Willy Sher
Architecture and Built Environment
Newcastle University
Australia
Biography
I entered academic life in the early 1980s as a part time lecturer and took up a full time lectureship in 1988. Motivation to enter academia came, in part, from my post-graduate studies at Loughborough University, UK. Academic life allowed me to combine my research and consulting interests with my teaching commitments. I have continued this approach in all the Universities I have taught at (University of the Witwatersrand, Loughborough University and Newcastle University). My publications record attests to dual research interests of computer-aided applications for the management of construction projects as well as construction education. I have published three books, over 120 refereed conference papers and over 30 refereed journal papers. I have secured research funding (in UK and in Australia) of over $1m in a range of areas and am a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building.
Research Interest
" Engineering, Building, Design Practice and Management "
Publications
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Shih SY, Sher W, Giggins H. Assessment of the Building Code of Australia to Inform the Development of BIM-enabled Code-checking Systems. InProceedings of CIB World Building Congress 2013.
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Williams A, Sher W. Using Blackboard to monitor and support first year engineering students. In18th annual Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Retrieved from http://www. cs. mu. oz. au/aaee2007/papers/paper_34. pd f 2007.
