Ruodan Lu, PhD candidate at Construction IT lab, her project Automated Bridge Information Model Generation System in the category Outstanding Student Research Project has been selected by the members of the CETI Awards Jury to win a CETI AWARD 2017. Ruodan accepted this award in person at the Fiatech-CII conference, which was held at the Hyatt Hill Country resort San Antonio, TX on March 19-21, 2018.

Fiatech is a global community of capital facility stakeholders working together to drive productivity and efficiency improvements by advancing technology and innovation practices. Fiatech’s Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation (CETI) Awards recognize significant achievements in technology research, development, and implementation in the capital projects industry.

Ruodan’s project plans to target the needs of the bridge owners and provide a step-change in the way we inspect existing highway bridges by delivering a cost-effective software solution for automated compilation of solid 3D geometry from point cloud data to help monitor and inspect existing bridges while decreasing the cost of repairs and maintenance.

Ruodan is supervised by Dr. Ioannis Brilakis. She is due to graduate before the end of this academic year. In the future, Ruodan will continue dedicating herself to the area of automation in construction through technologies and innovations.

Submitted by Mahendrini Fernando on 26/03/2018