Full Name : Lokitha Karavita
Position: Adjunct senior lecturer
Email: Lokitha11@hotmail.com
Contact Number: (+971)-551527455 (Mobile – Abu Dhabi)
Qualifications
Memberships
Career Achievements
Work experience
Other
Qualifications
- Certificate in Teaching Quantity Surveying by University of Vocational Technology-Sri Lanka
- MSc Project Management in Construction, University of Salford, Manchester –United Kingdom.
- BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying & Construction Management, Sheffield Hallam University – United Kingdom.
- Associate Diploma of Applied Science (HND in Construction), Leederville Campus, Perth, WA- Australia.
- City & Guilds of London Institution Examination in Builder’s Quantities
- Stage-1. Measurement of Building work
- Stage-2. Builder’s Quantities-Measurement
- Stage-3. Estimating and Final Accounts
- General Certificate of Education Advance Level (Mathematics)
- General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level (Science)
Memberships
Professional memberships:
- AIQSSL – Associate Member of Institute of Quantity Surveyors in SL.
- MRICS – Member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
- MAIQS – Corporate Member of Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors.
- CQS – Certified Quantity Surveyor by AIQS.
Career Achievements
- Counselor and Steering Committee Member of AIQS International Chapter (UAE).
- Secretary of AIQS International Chapter-RC2.
- Chairman of APC Assessment Panel for AIQS membership – UAE.
- APC Counselor & APC Assessment Panel member for RICS membership-UAE.
Work experience
- Senior Contracts Engineer
- 2014 to date – Abu Dhabi Transmission & Dispatch Company (TRANSCO), Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Senior Contracts Engineer
- 1997 – Oct. 2013 – Qatar Petroleum (QP) Doha, State of Qatar.
- Contract Administrator
- 1996 – Sep. 1997 – Interceramic Inc., Western Australia.
- Quantity Surveyors
- 1994 –May 1996 – Widnell, Quantity Surveyors, Western Australia.
- Quantity Surveyors
- 1986 – Sep. 1994 – Widnell & Trollope (Middle East), Doha, State of Qatar.
- Quantity Surveyors
- 1985 – Feb. 1986 – Midmac Contracting , Doha , State of Qatar.
- Senior Estimator
- 1984 – Jul. 1985 – Brown & Co. Ltd. (Contractor) Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Quantity Surveyors
- 1983 – Jan. 1984 – Built Environment Consultants. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Quantity Surveyors
- May 1982 – Mar. 1983 – International Construction Consortium (Contractor) Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Assistant Quantity Surveyors
- 1980 to Ap. 1982 – Ceylon Development Engineering Co. Ltd. , (Contractor) Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Other
- CPD Events (As a resource person)
- Regular CPD Presenter for following topics:
- “Procurement & Tendering”,
- “Tendering & e-procurement”
- “Communication & Negotiation”
- “Inspiration & Motivation”
- “Health & Safety in Construction Industry”
- “Efficient Procurement Techniques (Selection by two-stage tendering and EPC approach)”
- “Hybrid Procurement, Strategic Sourcing and Frame work Agreement”