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.
  • 2015-12-09

    2015-12-09

    Professor Shengyao Jiang, the CPC committee deputy secretary and vice president of Tsinghua University, attended the meeting on the human resources reformation of the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Construction Management. Nearly 50 colleagues attended this meeting. Prof. Linhai Han hosted the meeting. Academician Jianguo Nie, the director of academic committee fully supported the human resources reformation, and proposed the developments of civil engineering and construction management should focus on how to better serve our country, and hoped young teachers to think independently, concentrate on researching, and to made characteristics, influential and high quality achievements. Shengyao Jiang congratulated for the official launching ceremony of the human resources reformation, and hoped that the two departments take this opportunity to further consolidate consensus, stimulate vitality, build a high-level teaching team filled with innovation and vitality, and make outstanding contributions to the national innovation-driven development strategy and the construction of our prestigious university.

  • 2015-11-27

    2015-11-27

    The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Science and Technology Development Promotion Center announced the winners of the 2015 "Huaxia" Construction Technology Award on November 27th, 2015. After two-phases evaluations by the professional committee, and being evaluated by the "Huaxia" Construction Technology Award Committee, nearly 120 projects were awarded this year, including 13 first prizes, 28 second prizes and 79 third prizes. "Autonomous Platform for the modular production, integrated delivery and operation and maintenance technology for MEP installation based on BIM", the project that our research team has participated, won the second prize, and I am personally ranked No. 2 among the twelve participants.

  • 2015-11-21

    2015-11-21

    The two engineering projects that the research team participated in, i.e., the "BIM-based Application Exploration and Practice of Railway Information Model Management System at Hedong and Shixi Station in the Guangzhou-Foshan Line of Guangzhou Metro" and "Comprehensive Construction Application of BIM in Tencent Headquarters Building (Beijing)" were highly remarked by the judges, and both won the first prizes in the Forth "Long Tu Cup" National BIM Competition on November 21st, 2015.

  • 2015-11-16

    2015-11-16

    The Construction Department of Hubei Province appraised the final achievements on the project "Research and Application of BIM-Based Factory Construction on Designing Pump Units", which were jointly developed by the research team and the First Engineering Co., Ltd. Of the China Construction Third Bureau, has reached the world’s advanced level. This technology was mainly composed of modular design calculation, factory preassembly and field installation. After comprehensive and deep designing of the pump units by BIM technology, the presented solution promoted to generate the layouts and assembly drawings from BIM models to factory preassembly, the pump units in the machine room are one-off installed by unit modules, which effectively reduced the number of field workers, ensured the product quality, improved the operating efficiency to shorten the construction period.

  • 2015-11-01

    2015-11-01

    The "National Engineering Construction BIM Application Case Study Meeting", as the "practice" part of the First National BIM Academic Conference, which fully demonstrated the latest achievements in the innovation and application of BIM-based engineering construction, was held in Tencent Headquarters Building (Beijing) on November 1st. The meeting was co-sponsored by China Graphic Society, the quality management in Construction Engineering Branch of China Construction Industry Association, and Beijing Construction Union Association. A number of achievements, including 4D-BIM system, BIM-FIM system, and BIM-FC system, which were developed by our group, were presented at the meeting and received extensive attention from peers.