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The Story
Women Academics in Construction is a capacity building network for women academics and post graduate students in the built environment.
Features
Empowering women academics in the built environment through research and leadership skill acquisition, mentorship, networking and collaboration.
To create a robust community of women academics and post graduate students in the built environment who are supported, connected and equipped to thrive in their career and drive positive change in the construction industry.
Diligence . Excellence . Support . Inclusivity . Impact
Patience Tunji-Olayeni is a Quantity Surveyor and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Building
Technology, Covenant University, Nigeria. She is the Convener of the WAiC Network. Patience is
currently the Chair, Regional Center of Expertise (RCE) Ogun a United Nations accredited Center
which serves as a learning hub for sustainable practices for people at the grass root. She is a signatory to
the Global Consensus on Sustainability in the Built Environment (GLOBE), a global expert task force
for sustainability in the built environment. She supervises post graduate students from within and
outside Nigeria. She also serves as PG External Examiner both within and outside Nigeria. She mentors
young academics in construction related disciplines to transform Africa’s research narrative. Her
research interests are in construction management, construction education, gender issues in
construction, sustainable construction, industry 4.0 & 5.0.
Meet Our Past Speaker
School of Computing Engineering, and the Built Environment Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Faculty of Engineering, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa
Deputy Dean Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dean of the School of The Built Environment and Architecture and specialises in Construction Management and Economics, Guest Chair Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.