Professor Nashwan Dawood

Professor of Digital Construction Teesside University

  • Middlesbrough England

His expertise is sustainable infrastructure & in modelling ways to ensure carbon reduction in construction, housing & engineering projects.

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Areas of Expertise

Energy Efficient Buildings
Infrastructure Design
Carbon Reduction
Sustainable Construction
Engineering
Building
Digital Construction

Biography

Professor Nashwan (Nash) Dawood is Professor of Digital Construction in the Centre for Sustainable Engineering at Teesside University. His expertise is in sustainable infrastructure and in modelling ways to ensure cardon reduction in construction, housing and engineering projects. He has long-standing experience of undertaking research projects with major industrial partners in the areas of 5D modelling, serious game engine technology, Building Information Modelling, and the application of digital technologies for energy efficient buildings. He has worked with the Qatar Foundation to examine whole lifecycle approaches to construction (through digital underpinning) and in South Korea to bring about a new way to visualise and plan the construction of bridges.

Nash has published more than 220 research papers, and sits on the editorial board of a number of journals and conferences. His work has been recognized outside of the academic sphere, for example with its short-listing for the Constructing Excellence Innovation Award. His research was recognised in the UK’s best breakthrough list. The list of breakthroughs, compiled by Universities UK, demonstrates how UK universities are at the forefront of some of the world’s most important discoveries.

Multimedia Appearances

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Education

University of Baghdad

B.Sc.

Civil Engineering

1982

Nottingham University

M.Phil.

Civil Engineering, Construction Management

1987

Loughborough University of Technology

Ph.D.

Civil Engineering, Construction Management

1991

Affiliations

  • Member of PMI, Risk Management SIG Group
  • Member of CIB W78 and W34
  • Member, School Research Policy
  • Member of School Enterprise Board

Event Appearances

IDEAS, tools for optimising energy management, energy trading and urban planning within Energy Positive Neighbourhoods

Sustainable Places Conference 2016  France

Whole life cycle approach for information flow applied to infrastructure projects

Japanese Society of Civil Engineering International Conference 2018  Japan

Standardised BIM processes for construction industry in Qatar

FUTURE Projects Qatar 2018  Qatar

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Articles

Cost-Effective as-Built BIM Modelling Using 3D Point-Clouds and Photogrammetry

Current Trends in Civil & Structural Engineering

2020

The classification and translation of 3D point-clouds into virtual environments is a time consuming and often tedious process. While there are large crowd sourcing projects for segmenting general environments, there are no such projects with a focus on AEC industries.

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On-demand monitoring of construction projects through a game-like hybrid application of BIM and machine learning

Automation in Construction

2020

While unavoidable, inspections, progress monitoring, and comparing as-planned with as-built conditions in construction projects do not readily add tangible intrinsic value to the end-users.

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Cost-benefit analysis of BIM-enabled design clash detection and resolution

Construction Management and Economics

2020

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is increasingly deployed as part of the processes in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry projects. While the benefits of BIM have been extensively proclaimed, explicit justification in terms of direct cost savings for BIM implementation on real-life projects, particularly for clash detection BIM workstream, are not well documented.

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