Rate My Professor Mahmoud Ershadi

Dr. Ershadi's academic interests center on Construction Project Management, Infrastructure Delivery, Infrastructure Resilience, Safety and Risk Analysis, and Sustainability. He has held positions such as research assistant under Professor Peter Davis on the government-funded "A resilience toolkit for the built environment students" project, where his contributions led to him being highly commended as work-integrated staff of the year in 2020. He was also awarded the 2019 research prize by the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment for his paper "a new approach to managing construction megaprojects." Presently, he engages in collaborative research on construction safety with Dr. Tanvi Newaz. His scholarly output includes prominent journal articles such as "Modeling the Capabilities of High-Performing Project Management Offices in General Contracting Companies" (Project Management Journal, 2023), "A critical review of the feasibility of emerging technologies for improving safety behavior on construction sites" (Journal of Safety Research, 2024), "A systematic review of contemporary safety management research: a multi-level approach to identifying trending domains in the construction industry" (Construction Management and Economics, 2023), "Core capabilities for achieving sustainable construction project management" (Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2021), "Project management offices in the construction industry: a literature review and qualitative synthesis of success variables" (Construction Management and Economics, 2021), and "The contribution of project management offices to addressing complexities in principal construction contracting" (Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2021), alongside numerous conference papers and book chapters. These works underscore his impact on advancing knowledge in construction project management and safety practices.