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 in the School of Engineering and the 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 leadership, research, and teaching. Saeed is the Course Leader for BSc Quantity Surveying and he has taught on several areas including Innovation in construction, digital design and construction, project planning and control, cost management, procurement & contract administration, and lean construction at both undergraduate and postgraduate 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 been working on funded projects in which emerging surveying methods and Machin Learning are employed to automate defect detection in railway infrastructure.

Dr Saeed Talebi supervises self-motivated PhD students. Saeed has served in scientific committees of major international conferences and review boards of frontline journals. He is currently the Guest Editor of the journal of Smart & Sustainable Built Environment and Sustainability journal.

Saeed 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

Elghaish, Faris and Talebi, Saeed and Abdellatef, E. and Matarneh, Sandra and Hosseini, M. Reza and Wu, Song and Hajirasouli, Aso and Nguyen, T. Q. (2021) Developing a new deep learning CNN model to detect and classify highway cracks. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology. ISSN 1726-0531 (In Press)

Dithebe, K. and Aigbavboa, C. and Thwala, W.D. and Edwards, D.J. and Hayhow, S. and Talebi, Saeed (2021) Stakeholder management in the alleviation of legal and regulatory disputes in Public-Private Partnership projects in South Africa. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology. ISSN 1726-0531 (In Press)

Talebi, Saeed and Koskela, Lauri and Tzortzopoulos, Patricia and Kagioglou, Michail and Rausch, Chris and Elghaish, Faris and Poshdar, Mani (2021) Causes of Defects Associated with Tolerances in Construction: A Case Study. Journal of Management in Engineering, 37 (4). ISSN 0742-597X

Hajirasouli, Aso and Banihashemi, Saeed and Kumarasuriyar, Anoma and Talebi, Saeed and Tabadkani, Amir (2021) Virtual reality-based digitisation for endangered heritage sites: Theoretical framework and application. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 49. pp. 140-151. ISSN 1296-2074

Rausch, Christopher and Lu, Ruodan and Talebi, Saeed and Haas, Carl (2021) Deploying 3D scanning based geometric digital twins during fabrication and assembly in offsite manufacturing. International Journal of Construction Management. pp. 1-14. ISSN 1562-3599

Elghaish, Faris and Hosseini, M. Reza and Talebi, Saeed and Abrishami, Sepehr and Martek, Igor and Kagioglou, Michail (2020) Factors Driving Success of Cost Management Practices in Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). Sustainability, 12 (22). p. 9539. ISSN 2071-1050

Elghaish, Faris and Matarneh, Sandra and Talebi, Saeed and Kagioglou, Michail and Hosseini, M. Reza and Abrishami, Sepehr (2020) Toward digitalization in the construction industry with immersive and drones technologies: a critical literature review. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment. ISSN 2046-6099

Talebi, Saeed and Koskela, Lauri and Tzortzopoulos, Patricia and Kagioglou, Michail and Krulikowski, Alex (2020) Deploying Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in Construction. Buildings, 10 (4). p. 62. ISSN 2075-5309

Talebi, Saeed and Koskela, Lauri and Tzortzopoulos, Patricia and Kagioglou, Michail (2020) Tolerance Management in Construction: A Conceptual Framework. Sustainability, 12 (3). p. 1039. ISSN 2071-1050

Elghaish, Faris and Talebi, Saeed and Wu, Song (2021) Cost management-based BIM: Skills, implementation, and teaching map. In: BIM Teaching and Learning Handbook: Implementation for Students and Educators. Routledge. ISBN 9780367427955

Elghaish, Faris and Abrishami, Sepehr and Al-Bizri, Salam and Talebi, Saeed and Matarneh, Sandra and Wu, Song (2021) Towards adopting 4D BIM in construction management curriculums: A teaching map. In: BIM Teaching and Learning Handbook: Implementation for Students and Educators. Routledge. ISBN 9780367427955

Koskela, Lauri and Talebi, Saeed and Tezel, A. and Tzortzopoulos, Patricia (2021) BIM and Lean in Construction. In: Sciences. Wiley, France. (In Press)

Koohestani, Keyvan and Poshdar, Mani and Moayedi, Sara and Gonzalez, Vincente and Tzortzopoulos, Patricia and Talebi, Saeed (2021) A review of components and configurations of survey research in lean construction. In: 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC), 14th -18th July 2021, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. (In Press)

AlAdhamia, M. and Roobleb, S. and Wu, S. and Osuna-Yevenes, C. and Ruby-Lewis, V. and Greatrix, M. and Cartagena, Y. and Talebi, Saeed (2020) An automated approach to digitise railway bridges. In: 37th ISARC, 26th - 30th October 2020, Kitakyushu, Japan.

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 27^th 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 26^th 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 26^th 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 26^th 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 5^th 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 24^th 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 24^th 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 24^th 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 24^th 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 2^nd BIM International Conference on Challenges to Overcome, Lisbon, Portugal.

Talebi, S. (2014). Rethinking the project development process through the use of BIM. In the 2^nd BIM International Conference on Challenges to Overcome, Lisbon, Portugal.