Dr. Syed M. Ahmed is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Construction Management at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina USA. Dr. Ahmed received his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Ahmed has over 25 years of international experience in teaching, research and consulting in Pakistan, Hong Kong, USA, Mexico, and Jamaica. His areas of interest/expertise are construction scheduling, quality and risk management, project controls, construction safety, construction procurement, and construction education and information technology. He is the author of four books and has also published extensively in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr. Ahmed is currently on the editorial board of more than 6 international journals and serves as the Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering & Management and the Associate Editor of the Built Environment Project & Asset Management (BEPAM) Journal.
Miklos Hajdu PhD received his PhD degree in construction management in 1995 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has been the head of the Department of Construction Management at Szent István University’s Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering since 2003. He was founding president of the Hungarian Project Management Association, and is the vice-president of the Hungarian Scientific Society for Building. Professor Hajdu serves as the editor-in-chief and member of the editorial board of numerous Hungarian and international journals. He has several dozens of publications including books and papers in internationally indexed journals. His research areas include but are not limited to scheduling and cost optimization in the field of project management.
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Mirosław J. Skibniewski is a Professor of Construction Engineering and Project Management at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA. His current research interests focus on information and automation technologies for the improvement of construction and related processes, and on the analysis of supply chains for sustainable construction. A past president of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Automation in Construction, an international research journal published by Elsevier, and as North American Editor of the Journal of Civil Engineering and Management published by Taylor & Francis.
