The iLab team won two HKU Small Equipment Grants in this round (2019/20): Collaborative Industrial Robotics for Computer-integrated Smart Construction ($900,000, PI: Prof. Wilson Lu) Mobile Color LiDAR Scanners ($760,000, PI: Dr. Frank Xue) The Grants aim to support...

A research grant was granted to iLab by the Hong Kong Environment and Construction Fund (ECF) 2019-2020. The details of the project are: Project Title: Big data-based "AI inspector" for gauging inert contents at the off-site construction waste sorting facilities in...

A paper by iLab professors and researchers was selected as the winner of the 2018-2019 Research Output Prize. Fan Xue, Weisheng Lu, Christopher J. Webster, Ke Chen. (2019). A derivative-free optimization-based approach for detecting architectural symmetries from 3D...

Every year the University commissions a search to identify the top 1% scholars at HKU. The database adopted for this exercise is Essential Science Indicators (ESI), which uses data from Web of Science indexed journal articles with results presented in 22 subject...

Construction waste management in the Greater Bay Area: Prospects and challenges for construction managers Dr Wilson Lu Associate Professor, Department of Real Estate and Construction; Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong,...

近年機場三跑、明日大嶼等填海工程項目增加，讓用以填海的惰性建築廢料需求上升，惟建築業界向《星島日報》坦言，現時本地供應量有限，其因可歸咎於重用建築廢料的誘因不足，部分承建商寧付較貴的堆填費，亦不肯騰出人手、空間篩選廢料。填料短缺，衍生跨區共享的需求，有學者指，深圳、廣州等鄰近地區均有商家冀將建築廢料供港，但工程師提醒，香港對填海物料質量要求較高，須篩出含雜質或受污染的物料，本港接收內地廢料前應先建立互認標準，以確保填料質素。 To read more, click...

I held a press conference on 28 March 2019. More information can be seen from https://www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/19281.html  

Post-doctoral Fellow (3 posts) in (i) Building Information Modelling (BIM), (II) Urban Big Data Analytics, and (iii) International Construction Ref.: 494117 Work type: Full-time Department: Department of Real Estate and Construction (01200)...