Rate My Professor Tony Ma

Dr Tony Ma is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences within the College of Sciences at Adelaide University. He holds the position of Program Director for the Master of Quantity Surveying and serves as Senior Lecturer for the Bachelor of Construction Management and Economics (with Honours). His research specializations encompass tendering process contracts, innovations in tender submission and evaluation, project procurement, integration of risk and value management, GMP and target cost contracting, and project success factors leading to procurement choices. Dr Ma is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students and currently acts as co-supervisor for Mr Rob Freda's Doctor of Philosophy research on reforming the South Australian compliance and enforcement process for buildings during construction, commenced in 2019.

Dr Ma has made substantial contributions to the academic literature on construction and project management. Notable publications include Kim, K. P., Ma, T., & Biddiss, J. (2023) 'Exploratory investigation of scope management for a BIM-enabled construction project' in Management Review: An International Journal; Teng, B. W. J. et al. (2023) 'Statutory payment trusts in the Australian construction industry - Is it time to stop "kicking the can down the road"?' in Insolvency Law Journal; Prater, J., Kirytopoulos, K., & Ma, T. (2021) 'From 'technical newbies' to 'optimistic politicians': different factors affecting initial scheduling of IT projects' in International Journal of Managing Projects in Business; Shayan, S. et al. (2020) 'The first two decades of smart city research from a risk perspective' in Sustainability; Zuo, J. et al. (2018) 'Soft skills of construction project management professionals and project success factors: A structural equation model' in Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management; and Prater, J., Kirytopoulos, K., & Ma, T. (2017) 'Optimism bias within the project management context: a systematic quantitative literature review' in International Journal of Managing Projects in Business. He co-authored the book Coggins, J., Schwarz, S., Davies, M., & Ma, T. (2022) Contract Administration for Construction Professionals, published by LexisNexis, Australia. Additional works cover topics such as BIM adoption readiness, community-driven development success factors, heat wave impacts, and fuzzy risk assessment models for contracts.