Commitees

Dr Yacine Rezgui is Professor of Engineering Informatics / Director of the BRE Centre in Sustainable Engineering at Cardiff University, and a former Professor of Construction Information Technology and Director of the Informatics Research Institute at Salford University.  He is the recipient of a DEA (MSc degree) in Building Physics and a PhD degree in Construction Informatics from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in France. His prior appointements include the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB) in France.

He is a qualified architect with 25 years research and teaching experience. He has published over 250 refereed publications in leading journals, such as the Proceedings of the Royal Society and a wide range of IEEE Transaction journals and is the co-author of several books. He has graduated 40 PhD students to date, and completed 40+ national (UK) and European funded research projects in areas related to computing in the built environment (including in the fields of the Internet of Things, Semantics, and Artificial Intelligence). He has organized several conferences, including the recent IEEE / ICE (2020) and Pro-VE (2018) conferences. His recent work includes the development of a Computational Urban Sustainability platform (CUSP), a Semantic IoT environment augmented with Machine Learning, currently being adopted by Atkins Global, an internationally leading engineering company.

Dr. Annie Guerriero is senior research & technology associate at LIST (Luxembourg) where she works since 2005. She is an architect graduated from the Victor Horta Institute (Brussels, 2001). She performed a master in “Modeling and simulation of built spaces” in 2002 and she obtained her PhD in Architecture Science in 2009 at the INPL (Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, Nancy). Currently, she supervises research projects and contributes to the following topics: BIM, 4D model, Collective decision support for AEC, Smart building/city, Deconstruction, Perceived comfort & Post-Occupancy Evaluation.

Dr. Sylvain Kubicki is Senior Research and Technology associate at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). He holds a PhD degree in Architecture & Computer Science. He works on research and technology projects related to construction informatics, BIM and Digital Twins, and their applications focused on environmental innovation. He is the coordinator of BIMEET (H2020, 2017-2020) and 4DCollab (bilateral funding by ANR, France, and FNR, Luxembourg, 2017-2020) projects. He acts also as partner’s Principal Investigator in several other H2020 projects (INSTRUCT, EPC RECAST…). In addition he supervises Master and PhD research in collaboration with universities (3 PhD theses defended under his co-supervision). He also acts as an expert in project proposals evaluation as well as in construction projects, and regularly gives invited conferences, lectures as well as training sessions regarding BIM and digitalisation approach, challenges, return on investment and practical implementation.

Dr. Alain ZARLI was formerly Head of the “Innovation Numérique pour la Construction” division at the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB) in the “Technologies de l’Information et Diffusion du Savoir” department (Sophia-Antipolis - FRANCE), and further European Affairs manager in CSTB. He is nowadays Managing Partner at R2M Solution and Secretary General of ECTP, the European Construction Technology Platform.

His main fields of interest are programming languages and compilation, product and process modelling, rule-based languages and knowledge-based systems, distributed architectures, software components, and technologies for smart constructions – and their broad application to the Built environment and the Construction industry. He has been the Project Coordinator of various FP5, FP6 and FP7 projects, including the IST ICCI and ROADCON projects, and the REEB project establishing a roadmap to ICT-enabled Energy Efficiency in Buildings and construction.

He is in support since a long time of ECTP initiatives (the E2B cPPP, the “Energy & Efficient Buildings”, “Active Ageing & Design”, “Infrastructures & Mobility” and “Digital Built Environment” Committees) in roadmapping and impact assessment, and is now responsible for the development of the Built4People Partnership under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme too. He is acting expert for the review of European R&D projects on behalf of the European Commission and has been participating in the European Commission Advisory group for ICT Infrastructure for energy-efficient buildings and neighbourhoods for carbon-neutral cities. He has been acting as leader of the “Open Data” Action Group in the European Innovation Partnership Smart Cities and Communities (EIP SCC), and has contributed as expert to the EIP SCC Operational Implementation Plan, in particular in the “Sustainable District and Built Environment” Action Cluster. He is the organisers of various conferences in the past and present, including IEEE/ICE, CIB W78, ECPPM, as well as the series of ECTP conferences.

• Pieter Pauwels, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
• Maria Poveda Villalón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ESP)
• Kris McGlinn, Trinity College Dublin (IRL)
• Ana Roxin, University of Burgundy (FR)
• Jakob Beetz, RWTH Aachen (D)
• Anna Wagner, PROSTEP AG (D)