Keith Hampson on sustainability
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“Our research programs remain structured around three areas reflecting the triple bottom line approach to sustainability: environment, people, and economic prosperity. We focus on greening the built environment, improving processes and procurement, and driving productivity through innovation.”
On , Keith Hampson, Senior Vice President of Global Rail & Transit - Business Lines at AECOM, spoke about sustainability during Leading collaborative industry research from the land down under - Keith Hampson, SBE Australia on CIBSecretariat.
About Keith Hampson
Keith Hampson, Senior Vice President of Global Rail & Transit - Business Lines at Aecom, has been active in discussions on construction industry research and collaboration. In a January 2025 seminar, Hampson discussed Australia's construction sector, noting that high labor costs driven by strong union engagement motivate a push toward automation and robotics. He also highlighted the Australian government's target of delivering 1.2 million homes over five years, which he said is reinvigorating interest in prefabrication and offsite manufacturing. Hampson emphasized the importance of international partnerships for advancing automation, digitization, and artificial intelligence in construction, and identified workforce skilling as a key challenge. As immediate past president of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB), Hampson has outlined priorities for the organization. In a 2023 interview, he said his goals as president were to restore research at the center of CIB, reinforce member services, and establish the machinery to deliver those aims. He stressed the need for proactive research in the built environment, calling it "the core of human existence," and advocated for leveraging CIB working commissions on topics such as safety, information technology, and healthy cities. Hampson also noted that he personally endowed a CIB award to encourage early career researchers to engage with industry.