HKUST students and researchers win awards at NSFC-RGC 2025 Conference

#justpublished Kifokeris, D. (2025). Initiating the conceptualisation of human-data interactions in regenerative building production. In: 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘤. 2025 𝘌𝘊3 & 42𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘐𝘉 𝘞78 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. DOI: 10.35490/EC3.2025.359. Fantastic! Our open-access proceedings from the 2025 European Council on Computing in Construction & CIB W78 Conference have finally been published! You can now find my own paper, which is about a #conceptual #framework situating human-data interactions (#HDI) in the new phenomenon of #regenerative #building #production, here: https://lnkd.in/dAmm3ihb If you are interested in how #digitalization and #regeneration can be integrated during the #construction #process itself, look no further. And, take a few minutes to watch the recording of the presentation as well – I assure you it's worth it! Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering

This week, I had the chance to present and discuss the lessons from redeveloping our joint Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering MSc program at the SEFI - European Society for Engineering Education conference. Two key takeaways from the discussion were: 1. Embedding the strong sustainability and planetary well-being approach allows for addressing the gap between engineering education and the urgent societal needs for a sustainability transition. 2. Having strong sustainability and planetary well-being as the common ground allows for a novel approach to integrating epistemologically different fields, such as those of spatial planning and transportation engineering. My gratitude goes to Aditya Johri for this research collaboration, with more to follow, enabled by Fulbright Finland! #engineeringeducation #sustainabilityeducation #spatialplanning #transportation

Dr Basem Tuqan, Assistant Professor at the faculty of #Engineering and #IT, and Dr Muna Salameh, BUiD’s alumna, co-authored a research paper titled, ‘Mathematical modelling describing the performance of open loop multivariable vapor compression chiller model: implications for sustainable #HVAC in social housing development’ in the #Frontiers in Built Environment #Journal. Read more: https://t.ly/fczWM #buidprofessors #uae #buidteam #britishuniversity #research #researchpaper

AUB professor Alissar Yehya is using AI to transform fracking, boosting fluid recovery while cutting underground chemical waste. Her research could make the process safer for both water supplies and the environment. https://lnkd.in/dV39_k7N #AUB #AUBAtWork Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at AUB

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One of my goals during the last year has been (and continues to be) to read more widely about the research conducted by NYU Tandon School of Engineering faculty and students, even if it is outside my immediate area of expertise. I feel the need to understand and appreciate it better because I sometimes find myself discussing their work with others. I read this with interest because, as someone who uses the NYC subway and public transportation system, I consider myself an expert of a different sort. (Since moving to NYC, for the first time since I was sixteen I do not own a car.) More than half of the world's population lives in a city with a public transportation network. What happens when a subway or a metro line goes down? Often, the ripple effect causes chaos across the entire network. This paper treats bus and metro systems as one integrated network to analyze the cascading failures that real-world disruptions cause to improve the system's resiliency and keep people moving, even when the unexpected happens. All aimed at more reliable urban mobility. It is fitting that the investigators are from Hong Kong and NYC. Ok. Full disclosure: I skipped the math but the motivation, figures and the conclusions are accessible to those who are not experts and makes intuitive sense: incorporate more parallel routes and redundancy for resiliency.

Curious about the next big shifts in transportation research? The latest issue of Highway and Transportation Research and Development (HTRD) brings the latest innovations in transport. This edition brings forward innovations across transportation science, from advanced highway engineering to sustainable systems pushing the boundaries of infrastructure and intelligent mobility. Featured in this issue: 📝 6 Research Articles 📖 2 Review Articles ✍️ 1 Editorial Together, these contributions highlight how transportation research continues to shape smarter, safer, and greener mobility for the future. 📖 Read now: https://lnkd.in/gbh9JYHn #Transportation #Engineering #OpenAccess #ResearchInnovation #Infrastructure #SciOpen #TUP #Research Tsinghua University

Dr Basem Tuqan, Assistant Professor at the faculty of #Engineering and #IT, and Dr Muna Salameh, BUiD’s alumna, co-authored a research paper titled, ‘Mathematical modelling describing the performance of open loop multivariable vapor compression chiller model: implications for sustainable #HVAC in social housing development’ in the #Frontiers in Built Environment #Journal. Read more: https://t.ly/fczWM #buidprofessors #uae #buidteam #britishuniversity #research #researchpaper

🌱 Big step toward a climate-positive campus: ICYMI, the University of Toronto is connecting buildings on the St. George campus to Canada’s largest urban geoexchange system — a massive underground thermal battery that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50% at St. George by 2027. The system is based in part on work by the late Professor Frank Hooper, professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. It will also power the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, which is home to the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. 🔗 Read more from U of T News: https://lnkd.in/gQSR2Gfy #UofTEngineering #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #ProjectLeap #ClimateAction

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