Professor Abimbola Windapo
Stimulating Digital Transformation in the Construction Industry.
Professor at the Department of Construction Economics and Management, University of Cape Town.
Dr Abimbola Windapo is a Professor at the Department of Construction Economics and Management, University of Cape Town, with more than 34 years of experience in practice, teaching, and research in the construction industry and projects. She has held various teaching and administrative positions at the University of Cape Town and the University of Lagos, Nigeria and gained professional experience as a construction professional at Bouygues Nigeria Ltd and in private consulting. She is a C2 rated researcher with the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa and a Professional Construction Project Manager and Mentor registered with the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) and Registered with the Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON). She is also a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Building.
Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on building materials technology, sustainable housing and construction industry development, construction business, and project management from a performance and practice perspective. She has a significant network of academics and practitioners in and outside South Africa to support her research. Abimbola is the Joint coordinator of the TG81 – Global Construction Data Task Group of the CIB. She is the University of Cape Town Spoke contact for the ARUA Centre for Unemployment and Skills Development and the Urbanization and Habitable Cities in Africa. She is also the Editor of, Journal of Construction Business and Management (JCBM) (http://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/jcbm/index) hosted by the University of Cape Town Libraries. She is a Distinguished Associate of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the recipient of several awards, including the prestigious NSTF-South32 Engineering Research Capacity Development “Science Oscars” Award.
Visit https://abimbolawindapo.academia.edu/ and https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abimbola_Windapo to view a copy of her detailed CV and publications.