Luciana Burdi
Chief Infrastructure Officer at Massachusetts Port Authority
- Role
- Chief Infrastructure Officer at Massachusetts Port Authority
- Location
- Boston, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Luciana Burdi
Architect and planner, with 20 years of experience working and managing design and construction projects, Luciana is the Chief Infrastructure Officer for the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport).In her role, Dr. Burdi is leading the shift of Capital Programs towards a more innovative, progressive, BIM and Design Technology-driven department. By adopting Lean and Lean Construction principles and concepts, she is also committed to create a culture of continuous improvement focusing on maximizing the value for our customers, improving quality outcomes, while reducing non-value-added activities. She was instrumental in implementing an employee engagement program in the department which received Authority-wide recognition and still exists today. Prior to joining Massport, she held several positions at the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.Dr. Burdi is a member of the CMAA National Board of Directors, she was the Chair of the CMAA (Construction Management Association of America) Emerging Technologies Committee. In October 2015, she received the CMAA National Award in New Technologies techniques in CM for advancing the use of valuable new technologies in construction management. She has been teaching “Negotiation and Conflict resolution in Construction” at WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) since 2011. And she has been co-teaching a “Modern Construction Delivery Methods” class at WIT (Wentworth Institute of Technology) since 2015. Her willingness to share what she knows with the students and embrace innovative and emerging ideas, makes her an ideal advisor; she has been working with local and international graduate students on various topics, from BIM tendering and integration, to Lean implementation and the future implication of Artificial Intelligence in the design and construction realm.She received her Doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Previously, she was a SPURS Fellow (Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies) at MIT and she holds a Master\'s Degree from the Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) in Venice Italy.Dr. Burdi is highly involved in the Italian-American community. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and three children.Specialties: Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Systems Implementation; Process Mapping and Management, Lean Implementation, Negotiation, Government planning processes, Consensus building, Integrated Project Delivery, Building Information Modeling
Experience
Chief Infrastructure Officer
Dec 2020 — Present
Education
Di Cagno Abbrescia, Bari
Liceo Classico
1984 — 1989
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Program in Urban Studies, Urban Design and Planning
1999 — 2000
Università Iuav di Venezia
Doctor in Architecture, Architecture
1989 — 1993
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Doctor in Design, Planning and Information Technology
2000 — 2003
Skills
- Sustainable Development
- Leadership
- Bim
- Integrated Project Delivery
- Sustainability
- Architectures
- Design Research
- Architecture
- Comprehensive Planning
- Construction
- Architectural Design
- Construction Management
- Building Information Modeling (Bim)
- Consensus Building
Find verified contacts for anyone on LinkedIn
Unifers gives sales teams verified emails and direct dials, enriched profiles, and outreach that lands in the inbox.
Free plan included · No credit card required
This profile is compiled from publicly available professional sources. Unifers is not affiliated with or endorsed by LinkedIn. Request removal of this profile.