Building Information Modeling

 Prof. Dr, Ayman Othman 

The British University in Egypt

Ayman Othman is Professor of Construction and Project Management and Head of the Architectural Engineering Department, the British University in Egypt. He obtained his B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt in 1991. Since then he worked as an architect and project manager in different national and international architectural design firms and governmental authorities in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. He earned his M.Sc. in “Human Resources Management in Construction” and Ph.D. in “Value and Risk Management in Construction” from Heriot-Watt University and Loughborough University, the UK in 1999 and 2004 respectively. During the period from 2006 till 2009, Prof. Othman joined the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Civil Engineering, Surveying & Construction. He was involved in developing and teaching up-to-date Construction Management curriculum. In addition, he acted as a member of the Faculty Higher Degree Committee and School coordinator for research development. Since he joined the British University in Egypt (BUE) in 2009, Prof. Othman was involved in developing and teaching state-of-the-art Construction Management related modules in Architectural and Civil Engineering Departments. He successfully supervised and graduated a number of Ph.D., Masters and Honours research students in Egypt and South Africa. In September 2012 and 2013, Prof. Othman was appointed the Deputy-Director of the Centre of Sustainability and Future Studies (CSFS) and the Director of the Architectural Engineering Programme respectively. Prof. Othman is an active researcher in the field of Construction Management. He publishes widely in national and international conferences and academic journals. To date, he published 8 books and book chapters, 37 refereed journal papers and 81 conference papers. He is the Assistant-Editor of the Journal of Construction (JoC) and a registered referee and member of advisory board of a number of international academic journals. In July 2013, Prof. Othman was elected as a member of the Council of Association of Schools of Construction in Southern Africa (ASOCSA). Recently he was awarded the Principal Research Award at the BUE in 2017 and jointly won the Best Publication Award in 2018.