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Falilat Giwa

Falilat Giwa
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Lecturer

Falilat is a lecturer in quantity surveying, with experience in the construction industry and higher education. She has completed a Teaching Assistantship Preparation Program (TAPP) at University of Huddersfield and is currently taking the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning at ARU.

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Faculty:
Faculty of Science and Engineering
School:
Engineering and the Built Environment
Location:
Chelmsford
Research Supervision:
Yes
Background

Before joining ARU in 2023, Falilat worked as a quantity surveyor in a consultancy firm in Nigeria. She was also a lecturer in quantity surveying at the University of Lagos.

Falilat did her PhD research on BIM and construction claim management at the University of Huddersfield; during this time she also completed an internship with a dispute resolution firm in London.

Since joining ARU, Falilat has enriched her skills through CPD programmes designed to improve teaching and learning at our University.

Spoken Languages
  • English
  • Yoruba
Research interests
  • Construction dispute resolution
  • Sustainable quantity surveying practice
  • Construction digital technology
Areas of research supervision
  • Application of machine learning techniques in construction cost estimation
  • Investigating challenges of sustainable procurement practice in Nigerian construction industry
  • Delays of projects in the construction sector: causes, effects and mitigation
  • Conflict management and its effects on construction project delivery in developing countries: a case of Lagos, Nigeria
Teaching

Falilat teaches the following modules at ARU:

  • Management Practice
  • Quantification and Measurement
  • Quantity Surveying Practice
  • Commercial Management
Qualifications
  • PhD (Lean Construction and Building Information Management in SMEs), in view, University of Huddersfield
  • MSc Quantity Surveying, University of Lagos
  • BSc Quantity Surveying, University of Lagos
  • National Diploma, Quantity Surveying, Federal Polytechnic Ilaro (FPI)
Selected recent publications

Giwa, F., Omotayo, T., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Malalgoda, C., 2024. BIM-Enabled Claims Management Concept: Implications for Dispute Avoidance and Management. Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 16(3), 04524009.