Dr Sittimont Kanjanabootra

Biography

Dr Sittimont Kanjanabootra is a practicing Design Mechanical and Construction Engineer with 4 years practical experience working in the Construction Industry on projects including high rise apartment complexes, warehouses, multi-storey shopping centres, hotel renovations, resorts and office buildings.

Dr Sittimont's PhD at RMIT University was a study of design and implementation of engineering knowledge management systems in Australia.The thesis was nominated for the Australian Professors Award for most outstanding thesis.

Dr Sittimont has worked for Meinhardt Thailand, an Engineering Consulting company in construction; for RMIT University lecturing; and for the Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre at Swinburne University.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2012
• Master of Science (Technical Educ-Mechanical Tech), King Mongkuts Institute of Technology - Thailand, 2003
• Bachelor of Science (Technical Educ - Mech Eng), King Mongkuts Institute of Technology - Thailand, 1998

Research

Research keywords

• Construction processes
• Knowledge Management System
• Ontology
• Process Mining

Research expertise

Dr Sittimont Kanjanabootra research in Construction Management areas include:

1. Ontologies of Construction Knowledge

2. Effectiveness of Information and Knowledge Sharing in Construction Projects

3. Improved design and domain knowledge sharing in Construction

4. Construction Management in Asia.

5. Off-Site manufacturing in construction.

6 Construction Knowledge management systems.

Collaboration

Past research collaborations were with QUT (Prof Arthur ter Hofstede, Dr Moe Wynn, Dr Chun Ouyang) on business process modelling in off-site manufacturing in construction; with Prof Russell Kenley and Dr Toby Harfield on off-site manufacturing in the Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre on adoption evaluation tools in off-site manufacturing construction.

Currently project collaborations include:

1. Improved design and knowledge seeking in Construction with a numbers of practitioners from Thailand, partially funded by the Royal Thai Government.

2. Improving information management during inspection stage in construction process

3. Knowledge sharing in design process project with Prof Tony Williams and A/Prof Willy Sher

Languages

• English
• Thai

Fields of Research

Centres and Groups

Centre

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Teaching

Teaching keywords

• N/A

Teaching expertise

1) Systems Analysis and Design

2) Business Operations

3) Research Methodology