Mr Bert Young

I joined London South Bank University (LSBU) in January 2017, as a Senior Lecturer in Quantity Surveying in the School of Built Environment and Architecture (BEA)after. I am currently the Course Director for the PgD/MSc Quantity Surveying and teaches on our PgD/MSc Quantity Surveying courses, as well as the BSc (Hons) courses in BEA. Prior to joining LSBU, I had wealth of industrial experience/s spanning over 30/years as a Director of Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management and as a Senior Cost Manager both locally and internationally with clients and contracting organisations.

Currently, my research interest involves Construction Innovation and Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) in Construction, Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), Offsite Technologies and Modern Flying Factories (MFFs), Fire in high rise buildings and Health and safety in Construction.
Also, I supervise post graduate and undergraduate students research and dissertation work within the school of BEA.

Course Director - PgD/MSc Quantity Surveying

Since joining LSBU, I have module lead and lectured at different time intervals on the following undergraduate and postgraduate modules; (a) Measurement, Documentation and Estimating – PG (b) Measurement 1 and Documentation – UG (c) Measurement, Cost Planning & Tender Process – UG (d) Contract Practice and Administration – UG (e) Construction Contract Administration – PG (f) Project Appraisal and Cost Control – UG (g) Estimating and Tendering Process – UG (h) Advanced Measurement – PG (i) Measurement 2 and Estimating – UG. Presently, I am the Module Leader for the following; (a) Measurement 1 and Documentation – UG (b) Advanced Measurement – UG (c) Measurement, Documentation and Estimating – PG (d) Advanced Measurement and Documentation – PG and (e) Quantity Surveying Project – UG.