WABER 2010 Update (10 March 2010)

Dear All,

Greetings from WABER 2010 conference secretariat.

We trust that everyone is well and looking forward to the 2nd West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER) conference which will take place on 27-28 July 2010 at the British Council in Accra, Ghana.

Best wishes in your preparations, as you look forward to another exciting conference which presents a perfect opportunity for networking, developing longer-term relationships, paper publishing, and keeping abreast with current developments in the field.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
We are lucky to have three high profile keynote speakers for this year’s conference. The speakers and their keynote topics are as follows:

Professor Will Hughes
Editor-in-chief of Construction Management and Economics journal, and Head of School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading, UK
Tuesday 27 July 2010 0930-1015
Topic: "Ask not what the industry can do to support built environment education, but what the built environment can do for society"

Professor George Ofori
School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Wednesday 28 July 2010 0930-1015
Topic: “Using the Built Environment to accelerate Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa”

Dr Roine Leiringer
School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading, UK
Wednesday 28 July 2010 1400-1445
Topic: “Handmaidens and ivory towers: the role and responsibility of construction management researchers as agents of change”

We trust that you will enjoy these keynote addresses.

PAPER SUBMISSION
The deadline for submitting first drafts of full papers is 15 March 2010.

We would appreciate if authors can try hard to keep to the deadline to allow for sufficient time for refereeing papers and compiling of conference proceedings. Kindly contact me if you cannot meet this deadline.

We wish to remind authors that the WABER conference aims at ensuring a high standard of papers published. Therefore, authors should endeavour to address the following key points in their papers: conceptualization and theoretical basis of the work; analytical framework and research questions/hypotheses; research design; results and discussion; and conclusions flowing from the work. The paper limit is 10 pages.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
The conference registration fee is £100. This amount covers costs of conference registration and materials, lunch and refreshments in-between sessions.

In order to have a paper included in the conference proceedings, at least one author should be registered by the deadline date of 04 June 2010. Further registration details will be supplied in the email confirming paper acceptance.

People who will not be presenting papers but wish to take advantage of opportunities presented by the conference should also try to register by 04 June 2010.

Many thanks as we look forward to receiving your full papers and seeing you at the conference in Accra in July 2010.

Best

Sam

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Dr Samuel Laryea
Lecturer, School of Construction Management & Engineering
University of Reading, P.O. Box 216, Reading, UK. RG6 6AW
Office phone: +44(0)1183788205
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Ghana mobile: +233(0)244618851
Ghana address: P.O. Box ML473, Accra
Email: s.laryea@reading.ac.uk
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