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...
Systemic life cycle design error reduction model for construction and engineering projects (with Peter E. D. Love and David J. Edwards), Structure and infrastructure engineering: Maintenance, management, life-cycle design and performance (2011)
Design errors have resulted in a plethora of catastrophic building and engineering failures, and some...
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...
Conference Papers
Cross-cultural training: The importance of investing in people (with Sabina Cerimagic), COBRA 2011: RICS Construction and Property Conference (2011)
Major international companies have established themselves in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) market by setting...
Screening and selecting project managers for the Middle East (with Sabina Cerimagic), COBRA 2011: RICS Construction and Property Conference (2011)
Cross-cultural training is of prime importance if the expatriates are to adjust speedily to the...
Sensemaking of rework causation in offshore structures: People, organization and project (with P. E. D. Love and Sangwon Han), COBRA 2011: RICS Construction and Property Conference (2011)
Cost and schedule overruns are norm in offshore hydrocarbon projects. With increasingly complex commercial and...
Project managers: The importance of cross-cultural preparation (with Sabina Cerimagic), Twenty-seventh annual Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) conference (2011)
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has a large expatriate population of about 80 %. This...
Systemic rework risk classification for offshore projects (with Peter Love and Sangwon Han), Twenty-seventh annual Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) conference (2011)
Rework arises due to errors and omissions, and significantly contributes to project cost and schedule...