School of Architecture and Building
Faculty of Science and Technology
BSc(Hons) London 1976
PhD London 1981
FRICS (Fellow Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors)
Dr Hilary Davies joined Deakin University in June 2004. She started her lecturing career in 1989 at the University of Greenwich, UK and then spent 10 years lecturing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her main teaching areas have been in construction technology, building materials, defects and maintenance, building performance, environmental science and facilities management. She now teaches construction and facilities management. She has taught at undergraduate and post-graduate level, leading a masters portfolio of degrees at the University of Greenwich, and leading the Building Surveying honours undergraduate degree programme at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
She has published a wide range of papers in her research interest areas - energy conservation in buildings, building and environmental performance, productivity and facilities management and education quality research. She has supervised a number of MPhil/PhD students.<br>She served on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Surveying Courses Board for 3 years in the UK - a high level professional body which assesses institutions offering degree programmes for professional acceditation. She has held two external examiner appointments and has been an examiner for a number of MPhil degrees. She was appointed by the Minister for Construction to the British Board of Agrement (BBA) in the UK. The BBA awards certificates to innovative and non-standardised construction products from all over the world. She has been an assessor of professional competence - a test of competency for Building Surveying graduates seeking to join the professional body both in the UK and HK.
Prior to her academic work she worked in the UK for 9 years in Local Government Departments engaged in Building Surveying and enforcement of national building regulations. She was the specialist surveyor for means of escape in case of fire regulations and carried out assessments for compliance with codes of practice and performance-based regulations.
In her spare time she is an enthusiastic horse-woman and has qualified as an instructor. She enjoys keeping fit, loves dancing and pursues artistic hobbies of drawing and painting as well as going to films, theatre and concerts. She has also qualified as a life and executive coach and ran her own company for a few years in Hong Kong.
