DEPARTMENT NEWS
JOHN KILLINGSWORTH John Killingsworth is a new assistant professor in the construction management program at Colorado State University. He graduated from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and spent the first three years of his academic career at UW-Stout. He has experience teaching the capstone course, construction finance, introduction to the built environment, construction methods and materials, and architectural preservation. One of his best teaching experiences has been a faculty-led study abroad course of the built environment. The course brought students through seven European countries and covered centuries of amazing building sites. Construction finance is at the center of his teaching and research interests. This subject continues to challenge students and industry alike. However, it continues to be a subject that separates the best construction managers apart in the industry. Killingsworth has participated on several U.S. Department of Labor research grants focused on the development of employment skills for the construction workforce. Most recently,
he has contributed to the development of curriculum on manufactured construction practices. This curriculum uses virtual reality and transformative learning labs to enhance students’ ability to understand context, scale, space, and construction methods and materials. Additionally, this research has included the development and piloting of an integrated, contextualized curriculum combining construction methods and materials with English composition. This research has served to engage students at a much higher level in developing their written composition and other communication skills. Killingsworth is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up surfing Santa Cruz and snowboarding Tahoe. He is an avid baseball fan and follows the Giants. He is married to Ashley and has four children, Rachel, Thomas, Jack, and Michael. He is excited to be a part of the CSU family, and the Fort Collins community. He and his son Jack frequent the many skate parks here in town, and look forward to the first snowfall in the mountains.
John Killingsworth
PIERRE SIROIS Pierre Sirois joined the CM department at Colorado State University in January 2016 as an instructor. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 1998 with a B.S. in building construction and went to work in industry with a focus on the HVAC and plumbing aspects of commercial construction. He had many roles over the years, including project manager for an HVAC / plumbing trade contractor, owner’s representative for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and HVAC inspector for the Veteran’s Administration. Beyond project management and inspection, Sirois has been part of several commissioning teams on larger projects. During his career, Sirois has been exposed to a wealth of different project types. He has been involved with commercial construction, such as a one million square foot, 16 story office building with underfloor HVAC. He
has been on technical projects including a pharmaceutical research and development facility and an Army vehicle power lab research building. He has also worked on healthcare projects, from smaller out-patient medical facilities to a one million square foot hospital. Sirois was born in Alaska and grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, but returned to the United States in his senior year of high school. He has resided in Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, and now Colorado. He is a former SCUBA diving instructor who enjoyed diving the shipwrecks of the Great Lakes and the coast of North Carolina in addition to tropical diving, but since moving to Colorado, he has traded his fins for skis. He enjoys hunting, fishing, cooking, traveling, and plays hockey in a local adult league. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, two sons, and their Labrador retriever.
Pierre Sirois
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