
Zhen ChenUniversity of Strathclyde · Department of Architecture
Zhen Chen
BEng, MEng, PhD, F.HEA
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Introduction
Dr Zhen Chen has specialty interests and expertise in the design, construction and operation of the built environment, and experiences working at companies, organisations and universities. He has engaged in more than 80 funded research projects, over 200 publications, and over 100 plenary lectures and presentations at national and international events. He is the Specialty Chief Editor in Construction Management at Frontiers. LinkedIn profile: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/zhen-chen-42601920
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Description This Research Topic aims to provide a convergence research forum for academics and professionals around the world to present theoretical and/or practical knowledge on the engineering and/or managerial aspects of world-leading research into sustainable infrastructure. The goal of this research topic is to develop a unique multidisciplina...
Frontiers Research Topic: Metatheories of the Built Environment
Green spaces have a major role in achieving sustainability in cities and improving the quality of life of their residents. Despite their vital role, they do not receive proper attention and care in Cairo. In addition to their deteriorated condition, Cairo has a limited presence of green spaces and public parks that are poorly distributed. Improving...
This study aims to debate building information modelling (BIM) and its relationship to the digital twin (DT). The study presents and discusses a new strategic framework that systematically integrates BIM into architectural education to establish a DT-oriented curriculum that focuses on the professional competence development of architectural studen...
This research topic focuses on convergence research into theoretical and/or practical progresses on infrastructure project management (IPM). The editors would like to take this unique opportunity to invite colleagues around the world to show the advances of IPM related solutions that can help enhance performances in the delivery of infrastructure p...
With regard to global initiatives on infrastructure development, operation, and redevelopment, this research topic focuses on convergence research into theoretical and/or practical progresses in the subject field of infrastructure project finance. The editors would like to take this unique opportunity to invite colleagues around the world to show t...
The Research Topic solicits brief, forward-looking articles from the Editorial Board Members that describe the state of the art, outlining recent developments and major accomplishments that have been achieved and that need to occur to move the field forward. Authors are encouraged to identify the greatest challenges in the sub-disciplines, and how...
Description Since 1970s, research and development in the field of Knowledge Graphs (KG) have progressively enriched the theory and praxis of knowledge engineering and management (KEM), and there are significant progressions on advanced solutions to support artificial intelligence (AI) pervasive practices in the past decade. Academic initiatives, in...
Since 1970s, research and development in the field of Knowledge Graphs (KG) have progressively enriched the theory and praxis of knowledge engineering and management (KEM), and there are significant progressions on advanced solutions to support artificial intelligence (AI) pervasive practices in the past decade. Academic initiatives, industry leade...
A Methodological Study on Excellence in BIM
Integrated Architectural Education
Facilities management along with health care are two important aspects in controlling the spread of infectious diseases with regard to controlling the outbreak of global COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, with the increasing outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of examining the relationship between the built environment and the outbreak of infectio...
Purposes: This article presents a recent research into megaproject sustainability with a particular focus on identifying a structure of its body of knowledge so as to establish the methodology of megaproject assessment on sustainability (MAS), which consists of a research roadmap toward megaproject sustainability and a system reliability analysis....
Call for Participation: Research Topic on the Theory and Praxis of Digital Construction Management
URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/23247/the-theory-and-praxis-of-digital-construction-management#overview
Purpose: The practical advances on Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the architectural, engineering, construction and operation (AECO) sectors have underpinned a global trend towards the development of a sustainabile built environment. The adoption of these techniques into current higher education has therefore become increasingly important....
This paper describes the strategy and elements of an exploration of contemporary issues and challenges as well as a technical solution to incorporate BIM knowledge in architectural education regarding construction for excellence (CfE). This research is underpinned by a literature review, system analysis and development, and a questionnaire-based su...
During the last decade there has been a rapid transition to digitisation in the construction sector across interconnected project stages, including design, construction, and operation. The research described in this paper aims to establish pathways to develop an excellent architectural education in Libya, in regard to relevant concerns on restructu...
One of the newest advancements in manufacturing and project management is Building Information Modeling (BIM) which uses creative processes for production, analysis, and management of building information. On the other hand, the output of the Geographic Information System (GIS) model includes one or more actual locations, which satisfy all needs. I...
During the last decade there has been a rapid transition to digitisation in the construction sector across interconnected project stages, including design, construction, and operation. The research described in this paper aims to establish pathways to develop an excellent architectural education in Libya, in regard to relevant concerns on restructu...
A methodological approach to excellence in BIM oriented architectural education
A research into post-disaster Damage and Needs Assessment (DNA) of built assets
* Convergence research into system prototypes and best practices
* Call for research collaborations
Purpose
As construction of commercial and recreational complex building projects (CRCBPs) is one of the most important issues in many developing countries and requires a very high cost of implementation, it is important to identify and prioritize the risks of such projects. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify and rank the risks of C...
This Research Topic aims to provide a unique platform for both academics and professionals around the world to share experiences, knowledge, and insights through review articles in the subject field of construction management. The types of review articles include Review (within 12,000 words) and Mini Review (within 3,000 words). Themes covered by r...
This article presents a recent research and development experiment on benefits analysis for adopting building information modeling/management (BIM) systems in megaproject delivery across work stages with regard to the needs of project stakeholders. It focuses on a new approach to benefits prioritization to support decision making against major chal...
The future of mega infrastructure projects is certain - there will be more risks to manage! The challenge is being met through research and innovation combining current approaches with new. This research adopted a dynamic approach through the combination of Analytical Network Process (ANP) and system dynamics (SD) as an innovative methodology known...
The collection of research articles under this Research Topic aims to provide a unique platform for both doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, as well as their supervisors and collaborators, to present excellent research outcomes in the subject field of construction management. This Research Topic is therefore open to all academics and professiona...
INTRODUCTION This short paper discusses the authors' current research into a theoretical framework to form a new systematic approach to facilitating the pursuit of excellence in architectural education through incorporating BIM knowledge and skills into curriculum design and delivery. The research strategy is described here about objectives, method...
This paper describes a dynamic systems approach to quantitative risk assessment and simulation in megaprojects with regard to social, technical, economic, environmental and political issues relating to sustainability at the construction stage. A literature review was conducted to justify the need for such a dynamic systems approach that originally...
Background. This article is written for the launch of the specialty section on construction management at the Frontiers in Built Environment. This new specialty section opens an on-line platform for academics and practitioners in the subject field to share valuable experiences and findings from innovative research and development as well as practic...
In response to the long-term need for building asset management, this paper puts forward a new evidence-based safety analysis (ESA) approach to safety management in building refurbishment to prompt the use of evidence-based learning in practice and research in the subject field. This paper initiates a conceptual ESA framework to support the use of...
The characteristics of sustainability within megaprojects (typically worth over $1bn each) can make gigantic impacts on the society, the economy, and the environment at local, regional, national, and even international level depending on the nature of the project in short and longer term, and the pursuit of megaproject sustainability in development...
The construction industry has a history steeped in disputes which often arise as a result of the parties interpreting matters contained in the contracts differently. Since the introduction of BS11000-1:2010 in relation to collaborative business relationships, there is a perceived move to implement collaborative working with major companies obtainin...
Providing new knowledge on risk analysis and simulation for megaprojects, this book is essential reading for both academics and practitioners. Its focus is on technical descriptions of a newly developed dynamic systems approach to megaproject risk analysis and simulation. This is backed up by a discussion of the methodology as applied in a comprehe...
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management, Procurement and Law Themed Issue on Megaproject Management Call for Papers
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability Themed Issue on Megaproject Sustainability Call for Papers
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management Themed Issue on BIM for Waste and Resource Management Call for Papers
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability is planning a themed issue on engineering the sustainable flood risk management infrastructure and system.
Aims: Changes in water law and policy, in the UK and further afield, are promoting social and service innovation, as well as technical innovation in the water sector. In particular, the separation of wholesale and retail water and sewerage services for English and Welsh commercial water systems customers is leading to a focus on service innovation....
This paper develops a new weather-feature variable, Humidity Day (HD), which measures the latent influence of outdoor weather on the indoor air conditions and energy usage in a challenging case of a historical gallery having tight indoor environmental control. The variable is branched into two separate cases of latent addition and reduction in the...
The future of mega infrastructure projects is certain - there will be more risks to manage! The challenge is being met through research and innovation combining current approaches with new. This research adopted a dynamic approach through the combination of Analytical Network Process (ANP) and system dynamics (SD) as an innovative methodology known...
Megaprojects present significant economic risks to their financiers and sponsors. Factors such as inflation, cash flow issues, material and energy price hikes and change in government policies can cause such capital intensive projects to overrun planned budget and schedule allocations. Where the project is a commercial asset, delayed completion tim...
Megaprojects are complex and expensive projects that often involve social, technical, economic, environmental and political (STEEP) challenges to project management. Despite these challenges, project owners and financiers continue to invest large sums of money in megaprojects that run high risks of being over schedule and over budget. While some de...
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This paper presents an analytic network process (ANP) experiment for demolition plan evaluation. An experimental case study on the Warren Farm Bridge demolition project is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of an ANP model to support finding the most appropriate demolition plan. Alternative plans used in the experiment include plans that utilise...
The uncertainties and randomness in multi-dimensional risk management (RM) in large-scale construction projects should be effectively detected and measured through reliable managerial procedures to eliminate or reduce adverse consequences such as casualties and asset damages in advance. This paper aims at an innovative technical solution for projec...
Keywords the inherent risks and their interactive impacts in megaproject develop-ment have been found in numerous cases across the world. Although risk management standards have been recommended for the best practice, there is still a lack of systematic approaches to describing the interaction among social, technical, economic, environmental and po...
A presentation at the COST Action TU1003 Megaprojects Training School.
Purpose
– Due to the increasing complexity of curved roof surface design and the inadequate optimisation algorithms in design software, the optimisation of curved roof surface design needs to be studied further. The purpose of this paper is to develop an alternative approach to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of curved roof surface design...
An urban regeneration project almost affected by a series of risks those cause some critical impact to the progression of the projects and the local communities. This paper aims to review practitioner " s decision-making procedures in assessing the potential risks in urban regeneration projects, then it also introduces an Analytic Network Process (...
URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2012-1003-1012_Alsuliman_Bowles_Chen.pdf
This paper presents a multi-criteria decision analysis for environmental risk assessment (ERA) with regard to avoiding and eliminating damages and loss under natural disasters in international airport projects. It starts from an assumption that the strategy of eliminating damages and losses under natural disasters is related to the location selecti...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present results from a pilot research into the Chinese real estate confidence index, called CRE index, with regard to three diverse aspects, including effective demand and supply, potential demand, and potential supply, and to develop an effective tool for diversity management at different levels in the Chine...
A novel analysis approach to support real estate developers in making decision to deal with potential risks in each project development stage is introduced in this paper. The analysis model applied in this research is a multi-criteria approach, based on Analytic Network Process (ANP) theory. Risk assessment criteria to accomplish the ANP calculatio...
This paper provides a novel approach to the application of analytic network process (ANP) with regard to avoid the bottleneck problem in data collection through questionnaire surveys. A cybernetic model is firstly introduced to reflect all general targets and related processes so as to set up a generic framework of methodology for an efficient use...
This paper presents a novel method for evaluating facilities in regard to their designed intelligence. Facilities intelligence is defined as the designed capacity of a facility to acquire and process data and information to perform its adaptability to lifecycle circumstance changes in terms of people's requirements of wellbeing and energy efficienc...
This paper and presentation aim to make a summary of research into the theory and application of Analytic Network Process (ANP) in multi-criteria decision making in construction and development since 2003 when the new area of ANP applications was initially explored by researchers in Hong Kong and UK. The paper and presentation focus on two main iss...
This paper presents a novel method for evaluating facilities in regard to their designed intelligence. Facilities intelligence is defined as the designed capacity of a facility to acquire and process data and information to perform its adaptability to life-cycle circumstance changes in terms of people’s requirements of well-being and energy efficie...
This paper presents a novel method for evaluating facilities in regard to their designed intelligence. Facilities intelligence is defined as the designed capacity of a facility to acquire and process data and information to perform its adaptability to life-cycle circumstance changes in terms of people’s requirements of well-being and energy efficie...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel decision‐making approach to risks assessment in commercial real estate development against social, economic, environmental, and technological (SEET) criteria. It therefore aims to describe a multiple criteria decision‐making model based on analytic network process (ANP) theory, and to use an...
Thailand real estate development sector is vulnerable from risks and their consequences. Risks in real estate business are mostly caused by Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental and Political (STEEP) factors, which are occurring around the real estate business sector. However, Thai real estate developers do not have the efficient methods s...
This paper presents a multicriteria decision-making approach to evaluate contractor candidates in the open competition of construction project procurement by means of a knowledge-framed analytic network process (KANP), which embeds a construction knowledge framework into a formal analytic network process procedure. An applied KANP model named KANP....
This paper is based on a study of programming and progressing methods used on large modern developments with regard to their accuracy in terms of reducing the risk of project overrun. The study aims to discover if the accuracy of either programming or progressing methods can reduce the risk of project overrun. To complete the study, literature revi...
This article presents the knowledge-oriented information visualization (KIV) approach to facilitating the utilization of building rating systems at post-assessment stage. The KIV approach is introduced by using a Web-based decision support model. The model consists of several toolkits, including a case base of intelligent buildings to support the a...
The choice of location is one of the most important decisions usually taken in the procedure of building any production system (Pavic & Babic, 1991). In order to solve the problem of location choice, Pavic and Babic indentified a group of location indicators, including basic location factors such as transportation costs, production costs, and durat...
This chapter introduces an integrative knowledge management prototype named E+ for environmental-conscious construction based on a comprehensive integration of current environmental management (EM) techniques and tools in construction. The overall objective is to apply the theory of knowledge management (KM) in EM in construction, and the authors w...
This paper presents the conceptual model of a remote experts system (RES) to support group decision-making in the investigation and diagnosis of buildings and infrastructures in terms of various problems related to energy use, safety and well- being requirements. The model is set up based on the theory of cybernetics and an integrative use of exper...
A study related to 'a multicriteria lifespan energy efficiency approach to intelligent building assessment' is presented. The IB Index is one example of a comprehensive tool, regarding buildings assessment. The IB Index is supported by ten modules, which broadly describe about intelligent buildings. Besides this, a technique, called The Analytic Ne...
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