| Hemanta Doloi is currently an Associate Professor in Construction Management at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the director of the Smart Villages Lab (SVL) which focuses on data-driven research in the area of ‘rural construction and sustainable development’ under the auspice of the Smart Villages program. He leads the trans-disciplinary research in smart villages for developing solutions for affordable housing and infrastructure systems, with a particular focus on maximisation of social value and empowerment within the rural communities.
Hemanta’s Smart Villages research is particularly expanding and impacting at a global level. In recognition of his effort to improve lives of rural communities through the Smart Villages research, Hemanta was recently awarded two consecutive prestigious awards, “Nelson Mandela Leadership Award 2023” and “Hind Rattan (Jewel of India) Award 2024” by the NRI (Non-Resident Indian) Welfare Society of India. In 2012, Hemanta also won the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyor’s Infinite Value award in teaching and research – recognising the excellence of scholarships impacting the wider community in the profession. He serves as an editorial member of a few prestigious journals including the International Journal of Project Management, Built Environment Project and Asset Management and Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management. He is a founding Chair of the International Conference on Smart Villages and Rural Development (COSVARD). He has widely published in the areas of project management, infrastructure planning and policy, social procurement, construction economics and management, and Smart Villages. His publications include four books, two sole-authored and two co-authored among which three are the results of the Smart Villages research started in 2016. |
