QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor of Science (Architecture) - University of Sydney Bachelor of Applied Science (Quantity Surveying) - UTS Master of Applied Science (Building) - UTS Doctor of Philosophy - UTS Following some years in architectural and quantity surveying practices Dr Rick Best moved to lecturing in quantity surveying and construction. He currently manages the construction management/quantity surveying specialisation at the Mirvac School of Sustainable Development. His research interests include construction education, international construction costs and environmentally sensitive building design. He has edited and contributed to a number of internationally published books and chairs two national committees dealing with construction education and accreditation. He is currently co-editor of the Australasian Journal of Construction economics and Building and is on the editorial board of three international refereed journals. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: Chair - Australasian University Building Educators Association Chair - Management Committee, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Chair - AIQS National Education Committee
Articles
A refined basket of goods approach for comparing construction costs between countries, Australasian journal of construction economics and building (2009)
Most comparisons of construction industry performance require that construction costs be converted to a common...
Evaluation of construction contractor performance: A critical analysis of some recent research (with Craig Langston), Construction management and economics (2006)
International comparisons of construction industry performance are notoriously difficult. A recent comparative study, extensive in...
Books
Workplace strategies and facilities management: Building in value (with Craig Langston and Gerard De Valence) (2003)
This book provides comprehensive coverage of issues that facility managers in the property industry need...
Book Chapters
Comparing construction costs between countries, Modern construction economics: Theory and application (2011)
This is a somewhat unusual book, in the context of the books found in contemporary...
Conference Papers
Developing a basket of resources as a tool for collecting construction cost data internationally, Twenty-seventh annual Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) conference (2011)
Comparing construction costs between countries, even when the countries share a common currency, is recognised...
The use of assessment hurdles: Pedagogy v. practicality (with Ron Best), Paper presented at the 34th Australasian Universities Building Educators Association conference (AUBEA 2009) (2009)
The setting of assessment hurdles, i.e. components of assessment schemes that must be passed in...
Convergence of construction costs in the single European market (with Craig Langston), Managing IT in construction/Managing construction for tomorrow. Proceedings of the 26th international conference on IT in construction & 1st international conference on managing construction for tomorrow (2009)
Several studies have shown evidence of price convergence between countries in the European Union (EU)...
The development of a BIM based building measurement learning tool, Paper presented at the AUBEA 2008 conference (2008)
The paper discusses the development of an integrated tool for teaching and learning building measurement....
Other
The development and testing of a purchasing power parity method for comparing construction costs internationally (2008)
Over the past fifty to sixty years there have been numerous attempts to compare the...