Rate My Professor Tingting Liu

Dr. Tingting Liu serves as a Senior Lecturer in construction management within the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. She earned her PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland, completing her studies from December 2008 to October 2013. Liu's research specializations include construction procurement, energy efficiency retrofits, social sustainability, modular integrated construction, circular economy principles, embodied carbon estimation, virtual reality applications in construction, build-to-rent housing, and green performance evaluation of buildings. She currently supervises five PhD students as principal or associate supervisor in construction and sustainability-related fields.

Liu has published extensively on sustainable construction and public-private partnerships, with highly cited works such as "Identifying critical factors affecting the effectiveness and efficiency of tendering processes in Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs): A comparative analysis of Australia and China" (2016, International Journal of Project Management, 334 citations), "Cost-benefit analysis for Energy Efficiency Retrofit of existing buildings: A case study in China" (2018, Journal of Cleaner Production, 227 citations), "Integration of BIM and immersive technologies for AEC: A scientometric-SWOT analysis and critical content review" (2021, Buildings, 189 citations), "Adopting innovative procurement techniques: Obstacles and drivers for adopting public private partnerships in New Zealand" (2011, Construction Innovation, 164 citations), "Emerging themes of public-private partnership application in developing smart city projects: a conceptual framework" (2021, Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 111 citations), "Drivers towards adopting modular integrated construction for affordable sustainable housing: a total interpretive structural modelling (TISM) method" (2022, Buildings, 82 citations), and recent papers on blockchain in construction contracts and women's retention in the industry (both 2023, 56 citations each). She has obtained funding including the Devlink Group Topup PhD Scholarship ($30,000). Liu teaches courses such as Construction Procurement (6605ENG), Construction Economics (1606ENG), and Construction Communication (1604ENG), shaping the next generation of professionals in the built environment.