Khalid served in the construction industry initially and then moved to academia to teach and administer Construction Management and facility management degree programs. His goals are to create sustainable relationships with the construction industry to enable produce graduates who can hit the ground running. He continues to play a leadership role in the American Council of Construction Education by participating in accreditation and training activities of the organization.Khalid’s professional construction industry experience includes fifteen years in granting building permits, enforcing code, developing public and private housing, constructing cement and prefabrication plants, serving as a project management consultant for numerous World Bank financed infrastructure and institutional development projects. He was the primary investigator and author for Strategic Technology Policy for the U.S. Army’s Global Readiness at the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute. In his professional career Khalid coordinated the efforts of architects, contractors, clients and local communities for construction of apartments, condominiums, and industrial construction projects. Khalid’s academic and research experience encompasses twenty-three productive years. He enjoys a big following of alumni (thousand plus) from undergraduate and graduate programs in Construction Management of Kennesaw State and Southern Polytechnic State Universities. Khalid has two books to his credit and 70 plus peer-reviewed research and scholarly publications http://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/ksiddiqi/publications.php in renowned journal and conference proceedings. According to ResearchGate Khalid’s research items reached over 1000 reads, 67 citations, 40.1 Research interests by February 2021. According to Google Scholar Citations exceed 100, h-index is 6 and i10-index is 5. Most of his publications are co-authored with his students and professional colleagues. Khalid has also worked on research projects for Georgia Department of Transportation and Georgia Department of Community Affairs. In addition, Khalid was Co Project Investigator on two completed International Cooperative Partnership Projects (One Million Dollars each) funded by the US State Department.