“Big data used to help tackle illegal dumping problem” featured in South China Morning Post (SCMP)
From a trove of government data, HKU associate professor identified 442 vehicles suspected of illegal dumping http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2113501/how-big-data-and-covert-surveillance-helping
“The trouble with rubble”
My construction waste management (CWM) research appears on the HKU Bulletin. Construction waste in Hong Kong is a major problem. As the city continuously builds and rebuilds itself, it is running out of space for its building waste. Dr Wilson Lu has been using big...
iLab won two RGC General Research Fund (GRF) projects!
PI: Dr Frank Xue Co-I: Dr Wilson Lu Project title: Generation of semantically rich as-built Building Information Models (BIMs): A derivative-free optimization approach HK$ 454,157 36 months Fig. 1 A conceptual framework of the derivative-free optimization (DFO) -based...
I won a Teaching Development Grant 2016!
Both gamification and digital credentialing are emerging areas of pedagogical innovation in higher education. This pilot project takes a course with an existing aim of imbruing students with creative thinking and innovation skills, and overlays a novel method of...
CRIOCM 2016 21st International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate was successfully held in Hong Kong, 14-17 Dec 2016!
The Conference was jointly organised by the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRIOCM), 14-17 December 2016, Hong Kong. The Conference attracted more than 190 people from 20+ countries and regions.
Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRIOCM) 2016 conference preparation work is going well!
CRIOCM 2016 21st International conference on “Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate” Website: http://fac.arch.hku.hk/criocm/ Date: 14th -17th December 2016 (Wed-Sat) Location: Hong Kong SAR, China We are pleased to invite you to the CRIOCM 2016...
Tsinghua University is calling “The 9th Innovation Competition in Construction Engineering and Management (ICCEM)”
To whom it may concern， It’s our great honor to invite the graduate and undergraduate students from your department to participate in the 9th “Innovation Competition in Construction Engineering and Management (ICCEM)”, which is hosted by Department of Construction...
I won the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) 2014-2015
The OYRA is award made by the University Research Committee (URC) at HKU to give recognition to young researchers, respectively, for their extremely outstanding accomplishments in research. The highly-coveted award is only made to researchers of distinction, and only...
i-core video appears on the front page of Hong Kong U website
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