Topical Advisory Panel

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Sustainable Engineered Structural Solutions Laboratory, Department of Wood Science, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Interests: performance-based structural design; displacement-based design of structures; design for deconstruction; experimental tests of timber assemblies; composite systems; timber engineering; sustainability; wood products; earthquake-resiliant timber connections

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Department Architecture and the Environment, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: sustainable building; energy efficient buildings
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
Interests: mass timber buildings; composite structures; sustainable building materials; computational mechanics; multi-scale modelling
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LNEC – National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, 1700-075 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: old masonry buildings; seismic rehabilitation; structural testing
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Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: structural engineering; fibre reinforced concrete (FRC); high performance reinforced cementitious composite (HPFRCC); blast loads; structural robustness

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Department of Civil Engineering, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: Building Information Modelling; automated rule checking; design process automation; Construction IT; civil engineering
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Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: stability of steel structures; steel plated structures; curved steel panels


Department of Civil Engineering, Università della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy
Interests: Building; Environmental Impact Assessment; Structural Analysis; Finite Element Analysis; Earthquake Engineering; Structural Dynamics; Construction Engineering; Finite Element Modeling; Construction

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Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milan, Italy
Interests: heat transfer; thermal energy storage; phase change materials; energy efficiency; building thermal simulation; renewable energy; photovoltaic systems; wind systems; electrical storage; solar greenhouses; electric vehicles; ground source heat pump system; artificial neural networks; multi-objective optimization
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School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Interests: building environment construction and building energy saving new technology; green energy and its application; energy saving technology for energy systems and equipment

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School of Civil Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal 14300, Penang, Malaysia
Interests: earthquake engineering; structural engineering; numerical simulation/modeling; infrastructure engineering
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Department of Mechatronics Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia, 50728 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Interests: evacuation modelling; building emergencies; building evacuation navigation; computational intelligence; reinforcement learning

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State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Sciences, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: land-use modeling; climate change; deforestation and soil moisture; crop yield; biomass and carbon emission; remote sensing & GIS applications in earth system studies; top-down downscaling to enhance the spatial resolution of gridded datasets; improve understanding of agroecosystem-environment interaction; land-atmosphere interaction studies; climate system modeling

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Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 95251 St. Petersburg, Russia
Interests: building materials; building construction; building structures; building mechanical systems
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Department of Civil Engineering, University of the Peloponnese, 1 M. Alexandrou Str., Koukouli, 26334 Patras, Greece
Interests: structural dynamics; earthquake engineering; seismic isolation; structural vibration control; soil–structure interaction; finite element method; boundary element method; computer-aided structural analysis; elastodynamics; elastoplasticity
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School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: sustainable project management; project governance
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Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 588 56 Telč, Czech Republic
Interests: conservation and restoration of cultural heritage; building materials; materials engineering; damage mechanisms
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School of the Built Environment and Architecture, London South Bank University, London SE1 0AA, UK
Interests: construction industry development; professionalism and ethics in construction; sustainable construction, focusing on construction and the sustainable development goals; leadership development in construction
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School of Applied Engineering & Technology, Newark College of Engineering, New-Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Interests: concrete materials; sustainability SCC rheology; sustainable construction management; concrete industry management
School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Interests: sustainable architecture; energy efficient design; life cycle energy assessment; building science

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Department of Building Materials, TU Dortmund University, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
Interests: maintenance and repair of natural stone buildings as well as steel-reinforced concretes; textile-reinforced concrete; fiber-reinforced concrete; surface protection of buildings; durability of building materials
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Laboratory of Construction Equipment & Project Management, Department of Structural Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University Athens (NTUA), 9, Heroon Polytechniou Str., Zografou Campus, 15780 Athens, Greece
Interests: construction engineering; digital construction; construction technology; construction project management
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1. Civil Engineering Department, University of Thessaly, 382 21 Volos, Greece
2. Concrete Technology and Reinforced Concrete Structures Laboratory, 382 21 Volos, Greece
Interests: strengthening of reinforced concrete structures; composite materials and reinforced concrete; recycling materials for the production of “green” concrete
Arts et Métiers Science and Technology, Paris, France
Interests: building information modeling (BIM); industry foundation classes (IFC); business rules and requirements management; 3D
EUCENTRE Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Interests: non structural elements; experimental methods, data analysis and interpretation of the behaviour of structures; monitoring systems and algorithms for automatic dynamic identification; UAV (drones) surveys

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Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4100 Porto, Portugal
Interests: thermal comfort; building physics; indoor air quality; energy efficiency; building performance simulation; digital building twins
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Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Interests: performance-based earthquake engineering; seismic design and analysis of structural and non-structural elements; experimental testing
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Schools of Architecture and Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Interests: building performance; healthy homes and schools; indoor air quality; energy efficient buildings; health and safety

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CERIS, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 130 1169-0 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: ancient buildings; conservation and rehabilitation techniques; experimental analysis; building materials
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Department of Civil Engineering and Energy Technology OsloMet, Oslo Metropolitan University, Pilestredet 35, 0166 Oslo, Norway
Interests: finite element method, historical masonry structures, static and dynamic analysis of structures with fem; earthquake engineering; optimum design of structures; reliability and probabilistic analysis of structures; neural networks
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