Biography
João Pedro da Silva Poças Martins, born in 1977 in Porto, has been an Assistant Professor in the Civil Construction Section of the Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto since 2001. He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Porto on September 17, 2009. Thesis title: Modeling the flow of information in the construction process – Application to automatic project licensing, under the supervision of Professor Vitor Abrantes. He took the Pedagogical Aptitude and Scientific Ability Tests on April 18 and 19, 2005 at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Title of the summary report: Computational Methods in Geometry; Title of the theoretical-practical class report: Complex Surfaces – Definition and performance of intersection operations). He graduated in Civil Engineering – Civil Construction Option, in July 2000, from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. He carries out research at the Center for Construction Studies (GEQUALTEC subgroup). He has been assistant director of Cadernos d’Obra – International Scientific Journal of Construction since its first issue, published in January 2009. Currently, his main areas of research interest include Building Information Systems and Building Information Models (BIM).