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📢 We are delighted to announce the winner of the CIB Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 2024 is Hongying Zhao of RMIT University 👏 Following a round of presentations from the 5 shortlisted candidates to a panel of judges appointed by CIB, Hongying’s work on 'Energy, Economic and Environmental Performances of BIPV Façade in Urban Environment: a Machine Learning Based Urban Morphology Method' was judged to be worthy of the award. In addition to Hongying, the shortlisted candidates were Ania Khodabakhshian, Ph.D. of Politecnico di Milano, De-Graft Joe Opoku, PhD, PhD of Western Sydney University, Olufisayo Adedokun fniqs, rqs of University of Newcastle and Benjamin Ifeoluwa Oluleye of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. We wish to thank our judges - Dr Kathy Michell of University of Cape Town, Kalle Kahkonen of Tampere University and Jeremy Gibberd of the University of the Witwatersrand Congratulations to all the candidates, and to Hongying in particular 👏 You can read more about the award and view brief abstracts and the full presentations here - https://lnkd.in/e4hZTYFe

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Ron Wakefield

Dean, School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University, Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor - International

1mo

Congratulations. We are very proud of you.

Srinath Perera

Professor of Built Environment & Construction Management, Western Sydney University and Director at c4SMC

1mo

Well done and best wishes Hongying for winning this prestigious global award 👏

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Sophie Ly - MRICS, MAIQS, CQS

Associate at Project Cost Management Group l Chartered & Certified Quantity Surveyor l University Guest Lecturer

1mo

Wow!! Congrats!! 🤩 🙌

Jeremy Gibberd

Coordinator Smart and Sustainable Built Environments W116 CIB

1mo

Congratulations Hongying! Congratulations also to the shortlisted candidates for their excellent and interesting work.

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De-Graft Joe Opoku, PhD

Centre for Smart Modern Construction | Western Sydney University

1mo

Congratulations, Hongying!

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Amos Darko, Ph.D., M.ASCE

Assistant Professor at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA | World’s Top 2% Most Cited Scientist | World’s Top 0.05% Highly Ranked Scholar | World's #1 Highly Ranked Green Building Scholar

1mo

Congratulations!

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Makarand (Mark) Hastak

Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University; President CIB

1mo

Congratulations!

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Nilmini Weerasinghe

Lecturer, Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

1mo

Congratulations Ingrid..

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