Keynotes

Keynote presentations for the workshop

Prof Aguinaldo dos Santos
Department of Design, Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil

Presentation Title
Reflections on the use IoT on visual management to foster behaviour change towards lean production

Prof. Aguinaldo dos Santos has a B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering (UFPR), an M.Sc. in Construction (UFRGS), and a Ph.D. from the University of Salford, U.K. He is an associated professor in the Design Department and the Head of the Design & Sustentabilidade Lab at the Federal University of Paraná. He has supervised 47 M.Sc. and 7 PhD. students, and is the author of 4 patents concerned with sustainability of the built environment. His current research interests are Design of Product-Service Systems, Design for Sustainable Behaviour, Distributed Economy through Digital Manufacturing, Social Housing and Open-Source Design.

Dr Farook Hamzeh
Faculty of Engineering – Civil and Environmental Engineering Department University of Alberta, Canada

Presentation Title
Lean Construction 4.0 and the need for human centric systems in construction

Dr. Hamzeh is a Lean Construction expert. His theoretical and applied research in the US, Canada, and the MENA region aim at improving the design and construction of projects. Dr. Farook Hamzeh is an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta. He was full time faculty at Colorado State University and at the American University of Beirut. Dr. Hamzeh is an active member of the International Group of Lean Construction (IGLC) and has published heavily on Lean Construction and related topics. Dr. Hamzeh has worked for more than seven years in the construction industry on several mega projects: the $1.7 Billion Cathedral Hill Hospital in San Francisco, the 333 m high Rose Rotana Hotel in Dubai, Losail motor-bike racetrack in Qatar, Olympic Tower in Qatar, Al-Amal Oncology Hospital in Qatar, Serail 1374 Building in downtown Beirut, and Sibline Cement factory 2^nd production line in Lebanon.

Prof. Greg Morrison
Lang Walker Chair in Urban Transformation
School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment, Western Sydney University

Presentation Title
Real-life demonstration of circular economy, Living Labs, peoples practices and building automation systems – towards low embedded and operational energy and carbon in buildings

Greg Morrison is the Lang Walker endowed chair in Urban Transformation at Western Sydney University. His research has focused on Living Labs and innovation/net zero precincts. He has published extensively on innovation through Living Labs, circular economy and sharing solar energy. He has built one Living Lab in Sweden and one in Perth (Australia) which has attracted significant industry and society sponsorship. Greg is also on the Board and is a co-founder of Climate-KIC Australia which drives innovation and entrepreneurship in climate solutions in Australia.