Professor Malcolm Horner

Malcolm Horner graduated with BSc and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from University College London and spent several years in industry before being appointed in 1977 to a Lectureship in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Dundee. He is an Emeritus Professor of Engineering Management and leads the Construction Management Research Unit. He is a Fellow both of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a former Deputy Principal of the University. He has spent some 15 years in industry, including a period in which he was a Director of Atlantic Power, a North Sea Oil Project Management Company. He is currently Chairman of Scottish Enterprise Tayside, Chairman of the Institution of Civil Engineers' Scottish Management Board and Chairman of his own company, Whole Life Consultants Ltd.

Professional Biography

• BSc Civil Engineering, University College London
• PhD Civil Engineering, University College London

• Lean Thinking
• Labour Productivity
• Whole Life Costing
• Sustainability
• Cost estimating and control
• Novel approaches to data analysis

• Wang, N. & Horner, R.M.W. (2007) Fuzzy rule based system approach to assess cleaning costs of carpet flooring. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction 12, 25-35.
• Radosavljevic, M. & Horner, R.M.W. (2007) Process planning methodology: dynamic short-term planning for off-site construction in Slovenia. Construction Management and Economics 25, 143-156.
• Horner, R.M.W. (2006) Performance measurement. Invited chapter in Commercial Management of Complex Projects: Defining the Discipline (eds Lowe, D. & Lehringer, R.), 263-297.
• Walton, J.S., El-Haram, M., Castillo, N.H., Horner, R.M.W., Price, A.D.F., Hardcastle, C. (2005) Integrated assessment of urban sustainability. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering Sustainability 158, 57-65.
• El-Haram, M.A. & Horner, R.M.W. (2003) Application of the principles of ILS to the development of cost effective maintenance strategies for existing building stock. Construction Management and Economics 21, 283-296.

Prof Malcolm Horner

Division of Civil Engineering

University of Dundee

Nethergate

Dundee

DD1 4HN