Dr. Peter Edwards
Adjunct Professor
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College: Design and Social Context
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Department: Design and Social Context
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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peter.edwards@rmit.edu.au
About
Since retiring in 2006, Dr Edwards has continued to participate in the activities of the School of Property, Construction and Project Management and assists in student research supervision.
His current research interests include project risk management, value management, public-private partnerships in project building procurement, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.
He continues to assist with postgraduate research student supervision at RMIT and at the University of Cape Town.
As a co-founder of the CNBR (Co-operative Network for Building Researchers) group in 1991, he plays an active management role in this web and e-mail based interest group which comprises more than 2800 members world-wide.
His current research interests include project risk management, value management, public-private partnerships in project building procurement, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.
He continues to assist with postgraduate research student supervision at RMIT and at the University of Cape Town.
As a co-founder of the CNBR (Co-operative Network for Building Researchers) group in 1991, he plays an active management role in this web and e-mail based interest group which comprises more than 2800 members world-wide.
Research fields
- 3302 Building
- 4005 Civil engineering
- 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
- 3301 Architecture
- 4206 Public health
- 3304 Urban and regional planning
- 4202 Epidemiology
- 5203 Clinical and health psychology
- 4203 Health services and systems
- 4410 Sociology
Academic positions
- Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor
- RMIT University
- Department of Building and Constructions Economics
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1987 – 2006
- Lecturer and Senior Lecturer
- University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Department of Quantity Surveying and Building Economics
- Durban, South Africa
- 1976 – 1986
Non-academic positions
- Self-employed quantity surveyor in private practice
- P J Edwards
- , South Africa
- 1976 – 1985
- Senior Quantity Surveyor
- Neville Lund & Reed, Quantity Surveyors
- , South Africa
- 1969 – 1975
- Quantity Surveyor
- Rider Hunt & Partners
- , UK
- 1959 – 1969
Teaching interests
Project risk management, Value Management, Cost Management, Sustainability, Procurement systems (PPP)
Research interests
Building, Public Health and Health Services, Psychology, Applied Ethics, Architecture, Business and Management
In 2003 Dr Edwards was awarded a UK Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship to the School of the Built and Natural Environment at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. This Fellowship was undertaken over two five month periods in 2003/4 and 2004/5. During this time he presented seminars to staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and to professional organisations in the Scottish construction industry. He assisted with research supervision; collaborated in ongoing research projects and undertook proposal writing for major funding applications to EPSRC and EU.
He has successfully supervised the research of more than 30 postgraduate students and has been an examiner for many PhD and Master’s theses. In 2005 he was appointed as the supervisor for Mr Leonardo Grilo, a Brazilian student awarded an Australian Commonwealth Government Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship to spend six months at RMIT University. Mr Grilo investigated value for money frameworks for Public-Private Partnership projects as part of his successful doctoral studies at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
As part of a collaborative RMIT/CSIRO research team, between 1993-1996 Associate Professor Edwards participated in ERDC (Australian Energy Research and Development Council) funded research projects (total value approximately $400,000), investigating embodied energy values for building materials and CAD-based modelling techniques for embodied energy analysis.
In 1998 he received an ARC Small Grant to investigate perceptions of risk and risk management in the construction industry.
Between 1995 and 1998 he was involved in government competitively-funded research into building procurement in South Africa, as part of a team lead by Professor Paul Bowen (University of Cape Town). The total value of research funding was approximately ZAR400,000 ($100,000). He is currently involved in similarly funded research investigating value management practice in the manufacturing and construction industries in South Africa.
Research Interests-
Client risk management perceptions and attitudes for decision making in construction projects
Sustainable construction
Current research-
Risk management
Research projects, consultancy and student project-
Personal research and research management in the areas of:
Contractual, cost control and measurement procedures for electrical installations in buildings;
Cost modeling for construction projects;
Computer systems for construction projects;
Cost minimisation factors for third-world low income housing;
Design efficiency factors in domestic scale and commercial buildings in Melbourne;
Measurement and price forecasting variability factors for construction projects;
Unit price rate variability in tender bills of quantities;
Price-rationalised approaches to the measurement of building work;
Vocational education for building professions;
Embodied energy impact modeling;
Information technology management for construction;
Risk management
In 2003 Dr Edwards was awarded a UK Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship to the School of the Built and Natural Environment at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. This Fellowship was undertaken over two five month periods in 2003/4 and 2004/5. During this time he presented seminars to staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and to professional organisations in the Scottish construction industry. He assisted with research supervision; collaborated in ongoing research projects and undertook proposal writing for major funding applications to EPSRC and EU.
He has successfully supervised the research of more than 30 postgraduate students and has been an examiner for many PhD and Master’s theses. In 2005 he was appointed as the supervisor for Mr Leonardo Grilo, a Brazilian student awarded an Australian Commonwealth Government Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship to spend six months at RMIT University. Mr Grilo investigated value for money frameworks for Public-Private Partnership projects as part of his successful doctoral studies at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
As part of a collaborative RMIT/CSIRO research team, between 1993-1996 Associate Professor Edwards participated in ERDC (Australian Energy Research and Development Council) funded research projects (total value approximately $400,000), investigating embodied energy values for building materials and CAD-based modelling techniques for embodied energy analysis.
In 1998 he received an ARC Small Grant to investigate perceptions of risk and risk management in the construction industry.
Between 1995 and 1998 he was involved in government competitively-funded research into building procurement in South Africa, as part of a team lead by Professor Paul Bowen (University of Cape Town). The total value of research funding was approximately ZAR400,000 ($100,000). He is currently involved in similarly funded research investigating value management practice in the manufacturing and construction industries in South Africa.
Research Interests-
Client risk management perceptions and attitudes for decision making in construction projects
Sustainable construction
Current research-
Risk management
Research projects, consultancy and student project-
Personal research and research management in the areas of:
Contractual, cost control and measurement procedures for electrical installations in buildings;
Cost modeling for construction projects;
Computer systems for construction projects;
Cost minimisation factors for third-world low income housing;
Design efficiency factors in domestic scale and commercial buildings in Melbourne;
Measurement and price forecasting variability factors for construction projects;
Unit price rate variability in tender bills of quantities;
Price-rationalised approaches to the measurement of building work;
Vocational education for building professions;
Embodied energy impact modeling;
Information technology management for construction;
Risk management
