Local knowledge a key asset to global construction industry
The doctoral dissertation of MSc (Tech) Karam Al-Khazarji highlights the valuable contribution that educated immigrants can make to globally operating construction companies.
Educated immigrants already represent a sizeable talent pool on the global scale. They possess a unique combination of language skills, cultural knowledge and technological expertise. Moreover, their local knowledge can help open up new business opportunities and build export success.
Karam Al-Khazarji analyses, among others, the experiences of Finnish construction companies involved in building Baghdad Conference Palace in Iraq between 1978 and 1982. For his dissertation research, he developed and tested several models for utilizing the expertise of qualified immigrants, or BBTs (Bilingual, Bicultural and Technology expert).
Public defence of a doctoral dissertation on Friday, 25 January
The doctoral dissertation of MSc (Tech) Neim Jabbar Karam Al-Khazarji titled “Human-centric modelling of construction technology transfer for international operations" will be publicly examined at the Faculty of Business and Built Environment of Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in room TB109 in the Tietotalo building (address Korkeakoulunkatu 10, Tampere, Finland) on Friday, 25 January 2012 at 12:00.
The opponent will be DTech Pertti Naulapää (Oy DBD International Development Ltd). Professor Kalle Kähkönen from the Department of Civil Engineering of TUT will act as Chairman.
Karam Al-Khazarji comes from Iraq and currently lives in London.
Further information:
Karam Al-Khazarji, +44 792 228 8994, ">karam.alkhazarji@yahoo.co.uk
Professor Kalle Kähkönen, tel. +358 40 198 1270, ">kalle.e.kahkonen@tut.fi