Dr Bingunath Ingirige

Senior Lecturer

• Maxwell Building Room 436c
• T: +44 (0)161 295 2858
• E: M.J.B.Ingirige@salford.ac.uk
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Monday 11.00am – 12:00 noon

Thursday 11.00am – 12:00 noon

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment and a Member of the Research Centre for Disaster Resilience (CDR). My main research interests are in the area of flood adaptation and community resilience against flooding and other weather extremes. I have been the co-investigator of the EPSRC funded Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) project, and the principal investigator for the RICS Education trust funded “Developing Flood Expert Knowledge in Chartered Surveyors” (DEFENCES). Under DEFENCES I investigated the recovery of small and medium scale enterprises during the aftermath of the devastating flood event at Cockermouth in Cumbria in 2009.

I am the programme leader for the MSc Quantity Surveying and MSc Quantity Surveying (Mechanical and Electrical) programmes. I am a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of UK.

I currently supervise PhD students in areas of flood rilsk adaptation, post disaster reconstruction, community resilience, knowledge management, ebusiness, technology transfer, capacity building / capability improvement. I serve in the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment (IJDRBE) and a regular reviewer of the Journal of Construction Management and Economics, Construction Innovation, International journal of disaster resilience in the built environment and the ITCON journal.

I am the programme leader of the MSc QS and QS (M&E) programmes and also teach Process and Project Systems module, which is a core module offered within MSc Project Management in Construction / MSc Quantity Surveying and MSc Quantity Surveying (M&E) programmes. I was also instrumental in internationalising our programme delivery and as such launched a blended learning delivery of the MSc QS programme in Sri Lanka.

• Flood adaptation and community resilience
• Knowledge Management
• Technology Transfer
• Project Collaboration
• Project Management
• Quantity Surveying
• Disaster Management
• Post Disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation
• Resilience and adaptive capacities of SMEs
• International development and NGO studies
• E Business
• E-Procurement

Academic Qualifications:

• BSc (Quantity Surveying) First Class Honours, (January 1995), University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
• MBA with a major in Management of Technology (April 1999), The Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
• PhD (November 2004), University of Salford, UK.
• PG Certificate in Higher Education Practice and Research (July 2005), University of Salford, UK
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of UK – FHEA (October 2005)

Professional Membership:

• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) - 2009
• Associate Member of the Institute of Quantity Surveyors (Sri Lanka) AIQS (SL) – 1999

Key publications:

Wedawatta, G & Ingirige, B & Proverbs, D 2013, 'SMEs and flood impacts: The case of the 2009 flood event in Cockermouth', Journal of Flood Risk Management [in press].

Wedawatta, G & Ingirige, B 2012, 'Resilience and adaptation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to flood risk', Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 21(4), pp.474-488

Elgrari, O & Ingirige, B 2011, 'Privatisation and Manpower Capability Development: Cases from the Libyan house building sector', Engineering Construction and Architectural Management, 18(5), pp.497-515.

Wedawatta, G & Ingirige, B & Jones, K & Proverbs, D 2011, 'Extreme Weather Events and construction SMEs: Vulnerability, impacts and responses', Structural Survey, 29(2), pp.106-119.

Wedawatta, G & Ingirige, B & Amaratunga, D 2010, 'Building up resilience of construction sector SMEs and their supply chains to extreme weather events', International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 14(4), pp.362-375.

Ingirige, B & Goulding, J S 2009, 'Maximising Social Interactions and Effectiveness within Distance Learning Courses: Cases from Construction', Journal of Education in the Built Environment, 4(1), pp.75-99. 

Madubuko, L & Ingirige, B & Sexton, M 2009, 'The Interaction between Non-Governmental Organisations and Marginalized Communities to Build Self-Sustaining Capacity to Transfer, Absorb and use Building Technologies in Indigenous Housing', The Built & Human Environment Review, 2(1), pp.64-101. 

Ingirige, B & Haigh, R & Malalgoda, C, & Palliyaguru, R. 2008, 'Exploring good practice knowledge transfer related to post tsunami housing (re-)construction in Sri Lanka,', Journal of Construction in Developing Countries, 13(2), pp.21-42. 

Ingirige, B & Sexton, M 2007, 'Understanding construction alliances: their rationale and design ', RICS Research Paper Series, Vol. 7. No.4.

Ingirige, B & Sexton, M 2007, 'Intranets in large construction organisations: Exploring advancements, capabilities and barriers', ITCON Journal.

Ingirige, B & Sexton, M 2006, 'Alliances in Construction: Investigating Initiatives and Barriers for Long-term Collaboration', Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management.

Alshawi, M & Ingirige, B 2003, 'Web- Enabled Project Management: An Emerging Paradigm in Construction', Automation in Construction, 12(4), pp 349-364.