iLab members Dr Jinying Xu and Mike Wu received the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering (JME) Best Paper Award 2022 in California, USA
Press release from HKU https://www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/25353.html Researchers at the iLab under the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) won the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering (JME) Best Peer Reviewed Paper Award for...
HKU Wong Chuk Hang (WCH) project won the the Celebration of BIM Achievement (CBA) in 2022 – ‘BIM Project’ Category
Development Bureau and the Construction Industry Council (CIC) co-organise the Celebration of BIM Achievement (CBA) in 2022 with more categories added. The CBA aims to inspire organisations and practitioners to continually be creative, innovative, transformative or...
We won the solo Best Paper Award from Journal of Management in Engineering (2022), ASCE.
The award-winning paper is Wu, L., Lu, W.S., Zhao, R., Xu, J.Y., Li, X., and Xue, F. (2021). Using blockchain to improve information sharing accuracy in the onsite assembly of modular construction. ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering....
Prof. Wilson Lu was interviewed by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) to talk about escalating construction cost in Hong Kong
...When the property prices decline, developers tend to be conservative when it comes to land bidding, " said Wilson Lu, a professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction at the University of Hong Kong. ... Lu said the construction industry is...
The press conference on e-inspection 2.0 and MiC received a great deal of publicity!
A press conference on the “Blockchain-enabled E-Inspection 2.0 for Effective Offsite Monitoring of Student Residence Using Modular Integrated Construction” was organised on 6 June 2022. On top of the 6 local newspaper coverage, the news was also covered by 16...
A paper by Lu, Yuan, and Xue (2022) has been selected for the Resources, Conservation & Recycling 2021 Best Paper Awards!
The annual Best Paper Awards recognize high-quality, high-impact papers published in Resources, Conservation & Recycling (RCR). The awards are selected based on scholarly merits by an Award Committee consisting of members of the Editorial Board. Among the 689...
Our book “Research Companion to Building Information Modeling” is published by Edward Elgar (EE)
The book Research Companion to Building Information Modeling jointly edited by me and Prof. Chimay Anumba is now published and available on the Edward Elgar (EE) website for sale. More information is available from: 1) The book’s information page on EE’s...
iLab@HKU Won the Silver Award in CIC Construction Digitalisation Award 2021
iLab Won Silver Award in CIC Construction Digitalisation Award 2021 On Nov 1, 2021, iLab was awarded Silver Award in the Training/Research Institute category at the Hong Kong CIC Construction Digitalisation Award (CDA) 2021 Presentation Ceremony. Fig.1 iLab...
A team from iLab@HKU won the buildingSMART International Awards 2021
[Good news from London on 7 October 2021] A team led by Professor Wilson Lu, Dr Frank Xue (Assistant Professor) and Dr Jinying Xu (Post-Doctoral Fellow) at iLab, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) won the buildingSMART International (bSI)...
Top 1% Scholar – a 5th year since 2017!
Every year the University commissions a search to identify HKU's scholars in the Top 1%. This list recognizes HKU researchers ranked by Clarivate Analytics in the Top 1% worldwide by citations in at least one of the 22 research fields. Data is drawn from Essential...