Professor Martin A. GREEN Scientia Professor University of New South Wales Australia

Professor Martin Green is currently a Federation Fellow and Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales and Executive Research Director of the ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence. He is also a Director of CSG Solar, a company formed specifically to commercialise the University’s thin-film, polycrystalline-silicon-on-glass solar cell. His group's contributions to photovoltaics are well known including the development of the world’s highest efficiency silicon solar cells and the successes of several spin-off companies. He is the author of six books on solar cells and numerous papers in the area of semiconductors, microelectronics, optoelectronics and, of course, solar cells. His work has resulted in several major awards including the 1999 Australia Prize, the 2002 Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize), the 2004 World Technology Award for Energy, the 2007 SolarWorld Einstein Award, the 2009 Zayed Future Energy Prize (one of two finalists) and the 2009 ENI Award for Renewable and Non-conventional Energy.

---

Mrs. LAM CHENG Yuet Ngor, Carrie, JP Secretary for Development Development Bureau, The Government of the HKSAR Hong Kong, China

Mrs Carrie Lam has been appointed Secretary for Development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government since 1 July 2007. She joined the Administrative Service in August 1980, and rose to the rank of Administrative Officer Staff Grade A1 in September 2006. Mrs Lam had served in various bureaux and departments. She was Director of Social Welfare from August 2000 to October 2003, Permanent Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands (Planning and Lands) from November 2003 to May 2004, Director-General, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London from September 2004 to March 2006. She was Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs before her appointment as the Secretary for Development.

---

Dr QIU Baoxing Vice Minister of Ministry Housing and Urban-Rural Development China

Dr Qiu Baoxing, a veteran in urban studies research and implementation, is the Vice Minister for Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China. He also holds the appointment of President of Chinese Society for Urban Studies and has served as Chairman of the International Water Association (IWA) China Committee and Chairman of the 5th World Water Conference. Dr Qiu obtained a Physics degree from the Hangzhou University (now Zhejiang University), a PhD in Economics from Fudan University and a PhD in Engineering from Tongji University. He has also participated in relevant research in John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr Qiu has taught as a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University and Adjunct Professor at Nanjing University, Fudan University, Tongji University, among other leading universities. He has published over ten books and hundreds of papers. His book entitled “Harmony and Innovation: Problems, Dangers and Solutions in Dealing with Rapid Urbanization in China” has been translated to English for publishing internationally.

---

Dr Samuel Yen-liang YIN Chief Executive Officer Ruentex Group Taiwan

Dr Samuel Yen-Liang Yin is the Chief Executive Officer of the Taiwan-based conglomerate Ruentex Group. As an ingenious inventor and eminent construction engineer, Dr Yin gained eminence through his numerous inventions and contributions to construction industry. He is the recipient of more than 250 patents in Taiwan, USA, UK, China, Japan etc. In 2008, he was elected Member of the International Academy of Engineering (Russia). He is also the President of Taiwan Concrete Institute (TCI). He holds a number of academic positions, including Professorships at National Taiwan University, Beijing University, Tsinghua University etc. He has received more than 70 prestigious national and international awards and professional recognitions.

---

Invited Speakers

Professor Lawrence C. BANK
Associate Provost for Research
The City College of New York
USA

Professor Donald BLAKE
Chair and Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
USA

Professor Peter BRANDON
Professor Emeritus
School of the Built Environment
University of Salford
UK

Professor Yunmin CHEN
Professor
Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Zhejiang University
China

Professor Shinichi TANABE
Professor
Department of Architecture
Waseda University
Japan

Professor Shuoxian WU
Professor
School of Architecture
South China University of Technology
China

Professor Yan XIAO
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Southern California
USA

Professor Yongguan ZHU
Director General
Institute of Urban Environment
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

---

Invited Speakers of Mini-symposia

Building Information Modelling and Changing Construction Practice Ms Ada FUNG, JP Deputy Director of Housing (Development & Construction) Housing Department, The Government of the HKSAR Hong Kong, China Ms Ada Fung, JP is an Architect by profession. She is an active member in the Architectural field as well as in the construction industry in Hong Kong. In her career as Deputy Director of Housing, she supervises the Development & Construction Division of the Housing Department, overseeing all facets of work covering project management, planning, design and contract management, as well as establishing operational policies on procurement, design, construction, quality, performance assessment, dispute resolution, research and development, safety and the environment for public housing development in Hong Kong. She also promotes partnering, value management, risk management, ethical integrity, corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, green building and BIM in the industry. She is also an accredited mediator on the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre’s Panel of Mediators, and she is the Chairman of the Architects Registration Board. Building Information Modelling and Changing Construction Practice Professor Ming LAI Director General of Department of Science and Technology Ministry of Construction China Professor Lai Ming is currently the vice chairman of the Central Committee of Jiu San Society and a member of The 11th Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee in China, and a professor of Beijing Jiaotong University. He obtained his doctor’s degree on Seismology at Shanghai Tongji University. He served as the vice president of Chongqing University of Architecture and Civil Engineering and the director of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Construction of China. Professor Lai has been the principal investigator of four National Science Foundation-funded research projects and 19 provincial and ministerial research projects. He published nearly 100 papers on top level periodicals and proceedings of international conferences. He participated in the design and drafting of “National Plan for Medium and Long Term Scientific and Technological Development” ,“National Guideline on Medium- and Long-Term Program for Science and Technology Development” and some other national plans, he was also the chief organizer for drafting the Technical and Economic Policies of Urban Development & Urbanization and Energy-efficient Building Regulations as well as the design and implementation of more than twenty Key Projects of the National Eleventh-Five Year Research Program of China. He was also the chief organizer for presenting the Economic Incentive Policies of Green Building and Land-saving Building, establishing the System of Building Energy Evaluation & Labeling in China and launching the building energy statistics. In addition, he was also the chief organizer for the Key Projects of the National Tenth-Five Year Research Program of China related to the construction industry informatization development to promote the construction of Digital City. He won the First Prize of Science and Technology Development of Sichuan province and the Second Prize of Science and Technology Development by the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation and Ministry of Construction of China. He was granted the Excellent Doctor with Outstanding Contributions by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Ministry of Education of China. He has been the member of National Youth Commission and won the honors such as the Top10 Outstanding Young Person Award of Chongqing city and Sichuan province, the National Labor Day Medal. Complexities in Managing Mega Construction Projects Professor Rodney TURNER Professor SKEMA Business School, Lille France Professor Rodney Turner is Professor of Project Management at the SKEMA Business School, in Lille France. He is Visiting Professor at Henley Business School and the Kemmy Business School, Limerick, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and Educatis University, Zurich. Rodney was introduced to project management working in the process plant industry, working for ICI as a mechanical engineer and project manager in the petrochemical industry. He then worked for Coopers and Lybrand as a management consultant, working in shipbuilding, manufacturing, telecommunications, computing, finance, government, and other areas. Rodney is the author or editor of sixteen books, including The Handbook of Project-based Management, the best selling book published by McGraw-Hill, and the Gower Handbook of Project Management. He is editor of The International Journal of Project Management. He lectures on project management world wide. Rodney is Vice President, Honorary Fellow and former chairman of the UK’s Association for Project Management, and former President and Chairman of the International Project Management Association. From 1997 to 2005, he returned to the process plant industry as foundation Operations Director of the Benelux Region of the European Construction Institute. He is a member of the Institute of Directors, and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Industrialization of Housing Professor Roger Bruno RICHARD Professor of School of Architecture The University of Montreal Canada Professor Roger-Bruno Richard, M.Arch. (Berkeley), Architect (OAQ), is Professor at the School of Architecture of the Université de Montréal, notably in charge of the graduate Design & Systems for Construction (DSC) profile. He was Director of that School for a period of ten years (1989-1999) and President of the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB) in 1997-98. Specialized in Industrialised Building Systems, Roger-Bruno Richard is the author of several technological and functional innovations in housing, including three “Load-Bearing Service Core” systems as well as various solar and manufactured housing prototypes. His Generic Classification of Industrialised Building Systems is recognized internationally. His research is aiming at industrialised strategies & technologies capable of simplifying the production in order to get adaptable architecture available to the vast majority of people. Roger-Bruno Richard was recently in residence at the University of Tokyo on a Research Fellowship granted by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Low Carbon Cities Professor Steffen LEHMANN Director, Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour Professor in the School of Art, Architecture and Design University of South Australia Australia Professor Steffen Lehmann is a university teacher, writer, architect and urban designer. He has been involved in environmental design research, teaching and consultancy since the late 1980s. He has lectured in 25 countries and his writings have been translated into several languages. Steffen holds the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Urban Development for Asia and the Pacific, the Professorial Chair of Sustainable Design and Behaviour and is the Director of the Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour at the University of South Australia, in Adelaide. Until July 2010, he has held the Professorial Chair in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle (NSW). Steffen is Founding Director of the s_Lab Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design (Sydney-Berlin). The s_Lab is an international interdisciplinary research and design cluster; Steffen founded s_Lab in 1993 to combine practice with research in pursuit of a sustainable design ethic: www.slab.com.au. Steffen’s expertise is in sustainable healthy cities, ‘Green Urbanism’, and energy-efficient buildings. He has taught as Visiting Professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, TU-Munich, the National University of Singapore, Tongji University Shanghai, among many other universities. Today, Sydney and Berlin-based, the s_Lab is active in urban design and architectural research and operates as an international research network, engaged in the creation of the next generation of cities and adaptive buildings. The firm’s work has been widely published and has received awards and prizes internationally. He graduated from the Architectural Association in London and has a PhD from the TU-Berlin. Since 1990, Steffen has presented his work at more than 300 conferences in 25 countries. He has researched, built and taught on informal urban design, urban renewal and energy-efficient cities since the late 1980s. He is primarily interested in the relationship between architectural / urban form and environmental performance, and how this relationship should evolve in response to climate change and newly emerging programmatic requirements for urban developments. Steffen is the editor of the US based Journal of Green Building (2006 – to date) and an advisor to government, city councils and industry in Europe, Asia and Australia. Managing Air Pollution in Mega-cities Professor Armistead G. RUSSELL Georgia Power Professor of Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology USA Professor Armistead (Ted) Russell is the Georgia Power Professor of Environmental Engineering. At Georgia Tech, his research is aimed at better understanding the dynamics of ozone and particulate matter at urban and regional scales, and to develop approaches to design strategies to improve air quality. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in 1980 and 1985, conducting his research at Caltech’s Environmental Quality Laboratory. His B.S. is from Washington State University. Dr Russell is a member of EPA’s Clean Air Science Advisory Committee (CASAC) and was a member of the National Research Council’s Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. He Chairs the CASAC NOx-SOx, Ambient Air Monitoring Methods and Air Quality Modeling panels, and is on the Health Effects Institute’s Report Review Committee. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Modelling for Sustainable Urban Transportation Professor Tony MAY Research Professor in Transport Engineering University of Leeds UK Professor Tony May has over 35 years' experience in transport planning and traffic engineering. He has been a professor at Leeds since 1977, and has served as Director of the Institute for Transport Studies, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research. Between 1985 and 2001 he maintained a link between research and teaching at Leeds and practical experience in consultancy with MVA Ltd for which he was Director of Transport Policy. Prior to 1977 he spent ten years with the Greater London Council, where he was responsible for policy on highways, traffic management and transport-related land use planning for the capital, and managed major studies on traffic restraint, parking policy and motorway traffic control. He was elected to a fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1995, and awarded the OBE for services to transport engineering in 2004. While at Leeds he has been awarded over 80 research grants and contracts by the Engineering and Physical Sciences and Economic and Social Science Research Councils, DfT and TRL, the European Community, the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund, and several local authorities. Professor May has been a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Transport Committee and the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, and a consultant to OECD, ECMT, the World Bank, the US Transportation Research Board, the Singapore Land Transport Authority, the New Zealand Ministry of Transport and the Thailand Commission for the Management of Land Transport. Remote Sensing of Urban Environment (Applications) Dr Gilbert L. ROCHON Associate Vice President Collaborative Research & Engagement Purdue University USA Dr Gilbert Rochon is the Associate Vice President for Collaborative Research & Engagement at Purdue University-Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), Chief Scientist for Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, and Director of the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory. He is a courtesy professor in Purdue’s Departments of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, and Agronomy. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Urban & Regional Planning, with concentrations in International Development & Regional Planning and in Planning Support Systems. He also received the Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Services Administration from Yale University and the Bachelors degree from Xavier University of Louisiana. Dr Rochon previously held appointments with US-EPA, NASA, USDA Forest Service & the Naval Oceanographic Office. His research focuses on real-time remote sensing and high performance computing applications for biogenic and anthropogenic disaster mitigation, environmental sustainability, public health, food security and sustainable development in developing countries. Remote Sensing of Urban Environment (Techniques Development) Professor Paolo GAMBA Associate Professor of Telecommunications University of Pavia Italy Professor Paolo Gamba is currently Associate Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Pavia, Italy. He received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering “cum laude” from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the same University in 1993. He is also in charge of the Telecommunications and Remote Sensing Section of EUCENTRE, the European centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and since January 2009 he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. He will be the Technical Co-Chair of the 2010 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium scheduled for July 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has been the organizer and Technical Chair of the biennial GRSS/ISPRS Joint Workshops on “Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas” from 2001 to 2009. The last event he chaired is the 2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Symposium, held in Shanghai in May 2009. He has been Chair of Technical Committee 7 “Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing” of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) from October 2002 to October 2004 and Chair of the Data Fusion Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society from October 2005 to May 2009. He has been the Guest Editor of special issues of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Remote Sensing Applications, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Information Fusion and Pattern Recognition Letters on the topic of Urban Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing for Disaster Management, Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing Applications. He published more than 60 papers on international peer-review journals and presented more than 150 papers in workshops and conferences. Renewable Energy Applications Professor Zhaohong Fang Chair Professor of the School of Thermal Engineering Shandong Jianzhu University (former Shandong University of Architecture and Engineering) China Professor Zhaohong Fang is currently Head of the Ground Source Heat Pump Research Center in Shandong Jianzhu University; he served also as Deputy-President of the university from 1995 to 2005. He has obtained his Ph.D. in Tsinghua University, China; and worked in University of Manchester, UK, the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Oklahoma State University, USA. Professor Fang has devoted to the study of renewable energy application and energy conservation in buildings for the last decade, especially the research and development of the Ground-Coupled Heat Pump (GCHP) technology for building heating and air-conditioning. His work has resulted in a few key advances in modeling the heat transfer in the geothermal heat exchangers. His group has also contributed a great deal to the technical development and application of the GCHP technology in China. Their achievements won the National Science and Technology Awards of China in 2009. Renewable Energy Applications Professor Jerry YAN Chair Professor Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Malardalen University (MDU) Sweden Professor Jerry Yan is chair professor of Energy Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Mälardalen University, Sweden. He came to Sweden from China in 1989 and received his PhD at KTH in 1991. During 2001 to 2005, Dr Yan was chair professor and head of Energy Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. Professor Yan’s research interests include simulation and optimization of advanced energy systems incl. advanced power generation; climate change mitigation technologies and related issues in environment and policy; clean development mechanism (CDM) and renewable energy, especially in biomass energy, and fundamental engineering thermodynamics. Professor Yan published over 200 papers including the paper in Science and special feature article in ASME Mechanical Engineering. Professor Yan is editor-in-chief of the international journal, Applied Energy published by Elsevier. He is conference chairman of the 3rd Int. Green Energy Conference (IGEC-III); Conf. Co‐Chair of IGEC‐IV, Beijing and ICAE’09, Hong Kong; and Chair of Scientific Committee of ICAE’2010, Singapore. He is member of Editorial Board of Int. J. of Energy Research, Int. J. of Green Energy, Scientific Review (China), and Frontiers of Energy and Power Engineering in China (Springer). He also serves as Overseas Assessor of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Roster expert to UNFCC CDM EB, advisory expert to the United Nation, European Union Commission, Asian Development Bank and other international organizations. Waste Management and Recycling Professor Koji SAKAI Professor Department of Safety Systems Construction Engineering Kagawa University Japan Professor Koji Sakai is Professor of Engineering at Kagawa University in Japan. He was Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Kagawa University from 1999 to 2002 and a Senator of the University from 1999 to 2004. He is the author of numerous technical papers and his current research interests concentrate on minimizing the adverse impact of the concrete industry on the environment. Since 2002, Professor Sakai has been Chairman of fib Commission 3 (Environmental Aspects of Design and Construction). He has been Chairman of WG1 and WG5 in JCI/ISO Committee since 2003 and, since 2008, he has been Chairman of ISO/TC71/SC8 (Environmental Management for Concrete and Concrete Structures).

The ICSU 2010 website is maintained by the Faculty of Construction and Land Use (FCLU) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).