Dayana Bastos Costa

Dayana Bastos Costa has Ph.D. in Civil Engineering - Construction Management. She has industrial experience in the Brazilian construction sector and international experience in research. She was a visiting researcher at Salford University-UK and Georgia Institute of Technology-USA. In 2008, Dr. Costa joined the Structural and Construction Engineering Department of the School of Engineering at the Federal University of Bahia–Brazil. She is an Associate Professor of Construction Management and Dean of Postgraduate Studies at UFBA. Dr. Costa is a professor of the Postgraduation Program in Civil Engineering (Academic Master's and Ph.D.). Dr. Costa's research area involves construction management, especially lean construction, production management, performance measurement and benchmarking, and sustainable management in construction, focusing on reducing environmental impacts on construction sites. Currently, she focuses her research on integrating digital technologies into the construction management process. Since 2009, Dr. Costa has been the principal investigator in several research projects the Brazilian governmental agencies and industry partnerships granted. As a result of these research projects, she published 41 journal papers, 35 book chapters, two edited conference proceedings, one edited book, and more than 130 conference papers. She supervised more than 25 doctoral and master theses.