Engaging industry through R&D partnerships

LI HengChair Professor of Construction InformaticsConstruction Virtual Prototyping Laboratory

Department of Building and Real Estate

Why we need to engage industrial partners?

The pool of research funds from the HK Government has been drying;Current Application-Fund-Research model is not sustainable;HK has a healthy construction industry;Industrial partners can provide research funds, research problems and testbed of results.

How did we engage industrial partners?

We identified a few mature technologies developed by us which were ready for applications;We have a sexy slogan: no charge if our technology does not bring any economic benefits to the partners;The first case of working with a partner was always crucial.

Our Team5 Senior BIM Engineers with PhD degrees

12 BIM Engineers with at 2 years experiences

We started from 2005.

Some previous projectsDate Project Client Stage

2010 Central – Wan Chai Bypass -Tunnel CSCEC Ongoing

Public Rental Housing Development at , Tai HA Ongoing

Demolition, Road and Foundation Works for Redevelopment of Tau Kok Estate HA andCSCEC

Finished

Public Rental Housing Development at Shui Chuen O, Shatin HA Ongoing

Public Rental Housing Development at Tung Tau Cottage Area East HA Ongoing

Adventure land-Grizzly Gulch Finished

Development of Sim-Safety GA Finished

Redevelopment of 's Hospital GA Finished

2009 Project GA Finished

Sham Obstruction Removal Project GA Finished

Tuen Mun Police Quarter Project CSCEC Finished

Project GA Finished

Pacific Place Mall Contemporaization GA Finished

Convention and Exhibition Centre Accident Simulation GA Finished

2008 iSquare Project GA Finished

TKO East Asian Game Sport Stadium Project CSCEC Finished

Estate Project Chevalier Finished

Fanling Public Housing Project Yau Lee Finished

One GA Finished

2007 Ho Tung Lau Railway Extension Project CSCEC Finished

Venetian Macau Hotel GA Finished

HK Chevalier Finished

Safety Training

Safety Training - SimSafety

Interactive Site Planning and Control

Construction Modelling and Control (CMC) Plan

: Central - Wan Chai Bypass - Tunnel (Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter Section)

Central -W

an Chai Bypass –Tunnel

3D Model (REVIT Architecture)

3D Model of Tunnel (REVIT Architecture)

Central -W

an Chai Bypass –Tunnel

4D Model of Tunnel (Navisworks)

Central -W

an Chai Bypass –Tunnel

Construction Method Simulation (UC-win Road)

Central -W

an Chai Bypass –Tunnel

Rock Work Mountain ProjectProject Scope of Work

4D Process SimulationIdentification of Design Errors

Ting Kau Bridge Extension Project

• The aim of this project is to show and verify the work sequence of extension of Ting Kau Bridge by simulation, which includes different machineries

• This stage was started at Mar 2009

Shopping Mall Entrance Elevator

Curtain Wall Corridor

I Square Project

Tai Koo Bridge Dismantle Project

Clash between existing lamp post and the proposed bridge is found by CVP. The lamp post may be dismantle at early stage now due to the founding.

HKCEC Safety ProjectThis project is to identify the hazards during the installation of splice plates between mega trusses.

Tung Ying Building - Basement

Tung Ying Building was a17-storey office building and shopping centre at 100 Nathan Road, at the corner of Granville Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

1st floor

32th floor

Typical floor construction

70th floor

Non-typical floor construction

One Island East Commercial Building Project

One Island East is a super tall skyscraper that is located in Tai Koo Place on Island East Hong Kong. The skyscraper is a commercial office building that rises 308 m (1,011 ft) and has 59 stories of habitable office space and two basement levels. The building has 70 total floors. The building is the 6th skyscraper over 1,000 Ft. (305 m) completed in Hong Kong.

TKO East Asian Game Sports Stadium

HKCC Project

Venetian Macau Hotel Project

Useful Tips

Large corporations are more willing to fund R&D projects;Ask for a small amount of funds first to conduct a trial project in order to get them hooked;

Listen carefully to the Industrial Partner to find out what are their expectations;Think and act like a practitioner, ie, don’t say it is free, we only need to get some data to publish a paper, etc.Don’t do free work!

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (歌德）