Professor Roger Flanagan DSc, PhD, MSc, FICE, FCIOB, FRICS

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Roger Flanagan is in the School of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Reading. His research interests are whole life appraisal, risk management, competitiveness, organisational management and strategic management of companies. He has extensive publications with his most recent book “Whole life appraisal for construction”.

Roger is a member of the Board of Directors for Skanska AB ( Sweden), one of the top 5 largest contractors in the world, and for Halcrow Group, an engineering consultancy with a staff of over 6,000 operating in 70 countries. In April 2006 he will become the President of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). He is a member of the EPSRC-funded Innovative Construction Research Centre (ICRC) at Reading University.

Books

  • Flanagan, R. and Jewell, C.A. (2005) Whole life appraisal for construction, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. 181p (ISBN 0 632 05046 2)

Papers

  • Flanagan, R. (2004) The future forces of change for the construction sector- a global perspective in eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction Edited by Dikbas, A. and Raimar, S. Balkeima Publishers (Taylor and Francis) Leiden p3-10 (ISBN 04 1535 938 4)

  • Flanagan, R. (2004) Understanding new risks in the global construction market. Invited Paper presented at the Phillip Povey 2004 Memorial Lecture. Monograph produced by the Joint Contracts Tribunal of the UK. 14pp

  • Henricsson, J.P.E, Ericsson, S., Flanagan, R. and Jewell, C.A. (2004) Rethinking Competitiveness for the construction industry, Proceedings of the 20 th Annual ARCOM Conference, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, September 9pp

  • Cattell, K., Flanagan, R. and Jewell, C.A. (2004) Competitiveness and productivity in the construction industry: the importance of definitions. Proceedings of the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) 2 nd Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, October, 11p

  • Flanagan, R., and Liu, J. (2004) Why does China need risk management in its construction industry? Proceedings of the Nineteenth annual conference of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) University of Brighton, September, pp453-462

  • Salama, H. and Flanagan, R. (2005) The challenges facing privatization of infrastructure projects in LibyaProceedings of the COBRA conference, Qeensland University of Technology, Australia Page 731-739 (ISBN  1-74107-101-1)

  • Jewell C.A., Flanagan R., and Cattell K. (2005) The effects of the informal sector on construction. Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress – Broadening perspectives. Ed. Tommelin, I. American Society of Civil Engineers, 10pp (ISBN 0-7844-0754-1)

  • Flanagan, R. (2005) The synergy between business and global drivers in futures planning for construction enterprises IN Kähkönen, K. and Sexton, M. (Eds) Understanding the construction business and companies in the new millennium. VTT Helsinki p42-53 ( ISBN 952-5004-62-7)

  • Flanagan, R. and Jewell, C.A. (2005) International competitiveness of the Finnish construction sector 11pp downloadable from TEKES (Finnish Research Council) web site, www.tekes.fi

  • Flanagan, R. (2005) Malaysia in the global construction market – a focus on sustaining competitiveness Proceedings of the international conference of the Construction Industry Development Board, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 2005, p12-24 (ISBN 0-6733-0680-1)

  • Alnaser, W.E., Probert, S.D., El-Masri, S., Al-Khalifa, S.E., Flanagan, R. and Alnaser, N.W. (2005) Bahrain ’s formula-I racing circuit: Energy and Environmental considerations Applied Energy 19pp Elsevier Science

  • Alnaser, N.W. and Flanagan, R. (2005) The need of sustainable building construction in the Kingdom of Bahrain, Building and Environment 16pp Elsevier Science