Email: ao345@cam.ac.uk

Research interests

Dr Alex Opoku’s main research aims to help construction organizations with the quest to adopt and implement sustainability practices in the delivery of construction projects. His work looks at the role of organizational leadership in promoting sustainable construction practices and how construction organizations are learning to adopt sustainability practices. In addition, Dr Alex Opoku research into sustainable urban retrofit; re-engineering the city. He investigates how to bridge the gap between what is needed for urban scale retrofit and how this might be achieved.

Strategic themes

Energy, transport and urban infrastructure

The Retrofit 2050 (EPSRC funded) research project investigate transitions to sustainability in the built environment of Britain’s city-regions between 2020 and 2050. The work looks through a socio-technical lens for transition through retrofit in the built environment in an urban context.

Research projects

Retrofit 2050

Biography

Alex Opoku is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Development in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He has extensive quantity surveying/cost management experience in the UK construction industry, having been involved with RC frame construction, ground works, maintenance and refurbishment projects with Willmott Dixon and Haymills Contractors for over seven years. He has teaching experience at both undergraduate and post-graduate level He is a member of Quantity Surveyors Institute and Institute of Commercial Management.

Alex holds a PhD in Construction Management from the University of Salford. His PhD research was on “Leadership and the promotion of sustainability practices in UK construction organizations”. Alex graduated from Nottingham Trent University with an honours degree in Building Management in 2005 and a masters degree in Quantity Surveying Commercial Management from the Leeds Metropolitan University in 2008.