Denny McGeorge began his career as an indentured quantity surveyor in 1958 and gravitated into academia in 1968.

He has worked and lectured at a number of Universities in the UK and Asia including Heriot-Watt, Salford, Liverpool, Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and The National University of Singapore and Tsinghau University in Beijing.

He was Foundation Professor of Building from 1991 until 1999 at the University of Newcastle (New South Wales). He is a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, where (until recently) he was Head of School and Professor of the Built Environment.

He is particularly interested in the application of experiential and problem based learned in construction management education and has also been involved in the development of distance education and e-learning in Australia, Hong Kong and China.

He has a range of research interests centred around the built environment and the building procurement process. Over the last decade he has been awarded a number of Australian Research Council Grants. His current ARC funded research project is an investigation of the relationship between buildings, building users and organisational effectiveness in the hospital sector.

He has had a long-term interest in professional ethics. He was an industry consultant to the Royal Commission into Productivity in the Building Industry (Gyles Royal Commission) in New South Wales for the duration of the Commission. He was also appointed to the expert panel of the federal Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry. He has recently worked extensively in China on a major Australian Aid project on the Promotion of Honest Administration in China's Construction Industry.

He has been a Visiting Professor at Salford for the past four years and has worked with colleagues in the School of Construction and Property Management on a range of projects, mainly in the undergraduate teaching area.