Organising committee of CIB W78, Information Technology, Toronto, 2004. (Canada, 2004)

Organising committee of CIB W78, Information Technology, New Zealand, 2003. (New Zealand, 2003)

Organising committee of CIB W78, Information Technology, South Africa, May-June 2001 (South Africa, June, 2001)

Organising committee of a postgraduate research conference, Salford, (2000 - 2001) (United Kingdom, May, 2001)

Chair of the international nD modelling workshop, Mottram Hall, Manchester, January 2003 (More than 52 international experts attended this workshop)

Presentation - Workshop, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (30th Nov - 1st December 1998)

External examiner - Manchester, Loughborough, Heriot Watt and Anglia Ruskin Universities.

Visiting Professor and chairman of the scientific board at ESAI (college of real estates, Lisbon, Portugal). Annual appointment started May 1999, renewed every year.

Award for a distinguished paper - 28th Conference on Housing, Abu Dhabi, April 2000

Invited lecture - Centre for Construction Innovation on Project Extranets, Manchester 14th Feb 2002.

Invited lecture - Construction Plus conference on Project Extranets, London December 2001.

Invited lecture - Association of Engineers in Libya, 5th May 2004.

Invited lecture - Middle East Technical University, Ankara, November 2004

Chair of Session Chair - Innovation conference, Loughborough, July 2001

Invited speaker - Construction Productivity Network seminar, Newcastle, UK, Feb 2000 'Process integration using IT'

Invited Lecture - British Computer Society, Leicester, January 2007

Keynote Speaker, Keynote speaker - Sinduscon, Sao Paulo, August 1999 'IT and Process in Construction',

Invited lecture - Association of Portuguese Architects, 5th of March 2001 'Integration of construction systems'

Invited Lecture - Silver Anniversary of Construction Management Unit, University of Dundee, Nov 2005

Keynote Speaker, Key note lecture - E-construction symposium, Construction Technology Centre Atlantic, University of New Brunswick, Canada, 27th of Feb 2002 'IT trends (UK perspective)'

Chair of Session Chair - Conference on objects and integration, BRE, March 2000.

Keynote Speaker, Invited keynote speaker - The Malaysian Construction and Development Board, Kuala Lumpur, September 1999 'Information Modelling'

Lectures - College of real estates, Lisbon (17 Nov-25th Nov 2000)

Invited lecture - by the Vice President of Shanghai University, China, 23rd-28th March, 2002 'Construction IT and to establish collaboration'

Keynote Speaker, Keynote address - Housing Conference,Tripoli, Libya 1st - 6th May 2004.

Delivered lectures at various institutions in Singapore and Malaysia on Modelling of construction Information (15 August-23 August 2000)

Chair of Session Chair - 6th international conference on the application of AI to civil and structural engineering,, Vienna, September 2001.

Invited lecture - 6th International Conference on the Application of AI to Civil and Structural Engineering, Vienna, September 2001

Invited lecture - Centre for Construction Innovation on Project Extranets, Manchester 31st January 2002.

Keynote Speaker, Invited keynote speaker - College of Real Estates, Lisbon, Nov 1999 'IT and Real Estates'

Invited Lecture - University of Zagreb: IT in Construction, 14th May 2004. 'New Frontiers'

Chair of Session Chair - CIB W78 , Construction IT, Iceland, June 2000

Invited Lecture - University of Zagreb - October 2006 'IT in Construction'

Invited Lecture - American University of Sharjah, UAE, April 2005

Keynote Speaker, Theme Keynote Speaker - World IT Congress, Langkawi, Malaysia February 2004 'nD modelling'

Invited lecture - 6th international Conference on the Application of AI to civil and structural engineering, Vienna, September 2001

Chair of Session Chair - Conference on Housing, Abu Dhabi, April 2000

Keynote Speaker, Key note lecture - E-construction symposium, Construction Technology Centre Atlantic, University of New Brunswick, Canada, 1st of March 2002 'IT trends (UK perspective)'

Keynote Speaker, Invited Keynote Speaker - International conference on information visualisation, London, July 1999.

Keynote Speaker, Invited keynote speaker - Opening ceremony of the College of Real Estates, Lisbon 1999

Keynote Speaker, Keynote lecture - 28th conference on Housing, Abu Dhabi, April 2000 (Won an award for a distinguished paper)

Keynote Speaker, Keynote speaker - Sinduscon, Sao Paulo, October 1998 'International trends in IT and process research in construction', .

Opening speech - Book promotion on Teleworking in Lisbon by C Gomes, 31st May 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.

Invited lecture - MSc Project Management course at Heriot-Watt University, 15th March 2002 'A vision for construction IT'

Member of Higher Education Academy

Editorial board of the Journal of Computer Integrated Design and Construction (editor Prof Chimay Anumba)

Editorial board. Artificial intelligence, Civil Comp, 1998.

Journals Referee - The international journal of construction, engineering and architectural management, edited by Prof Ron McCaffer and Prof Tony Thorpe.

Professor of Construction IT & Management, School of the Built Environment

Editorial board of the Sixth international conference on the application of AI to civil and structural engineering computing, Eisenstadt, nr Vienna, Sept 2001.

Editorial board of RICS research papers series, editor Prof L. Ruddock

Editorial board of the International Journal of Architectural Engineering and Design Management (Editor Prof D Bouchlaghem)

Editorial board of the Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, edited by Prof Akintoye and Prof Birnie.

Editorial board of ITCON (editor Professor Bo-Christer Bjork et al)

Editorial board of the Journal of Construction Innovation (previously the international journal of construction information technology), editors Profs M Alshawi and Skitmore.

Editorial board of the Construction Management and Economics (editor Professor Will Hughes)

Editorial board of the Journal of Logistics Information Management (editor Professor Z Irani)

Lead Academic for the Construction Cluster (NWUA)

Director of the £3M EPSRC IMRC Research Centre (SCRI: Salford Centre for Research and Innovation in the Built and Human Environment). This centre has been extended until 2011 with further funding to the value of £5M.

Reviewer - The Hong Kong Research Council

Reviewer - EPSRC

International Scientific Committee for the CIB W78,IABSE, EG-SEA-AI Conference, 'Construction Information Technology 2000 -Taking the Construction Industry into the 21st century', Reykjavik, Iceland.

Scientific Committee of Objects and integration conference organised by the BRE, 1999.

Scientific Committee of the COBRA conference, Salford 1999.

Reviewer - Blackwell Science, Spons, Arnold

Journals Referee - Construction Management and economics, edited by Prof Ranko Bon and Dr Will Hughes.

Journals Referee - Computer aided civil and infrastructure engineering journal, edited by Prof Hojjat Adeli.

Journals Referee - The international journal of construction information technology, edited by Prof M. Alshawi and Prof M. Skitmore.

Conference Referee - W78 Construction IT

Journals Referee - RICS Research Series, edited by Dr Les Ruddock

Conference Referee - ARCOM conference.

Journals Referee - The Journal of integrated design and construction, edited by Prof Chimay Anumba

Member of the international committee of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference - New frontiers and challenges, November 1999, Thailand.

Member of the scientific Committee, Innovation Conference, Loughborough (2001 - 2002)

Journals Referee - The journal of construction management (South Africa)

Conference Referee - The International conference on information visualisation

Director of Protocol Lab, a spin out company from our Process Protocol Project.

Member of the University's Strategic Leadership Team

Submission Leader for the 2001 RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) preparation and submission for the Built Environment Unit of Assessment (scored 6* in 2001)