
Prof. Wilson Lu guide the ilab members for a company tour visit to Gammon Construction on 31 July 2023
This is a follow-up visit since last time Gammon Construction’s senior management team met with some of our students in Beijing. CEO of Gammon, Mr. Kelvin O’Brien met briefly with Prof. Wilson Lu Then, the company arranged a well-plan tour and several talks about...

Ms. Lu Yang served as the discussant in 14AM1-2: AsRES – ESG & Sustainability in Real Estate 1 to discuss a working paper “Unused housing in urban China and its carbon emission impact” on July 14
On July 14, Ms. Lu Yang served as the discussant in 14AM1-2: AsRES – ESG & Sustainability in Real Estate 1 to discuss a working paper “Unused housing in urban China and its carbon emission impact (Zheng et al., 2023)”. This paper developed a trained deep learning...

On July 18th, Dr. Chen Junjie received a group of visitors from mainland middle schools led by Professor Yongjun Tang, associate professor of finance, and area head in finance.
On July 18th, Dr. Chen Junjie received a group of visitors from mainland middle schools led by Professor Yongjun Tang, associate professor of finance, and area head in finance. During the visit, Dr. Chen showed them the outstanding research results of iLab, including...

Prof. Wilson Lu and iLab received the visit by delegates from Chongqing University (Prof. Guiwen Liu, VP, CQU; Prof. Chao Mao, CQU; and Jinke Hong, CQU) on 15 July 2023
This included a workshop to share 8 pieces of research from the two parties. It turned out that we are doing some very high-profile research with both theoretical and practical contributions.

Dr. Fan Xue, Dr. Junjie Chen, together with other 8 iLab members, attended the 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction (EC³ 2023) and the 40th CIB W78 held in Greece on July 10-12.
During July 10-12, Dr. Fan Xue, Dr. Junjie Chen, together with other 8 iLab members, attended the 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction (EC³ 2023) and the 40th CIB W78 held in Greece. Participants from iLab made presentations on BIM outputs and...

Prof. Wilson Lu and iLab received the visit by delegates from Zhejiang City University and Chongqing University on 11 July 2023
The delegation was led by Prof. Liyin Shen. Chair Professor KW Chau represented the Department to receive the souvenir and exchange ideas with Prof. Shen. Afterward, a mini-symposium was organized to allow the students from three parties (i.e., HKU, CQU, Zhejiang City...

Ilabbers had a MiC factory visit and a deep communication with CIMC in mainland, on June 29th.
Ilabbers had a modular integrated construction (MIC) factory visit to China International Marine Containers (Group) Co., Ltd. (CIMC) in mainland, on June 29th. They had a deep communication with each other regarding CIMI modular building system and had a...

Professor Wilson Lu, Junjie Chen, together with other 4 ilabbers and 6 undergraduate students visited Beijing Normal University and Tsinghua University during June 25th to 30th.
Professor Wilson Lu, Junjie Chen, together with other 4 Ph.D. students and 6 undergraduate students visited Beijing Normal University and Tsinghua University during June 25th to June 30th. Professor Wilson Lu delivered a touching speech in the opening ceremony,...

Ms. Zhongze Yang (ilabber) together with other Ph.D. students from HKU were invitated to an exchange and study activity in Shandong Province from June 22 to June 25, 2023
Ms. Zhongze Yang (Second-year Ph.D. student) together with other Ph.D. students from Universities in Hong Kong attended an exchange and study activity in Shandong Province from June 22 to June 25, 2023. This activity involves multiple visits to National Supercomputing...

Miss Yijie Wu (PhD Year 2 candidate) received the Talent Development Scholarship (TDS) of Innovation, Science, and Technology 2022-23, from the Education Bureau of HKSAR Government
The Talent Development Scholarship, supported by the HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund, was established in the 2012/13 academic year to benefit a wider range of students with both outstanding academic performance and achievements and talents in other non-academic...