Rafael V. Coelho is an Engineering and Project Management PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Researcher affiliated with the Project Production Systems Laboratory (P2SL – p2sl.berkeley.edu) at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on integrating Lean Production principles with Industrialized and Modern Methods of Construction – in particular mass timber construction – to improve the performance of construction supply chains, thereby enhancing design, engineering, fabrication, and installation processes.
Rafael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from FURB (Brazil) and a Master of Science degree in Engineering and Project Management from the University of California, Berkeley.