Heng started his academic career from Tongji University since 1987. He received his PhD from The University of Sydney. Heng then researched and lectured at the University of Sydney, James Cook University and Monash University before joining Hong Kong Polytechnic University. During this period, Heng have also worked with engineering design and construction firms and provided consultancy services to both private and government organizations in Australia, Hong Kong and China. Heng has conducted many funded research projects related to the innovative application and transfer of construction information technologies. For more information, please visit his Personal Website.

Dr Shahnawaz Anwer is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Building and Real Estate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He attained his PhD degree form The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2021 and Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 2007 and Master of Physiotherapy in 2009 from the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences at the Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. Previously, he worked as a full-time researcher at the King Saud University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (ranked 56th among universities in Asia) from June 2013 to Jan 2019. He also worked as Assistant Professor at Dr. D. Y. Patil College of Physiotherapy, Pune, India from 2012 to 2013. He worked as Junior Lecturer at the National Institute of Orthopedically Handicapped (NIOH), Kolkata, India from 2010 to 2012. He is a reviewer for more than 20 International peer reviewed Indexed Journals. Additionally, he has been serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy and BMC Musculoskeletal disorders since 2015. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles in indexed journals. His articles have been cited for more than 1300 times and his H-index is 19. His research focuses mainly on Musculoskeletal problems in construction workers, Physical fatigue, Construction Ergonomics, Construction Health and Safety, Digital Construction Technologies and Innovations (e.g., BIM, wearable sensors, robotics), Biomechanical Analysis and Technology Transfer in Construction. For more information, please visit his Personal Website.

Mr. Imran MEHMOOD is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Building and Real Estate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with Honors degree from University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila, Pakistan in 2010 and Master of Science in Construction Engineering and Management degree from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan in 2013. His research interest is Construction Informatics and Construction Health & Safety. For more information, please visit his Personal Website.

Xin FANG is a PhD student in the Department of Building and Real Estate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He earned a MS degree from the School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University. He is good at mathematics and computer programming. His research focuses mainly on robotics, computer vision, and their applications in construction.

Jie MA is a PhD student in the Department of Building and Real Estate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Jie obtained her BSc and MSc degrees from University of Oxford in the UK. She received her undergraduate scholarship awards in the two consecutive years (2009 and 2010). She started her career in an Architecture Institute as a structure engineer, and later on settled in BIM Research Center in a Chinese university as a lecturer. She co-written two textbooks on BIM application topics and published several Sci paper in civil engineering journals. Jie studied Engineering Science at University of Oxford, which allowed her to acquire the knowledge from different engineering fields such as civil engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering and electrical engineering, this laid a solid foundation for her deeper cultivation in any engineering field. For more information, please visit her Personal Website.

Mingyang JIANG is a PhD student in the Department of Building and Real Estate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his M.Eng. degree from Shenzhen University. His research interests mainly on sustainable construction, construction waste management and smart construction. For more information, please visit his Personal Website.

Xiaoying LI is currently a PhD student in the Department of Building and Real Estate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her MPhil degree at the same department in 2018. Her research mainly focuses on Building Information Modeling and Inter-organization collaboration.

Dr. Yantao YU is an Assistant Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She received her doctoral degree in construction informatics from BRE at PolyU in July 2020, and her master’s and bachelor’s degree in construction management from Tsinghua University in 2014 and 2017, respectively. Her research interest is construction informatics and automation. For more information, please visit her Personal Website.

Dr. Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari is a Lecturer in Construction & Qs at School of Engineering Systems & Management in Aston University, Birmingham, UK. He attained his Ph.D. in Construction Information Technology at the Department of Building and Real Estate in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University through the Postgraduate Studentship Scholarship in March 2019. He received his MPhil in Building Technology at the Department of Building Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi-Ghana in August 2015. Maxwell obtained his BSc in Construction Technology and Management (First Class Honours) from KNUST, Kumasi-Ghana in August 2012. His research focuses on Construction Informatics, Construction Management and Engineering, Construction Ergonomics, Construction Health and Safety, Digital Construction Technologies and Innovations (e.g., BIM, wearable sensors, robotics), Biomechanical Analysis and Technology Transfer in Construction. For more information, please visit his Personal Website.

Dr. Ping HE is a Professor in the School of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. For more information, please visit his Personal Website.