies. He has been a very active member of the International Group for Lean Construction since 1996. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, between October 1999 and September 2000. Dr. Ker ry L ondon is an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Built Environment in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia and received her PhD from the University of Melbourne. Dr. London joined Newcastle in 2001 and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in both architecture and construction management programs. She is assistant dean for Community Engagement. She is director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Built Environment Research [CIBER] and has published widely on the construction supply chain concept. She was a visiting scholar at Lund University, Sweden in 2000 and at the University of Reading, UK in 2006. Dr. London is also the author of Construction Supply Chain Economics, and her construction supply research areas include chain economics, capital infrastructure policy and management analysis, and information fl ow and supply chain sustainability. William J. O’Brien, PE, PhD, focuses his professional eff orts on improving collaboration and coordination among fi rms in the design and construction industry. Dr. O’Brien is an expert on construction supply chain management and electronic collaboration. He conducts research, teaches, and consults on both systems design and implemen