M.UP (University of Melbourne) Ph.D (University of Melbourne) FRICS (Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, United Kingdom) Dr Jim Smith brings a wealth of practical expertise and academic knowledge to his role as Professor of Urban Development. After qualifying as a quantity surveyor with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in 1971, he worked extensively in private practice and local government in the UK and Australia. His academic career encompasses teaching positions in Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as the University of Melbourne and Deakin University where he was instrumental in developing the Bachelor of Building and the Graduate Diploma in Quantity Surveying. Dr Smith has maintained close ties with industry as a specialist cost advisor in private practice and to state government departments. In this capacity, he was most recently involved in the performance brief for a $10 million library and community facility commissioned by a large City Council in Melbourne. Smith is also part of the team that has been chosen as building cost adviser in one of the preferred consultant teams appointed by the Federal Government Department of Environment and Water Services in January 2007. He is also actively involved in research with a particular focus on the strategic client briefing stages of project development, as well as the construction and cost planning of conservation and heritage projects. He has published numerous refereed international journal papers and conference papers and has co-authored six books on construction cost planning and management.
Articles
AdaptSTAR model: A climate-friendly strategy to promote built environment sustainability (with Sheila Conejos and Craig Langston), 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 Craig Langston), 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...
Impact of the capital market collapse on public-private partnership infrastructure projects (with Michael Regan and Peter E. D. Love), Journal of construction engineering and management (2011)
The collapse of capital markets is having an impact of the funding arrangements for economic...
Infrastructure procurement: Learning from private - public partnership experiences 'down under' (with Michael Regan and Peter Love), Environment and planning C: Government and policy (2011)
The public - private partnership (PPP) market in Australia is considered to be sophisticated and...
Divergence or congruence? A path model of rework for building and civil engineering projects (with Peter E. D. Love, David J. Edwards, and Derek H. T. Walker), Journal of performance of constructed facilities (2009)
Rework has been identified as a major contributor to cost and schedule overrun in construction...
Conference Papers
Improving the implementation of adaptive reuse strategies for historic buildings (with Sheila Conejos and Craig Langston), 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...
A model for sustainable innovation (with Peter E.D. Love, Michael Niedzwiecki, and Peter A. Bullen), 2010 International conference on construction and real estate management (2010)
Issues influencing the construction of Western Australia's first six stars Green Star rated commercial office...
Error beget error: Learning to reduce design errors (with Peter Love and Yang Goh), 2010 International conference on construction and real estate management (2010)
Architects and engineers have found it increasingly difficult to learn from their mistakes and in...
Comparative procurement methodology analysis in Australia: A new approach (with Peter Love and Michael Regan), 18th CIB World Building Congress: Building a better world (2010)
A comparative review of procurement methods was undertaken for the purpose of objectively determining the...
Making better decisions about built assets (with Craig Langston), 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...