Sinem Korkmaz, Ph.D., LEED®AP
Assistant Professor
201 D Human Ecology
517.353.3252
Fax: 517.432.8108
korkmaz@msu.edu

Research Interests: Sustainable built environment; Integrated project delivery; Green building assessment systems; and International construction; and Engineering education.

Sinem Korkmaz is an assistant professor at Construction Management in the School of Planning, Design and Construction at Michigan State University. She is a LEED® accredited professional and received her Ph.D. degree from Penn State, Architectural Engineering Department with her dissertation on high performance green building delivery. Prior to her doctoral studies, she received a master of science degree under project construction and management option of the architecture graduate school at Istanbul Technical University in Turkey.

During her PhD education at Penn State, she worked as the design documents coordinator and building information modeling professional in the design-build team of a sustainable Early Childhood Learning Center built in Lame Deer, MT; helped with the construction coordination, and participated in volunteer based construction projects of sustainable buildings in MT for the American Indian Housing Initiative (AIHI) program; co-developed the “Sustainability at Home” workshop series for AIHI.

Dr. Korkmaz has been publishing peer-reviewed articles on high performance, sustainable building project delivery, sustainable design process management, competitive positioning of international construction companies in international markets, and adoption of green building guidelines in the international arena. Her recent research areas focus on sustainable built environment at the national and international levels.