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Alan McNamara

Alan McNamara

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Built Environment

Email: alan.mcnamara@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: Samad Mohammad Ebrahimzade Sepasgozar, Shan Pan

I started early in construction, working on-site for the family business before running my own engineering consultancy and then holding senior project & commercial manager roles delivering major projects in Australia, the UK and Ireland. This included the delivery of projects for TfNSW, Sydney Metro, TAFE NSW, Health Infrastructure NSW, the Barangaroo Delivery Authority and Westconnex. I am a chartered engineer with experience across various sectors including residential, commercial, transport, health, education and mining. I hold a Bachelors Degree in Construction Engineering (Hons) and a Masters degree in International Construction Law. After embarking on my PhD I founded 'Xpede', a startup aiming to develop software that will de-risk construction payments for the entire supply chain through transparency and process optimisation.

The implementation of intelligent construction contracts
  • MCNAMARA, A. J., SHIROWZHAN, S. & ME SEPASGOZAR, S. (2022), "Investigating the determents of intelligent construction contract adoption: a refinement of the technology readiness index to inform an integrated technology acceptance model", Construction Innovation, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-10-2021-0191
  • MCNAMARA, A. J. & SEPASGOZAR, S. M. (2021), "Intelligent contract adoption in the construction industry: Concept development", Automation in construction, 122, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2020.103452
  • MCNAMARA, A. J. & SEPASGOZAR, S. M. (2020), "Developing a theoretical framework for intelligent contract acceptance", Construction Innovation, 20, pp. 421-445, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-07-2019-0061
  • MCNAMARA, A. (2020), "Automating the chaos: Intelligent construction contracts", In: SHIROWZHAN, S. (ed.) Smart Cities and Construction Technologies. IntechOpen, London, pp. 119-137, ISBN: 9781838803988
  • MCNAMARA, A. & SEPASGOZAR, S. M. (2018). "Barriers and drivers of intelligent contract implementation in construction", in 42nd Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference, pp. 281-293, doi: https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27351