Dr Barry Gledson

Professor

Department: Mechanical and Construction Engineering

Dr Gledson is an Associate Professor of Construction Project Management. Before commencing his academic career as senior lecturer he spent a decade in the employment of major construction organisations working in a project management capacity planning construction operations, managing on-site activities, and winning new projects across the UK and for a brief early period in Washington DC. The contract values of his live projects ranged from £6M - £45M and were a mix of new build, demolition and refurbishment schemes in the following sectors: residential, hotel and office accommodation, retail space, and medical and laboratory facilities.

Barry holds chartered membership status within the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) as a Chartered Construction Manager (MCIOB), is a Full Member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM), has good standing as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) is a member of the BIM Academy and sits on the BIM academic Forum (BAF). He referees for a range of quality peer-reviewed journals, regularly presents his research work at academic conferences and sits on a number of conference scientific committees.

Read more about Barry's role in the APM's accreditation of our Project Management programmes in this case study.

Watch Barry's profile film to hear more about his experience working at Northumbria.

Campus Address

Office 303a
Wynne Jones

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Research interests and expertise revolve around digital innovations (e.g., 4D Building Information Modelling etc), their diffusion, and potential for improving construction project delivery and performance, and CPM practice. Additionally, themes of built environment sustainability and organisational learning from project experiences (e.g., the impact of digital technologies on-site processes) are also evident throughout work and higher-degree project supervisions.

Key Publications

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Digital leadership framework to support firm-level digital transformations for Construction 4.0, Gledson, B., Zulu, S., Saad, A., Ponton, H. 15 Sep 2023, In: Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management
Enhanced model of the innovation-decision process, for modular-technological-process innovations in construction, Gledson, B. 28 Nov 2022, In: Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management
Individual Characteristics as Enablers of Construction Employees’ Digital Literacy: An Exploration of Leaders’ Opinions, Zulu, S., Saad, A., Gledson, B. 12 Jan 2023, In: Sustainability
The adoption of 4D BIM in the UK construction industry: An Innovation Diffusion approach, Gledson, B., Greenwood, D. 20 Nov 2017, In: Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
A smart sewer asset information model to enable an ‘Internet of Things’ for operational wastewater management, Edmondson, V., Cerny, M., Lim, M., Gledson, B., Lockley, S., Woodward, J. 1 Jul 2018, In: Automation in Construction
Exploring Leaders’ Perceptions of the Business Case for Digitalisation in the Construction Industry, Zulu, S., Saad, A., Gledson, B. 7 Mar 2023, In: Buildings
Hybrid project delivery processes observed in constructor BIM innovation adoption, Gledson, B. 4 Apr 2016, In: Construction Innovation
Exploring organisational attributes affecting the innovativeness of UK SMEs, Gledson, B., Phoenix, C. 3 Apr 2017, In: Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management
Surveying the extent and use of 4D BIM in the UK, Gledson, B., Greenwood, D. 3 May 2016, In: Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon)
Rapid LEED evaluation performed with BIM based sustainability analysis on a virtual construction, Alwan, Z., Greenwood, D., Gledson, B. 2015, In: Construction Innovation Information, Process, Management

Current and Recent Projects

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Creation of a digital design management service for construction projects with an integrated decision support platform to facilitate collaboration and increase productivity., Gledson, B. (Principal Investigator), Innovate UK, 01/06/19 - 31/05/21, £168,718.00

Professional Activity

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Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction & 40th International CIB W78 Conference 2023
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: The 38th Annual ARCOM Conference 2022: Build Back Wiser 2022
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 37th Annual Association of Researchers in Construction Management Conference, ARCOM 2021 2021
Membership of committee: Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) (External organisation) 2021
Examination: External Examiner for PhD "A multimethod approach to learning from text-based construction failure data" by Henrietta Baker of The University of Edinburgh. Viva 18th March 2021 2021
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: ARCOM 2020 36th Annual Conference 2020
Examination: External Examiner for PhD "A Framework for Collaborative Costing in the Construction Industry" by Sa'id Namadi of Nottingham Trent University. Viva 13th February 2020 2020
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: 36th CIB W78 2019 Conference 2019
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: ARCOM 2019: 35th Annual Conference – Leeds, UK 2019
Invited talk: Invited Thought Leadership Talk: "From 7 Habits and 12 Rules, personal’ principles for modern project management practice emerge" 2019

PGR Supervision

Bwalya Chiponde Learning from Project-Related Failures in UK Construction Project-Based Organisations: An Examination of Actor Approaches, Intentions and Behaviours Start Date: 01/10/2018 End Date: 28/04/2023
Dean Douglas A Framework for the Development of Digital Twin in Road and Rail Infrastructure Asset Management Start Date: 13/10/2022
Benjamin Jowett A framework for the implementation of Mobile BIM Technology at project and organisational level supporting Lean construction approaches Start Date: 08/04/2022
Susan Dawson Degree Apprenticeships: At the Boundary of UK Higher Education (HE) and Built Environment Employer Organisations (EO) Start Date: 14/04/2021
Daniel Musselwhite Time predictability in the UK Construction Sector: An analysis of activity-level planning and its effect on project-delivery time performance Start Date: 01/03/2020

Further Information

Dr Gledson is an Associate Professor of Construction Project Management. Before commencing his academic career, Barry spent a decade in the employment of major construction organisations working in a project management capacity planning construction operations, managing on-site activities, and winning new projects across the UK and for a brief early period in Washington DC. The contract values of his live projects ranged from £6M - £45M and were a mix of new build, demolition and refurbishment schemes in the following sectors: residential, hotel and office accommodation, retail space, and medical and laboratory facilities.

Barry holds chartered membership status within the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) as a Chartered Construction Manager (MCIOB), he is a Full Member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM), has good standing as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), is a member of the BIM Academy and sits on the BIM Academic Forum (BAF). He referees for a range of quality peer-reviewed journals, regularly presents his research work at academic conferences and sits on a number of conference scientific committees.