At the forefront of the built environment industry, research on infrastructure and project management is the key to integrate and advance knowledge necessary to plan, develop, manage and operate safe, secure, healthy, eco-friendly and high performance infrastructure, which can drive social cohesion, environmental sustainability, economic growth, and quality of life.
The research is anchored to both management and engineering principles including, but not limited to cost, time, quality, productivity, risk, safety, contracts and operations management, as well as efficient management of resources, strategic life cycle analysis, performance assessment and diagnostics, cost-benefit optimisation, selection and operation of optimum system, technology and materials, and simulation and modelling, which requires to plan, develop, manage and operate infrastructure projects.
Another key area of research is to create knowledge and innovations for the built environment, with the expertise in the domain of Smart Infrastructure, which integrates novel technologies such as IoT, AI, 5G, BIM, data analytics and visualization, AR/VR, Digital Twin, robotics and automation, and sensing and computer vision.
The findings and outputs from the research provide best-in-class solutions across the infrastructure value chains consisting of various stakeholders including users, developers, engineers, quantity surveyors, contractors, vendors, and manufacturers in the built environment.