The International Society for Smart Construction and Production (SCP) recently announced the appointment of two world-leading civil and built environment scholars as new Board Members, further strengthening the society’s top-tier global academic governance team. The newly appointed board members include Dr. Bruce R. Ellingwood and Professor Jian Kang — both Fellows of world-class national engineering academies with authoritative research strengths covering structural resilience, infrastructure risk engineering, architectural acoustics, soundscape and sustainable intelligent built environments.

With decades of cross-continental academic research, journal editorial and international conference organizing experience, the two distinguished fellows will jointly steer SCP’s long-term strategic layout, formulate industry and academic standard frameworks, oversee global academic award evaluation, and bridge frontier fundamental research with industrial digital practice to accelerate the global development of resilient, low-carbon and smart construction.

Brief Profiles of New SCP Board Members

Dr. Bruce R. Ellingwood, U.S. National Academy of Engineering Fellow

Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University and former faculty of Georgia Tech, Dr. Ellingwood was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering for his pioneering contributions to structural reliability, natural hazard risk assessment and infrastructure resilience engineering. He is a globally recognized authority on seismic engineering, load safety standards and lifecycle structural risk analysis, and has received numerous top international civil engineering medals. He will lead SCP’s research working group on resilient intelligent infrastructure, disaster-resistant digital construction standards and long-term structural safety assessment systems.

Professor Jian Kang, Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering & Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering

Professor of Acoustics and Soundscape at The Bartlett, University College London (UCL), Professor Jian Kang holds dual fellow titles of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. His core research covers architectural acoustics, urban soundscape design, sustainable built environment and low-noise intelligent construction. As editor-in-chief and associate editor of multiple top international construction and environment journals, he will take charge of SCP’s research framework for human-centric, healthy smart buildings and urban acoustic environment optimization.

Official Statement from SCP Leadership

“SCP is greatly honored to welcome two preeminent academy-level engineering scholars to our governing board,” said the President of the International Society for Smart Construction and Production. “Dr. Ellingwood’s profound expertise in structural safety and disaster resilience, paired with Professor Kang’s world-leading achievements in sustainable built environment and architectural acoustics, forms a highly complementary cross-disciplinary leadership lineup. Their joint academic insights will upgrade the organization’s flagship international conference systems, optimize peer review standards for smart construction research, and expand SCP’s academic influence across North America, Europe and Asia.”

The two new Board Members take office immediately and will participate in the upcoming steering committee meetings to advance preparations for SCP’s annual flagship international conference on smart construction and production innovation.

About International Society for Smart Construction and Production (SCP)

The International Society for Smart Construction and Production (SCP) is a global non-profit academic and industrial organization committed to advancing digitalization, automation, sustainability and intelligent management in construction and built-environment sectors. It hosts annual international conferences, publishes peer-reviewed proceedings, grants cross-sector innovation awards, and facilitates worldwide academic-industry exchanges for engineering researchers and practitioners.