Zhenzhong Hu

    He received both his BE and PhD degree in the Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University, China. He was a visiting researcher in Carnegie Mellon University.
    He is now the associate professor in Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, and also the secretary general of the BIM Specialty Committee of the China Graphics Society.
    His research interests include information technologies in civil and marine engineering, building information modeling (BIM) and digital disaster prevention and mitigation.
  • 2019-11-01

    2019-11-01

    The research team reported the progress of the sub-project "Standardized Big Data Extraction Technology of Building and MEP system based on Energy Consumption Monitoring system". The sub-project belongs to the project "Key technologies for Database and Data integrated of Building and MEP system". Relevant kinds of software based on Node.js and MySQL were developed by our research team. We designed the data interface of the information source for building energy based on MQTT and XML and cloud service for data based on JSON.

  • 2019-10-26

    2019-10-26

    Invited by the Information Technology Academic Committee of Gansu Province Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, I gave a keynote talk entitled "Data to Knowledge-BIM is Developing and Breaking" in 2019 Annual Conference Branch, which was held by Lanzhou Jiaotong University.

  • 2019-10-12

    2019-10-12

    Zhiyong Luo, Wei Lin and Jun Yang, deputy general manager, director and engineer of Gongcheng Management Consulting Co., Ltd., respectively, visited the Institute of Coastal Engineering and Structural Safety of Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School. The research team had a close discussion with our guests on the topic of BIM applications to the communication industries.

  • 2019-09-21

    2019-09-21

    Together with my PhD student Shuo Leng, I participated in the 36th Annual Academic Conference of CIB W78. Dr. Leng made a presentation on "Automatic MEP knowledge acquisition based on documents and natural language processing". The live recording and video explanation for this presentation have been added to the "Resources" section. Welcome to download and any comments are welcome.

  • 2019-09-10

    2019-09-10

    Our new journal article entitled "Geometric optimization of building information models in MEP projects: Algorithms and techniques for improving storage, transmission and display" has been published online in "Automation in Construction". This study was one of the achievements of BIM-based application on construction and Operation & Maintenance for MEP. MEP models are generally characterized by information redundancy and a high density of irregularly shaped components. Consequently, they require large storage spaces and are not conducive for interchange purposes. Volume of storage data was reduced by 40% to 50% through mesh simplification. Data transmission volume was reduced by more than 80% for components with complicated geometry without affecting the topology of the components. Finally, the displayed models were delivering very good quality for application of BIM-based systems.