Professor Charles Egbu joined the University of Salford in the Summer of 2007. Prior to Salford, Charles served as a Professor of Construction and Project management at the School of the Built and Natural Environment at Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK. He is also the co-Director of the Centre for Advanced Built Environment Research (CABER), UK.

He obtained his PhD in Construction Management from the University of Salford, UK. He was previously a Reader of Construction and Project management at Leeds Metropolitan University; worked as a Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the University College London, UK and as Senior Consultant and Project Manager at the Building Research Establishment, UK.

He also worked briefly in the industry as a Contractor’s Quantity Surveyor for a large construction company. He is a corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Building (MCIOB) and the Association for Project Management (MAPM). He has received substantial grant from the UK Department of Trade and Industry as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to undertake research in different aspects of Knowledge management and innovations in the construction industry. He has contributed over 100 publications in various international journals and conferences, with many relating to knowledge management and process innovations in construction and in diverse project management environments.

He is a visiting Fellow to the Management, Knowledge and Innovation Research Unit (MKIRU) of the Open University Business School. He is also a member of W65 (Construction Management), W102 (Information and Knowledge Management in Building) and TG47 (Innovation and Knowledge Broker) groups of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB)."The Changing Construction Environment." D. T. Kashiwagi, Performance Based Studies Research Group, Tempe, AZ, ISBN: 1-889857-05-X (1995)