Journal publisher honors CoSci prof as outstanding reviewer

For exemplary service reviewing scholarly articles in Facilities, a journal covering topics of interest to facility managers and architects, Manish Dixit, assistant professor of construction science, has been selected as an outstanding reviewer by Emerald Group Publishing, the journal’s publisher.

Dixit, who joined the construction science faculty in fall 2015, was one of the recipients of Emerald’s 2015 Awards for Excellence, which celebrate the commitment to high quality scholarship by journal reviewers, authors and editors.

Facilities’ article topics include facility management, design and construction’s effect on building performance, and workplace design.

Dixit’s academic interests include sustainable materials, embodied energy modeling, zero-energy buildings, facility performance assessment and building information modeling.

He earned a [Ph.D. in architecture] (http://dept.arch.tamu.edu/graduate/phd/) with an emphasis on construction management at Texas A&M in 2013 and a [Master of Science in Construction Management] (http://cosc.arch.tamu.edu/graduate/) at Texas A&M in 2009.