2017 Hyundai E&C Technology Grand Award – Department of the Built Environment

The Department congratulates Ashan Senel Asmone (PhD student) and Lau Shing Hou (Final year, PFM) who won the silver award at the “2017 Hyundai E&C Technology Grand Award”. The title of their proposal is “Designing in Reality: Automated Maintainability Assessment for Building Projects using BIM”. This project was guided by Ashan’s supervisor; Professor Michael Chew.

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