Laila Khodeir

Associate Professor, The British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt

Biography

Dr. Laila Khodeir is an associate professor of architecture and management at the British university in Egypt and Ain Shams University. She is a certified project management professional (PMP) from the PMI, a green classroom professional from the LEED Association and the principle investigator of the Interactive Sustainable Child Development Center (ISCDC) research project. She earned her undergrad from Ain Shams University in 2002. Her master’s degree in 2005 focused on social sustainability and was entitle The Impact of Local Communities on Eco-lodge Design Criteria. Dr. Khodeir earned her PhD in 2010 and focused on the newly emerging discipline in Egypt of facility management. Since then, the research work of Dr. Laila has focused generally on facility management, construction project management, and the application of management as a broad term in teaching architecture. She has published more than 45 papers in peer reviewed journals and international conferences and has published three book chapters, as well as acted as a reviewer in a number of national and international journals including JOC Journal of Construction, South Africa and Ain Shams Engineering Journal, Elsevier, and Science Direct. Dr. Laila has acted as an external examiner to master’s students in Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa and IUSD post graduate students in Ain Shams University in Egypt. She has shared in supervising more than 45 master’s and PhD dissertations at Ain Shams University and the British University in Egypt. Dr. Laila joined the British University in Egypt (BUE) in 2014, and has been involved in teaching current courses in a variety or correlated disciplines since then including: building services and sustainable design, building construction and management, project management and architecture design, human resource and lean construction management. She is particularly interested in sustainable design, facility management, maintenance management, building performance evaluation, construction project management, risk management, quality management and control, change management practices, marketing management for construction projects, capacity management, and value engineering.