Welcome to this year’s WABER conference in Accra, Ghana. Thank you for coming and we hope you enjoy the conference. The WABER conference has developed rapidly in the past three years, but our aims remain the same. We strive to: help young built environment researchers in West Africa (WA) to develop their research work and skills through constructive face-to-face interaction with their peers and experienced international academics; supply a platform for interaction among more senior academics and an outlet for disseminating their research work; and to serve as a vehicle for developing the built environment field in Africa.
Three conferences have so far been organized, 2009-2011, bringing together nearly 300 academics, researchers and practitioners from 54 different institutions in WA. Through WABER, many young researchers have been helped to develop their research work and skills through constructive face-to-face interaction with experienced academics. We find this encouraging and we will continue to work together with colleagues in WA to develop initiatives that provide young researchers in WA with opportunities to develop their research potential and aspirations.
This year’s conference proceedings consist of 95 papers. This represents around 50 percent of abstracts and full papers that were initially submitted. We congratulate the authors of papers that made it into the proceedings for a job well done. The published papers cover a wide array of topics including: Building services, Construction design and technology, Construction economics and finance, Construction education, Construction materials and production, Contracts, Cost and financial management, Energy systems, Engineering sciences, Facilities management, Health and safety, Housing, Human resources and skills, Information technology, Materials science, Procurement, Project administration and management, Quantity surveying, Real estate and planning, Risk management, Supply chain management, Sustainable technologies, Urban planning and development, Waste management. As such they reflect various areas of socio-economic development aspirations of countries in West Africa. One thing that is strikingly clear is that the construction sector has an important part to play in helping to realize these aspirations.
We hope that the publication and discussion of these papers at this conference will contribute towards the development of knowledge and technologies for development in West Africa and beyond. Given that the delegates at this year’s conference come from 10 different countries and 45 different academic institutions, there is plenty of scope for cross boundary interaction and learning. The conference also provides for a rich intellectual, international and multicultural blend and platform for networking and developing new knowledge, connections and longer-term collaborations. We hope that the delegates make good use of this opportunity.
We wish to express strong appreciation to two companies in Ghana who have supported us financially. The first is A-Kon Consults Limited who are Chartered Quantity Surveyors with head office based in Accra. The second is K+H Limited who are Constructional Engineers and Contractors with head office based in Takoradi. We are grateful for your support and input and we look forward to a mutually beneficial long-term relationship.
We are blessed to have four distinguished Keynote Speakers: Professor George Ofori (National University of Singapore); Dr Roine Leiringer (Chalmers University, Sweden); Dr Chris Harty (University of Reading, UK); and Professor Will Hughes (University of Reading, UK). Thank you very much for coming. As always, many thanks are due to Dr Sena Agyepong for her excellent and capable management of our local organizing arrangements. Above all, thank you to all of you for coming to this conference. Our conference next year (2012) will take place in Nigeria and we look forward to seeing all of you again. Enjoy Accra and have a safe journey back home.
Dr Samuel Laryea
School of Construction Management and Engineering
University of Reading, July 2011
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.
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Friday, 10 June 2011
Saturday, 27 March 2010
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
UK mobile: +44(0)7949668955
Ghana mobile: +233(0)244618851
Ghana address: P.O. Box ML473, Accra
Email: s.laryea@reading.ac.uk
http://samuellaryea.blogspot.com/
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
---------------------
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
UK mobile: +44(0)7949668955
Ghana mobile: +233(0)244618851
Ghana address: P.O. Box ML473, Accra
Email: s.laryea@reading.ac.uk
http://samuellaryea.blogspot.com/
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