Dr Fidelis Emuze, PhD is a Professor and Head of the Department of Built Environment at the Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT), South Africa. Lean construction, health, safety, and well-being and sustainability constitutes the primary research interest of Dr Emuze, who is a National Research Foundation (NRF) funded researcher that has published over 200 research outputs in the last seven years. Dr Emuze is the editor of Value and Waste in Lean Construction (published by Routledge), Valuing People in Construction (published by Routledge), and co-editor of Construction Health and Safety in Developing Countries (published by Routledge). Dr Emuze is a member of editorial advisory boards of international journals including the ISI indexed Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineering – Municipal Engineers. He is a member of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management, and the Board of Directors of the Engineering, Project, and Production Management association (EPPM-Association). Dr Emuze is the International Coordinator of CIB TG59 – People in the Construction task group.
