Faculty and staff

Yahya Rashid has been an LTA Instructor at University of Fraser Valley, Canada. Dr. Rashid has also been faculty at various universities including Thompson Rivers University, Canada, and Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, where he worked for seven years.

Dr. Rashid’s research interest is in construction project management, sustainability, renewable energy, strategic management and scheduling.  His articles have appeared in refereed international journals. In last four years, he has eleven publications. Dr. Yahya Rashid holds Project Management Professional (PMP) certification through the Project Management Institute. He has more than 15 years of teaching and industrial experience.

I strongly believe in engaging students on all levels of learning. Each participant in the class lectures bring their own knowledge, and competences during class discussion. To make the learning process an effective one, I aim at integrating thoughts of students and course topics, with industry experience, to reduce the gap between teaching and working experience. Moreover, the teaching and learning strategies like case studies, simulations, and assignments are very helpful.

Mutual respect and an open atmosphere of exchange is crucial for me to develop creative and productive environment for learning. In my teaching, I therefore aspire to appreciate and include each participant. In addition, collaborative environment can also create a learning environment

During whole semester, I encourage students for critically think about e.g., case study analysis, simulation, problem solving, and project reports, which provides the opportunity to students to think outside the box and learn to handle issues on a better way.

I believe that learning can also enable students to change the world and the communities they live in. One of the ways to discuss the issues and personal experiences of students’ ideas, outside the classroom and into their communities. In addition, scenario analysis like in case study evaluation, can provide opportunity to discuss about topics such as sustainability, environment, globalization.

Rashid Maqbool, Liam O’Rourke, Saleha Ashfaq, Yahya Rashid; Ensuring operational performance for promoting sustainable practices in Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects in the UK; Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) International Conference, 3-5 April 2023. Liverpool, UK.

Yahya Rashid, Rashid Maqbool, Sadia Mansoor, Ayman Abdullah Altuwaim, Mohammed Rayan Saiba; Construction Projects in Saudi Arabia: risk analysis; International SEEDS [Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society] Conference, 31^st Aug to 2^nd Sept. 2022, Bristol, UK.

Maqbool, R., Rashid, Y., Altuwaim, A., Shafiq, M. T., & Oldfield, L. (2023). Coping with skill shortage within the UK construction industry: Scaling up training and development systems. Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 102396.

Maqbool, R., Akubo, S. A., Rashid, Y., Ashfaq, S., & Saiba, M. R. (2023). Solar energy and the circular economy policies for sustainable management. In Solar Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage (pp. 363-376). Elsevier.

Maqbool, R., Bhuvaneswaran, M., Rashid, Y., Altuwaim, A., & Ashfaq, S. (2023). A Decision Approach for Analysing the Role of Modern Methods, Project Management and Integrated Approaches in Environmentally Sustainable Construction Projects. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 1-17

Maqbool, R., Namaghi, J. R., Rashid, Y., & Altuwaim, A. (2023). How modern methods of construction would support to meet the sustainable construction 2025 targets, the answer is still unclear. Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 14(4), 101943.

Maqbool, R., Saiba, M. R., Altuwaim, A., Rashid, Y., & Ashfaq, S. (2023). The influence of industrial attitudes and behaviours in adopting sustainable construction practices. Sustainable Development, 31(2), 893-907.

Maqbool, R., Kandukuri, V., Rashid, Y., & Ashfaq, S. (2022). British construction industry: a landmark of environmentally sustainable practices to the world. International Journal of Global Warming, 28(3), 211-238.

Maqbool, R., Rashid, Y., & Ashfaq, S. (2022). Renewable energy project success: Internal versus external stakeholders' satisfaction and influences of power‐interest matrix. Sustainable Development. DOI: 10.1002/sd.2327

Ashfaq, S., Maqbool, R., & Rashid, Y. (2022). Determinants of the sustainable internationalization and risk‐taking factors in public commercial banks. Journal of Public Affairs, 22(4), e2606.

Ashfaq, S., Maqbool, R., & Rashid, Y. (2020). Daily dataset of oil prices and stock prices for the top oil exporting and importing countries from the region of Asia. Data in brief, 28, 104871

Jing, J., Deng, X., Maqbool, R., Rashid, Y., & Ashfaq, S. (2020). Default Behaviors of Contractors under Surety Bond in Construction Industry Based on Evolutionary Game Model. Sustainability, 12(21), 9162.

Maqbool, R., Deng, X., & Rashid, Y. (2020). Stakeholders’ satisfaction as a key determinant of critical success factors in renewable energy projects. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 10(1), 1-15.

Rashid, Y. (2020). Analysis of delay factors and their effects on construction projects. Management Science Letters, 10(6), 1197-1204.

Abdullah, A. S., Essa, F. A., Omara, Z. M., Rashid, Y., Hadj-Taieb, L., Abdelaziz, G. B., & Kabeel, A. E. (2019). Rotating-drum solar still with enhanced evaporation and condensation techniques: Comprehensive study. Energy Conversion and Management, 199, 112024.

Maqbool Rashid, Yahya Rashid, Saira Sultana, and Ye Sudong. (2018) "Identifying the critical success factors and their relevant aspects for renewable energy projects; an empirical perspective." Journal of Civil Engineering and Management 24, no. 3: 223-237

Maqbool, R., Sudong, Y., Manzoor, N., & Rashid, Y. (2017). The Impact of Emotional Intelligence, Project Managers' Competencies, and Transformational Leadership on Project Success: An Empirical Perspective. Project Management Journal, 48(3), 58–73

Maqbool, Rashid, and Yahya Rashid (2017) "Detrimental changes and construction projects: need for comprehensive controls." International Journal of Project Organization and Management 9, no. 2: 154-170.

Amjad Ali, Nooreen Mujahid, Yahya Rashid (corresponding author), Muhammad Shahbaz, Human (2015), Capital Outflow and Economic Misery: Fresh Evidence for Pakistan, Social Indicators Research (SOCI) , Vol 124, No-3.