Rate My Professor Monty Sutrisna

Professor Monty Sutrisna serves as Professor of Construction and Project Management and Head of the School of Built Environment at Massey University, New Zealand, where he also acts as a Doctoral Mentor Supervisor. With nearly two decades of academic leadership across the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, his previous roles include Head of the Construction Management Department at Curtin University in Western Australia and Director of Postgraduate Research Training and Outreach as well as Programme Director for the Construction Management programme at the University of Salford, UK. He possesses extensive practical experience as a leader in the construction industry in the UK, Australia, and Indonesia, and actively promotes collaborations between academia and industry.

An accomplished researcher and award-winning educator, Sutrisna's expertise encompasses construction and engineering management, productivity enhancement, procurement and contracts, application of advanced technologies including IT and artificial intelligence in construction, project management, decision-making modelling and support, and knowledge-based systems. He specializes in research methodologies within the built environment and contributes significantly to the field through his involvement in professional institutions' boards and committees, peer review for academic journals, assessments for the Australian Research Council, and expertise for the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency on Construction Management courses. Sutrisna holds fellowships as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Fellow of the Australian Institute of Building (FAIB), and Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), along with memberships in the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineers (MInstCE), Chartered Institute of Building (MCIOB), and Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE). Notable publications include "Facilitating Digital Transformation in Construction—A Systematic Review of the Current State of the Art" (Frontiers in Built Environment, 2021), "Developing a predictive model of construction industry-university research collaboration" (Construction Innovation, 2021), "Time–Cost–Waste Trade-offs in Panelised Offsite Construction Supply Chain Management" (Results in Engineering, 2026), and "Offsite Construction and BIM Integration Framework across Project Life Cycle" (Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2025), among others demonstrating his impact on construction innovation and sustainability.