The School of Civil Engineering and Surveying

Having spent several years in industry as a chartered surveyor taking financial responsibility for the delivery of multi-million pound development projects in both private and public sectors Andrew now teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students studying RICS professionally accredited courses. More recently Andrew has published texts covering procurement, costing and financial management of construction projects and was instrumental in establishing the first RICS accredited courses in the Russian Federation.

Qualifications

• BSc Quantity Surveying, CNAA 1978
• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 1981
• Certificate of Education (Further Education) CNAA, 1986
• Master of Business Administration (Open) 2000

Present Position

Head of School, 2007 to date

Principal Academic Activities

• Author, Building Measurement, Addison Wesley Longman, 1996
• Author, Building Measurement, Pearson Education, 2nd ed. 2000
• Course Leader for part-time undergraduate programmes 1999 to date
• Course Leader, BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying, 1993 to1998
• Course Leader, MSc Property Development, 2004 to date
• Member, Environment Faculty Board, 1994 to1998
• Member, Faculty Quality Assurance Committee 1993 -1996
• Higher Education advisor and member, Hampshire Training & Enterprise Council, Construction Industry Study Group, 1994 - 1997
• Joint Chairman Surveying Society, 1988 - 1994
• Research Supervisor for PhD registration (Department of Civil Engineering), 1988
• Course Validation team member for proposed BSc (Hons) Facilities Management (p/t) 1997
• Course Validation team member for proposed BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology (p/t) 1997
• Founder member of Neural Network Computing Forum
• Member of the Editorial Board of Neural Computing and Applications, Sept 1992 - to date, Springer International
• Visiting Speaker, Kingston University, School of Surveying 2003 -2004
• RICS academic consultant and advisor, St Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics, Russian Federation. 2002 -2004
• RICS intermediary in establishing accreditation for Specialist Diploma in Real Estate Management and Specialist Diploma in Construction
• Enterprise Economics and Management, St Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics, Russian Federation. (First RICS accredited programmes in Russian Federation) 2002 - 2004
• Conference organiser “Renaissance of Portsmouth Harbour”, Boathouse 6,  UoP jointly with RICS, March 2004
• Admissions Tutor, School of Environmental Design & Management, 2002 - continuing
• Marketing and Continuing Professional Development Co-ordinator, School of Environmental Design & Management, 2000 - continuing

Other Related Academic Activities (with Marketing Department)

• Schools and Colleges Liaison Officer, School of Environmental Design & Management; 2000 to 2004 and continuing
• Widening Participation Activities; 2000 to 2004 and continuing
• Junior Summer School; 2000 to 2004 and continuing
• Taster Days; 2000 to 2004 and continuing
• Winner of SE Regional RICS Schools Competition Award 2003 - 2004

Consultancy Activities

Consultant Quantity Surveyor through University of Portsmouth Enterprises Ltd to the following contractors/developers:

• University of Portsmouth (Estate valuation 1991 to date)
• University of Portsmouth New Student Union Community Building
• CPL Development Co Ltd, (1985 to 1989), Cardesson Ltd, (1987 to 1989)
• Beaulieu Estates (1989 to 1992)
• NHBC Registered Builder (1984 - 1996)
• Expert Witness (1993 to date)
• Portsmouth City Council, Skate Park Feasibility Study (1999/2000)
• Johnbrown Copse, Regional Scouts Headquarters, Feasibility Costings (2002)

Conference Seminar Papers

• "Predicting construction costs using neural networks" - NCAF, Liverpool University, 1991 with H James
• "Capital Allowances and the Quantity Surveyor" - RICS Taxation Seminar; Wessex Branch, 1991
• "The Application of Neural Networks in the Prediction of Early Stage Construction Costs" - Faculty of Environmental Studies, Portsmouth Polytechnic, 1991
• "Using Neural Networks to predict construction costs" (with H James), University College London - Jan/Feb 1992
• "Determining the influence of design attributes on construction costs" (with H James and B Tate) - RICS Construction and Building Research Conference, (COBRA) Heriot-Watt University, September 1995
• "Applying Artificial Neural Networks to UK Construction Demand Forecasting (Private Sector)" with R Yang - RICS Construction and Building Research Conference (COBRA), University of Portsmouth, September 1997
• "The Effect of Inconsistent Differences in Financial Ratio Trends on Model Reliability" - with R Yang and H James - Keynote, RICS Construction and Building Research Conference (COBRA), University of Portsmouth, September 1997

Publications

• Author, Building Measurement, Addison Wesley Longman, 1996
• Author, Building Measurement, Pearson Education, 2nd ed. 2000
• Working Papers in Skills and Professional Training in the Construction Industry: "Building Better People"; A Critical Appraisal of the UK Construction Vocational Education and Training System; (with T Short); ISSN Nos 1355-4816