Series Presentation For Construction Management With Digital Technology

Presentation 1: Tittle: Digital Transformation in Design and Construction Management

Reporter: Prof. Ruoyu Jin

Time: 16:00-18:00 (Beijing time) 14 Aug

Zoom会议 ID：881 4981 5285

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主 持 人：张静晓

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Dr Ruoyu Jin currently works as an Associate Professor in Construction Management, from School of Built Environment and Architecture at London South Bank University. He specialises in Building Information Modelling (BIM) pedagogy, construction safety education, construction waste management especially recycled aggregate concrete, and off-site manufacturing for construction. With professional experience in both civil engineering technologies and construction management, Dr Jin is highly motivated to link technological development in built environment (e.g., digitalisation in construction) into the managerial aspect, such as multi-stakeholder perceptions towards digitalisation in a socio-technical approach. In recent years, Ruoyu has been working on funded research projects related to: (1) applications of digital technologies in off-site manufactured building foundation prototype; and (2) BIM and virtual reality to enhance construction employees' behavioural safety performance. He is currently working on the British Council-funded project on “Integrated Built Environment Teaching & Learning in the Joint Curriculum Development amid Digital-Driven Industry 4.0 among China, Vietnam, and UK” and the UK Manufacturing Symbiosis Network Plus (UKMSN+) project entitled “SCADMAN – Sustainable Construction through Additive Manufacturing”.

Ruoyu also serves as a peer reviewer for 11 international journals in the field of built environment and civil engineering. He is an Editorial Advisory Panel Member of ICE’s International Journal Management, Procurement and Law, and an associate member for CRIOCM Youth Committee in Construction Management.

Dr Jin has authored in over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, more than 15 conference proceedings, one book chapter, and one patented innovation in reusing construction wastes as sustainable construction materials. Dr Jin has been either the leading author or corresponding author for more than 30 of them. Dr Jin’s research paper entitled “An empirical study of perceptions towards construction and demolition waste recycling and reuse in China” won the most Cited Paper Award 2019 in Journal of Resources, Conservation & Recycling.

Presentation 2:

Tittle: Citicorp Center: the skyscraper that could collapse in the Big Apple

Academic Writing: How to write (good) scientific papers.

Academic Writing: Inside the Editor’s mind

Reporter: Prof. Pablo Ballesteros-Pérez

Time: 16:00-18:00 (Beijing time) 21 Aug

Zoom会议 ID：848 1684 1620

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主 持 人：张静晓

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Dr. Ballesteros-Pérez is a civil engineer (2002), geological engineer (2005), MSc in Project Management (2010) and holds a PhD in Engineering Projects and Innovation (2010), all from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain.

Since March 2021, he is Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Projects at the Universitat Politècnica de València. Before, he was Senior Excellence Researcher (Ramón y Cajal fellow) at the Universidad de Cádiz (2019-2021), Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University (UK) (2018-2019), Lecturer at the University of Reading (UK) (2016-2018), Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Talca (Chile) (2013-2015).

Before joining the academia full-time in 2013 and simultaneously with a position as part-time lecturer, he was the Head of the Construction tendering department (2007-2012) in an international construction company. Before 2007, he had worked for 5 years as a construction project engineer in the Spanish construction private sector.

He is the author of +50 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 36 conference papers, two book chapters and one book on different areas of construction management and operational research. Currently, his (Scopus) H-index is 20. He is guest lecturer at the Universidad Europea de Valencia (Spain) and the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo INTEC (Dominican Republic) where he delivers academic writing and project management courses.

His broad academic area of interest is Construction Project Management. His two major research lines to date are Operational Research and Applied Statistics (OR&AS) in Competitive Bidding and the Influence of weather in construction productivity. He has also developed some research strands and publications in other areas such as project scheduling and team formation with Sociometric techniques.

He regularly sits as member of the reviewing panel in some prestigious construction conferences (e.g. International Congress on Project Engineering (AEIPRO), International Structural Engineering and Construction conference (ISEC), Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM)). Since July 2018, he is Associate Editor of the journal ‘Construction Management and Economics’ (Taylor and Francis), a Q1 SJR journal. He has received the outstanding reviewer recognition twice by Elsevier and Emerald.

He has secured 0.75 million € to date in 5 grants as academic (PI in 2, Co-PI in 2). Previously, he and his team during his years as Head of Construction Tendering, were also awarded 2.35 million € from 12 industry-based research projects from five Spanish and EU funders. Recently, he was awarded the prestigious Ramón y Cajal fellowship in the Engineering and Architecture category.

Award-wise, Dr Ballesteros received in 2014 the competitive Iberoamerican Research grant for young professors and researchers from ‘Santander bank universities’. In 2016 his project ‘Weather-wise’ has been the winner of the prestigious Bowen Jenkins Legacy Fund (Chartered Institute of Building CIOB) (UK).

Presentation 3:

Tittle: Digital technology in the application of the engineering construction project management

Reporter: Prof. Simon P. Philbin

Time: 16:00-18:00 (Beijing time) 23 Aug

Zoom会议 ID：857 9313 1274

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主 持 人：张静晓

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Simon P. Philbin is a full professor of engineering and enterprise in the School of Engineering at London South Bank University (UK). He received his PhD from Brunel University in 2001. His research interests are in the area of engineering management with a particular focus on sustainability, technology-driven innovation and entrepreneurship as well as engineering education. He has authored/co-authored over 80 peer reviewed papers.

Presentation 4:

Tittle: Hybrid BIM and multiple objective evolutionary algorithm for construction project scheduling

Reporter: Prof. HOC TRAN DUC

Time: 16:00-18:00 (Beijing time) 26 Aug

Zoom会议 ID：851 7277 8016

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主 持 人：张静晓

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 Dr. Duc-Hoc Tran is currently a HCMUT lecturer and works as an Associate Professor in Construction Management. Dr. Tran specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) related to construction engineering. His main research directions are project scheduling, intelligent optimization method; multiple objective optimization; building information modelling (BIM) and artificial intelligence applications in construction management. He is the main author of 22 ISI journal articles and more than 45 articles in total related to engineering management. Many articles are published in high impact journals. He was the principal investigator (PI) of 02 projects related to applying artificial intelligence for construction management at Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City. He has conducted a Nafosted project that uses AI for energy management (funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology). In the training, he has successfully guided more than 10 graduate students and become reviewers of several international journals. Dr. Hoc also has consultancy experiences in several private and public engineering sectors.

Presentation 5:

Tittle: Innovation diffusion for digital transformation in the construction industry

Reporter: Prof. Zulfikar Adamu

Time: 16:00-18:00 (Beijing time) 28 Aug

Zoom会议 ID：862 4522 4865

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主 持 人：张静晓

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Dr Zulfikar Adamu is an Associate Professor of Strategic IT in Construction at London South Bank University. His expertise lies in: Building Information Modelling (BIM); Construction Data Analytics; Blockchain development; Smart Buildings; Internet of Things (IoT) in buildings; Serious Game development with VR and AR; as well as Computational modelling and simulation of buildings. He is skilled in the following programming languages and tools: Microsoft's ASP.Net and C#; Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, seaborn, etc.); Node-Red; JavaScript & NodeJS; MongoDB; as well as Etherum and Solidity.

He is a Unity3d Certified Game Developer and a member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). He is also a Chartered Building Engineer and a fellow of Chartered Association of Building Engineers (FCABE).

Presentation 6:

Tittle: Managing construction health and safety.in the digital era

Reporter: Dr. Brian Guo  

Time: 16:00-18:00 (Beijing time) 30 Aug

Zoom会议 ID：871 6372 9438  

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主 持 人：张静晓  

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Dr Brian Guo is a senior lecturer at the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury. He is the Director of Construction Management Studies and Deputy Director of the Master of Civil Engineering Programme. He obtained his PhD at the University of Auckland and conducted 1-year Postdoc at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on developing smart construction site for more intelligent progress monitoring, site management, and health and safety management. He is also interested in researching construction management education using techniques like learning objects, ontology, and AI. He has secured more than NZ$300K research funds in different research roles. He is a key researcher in two projects funded by Building Research Association New Zealand: real-time monitoring technologies and automated compliance checking.