Prof. Jack CHENG’s Team Won Four Awards at CIC AI Award 2026

Prof. Jack CHENG, Associate Head and Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of BIM Lab, and his team received three Gold Awards (the highest level) and one Bronze Award in the Construction Industry Council (CIC) AI Award 2026, among 258 submissions for 12 categories in total. They are:

Gold Award in the category of AI + Construction and Monitoring
Leveraging AI Application in Driving Project Excellence in Development of the Loop

Gold Award in the category of AI + Design Optimization
HA-iGEN: Housing Authority Intelligent Design Generator

Gold Awad in the category of AI + Safety
ViRoSafe: VLM and Robotics-Driven Intelligent AI Site Safety Inspection System

Bronze Award in the category of AI + Sustainability
SSC Connect: Sustainability-Aware AI Agents with Decision Intelligence for Building Operations