Kathy Michell is a Quantity Surveyor and Facilities Manager and has been on the full time academic staff at the University of Cape Town since 1995. She has a Master’s Degree in Cost Engineering from the University of Cape Town and a Doctorate in Urban Facilities Management from the University of Salford. She lectures and co-supervises at the Masters level on Strategic Asset and Facilities Management at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Her research focus is in Facilities Management and Sustainable Urban Development and Management. She serves on the editorial board and is the regional editor (Africa) for the Journal of Facilities Management. She is the immediate past-President of the South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession and served as a Council Member on the Council for the Built Environment. Kathy currently holds the Africa Market Seat on the Governing Council of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, is the Africa Regional Guest Member on the Board of the CIB International Council for Building and Construction Research and is on the International Facilities Management Association Research Advisory Committee.

Karen practised as a professional Quantity Surveyor until 2001, notably becoming a managing partner of Walters Simpson & Du Toit in 1998. Having lectured part-time at UCT whilst working in private practice, she joined as a full-time staff member in 2002. Her research interests include the use of digital technologies and tools in the Built Environment to meet the 4th Industrial Revolution challenges, promotion of Sustainability in the Built Environment including social issues involving gender equalisation. Karen also serves as a professional member of The Association of South African Quantity Surveyors, Chartered Surveyor registered with The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Pr.QS registered with The South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession. Karen is also a member of the Society of Architects Planners Engineers and Surveyors (APES) and Women’s Property Network (WPN), and an academic mentor for the Association of Built Environment Students (ABES).

Krystle Ontong is a Senior and Academic Development Lecturer in the department of Construction Economics and Management, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town. She obtained her PhD in 2013 in the field of Critical Human Geography and Environmental Education at Stellenbosch University where she also taught in the Curriculum Studies Department. Her research is in human geography where she critically explores the conceptual and practical intersections between space, place, land and people and how their entangling produces spatial and gender divisions, environmental problems and social ills. The latter she argues, could be addressed more efficiently through the avenue of place-and-land-conscious education which is underpinned by both western and indigenous epistemologies. In the teaching and learning domain, her research involves productive pedagogies and cybergogies, curriculum inquiry, student engagement and e-learning. She has published in several peer-reviewed journals both locally and internationally and is a member of various education and geography associations. To date, she has presented at more than eighteen conferences locally and internationally and reviewed a number of articles and theses. She also received a National Research Foundation (NRF) rating for her research in 2020.

Louie van Schalkwyk is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. She holds LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Stellenbosch and a PhD (Law) degree from the University of Cape Town. She is an admitted attorney, notary and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa with seven years’ experience in conveyancing and notarial practice. Louie is a research fellow at the SARChI Research Chair: Mineral Law in Africa, hosted at the Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include property law, expropriation law and mining law, in particular, the relationship between land use planning and mining and the role of cooperative government in this context.

Amanda Filtane is a lecturer at the Department of Construction Economics & Management, specialising in Construction Management. She is currently pursuing her PhD studies in Construction Business Management with a special focus on Business Models. Before joining academia, Amanda worked in the industry between 2007 – 2016; under both private sector (General Construction) and public sector (Rural Infrastructure Development) across South Africa. Amanda is passionate about innovative, sustainable technologies and methodologies that improve the efficiencies and effectiveness of the Construction Sector and has delivered conference papers within South African and abroad. She is a director of multiple non-profit organisations with objectives ranging from education, entrepreneurship and general township, women and rural development initiatives.

Uche obtained both his bachelors and master’s degrees in architecture from the University of Jos, Nigeria in 1989 and 1992 respectively. Between 1993 and 2003, he practised as an architect and project site manager with Hamada Design Consultants, in Maiduguri and Abuja, Nigeria. This culminated in his establishing and running the firm’s office in Abuja from 1996 to 2003, from where he transited into his own practice as a registered consultant architect until 2007. While working for Hamada Design Consultants in Abuja, Uche worked on projects of diverse briefs and varying levels of complexity. The design and construction of Unity Bank building, a high-rise office building, which successfully incorporated passive energy systems thereby saving on energy requirements, was one of the projects Uche undertook, which reflected his passion for seeking passive energy solutions within the framework of the different briefs and contexts of the projects he worked on. Thereafter, he completed an MSc in Property Studies at the University of Cape Town, where he also lectured parttime. He joined the department as a full-time member of staff in 2014. Uche’s research interests are in urban management issues, Proptech and facilities management. In addition to his teaching and supervision responsibilities, he is currently a doctoral candidate in the field of strategic urban management.

Mark Massyn is a construction project manager and has been on the full-time academic staff at the University of Cape Town since 2003. He lectures on the Construction studies undergraduate programme, the Honour’s in Construction Management programme and was the programme Convenor for the Master’s in Project Management for the period 2005 to 2009 and from 2019 to 2021. His research areas are project governance and that application of digital technology to improve construction and project management processes. He serves on the editorial board of the Acta Structilia Journal. Mark is currently the Chartered Institute of Building Regional Chair for Sub-Sahara Africa. Mark is passionate about helping shape the future working world of built environment students and professionals by equipping them to meet the challenges of sustainable development and the 4.0IR. S+CUBE Website design > based on URERU website template

Alireza Moghayedi is a senior research officer at Department of Construction Economics and Management. He holds a PhD in Construction Economics and Management from University of Cape Town, Master of Science in Civil Engineering major in Transportation from University of the Philippines, Master of Science in Construction Management from University of the East and Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Islamic Azad University. Before joining UCT Dr Moghayedi has held various positions in a government agency, engineering consultancy, contracting and developing firms across the globe. His research focuses on developing inclusive, sustainable and smart solutions for engineering and built environment infrastructure projects using innovative cyber technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Building Information Modelling, Digital Twin, Mixed Reality etc. Dr Moghayedi enjoys working collaboratively within a team environment together with the challenge of carrying through individual tasks. In last year only, he has established six international collaboration projects focusing on enhancing the living condition of the marginalised population in Africa through inclusive, sustainable and innovative infrastructures and communities’ developments. Dr Moghayedi is passionate about equipping young people to excel in the field of engineering and built environment and a thinker and developer of tangible solutions for real-world problems through innovative fundamental and applied research.