Dr Michael Tong
Senior Lecturer
Department of Construction and Surveying
Michael is a Senior Lecturer in the Department for Construction and Surveying, a PrinCE2 Practitioner, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and fellow of the RSA. He is the current Chair of the Research Ethics Committee for the School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment and a BEAM Research Centre Advisory Board member. He has held post as Programme Leader, Head of Department for Construction and Surveying, and Interim Director of GCU London. Michael has worked in a number of high profile construction projects in the Far East, including Hong Kong Airport and Shanghai Times Square. He teaches both undergraduates and postgraduates in the areas of Project Management, Research Methods, Construction Process Management and Supply Chain Management. Michael’s research interests include: Digital Construction, Building Information Modelling, Construction Productivity, Digital Transformation in the Built Environment, Project Based Learning, Supply Chain Management, the management of inter-organisational relationships, Project Planning tools and techniques, Skills development and training and Project Management methodologies.
Recent funded research projects as Principal Investigator include:(1) Scottish Government Building Standards Division to inform the digital transformation of the building standards system in Scotland which include the development of a National Register for High Risk Buildings and the examination of the use of technologies for Digital Compliance for SMEs. (2) Built Environment Futures, working with Robertson Group, Autodesk, Scottish Enterprise and Built Environment Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) with developing tools for ‘future-proofing’ business and operational strategy to understand how the future markets are likely to change and to ‘assure a sustainable future’. The insight provided has been shared with the wider built environment through BE-ST to explore the opportunities they present for the built environment sector in terms of accelerating the use of digital tools and the desire to become more resilient through a net zero carbon economy.