Name	Dr Nii Ankrah
Job Title	Lecturer (Quantity Surveying, Construction Management)
Subject Area(s)	Contruction and Infrastructure
School	School of Engineering and the Built Environment
Room	MI228
Campus	City
Tel	01902 32 3581
E-Mail	nii.ankrah2@wlv.ac.uk

Background:

Lecturer (Quantity Surveying, Construction Management)

 

 

Nii Ankrah is a Quantity Surveyor by profession with industry experience covering pre-contract approximate estimating, cost planning, measurement of construction work, project planning and management, and contract administration. He completed a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Building Technology at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. During this period and for a year after completing his degree, Nii worked with a building contractor with business activity in both the house building and contracting sectors of the construction industry. Nii also worked as a Teaching Assistant and Quantity Surveyor at the Department of Building Technology, KNUST.

 

Subsequent to this, Nii secured a scholarship to read a Masters degree in Construction Management at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, graduating with distinction in 2003, following which he undertook and completed a PhD in 2007 at the University of Wolverhampton examining the impact of cultural orientations on construction project performance outcomes.

 

Nii Ankrah joined the School of Engineering and the Built Environment (SEBE) in 2007 and is presently a lecturer and researcher in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, and Construction Project Management.

 

 

Nii’s research interests focus primarily on human behaviour within construction project and construction organisation contexts. Particular research interests include: social rules and processes that affect behaviours of people in construction as individuals and as members of project teams and construction organizations; cultural orientations; team development; as well as issues relating to tendering and procurement of construction projects.

 

 

 

PhD thesis:

                       

ANKRAH, N. A. (2007) An investigation into the impact of culture on construction project performance, PhD thesis, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK.

 

 

AHADZIE, D. K., PROVERBS, D., OLOMOLAIYE, P. O. & ANKRAH, N. A. (2008c) The role of theory in construction management research: Reflections on an empirical study,International Journal of Project Management, (Under review).

AHADZIE, D. K., PROVERBS, D., OLOMOLAIYE, P. O. & ANKRAH, N. A. (2008b) Senior managers’ perceptions of the competencies required by project managers in mass house building projects in Ghana: Implication for training and development, Engineering Construction and Architectural Management, (Under review).

AHADZIE, D. K., PROVERBS, D., OLOMOLAIYE, P. O. & ANKRAH, N. A. (2008a) Towards developing competency-based measures for project managers in mass house building projects in developing countries: A conceptual agenda, Construction Management and Economics, (Accepted – In press).

ANKRAH, N. A., PROVERBS, D. & DEBRAH, Y. (2008c) Partnering in the UK and cultural change - An examination of empirical evidence, International Journal of Project Management, (Under review).

ANKRAH, N. A., PROVERBS, D. & DEBRAH, Y. (2008b) Factors influencing the culture of a construction project organisation: An empirical investigation, Engineering Construction and Architectural Management, (Accepted – In press).

ANKRAH, N. A., PROVERBS, D. & DEBRAH, Y. (2008a) Towards a model for diagnosing the culture of a construction project organisation, International Journal of Construction Management, 29-43. (In press).

ANKRAH, N. A. & LANGFORD, D. A. (2005) Architects and Contractors: A comparative study of organizational cultures, Construction Management and Economics, 23 (6), 595-607.

 

 

ANKRAH, N. A., PROVERBS, D. & AHADZIE, D. K. (2008) Exploring the behaviours of construction project participants through social cognitive theory, 24th Annual ARCOM Conference. Cardiff, ARCOM.

AHADZIE, D. K., PROVERBS, D., SURESH, S., OLOMOLAIYE, P. & ANKRAH, N. A. (2008) The extent of theory development in project management research: Observations from the literature,Proceedings of the ARCOM Doctoral Research Workshop: Advancing Theory Development in Construction Project Management Research, Wolverhampton, UK, March 2008.

ANKRAH, N. A., PROVERBS, D. & DEBRAH, Y. (2007a) A cultural profile of construction project organisations in the UK, 23rd Annual ARCOM Conference. Belfast, ARCOM.

ANKRAH, N. A., PROVERBS, D. & DEBRAH, Y. (2007b) Improving satisfaction with construction project outcomes: the role of culture, Construction Management and Economics 25th Anniversary Conference, Reading, UK, Construction Management and Economics.

ANKRAH, N. A., PROVERBS, D., ANTWI, A. & DEBRAH, Y. (2005a) The influence of organisational culture on contractor performance, In: Sullivan, K. and Kashiwagi, D.T. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2005 CIB W92/T23/W107 International Symposium on Procurement Systems: The Impact of Cultural Differences and Systems on Construction Performance, Las Vegas.

ANKRAH, N. A., PROVERBS, D., ANTWI, A. & DEBRAH, Y. (2005b) Factors influencing organisational culture: A construction project perspective, In: Egbu, C. O. and Tong, M. K. L. (eds.), Proceedings of the PRoBE 2005 Conference, Glasgow. [Best Paper – Runner up]

ANKRAH, N. A., PROVERBS, D., ANTWI, A. & DEBRAH, Y. (2005c) Towards a new approach for measuring the organisational culture of construction project organisations: Overcoming the methodological challenges, In: Egbu, C.O. and Tong, M.K.L. (eds.), Proceedings of the PRoBE 2005 Conference, Glasgow.

ANKRAH, N. A. & PROVERBS, D. (2005) A framework for measuring construction project performance: overcoming key challenges of performance measurement, In: Khosrowshahi, F. (ed.), Proceedings of the 21^st Annual ARCOM Conference, London.

ANKRAH, N. A. & PROVERBS, D. (2004) Treading the softer areas of construction management: A critical review of culture, In: Khosrowshahi, F. (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual ARCOM Conference, Edinburgh.

 

 

Construction and Infrastructure (COIN) Department

School of Engineering and the Built Environment
University of Wolverhampton

Wulfruna Street
WV1 1SB, UK

Tel:      +44 (0) 1902 323581

Fax:      +44 (0) 1902 322743

Email:   nii.ankrah2@wlv.ac.uk