About Me
- Samuel Laryea
- Johannesburg, Guateng, South Africa
- I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Construction Economics and Management at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. In the past, I have been a Lecturer in the School of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Reading, UK (2010-12); and also a Post-Doctoral Academic Fellow (2009) and Graduate Teaching Assistant (2008). I completed my PhD at University of Reading in Dec 2008 on the relationship between risk and price in tendering. Prior to transferring to Reading in Jan 2008, I was an MPhil/PhD student at KNUST, Ghana (2004-07). I gained my undergraduate degree in Building Technology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana in 1998-2002. During school days, my peers elected me to serve in several leadership positions including SRC President at KNUST. From 1994-96, I attended Suhum Sec. Tech. School after basic education at schools in Ghana and Nigeria. I did my National Service with the Fanteakwa District Assembly in 2002-03. After that, I worked at the Development Office of KNUST until I started my PhD in 2004. I am a co-organiser for the WABER Conference and an author of 30+ research publications.
Saturday, 6 June 2009
West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER) Workshop
I have pleasure to report that the inaugural West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER) Workshop organized by the School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading in Accra, Ghana on June 2-3 2009 was a resounding success.
Over the course of two days, 32 PhD researchers and academics from West Africa presented their work to an audience of about 100 people and each presenter received immediate and constructive feedback from a panel. It was delightful to have an audience of about 100 people from mainly Nigeria and Ghana participating in the event and helping to develop the field of construction management in the West Africa region. As WABER is the first event of its kind in the region, it has opened up a huge range of opportunities for developing the field of construction management, networking, and collaborative work.
You can read more about the event at this link:
http://will-hughes.blogspot.com/2009/06/waber-seminar.html
A special thank you to Professor Will Hughes and Dr Roine Leiringer for coming to Ghana to help in organizing a successful event, and for helping to develop construction management research. A special thank you also goes to all participants of the event; thank you for coming to Accra to participate in WABER, and for helping to make it a success. Thank you to Sena Agbodjah, and our chairpersons for the presentation sessions. Thank you to everyone else who was involved. The calls for sustaining WABER are encouraging and there is a genuine commitment to running this again in the not-too-distant future.
Best
Dr Samuel Laryea
Email: s.laryea@reading.ac.uk
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