I am delighted to share that Zhen Zhang, Zhengxing Chen, and Tao Yang have successfully submitted their conference papers to the 6th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2025).
Yang Zou attended the 16th Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM) Workshop, held at RMIT University on 21–22 November 2024. He delivered a technical presentation titled “Rapid In-Flight Image Quality Check for UAV-Based Bridge Inspection.
We are thrilled to share the exciting news that Yang Zou has been promoted to Senior Lecturer (Above the Bar) at the University of Auckland on 21 November 2024.
On 8 November 2024, we had the pleasure of welcoming a distinguished group of VIPs of SASBE2024 (International Conference of Smart and Sustainable Built Environment) conference to the Smart Digital Lab, including Prof.
Our Smart Digital Lab has a new visiting scholar from Germany! Julia Specht is a master’s student from OTH Regensburg, supervised by Prof Thomas Linner. She has extensive experience in drone mapping.
We are thrilled to share the good news that Cheng Zhang has successfully passed his oral examination and received his PhD title today on 30 October 2024! His thesis, titled “Building Information Modelling-based Smart Inspection Data Management for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-enabled Visual Building Inspection” represents a significant achievement and a valuable contribution to the field of construction automation.
“In October 2024, Yang had the opportunity to visit several leading universities in China, including Chongqing University, Xihua University, Sichuan University, Central South University, and Hunan University. During these visits, he toured their labs and explored the latest research developments in civil and construction engineering.
On 24 October 2024, we were delighted to welcome Professor Shang-Hsien (Patrick) Hsieh (謝尚賢) from National Taiwan University (NTU) to our Smart Digital Lab at the University of Auckland. His seminar, Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Smart Built Environment, was both insightful and engaging.
Tianlong Zhang is a PhD student from Southwest Jiaotong University, focusing on railway alignment optimization using AI. He joined Yang’s group as a visiting PhD scholar funded by China Scholarshiop Council (CSC) in October 2023 for a one-year stay.
I have had the opportunity to serve as Assistant Editor for Construction Innovation journal (IF: 3.1) by Emerald for almost a year. During this time, I have identified FOUR main reasons why manuscripts often fail to, or are delayed in, reaching the peer review stage (with approximate percentages):
