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Vabljeni na predavanje dr. Edwarda Minchina, profesorja na “M.E. Rinker Sr. School of Construction Management at the University of Florida”, ki bo v četrtek, 30.6.2022, ob 11. uri v predavalnici A-203 na Smetanovi ulici 17, izvedel predavanje Risk of Counterfeit Materials and Products in the Construction Supply Chain.
This 75-minute presentation describes the results of a two-year research project sponsored by the Construction Industry Institute entitled “Product Integrity Concerns in Low-Cost Sourcing Countries.”
Statistics and anecdotes from the research are offered, along with tipoffs to alert procurement personnel to warning signs that something may be counterfeit and recommendations of actions to take in procurement and in field operations to eliminate or mitigate the potential damage from counterfeit products in the construction supply chain. An additional section of the presentation discusses counterfeit activity since the end of the research and the ramifications of this activity, along with predictions for the future.
Dr. Edward Minchin is currently Professor at the M.E. Rinker Sr. School of Construction Management at the University of Florida. In a 34-year career, Dr. Minchin has worked as part of eight major areas of the construction process. He has been a laborer, construction contractor, designer, inspector, construction owner, researcher, consultant, and adjudicator. After earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida, Dr. Minchin worked as a construction estimator for Couch Construction Company in Tampa, and later for the Florida Department of Transportation, where he rose to the position of Chief Area Construction. After 14 years in industry, he obtained a PhD in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, and a Master’s degree in Liberal Arts from Harvard University.
Dr. Minchin has over 140 publications, including two books, and seven book chapters. He served as External Examiner, and committee member for a doctoral thesis in the Department of Civil Engineering; Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, as well as Northeastern University. He currently simultaneously holds three professorships: the UF Term, UF Research Foundation, and Holland Professorships. He has served as was a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University in 2015-16, and was selected as a Keynote Speaker at four international Construction Conferences in the last 10 years, in Panama, China, Canada, and Thailand.
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