Professor Sam Zulu

Sam is a Professor of Construction and Project Management and the Postgraduate Research Coordinator in the School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing.

Sam is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Applied Research + Innovation in the Built Environment (CARINBE). He has previously worked at Nottingham Trent University (UK) and Copperbelt University (Zambia) as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in quantity surveying. Prior to joining academia, he worked as a quantity surveyor for a chartered quantity surveying practice. He is a chartered builder (MCIOB), chartered quantity surveyor (MRICS), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), and holds a BSc in Building Science, an MSc in Constriction Project Management and a PhD in Construction Project Management.

Sam's research addresses issues related to the management of projects and organisations in the construction industry, including among others, organisational and management studies, managing projects, digitalisation and sustainable project delivery. Currently, his research focus is on the implications of the interlinked challenges of digitalisation and sustainability on organisations and the management and delivery of projects. He has been involved in externally funded research and enterprise projects with a total value of £2.92million. He is an experienced PhD supervisor and examiner.

Sam’s research has been published in top-ranked journals including Construction Management and Economics, Smart and sustainable built Environment, Built Environment Project and Asset Management, Buildings, Journal of Engineering Design and Technology, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, construction innovation, Journal of Open Innovation and the International Journal of Construction Management, among others. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board/Advisory Board of the Environment Project and Asset Management and the Journal of Construction; a committee member of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) and has sat on scientific committees of various international conferences including International Conference for Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) ARCOM conferences, International Conference on Development and Investment In Infrastructure - Strategies for Africa, and the CIB International Conference on Smart Built Environment.

Over the years, Sam has taught various modules at postgraduate (PG) and undergraduate (UG) levels, including research methods, project management, managing construction projects, interprofessional studies, building economics, construction contracts, legal frameworks and regulation, commercial management, advanced commercial management and financial and commercial management.

Sam teaches across a number of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels including:

• Architectural Technology
• Building Surveying
• Construction Management
• Project Management
• Quantity Surveying
• Real Estate and Property Management

Current modules include:

• Financial and Commercial Management (Level 6)
• Research Methods (Level 7)
• Commercial and Financial Management- Construction Management (Level 7)