Sustainable Communities through Digital Transformation

About Bimal KumarNiraj ThurairajahYusuf Arayici

Yusuf Arayici is a professor of Built Environment at Northumbria University. Since 2000 his research has ranged from building information modelling and process improvement to energy management and sustainability. He has led substantial research groups over a prolonged period through continuous cycles of funded research projects with a sum of £10M has graduated 15 PhDs and many MSc students and has published more than 100 papers and five books about Building Information Modelling. Currently he is researching on Deep Learning and Cognitive Digital Twins for healthcare FM and AI-supported heritage BIM.Dr Niraj Thurairajah is an Associate Professor in the built environment at Northumbria University where he leads the Sustainable Construction Futures research group. His research delves into the complexities of the built environment focusing on human and process-related aspects. This includes how organisations and individuals navigate technological innovation apply new economic theories within built environment contexts and implement decarbonisation strategies to enhance climate resilience. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications covering areas such as the digital built environment construction economics and procurement decarbonisation and education. He played leading roles in research and industry engagement projects such as Green Skills ORBEE ACBEE ExcelDL ISLAND I & II CKE and H2B innovation grants. His work integrates academic rigour with practical industry insights significantly contributing to the field of sustainable construction.Bimal Kumar is currently Professor of Innovative Digital Construction Technologies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow UK. He leads the Digital Construction Procurement and Law research group. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Chartered Engineer. He is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Engineers of India and a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is well known for his work on the application of artificial intelligence/knowledge-based systems to structural design - this has resulted in three books and numerous publications. He is also the founding Secretary/Treasurer of the European Group for Structural Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EG-SEA-AI) now called European Group of Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE). His main research interests are the design and development of systems and advanced IT tools to facilitate the integration of the design and construction processes intelligent buildings modelling building regulation and codes representation and processing BIM and knowledge management in engineering.