I am delighted to share that our PhD gradaute Xiaofei Yang just had his paper titled ‘Automated Concrete Bridge Damage Detection Using an Efficient Vision Transformer-Enhanced Anchor-Free YOLO’ accepted by Engineering (Elsevier) after an extensive one-and-a-half-year review process.
I am delighted to share that we won the Best Paper Award at the recent 6th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2025) for our paper, “Enhancing Knowledge Capture and Reuse for Offsite Construction Through a Container-Based Knowledge Approach”.
I am delighted to share that our PhD student, Zhen Zhang, has successfully passed his provisional year review! He is now confirmed to proceed to the next stage of his PhD research.
I am delighted to share that our PhD student, Li Xu, has had his review article titled “Automation in Manufacturing and Assembly of Industrialised Construction” accepted for publication in Automation in Construction.
I am delighted to share that Zhen Zhang, Zhengxing Chen, and Tao Yang have successfully submitted their conference papers to the 6th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2025).
Yang Zou attended the 16th Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM) Workshop, held at RMIT University on 21–22 November 2024. He delivered a technical presentation titled “Rapid In-Flight Image Quality Check for UAV-Based Bridge Inspection.
We are thrilled to share the exciting news that Yang Zou has been promoted to Senior Lecturer (Above the Bar) at the University of Auckland on 21 November 2024.
On 8 November 2024, we had the pleasure of welcoming a distinguished group of VIPs of SASBE2024 (International Conference of Smart and Sustainable Built Environment) conference to the Smart Digital Lab, including Prof.
Our Smart Digital Lab has a new visiting scholar from Germany! Julia Specht is a master’s student from OTH Regensburg, supervised by Prof Thomas Linner. She has extensive experience in drone mapping.
We are thrilled to share the good news that Cheng Zhang has successfully passed his oral examination and received his PhD title today on 30 October 2024! His thesis, titled “Building Information Modelling-based Smart Inspection Data Management for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-enabled Visual Building Inspection” represents a significant achievement and a valuable contribution to the field of construction automation.
