Professor Ghassan Aouad, Past President of CIOB, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from Loughborough University for his services to the construction industry.
Honorary doctorates of technology are usually awarded to individuals of exceptional and outstanding achievements in their discipline and for their contribution to society and science and technology.
Professor Aouad has been the President of the Applied Science University, Bahrain, since November 2014. He was named as one of the top 10 academic leaders shaping executive education in the Middle East by the Middle East Economic Digest.
Professor Aouad was appointed as Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) in March 2010 and became President in June 2014 for a year. He is the first ever President with a Middle Eastern background.
He said: “It is a privilege and an honor to receive this honorary doctorate from a prestigious university which is conducting some of the finest research in the World to improve the quality of the built environment.”
He spent five years in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering of Loughborough University where he obtained his MSc in Construction (1987) and his PhD entitled Integrated Planning Systems for the Construction Industry (1991).
In 1992, Professor Aouad joined the University of Salford as a Research Fellow and progressed through to the role of pro vice-chancellor for research and innovation and dean of the College of Science & Technology before he left in December 2011.
