PhD, MAppSc, BAppSc 

Doctor of Philosophy - University of Technology, Sydney 

Master of Applied Science - NSWIT 

Bachelor of Applied Science - NSWIT 

Professor Langston joined Bond University in 2008 as Professor of Construction and
Facilities Management and Associate Dean (Research). Before that he held the inaugural
Chair in Construction Management at Deakin University in Geelong, where he developed
Australia's first undergraduate facilities management degree. Previously he
pioneered the first fully online courses at the University of Technology, Sydney,
comprising a Master of Facility Management and a Doctorate of Facility Management. 

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 

Professor Langston has made significant contributions to scholarship in the construction
industry over the last ten years. These include four books published by
Butterworth-Heinemann and Elsevier, several book chapters, guidelines for life cycle
costing practice in Australia developed via a research consultancy with the Public Works
Department of NSW, the production of three software packages used by professional firms
and educational institutions, and numerous conference presentations both in Australia and
overseas. He has published in well-recognized refereed journals such as Construction
Management and Economics and has served on several editorial boards, including as
editor-in-chief. His PhD developed a new approach to the calculation of time equivalence
in discounting via the inclusion of affordability considerations linked to predicted
changes in living standards. 

Professor Langston's main area of expertise is life cycle costing, in which he is
regarded an international expert. 

Articles

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AdaptSTAR model: A climate-friendly strategy to promote built environment sustainability (with Sheila Conejos and Jim Smith), Habitat international (2012)

Building adaptive reuse plays a critical role in emissions reduction and supports global climate protection....

 

Designing for future buildings: Adaptive resuse as a strategy for carbon neutral cities (with Sheila Conejos and Jim Smith), The international journal of climate change: Impacts and responses (2012)

Adapting existing buildings is a viable alternative to demolition and replacement in order to mitigate...

 

A fuzzy approach for assessing contractors competitiveness (with Yongtao Tan and Li-Yen Shen), Engineering, construction and architectural management (2011)

Purpose – Proper assessment of contractors' competitiveness is important for assisting contractors in taking internal...

 

Contractors' competition strategies in bidding: Hong Kong study (with Yongtao Tan and Liyin Shen), Journal of construction engineering and management (2010)

Selecting an appropriate competition strategy in bidding is the ambition of most contractors. The multiple...

 

Making better decisions about built assets (with Jim Smith), 18th CIB World Building Congress: Building a better world (2010)

Arguably the most important question currently facing the Australian built environment professions concerns how to...

 

Books

Workplace strategies and facilities management: Building in value (with Rick Best and Gerard De Valence), Rick Best (2003)

This book provides comprehensive coverage of issues that facility managers in the property industry need...

 

Unpublished Papers

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Comparing international construction performance, Mirvac School of Sustainable Development (2012)

The measurement of construction performance is a vexed problem. Despite much research effort, there remains...

 

Conference Papers

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Building capability for disaster resilience (with Lynn Crawford and Bhishna Bajracharya), 28th Annual Conference of Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) (2012)

All levels of government recognise the widespread devastation of communities by natural or other disasters....

 

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Improving the implementation of adaptive reuse strategies for historic buildings (with Sheila Conejos and Jim Smith), Le Vie dei Mercanti S.A.V.E. HERITAGE: Safeguard of Architectural, Visual, Environmental Heritage (2011)

Meeting the current needs of existing buildings and the designing of new buildings to ensure...

 

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Estimating the useful life of buildings, 36th annual conference for Australasian University Building Educators Association (AUBEA) (2011)

Obsolescence is a phenomenon that is widely discussed in the literature, although rarely in relation...

 

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On archetypes and building adaptive reuse, 17th Annual Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES) conference (2011)

Building adaptive reuse is increasingly being applied as a solution to urban renewal where existing...

 

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Designing for future building adaptive reuse using adaptSTAR (with Sheila Conejos), International Conference on Sustainable Urbanization: ICSU 2010 (2010)

Designing future buildings with embedded adaptive reuse potential is a useful criterion for sustainability. Adaptive...

 

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