Construction faculty
Building for the future
Find out more about construction faculty research interests and how they are using today’s technology to ensure a strong and sustainable future.
Engineering faculty interests range from sustainable design, project planning and alternate project delivery methods to extended reality for construction safety as well as integrated project delivery.
In addition, researchers also focus on sustainable construction, bio-based and bio-inspired materials, risk management, automation, computing and remote sensing, reinforced concrete, adhesives and sealants for use in construction and procurement and the supply chain.
Find out more about faculty expertise that includes sustainable urban underground infrastructure systems, control joints in concrete, construction industry analytics, preconstruction delivery, measuring team and project performance, construction trends, as well as repair, retrofit and adaptive reuse of existing structures.
Samuel Ariaratnam
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Ariaratnam’s expertise includes sustainable urban underground infrastructure systems, trenchless engineering and construction methods, underground asset management and performance modeling.
Timothy Becker
Visiting Scholar
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Becker’s expertise includes construction engineering and construction management.
Derek Boland
Professor of Practice
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Boland’s expertise includes transportation engineering, project management and construction management.
Oswald Chong
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Chong focuses on system optimization, AI applications in engineering, sustainable infrastructure lifecycle, knowledge system and clusters, construction process, and integrating project and infrastructure lifecycle knowledge.
Ricardo Eiris
Assistant Professor
Dr. Eiris research centers on Technology-based Workforce Training and Education. He uses Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) principles to amplify humans’ physical, cognitive, and social capabilities in the construction domain.
James Ernzen
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Ernzen’s research interests are alternate project delivery methods, project management and safety, reinforced concrete design.
Elham Fini
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Fini’s research focuses on sustainable construction, bio-based and bio-inspired materials, adhesives and sealants for use in construction, multi-scale characterization and modeling, surface and interface characterization
David Grau
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Experienced researcher and educator specializing in sustainability, complex systems, and efficiency in capital and construction project delivery. Development of innovative solutions with a tangible impact on industry.
Kristen Hurtado
Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Hurtado’s research interests include organizational transformation, project planning and risk management, construction education and training, construction industry analytics, project and facility management.
Barry Kutz
Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Kutz’s research interest is pre-construction delivery.
Anthony Lamanna
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Lamanna is an engineering and construction expert in assessment, adaptive reuse, strengthening, repair, and retrofit of existing structures, construction litigation, roofing technologies, and safety communications.
Mahour Parast
Associate Research Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Parast is an Eminent Scholar at the Del E. Webb School of Construction. His current research is focused on supply chain risk and resilience management, and process and product innovation.
Kristen Parrish
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Parrish joined ASU in 2012. Her expertise is in energy efficiency in buildings, construction planning, and inclusion in engineering.
Monica Perrin
Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Perrin’s expertise includes construction project management, vertical and horizontal construction, semiconductors, labs, data centers, environmental and construction sustainability.
Shiva Pooladvand
Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Pooladvand’s expertise includes construction automation and safety, human-machine interaction, immersive environments, AI, sensing technolgies.
Siyuan Song
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Song’s expertise includes construction safety and health, workforce development, AI in construction, automation and robotics, and engineering education.
Richard Standage
Associate Teaching Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Standage’s research interests include control joints in concrete and curriculum development.
Kenneth Sullivan
Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Sullivan specializes in project delivery, procurement, organizational transformation, benchmarking, team optimization, and performance measurement.
Avi Wiezel
Associate Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Wiezel’s research focuses on leadership for project-based companies, construction process modeling, entrepreneurial-ism, adult education and mathematical models of decision making.
Xiang (Jason) Zhang
Assistant Professor
The Design School
Zhang expertise includes data-driven modeling of building energy performance, building simulation, building-integrated photovoltaics, and environmental building evaluation and design.