I commented on Hong Kong’s long term construction waste management strategy, featured in South China Morning Post (SCMP)
Hong Kong exported more construction waste to mainland China than it sent to city’s own facilities in 2017 http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/2145418/hong-kong-exported-more-construction-waste
I commented on open big data for smart city, featured in South China Morning Post (SCMP)
Hong Kong government needs to improve access to public sector data to realise smart city ambition, academics say. Dr Wilson Lu Weisheng, associate dean for research and knowledge exchange at the University of Hong Kong’s architecture faculty, said government bodies...
I commented on construction waste management public policies in Hong Kong, featured in South China Morning Post (SCMP)
Dr Wilson Lu Weisheng, who studies construction waste issues at the University of Hong Kong’s department of real estate and construction, said the increase in absolute volume of construction waste generated and the ratio sent to landfills in recent years, was...
I was ranked as the top 1% scholars.
Every year, Clarivate Analytics' uses Essential Science Indicators (ESI) and ranks so-called 1% scholars. The database adopted for this exercise is Essential Science Indicators (ESI), which uses data from Web of Science indexed journal articles with results presented...
I commented on Building Information Modelling (BIM) development in Hong Kong, featured in South China Morning Post (SCMP)
... Dr Wilson Lu, who conducts research on BIM at the University of Hong Kong’s department of real estate and construction, said the local construction sector was notoriously slow in embracing change. “Local practitioners are very clear about that. They earn good...
“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.