Day 1 Conference
Date: 15 December 2025, Monday
Venue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, University of Hong Kong
09:00 – 09:30
Registration and tea refreshment
Session Chair 1
09:30 – 12:00
Opening Ceremony
09:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
Keynote Presentation
From Bytes to Benefits: Digital Transformation for Managing Risk in Construction
Professor Roger Flanagan, University of Reading
10:30 – 11:00
Keynote Presentation
Human-Centric Approach for Urban Resilience
Professor Dongping Fang, Professor and Director of Future Cities and Infrastructures, Tsinghua University
11:00 – 11:30
Keynote Presentation
How is Digitalization Reshaping Urban China?
Professor Liyin Shen, Qiantang Distinguished Professor and the Chief Scientist, the Research Institute for Planning and Sustainability, Hangzhou City University; Director of International Research Centre for Sustainable Built Environment, Chongqing University
11:30 – 12:00
Keynote Presentation
Research of Digitalization in Construction: Where Are We?
Professor Shuibo Zhang, Head of International Project Management, Tianjin University
Lunch
Venue: Café 1951, 15/F, K.K. Leung Building
12:00 – 13:30
Break-Out
Chair 2a
Venue: KB526, 5/F,
Knowles Building
Break-Out
Chair 2b
Venue: KB531, 5/F, Knowles Building
Break-Out
Chair 2c
Venue: KB533-534, 5/F, Knowles Building
13:30 – 14:00
Invited Speech
CIB: Improving the Impact of Research Globally
Mr Don Ward, CEO, CIB
14:00 – 14:30
Invited Speech
Digital-enabled Intelligent Carbon Management System: Key Elements and System Architecture
Dr. Jinying Xu, National University of Singapore
14:30 – 15:00
Invited Speech
Towards Resilient Cities: Flood Vulnerability Assessment based Adaptive Zoning Approaches
Dr Yitian Ren, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
13:30 – 14:00
Paper Presentation
A Data-Driven Framework for Optimising Safety Investment Allocation Construction Site
Ya Wen, Lizhao Xiao and
Ioannis Brilakis
14:00 – 14:30
Paper Presentation
Behavioural Dynamics of Construction Organisations Adopting Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA): An Empirical Study
Liz Lz Shen, Peter S.P. Wong
and Eric Too
14:30 – 15:00
Paper Presentation
A Conceptual Framework for AI-Augmented Digital Data Transfer for Commercial Building Operations
Shoeb Ahmed Memon, Steve Rowlinson, Tsunemi Watanabe and Gulasekaran Rajaguru
13:30 – 14:00
Paper Presentation
How Governments
Protect Citizens’ Privacy
in the Use of Artificial
Intelligence:
A Qualitative Study
Zongpu Yang, Nina Zhu
and Bo Xia
14:00 – 14:30
Paper Presentation
Natural-Language to BIM:
A Guard-Railed
No-Code Pipeline for
Reliable Model Creation
Janit Sachdeva and Sahil
Garg
14:30 – 15:00
Paper Presentation
Bridging LLM Agent and OpenBIM for Energy-Efficient Building Design Optimization
Qianyun ZHOU, Lingming KONG, and Fan XUE
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee, refreshments and networking
Break-Out
Chair 3a
Venue: KB526, 5/F,
Knowles Building
Break-Out
Chair 3b
Venue: KB531, 5/F, Knowles Building
Break-Out
Chair 3c
Venue: KB533-534, 5/F, Knowles Building
15:30 –16:00
Invited Speech
An Analytical Framework of Quantifying Carbon Emission Impacts of Construction and Demolition Waste Circularity and Trading: A Case Study of the UK
Dr Zhikang Bao, Heriot-Watt University
16:00 – 16:30
Invited Speech
Enhancing Blockchain-Based Construction and Demolition Waste Management with Ai Analytics
Prof. Jianli Hao,
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
16:30 – 17:00
Invited Speech
How Institutional Factors Shape Socially Responsible HRM in International Construction: Insights from a Four-Quadrant SRHRM Framework
Dr Meng Ye, Chongqing University
15:30 –16:00
Paper Presentation
An Intelligent Quality Evaluation Method for TRD Wall Construction Based on Real-Time Monitoring and Probabilistic Prediction Models
Bo Wang, Donghai Liu,
Yadong Zhou and Hui Che
16:00 – 16:30
Paper Presentation
Identifying Barriers and Enablers for Climate-Adaptive Floodwall Design: A Cross-Country Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation of Australia and Vietnam
Liz Lz Shen, Peter S.P. Wong
and Eric Too
16:30 – 17:00
Paper Presentation
Research on Intelligent Control and Management of High-Pressure Jet Grouting Cutoff Walls
Zheyuan Liu, Donghai Liu,
Jiahao Li and Hui Chen
15:30 –16:00
Paper Presentation
Driven by the Gioia Method:
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Current Status, Challenges, and Transformation Strategies of Smart Services
Bo Xia and Haihui Dong
16:00 – 16:30
Paper Presentation
Am I Still the Designer? Modes and Perceived Risks of Cognitive Outsourcing to Generative AI
Zhuoran Zhang and Tan Tan
16:30 – 17:00
Paper Presentation
Joint Work Package Sizing and Scheduling with Novel Reinforcement Learning
Nianmin ZHANG and Xiao LI
Break
17:00 – 17:30
Coach to Dinner
(Gather at LG2, Knowles Building) (By invitation only)
17:30
Conference Dinner
Maxim’s Palace, 2/F, Low Block, City Hall, Central, Hong Kong Island
18:00 – 20:00
Day 2 Conference
Date: 16 December 2025, Monday
Venue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, University of Hong Kong
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 12:30
Session Chair 4
09:00 – 09:30
Keynote Presentation
Leveraging Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) to Enhance Object Detection, Communication and Collaboration of Mobile Robots
Professor Kincho Law, Stanford University
09:30 – 10:00
Keynote Presentation
Intelligent Urban Futures: Human-Centric Innovation for Digital Construction
Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel, Dean of Design School, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
10:00 – 10:30
Keynote Presentation
Future Construction - Which Way to Go
Ir Prof. Thomas Ho, Chairman, Construction Industry Council
10:30 – 11:00
Keynote Presentation
Cross-regional collaboration among the construction sectors in the Greater Bay Area
Professor Geoffrey Qiping Shen, Associate Vice President (Global Partnerships), Chair Professor of Construction Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee, refreshments and networking
11:30 – 12:00
Keynote Presentation
Humanization in an AI-Driven Construction Industry: Hora Est…?
Professor Wilco Tijhuis, University of Twente
12:00 – 12:30
Invited Speech
Barriers to the Adoption of Large Language Models in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Analysis
Professor Kenneth Yiu, UNSW Sydney
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch(By invitation only)
Venue: Ming Pavilion, 14/F, K.K. Leung Building
14:00 – 16:30
Session Chair 5
14:00 – 14:30
Keynote Presentation
Twin Systems
Professor Ioannis Brilakis, Professor and Director of the Construction Information Technology Laboratory, University of Cambridge
14:30 – 15:00
Keynote Presentation
Future Craft: Building Simplexity in Post-digital Architecture Practice
Professor Crolla Kristof, The University of Hong Kong
15:00 – 15:30
Keynote Presentation
Digital Innovation by Automated and Robotic Construction for Social
Sustainability
Professor Thomas Bock, Technical University of Munich
15:30 – 16:00
Keynote Presentation
Ways that AI Innovation in Smart Cities’ Construction Can Improve Infrastructure Resilience
Professor Liz Varga, University London College
16:00 – 16:30
Keynote Presentation
Advancing the Frontiers of Safety Performance Through Innovative Solutions and Technologies
Ar Prof. Ada Fung, Distinguished Faculty Fellow of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong
Closing Remark for the Conference
16:30-16:35
16:35 – 17:00
Conference Closed