Born in 1963, he obtained his Bachelor Degree in 1986 at the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University, China and his Master Degree in 1989 and Doctor Degree in 1992 at the Department of Civil Engineering of Nagoya University, Japan. He became an Associate Professor in 1994 and a Professor in 2003 at Tsinghua University. His major research interests are on the application of information technology in civil engineering. He has been in charge of two large national research projects on IT application and drafted several plans and strategies on applying information technology for the central government of China. He is the director of the Committee of Computer Application, China Civil Engineering Society. He acts as the member of expert committee of several nation-wide industrial associations in China. He serves as the member of board of editorial committee of several international and domestic academic journals.
Hanbin Luo is a Professor and Director of Department of Construction Management at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. His main areas of research and teaching include information technologies in construction management, real estate development and investment, and engineering risks and safety management. He serves as a member of the Disciplinary Steering Committee for Construction Management in Colleges and Universities, a Council Member of the Architectural Society of China-Construction Management Research Society, and a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS). Professor Luo has won the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 2nd Prize, among other Ministry and Province prizes for his research on Key Technologies of Computer-integrated Management System of Rail Transit Construction, and other research on construction management.
Gunnar Lucko is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and the Director of the Construction Engineering and Management Program at Catholic University of America. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Virginia Tech and a 5-year German diploma in structural and environmental engineering from Hamburg University of Technology. He has over eight years of research experience in project planning, where he has explored novel techniques to model and analyze schedules and their interactions with aspects like resources and costs using singularity functions. His other research interests include construction equipment operations and economics; simulation and optimization methods; and engineering education. In recent research funded by the National Science Foundation he expands scheduling theory with an objective approach to strategically allocate float, which mitigates delays on the critical path and thus reduces risk. In previous funded research projects he has investigated cash flow optimization and related financial phenomena and developed new algorithms for criticality and float calculation in linear scheduling with singularity functions. He serves as past chair of the Construction Research Council, the premier association of North American construction researchers within the American Society of Civil Engineers, and senior specialty editor of the Journal Construction Engineering and Management. He is member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences Simulation Society and the Scheduling Community of Practice of the Project Management Institute.
Professor Low Sui Pheng is Director of the Centre for Project Management and Construction Law at the Department of Building, National University of Singapore. His areas of expertise are in construction project management, productivity, quality and enterprise risk management for international construction firms. He has authored more than ten books in these areas. Professor Low is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building and Coordinator of the CIB Task Group TG82 for Marketing in Construction.
Bożena HOŁA. Professor of Civil Engineering at Wrocław University of Technology, Poland. She has spent over 35 years doing research on construction process modeling, the managerial approach and safety and health protection at construction site. She is the author and co-author of three books, over 100 other publications as well as a lot of research and technical reports.
She is a member of Division of Building Engineering Processes of Polish Academy of Sciences (KILiW PAN) and Polish Association of Civil Engineers and Technicians (PZiTB). She is also a member of the Board of Civil Engineering Faculty and Building Engineering Institute. She was awarded the Gold Medal for Long Service granted by the President of Republic of Poland. She was also awarded by Minister of Building and Building Material Industry, Minister of Infrastructure, and repeatedly by Rector of Wrocław University of Technology, Dean of Faculty of Civil Engineering and Director of Institute of Building Engineering.
