Marton Marosszeky

Marton started his career in road construction, he soon returned to study structural analysis and design part-time and joined Civil and Civic, the construction arm of Lend Lease. Between 1970 and 1974 he was fortunate to be one of a team of three who designed the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world at the time, the MLC Centre in Sydney.

He joined UNSW in 1975 to teach structures and materials and 30 years later left as a professor of management in civil engineering, having established a significant centre researching construction materials, methods, and construction processes in the lab and the field. He joined the International lean community at IGLC 1996 and was the conference chair for IGLC 2005 in Sydney. in 2010 he was a co-founder of LCI in Australia, and the chair of the organisation between 2011 and 2016.

Between 2006-11 he was the leader of the Lean Construction service line at Evans & Peck, later Advisian. He has co-authored 2 books on lean/quality "Total Quality in the Construction Supply Chain (2006)"and "Total Construction Management; Lean Quality in Capital Project Delivery (2016)". He has coached construction and design organisations in Australia, Canada, the US and Russia and is widely published in the areas of construction process improvement in relation to safety, quality and construction efficiency.

“The Reliability Paradox”, a expression he coined to describe construction’s headlong rush, driven by a desire for speed and low cost, while ignoring the fact that projects would go faster and companies would be more profitable if they focused on quality and reliability.