Built Environment Division Research Group staff
Dr Nick Chileshe
Senior Lecturer in Construction Management
Phone 0114 225 3219
E-mail n.chileshe@shu.ac.uk
Dr Chileshe graduated in 1988 with an MSc in Civil Engineering from the then USSR and joined the Ministry of Works and Supply, Buildings Department (Lusaka, Zambia) in 1990 as an Executive Engineer. At the same time he worked as a part time lecturer in structural design, teaching final year civil engineering students at the University of Zambia.
From 1992 he joined Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and Partners in their Basingstoke offices as a Graduate Engineer and worked mainly in bridge design and site supervision. Dr Chileshe enrolled on an MSc Construction Management Course at Sheffield Hallam University in 1993 and graduated in 1996. He then started a PhD research programme with the support of a School of Construction studentship which he completed with the thesis title 'The Application of TQM within Small and Medium Sized Construction Related Organisations'. Dr Chileshe is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building (FCIOB), Fellow of The Association of Building Engineers (FBEng), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management (MCIM).
He started assisting with part time lecturing as an RVL from September 1997 and was appointed as a full time lecturer in Construction Management and Quantity Surveying from May 1999. From March 2005 to September 2005 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa conducting research into Construction within the Southern African Built Environment Research Center (SABERC).
Dr Chileshe is the author of numerous publications and conference papers. He is also a member of the International and Technical Scientific Committees for the 3rd Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Postgraduate Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, (2005); The First Built Environment Conference, CIOB AFRICA, (2006); the 3rd South African Construction Health and Safety Conference (2006), Cape Town, South Africa; and the CIB W99 Working Commission International Conference on Global Unity for Safety and Health in Construction (2006), Beijing, China, The CIB Building Congress, (2007) Cape Town, South Africa. He is also a Member and Leader Examiner of the CIOB Examination Panel; Assessor for the CIOB Accreditation Panel. In 2003, he was the recipient of the Royal Academy of Engineering International Travel Award.
