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.
  • 2016-04-15

    2016-04-15

    "Key-value cache based IFC model implementation for web environment", the achievements of the research team, has been published in the Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology). The paper describes a web-enabled IFC object model using the JSON format and the IFC data cache with the Redis distributed key-value store for IFC application in web environment. Stepwise and dynamic parsing of the IFC data enables lightweight, standardized network data transmission with large-capacity, high-speed dynamic parsing of the IFC data. The Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology) is one of the core journals of China included in the EI (Engineering Index) database.

  • 2016-04-09

    2016-04-09

    The Fifth "Longtu Cup" National BIM Contest Launching Ceremony and the Fourth "Longtu Cup" National BIM Contest Award Presentation Ceremony were held on April 9th, in Beijing. The two engineering projects that our 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)" both won the first prizes in the Forth "Long Tu Cup" National BIM Competition. The awarded representatives gave keynote talks at the conference.

  • 2016-04-05

    2016-04-05

    Two co-authored academic papers have been published online in the SCI journal: Wind and Structures, i.e., Wind direction field under the influence of topography, part I: A descriptive model, and Wind direction field under the influence of topography, part II: CFD investigations.

  • 2016-03-05

    2016-03-05

    A new paper has been published online in Automation in construction (IF=1.812 in 2015), i.e., Zhen-Zhong Hu, Xiao-Yang Zhang, Heng-Wei Wang and Mohamad Kassem. Improving interoperability between architectural and structural design models: An industry foundation classes-based approach with web-based tools.

  • 2016-02-24

    2016-02-24

    Ming Lu, Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in University of Alberta gave a lecture entitled "Turning Art into Science through Collaboration in Infrastructure Construction" on February 24th, 2016 in Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University. Prof. Lu took the automatic positioning technology of tunnel boring machine as a sample to represent the attitude of making independent and innovative projects in scientific researches. I hosted this academic meeting and nearly 20 students and teachers participated in the meeting. Then Prof. Ming Lu, with Jianping Zhang, Zhiliang Ma, and I, had further discussions on the cooperations, talent cultivation, academic discussions between two universities.