Dr. Saeed Talebi

Senior Lecturer in Quantity Surveying, Course Leader for BSc Quantity Surveying

School of Engineering and the Built Environment

Email:: Saeed.Talebi@bcu.ac.uk

Dr Saeed Talebi is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Built Environment, Birmingham City University. He has a PhD in the Built Environment and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

His role combines teaching, research, and administration. Saeed is the Course Leader for BSc Quantity Surveying and he has taught on several areas including Innovation in construction, Project Planning and Control, Cost Management, Procurement & Contract Administration, and Lean Construction at both UG and PG levels.

Bringing practical experience of working on a number of projects, Saeed is researching and helping teams manage the interfaces between theory and practice. He has been engaged as either Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator in more than £200K funded research projects. He has recently completed a project funded by Network Rail in which emerging surveying methods and Artificial Intelligence were utilised to automate inspection of infrastructure.

Dr Talebi is a board member of the Community of Practitioners-Lean Construction Institute, North West Chapter, and is an active member of International Group for Lean Construction.

Qualifications

Teaching

Research

Publications

Talebi, S., Koskela, L., Tzortzopoulos, P., Kagioglou, M., Rausch, C. (Accepted/ In press). Causes of defects associated with tolerances in construction: A case study. Journal of Management in Engineering.
Koskela, L., Talebi, S., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Tezel, A. (Accepted/ In press). BIM and Lean in Construction. In ISTE (Ed.), SCIENCES. France: Wiley.
Elghaish, F., Abrishami, S., Al-Bizri, S., Talebi, S., Matarneh, S., and Wu, S. (Accepted/ In press). "Towards adopting 4D BIM in construction management curriculums: A teaching map." BIM teaching and learning handbook: Implementation for students and educators, M. R. Hosseini, F. Khosrowshahi, A. Ayodeji Aibinu, and S. Abrishami, eds., Taylor and Francis, London, UK.
Elghaish, F., Talebi, S., and Wu, S. (Accepted/ In press). "Cost management-based BIM: Skills, implementation and teaching map." BIM teaching and learning handbook: Implementation for students and educators, M. R. Hosseini, F. Khosrowshahi, A. Ayodeji Aibinu, and S. Abrishami, eds., Taylor and Francis, London, UK.
Talebi, S., Koskela, L., Tzortzopoulos Fazenda, P., Kagioglou, M., & Krulikowski, A. (2020). Deploying Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in Construction. Buildings, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings10040062
Talebi, S., Koskela, L., Tzortzopoulos Fazenda, P., & Kagioglou, M. (2020). Tolerance Management in Construction: A Conceptual Framework. Sustainability, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/su12031039
Poshdar, M., Zhu, Y., Gonzalez, V., Ghodrati, N., Alqudah, H., Tookey, J., & Talebi, S. (2020). The Efficacy of Virtual-Reality Based Safety Training in Construction: Perception versus Observation. In the 13th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, Moscow, Russia.
Elghaish, F., Matarneh, S., Talebi, S., Kagioglou, M., Hosseini, R (2020). Toward digitalization in the construction industry with immersive and drones technologies: a critical literature review. Journal of Smart and Sustainable Built Environment. doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-06-2020-0077
Al-Adhami, M., Rooble, S., Wu, S., Osuna-Yevenes, C., Ruby-Lewis, V., Greatrix, M., Cartagena, Y., Talebi, S (2020). An automated approach to digitize masonry bridges. ISARC
Elghaish, F., M., Hosseini, R., Talebi, S., Abrishami, S., Martek. I., Kagioglou, M. (2020). Cost management in IPD approach: An exploration of antecedents to success. Sustainability, 12(22). https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229539
Talebi, S., Tzortzopoulos, P., Koskela, L., Poshdar, M., Tommelein, I., Antunes, R., Tezel, A. (2019). A Vision for the Future of the Computer-Aided Tolerance Management in Construction based on the Lessons Learned from Manufacturing. CIB World Building Congress, Hong Kong, China.
Poshar, M., Gonzalez, V., Talebi, S. (2019). Diffusion of Lean Construction in Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises of Housing Sector. In the 27th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC), Dublin, Ireland
Talebi, S., Koskela, L., & Tzortzopoulos, P. (2018). Tolerance Compliance Measurement Using Terrestrial Laser Scanner. In the 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC), Chennai, India
Da Rocha, C.G., Tezel, A., Talebi, S., & Koskela, L. (2018). Product Modularity, Tolerance Management, and Visual Management: Potential synergies. In the 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC), Chennai, India.
Tezel, A., Koskela, L., Tzortzopoulos, P., Talebi, S., Miron, L. (2018). Continuous Improvement Cells
in the Highways Supply Sector. In the 26th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC), Chennai, India.
Gomes, D., Koskela, L., Biotto, C., Talebi, S., & Pikas, E. (2017). Shared understanding in construction: a conceptual synthesis. In the 5th Annual workshop of when social science meets Lean and BIM, Aalborg, Denmark.
Talebi, S., Koskela, L., Shelbourn, M., & Tzortzopoulos, P. (2016). Critical review of tolerance management in construction. In the 24th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Boston, USA.
Talebi, S., Koskela, L., & Shelbourn, M. (2016). Improvement of Dimensional Tolerances in Construction: The Role of Lean and BIM. Paper presented at the 4th International Workshop of When Social Science Meets Lean and BIM, Huddersfield, UK.
Koskela, L., Pikas, E., Gomes, D., Biotto, C., Talebi, S., Rahim, N., & & Tzortzopoulos, P. (2016). Towards shared understanding on common ground, boundary objects and other related concepts. In the 24th annual conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Boston, MA, USA.
Sajedeh, M., Fleming, A., Talebi, S., & Underwood, J. (2016). Development of an experimental waste framework based on BIM/Lean concept in construction design. In the 24th annual conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Boston, MA, USA.
Miron, L., Talebi, S., Koskela, S., Tezel, A. (2016). Evaluation of continuous improvement programmes. In the 24th annual conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Boston, MA, USA.
Talebi, S. (2014). Exploring advantages and challenges of adaptation and implementation of BIM in project Lifecycle. Paper presented at the 2nd BIM International Conference on Challenges to Overcome, Lisbon, Portugal.
Talebi, S. (2014). Rethinking the project development process through the use of BIM. In the 2nd BIM International Conference on Challenges to Overcome, Lisbon, Portugal.

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