Rate My Professor Robert Lopez

Dr. Robert Lopez serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Construction Management within the School of Design and the Built Environment at Curtin University, Faculty of Humanities. He holds a Diploma in Building Design and Drafting (Dip BD&D), a Bachelor of Applied Science in Construction Management and Economics with Honours (BAppSc CM&E Hons), and a PhD in Construction Management (PhD CM) from Curtin University, the latter awarded with Chancellor Commendation. Lopez is also a Member of the Australian Institute of Building (AMAIB). Throughout his career at Curtin, he has held positions including Research Fellow and Digital Learning Coordinator in the School of Built Environment, and currently acts as Course Coordinator for Student Engagement.

His research specializations in construction management include design error reduction and containment strategies in projects, probabilistic assessment of design error costs, comparative analysis on the adoption and use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in road infrastructure projects, case studies on subcontracting arrangements in scaffolding supply chains for Liquefied Natural Gas infrastructure projects, obstacles preventing off-site prefabrication of timber and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) services through qualitative analyses from Australian builders and suppliers, environmental implications of using waste glass as aggregate in concrete, and review of concepts for utilizing barcode and QR code technology to access documents onsite in construction and facilities management. Lopez's publications have accumulated 983 citations. Key works encompass "Review and Concepts on How Construction and Facilities Management can Utilize Barcode and QR Code Technology to Access Documents Onsite" (2025), "Environmental Implications of Using Waste Glass as Aggregate in Concrete" (2024), "Obstacles Preventing the Off-Site Prefabrication of Timber and MEP Services: Qualitative Analyses from Builders and Suppliers in Australia" (2022, with Heap-Yih Chong), "Case Study on Subcontracting Arrangements in the Scaffolding Supply Chain of a Liquefied Natural Gas Infrastructure Project" (2017, with Heap Yih Chong, S. Moon, Xiangyu Wang), "Probabilistic Assessment of Design Error Costs" (2013), and contributions to design error analysis and prevention in social infrastructure projects (2012).