Dr. Kusal Nanayakkara
Details
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College: School of PCPM
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Department: School of PCPM
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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kusal.nanayakkara@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-2634-1834
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Kusal has obtained his PhD in Built Environment from the University of Technology Sydney. He has all his primary qualifications in property (PhD, Honours and Bachelor’s degrees) and has some secondary qualifications in accountancy. He has completed a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and has also completed the licentiate level of the Certified Practicing Accountancy.
Kusal worked in the property industry for 7 years before joining academia and has been teaching property-related subjects for many years. This collective experience has provided him with an extensive understanding of education and pedagogical principles in a practical manner.
He has experience and ability to teach several property-related subjects such as property valuation, introduction to property, property development, property capital markets, property management, property construction and development process, property economics and property accounting.
Supervisor projects
- Exploring Dynamics of Flood-Resilient Retrofitting in Existing Residential Properties in Victoria
- 8 Apr 2024
Teaching interests
Property valuation
Introduction to property
Property development
Property and capital markets
Property management
Property construction and development process
Property economics and property accounting.
Research interests
Work practice and office layouts
Sustainable temporaty adoptive reuse
Property valuation
Organisational culture and property
Natural disasters and its impact on property
Housing market
Initiatives and links
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Want to shift your culture? Workplace design can be a lever
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What to do about the hollowed out CBDs – a call for some creative thinking and social value
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“New toolkit scores sustainable commercial reuse.” RICS Property Journal.
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“How do office layouts affect workplace culture?”, RICS Property Journal.
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“Getting people back to the office? How your office layouts impact organisational culture and what employees think about their workplace”, The Fifth Estate: Our planet, our business.
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“Workplace culture, office space and demand” RICS Property Journal.
