>>During the Spring Festival, Prof. ZHU Qing was invited to the ACIT2006, Tokyo Japan
In Asian countries, construction industry contributes to the development of sound basis for safe and efficient life of people though the development of social infrastructure and management of natural environmental resources. Especially, in Asia, while countries suffer from natural hazards, economic development is very active, which creates very strong demands to the construction and maintenance of social infrastructures. With these backgrounds, the better performance of construction industries will provide large economic and social benefits not only to people and the other industries in each country, but to Asian region itself by both promoting transboundary exchanges of goods and services and improving regional capacity of natural / environmental resource management and hazard prevention. On the other hands, construction industry is one of the oldest industries strongly connected with public sectors and has large numbers of low-skill workers and small firms, which may cause the low efficiency and the less flexibility of applying new technologies. In recent years, active movement has been initiated in several Asian countries to improve the performance of construction industry by applying IT systematically. Electronic procurement and bidding, CAD and model-based simulations for rapid and sophisticated planning and design of infrastructures, Remote Sensing and GIS for natural and environmental resource management and facility management, and Robotics for construction works are the examples of such diversified and active efforts along this direction. The application of IT, however, should be made systematically and consistently because the individual activities in construction projects are strongly related with each other. Aiming at providing guidance and prospects for efficient and effective applications of IT in construction industry in Asia, Asian IT Forum for Construction Industry invites key persons from Asian countries to share the experiences and knowledge. From 27 to 28 January 2006, Prof. ZHU Qing was invited to join this forum and gave a guest speech about the “RS/GIS Applications to Land Management：Virtual Geographic Environments”.
The First Asia Construction IT Round Table Meeting discussed the current status, future vision and cooperation of related organizations and experts toward the IT era in the field of Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC). 15 Construction IT experts from China, Japan and Korea, and 38 observers gathered on January 28, 2006 in Tokyo, Japan. Based on the enthusiastic discussions, the Asia Construction IT Round Table Meeting has agreed as follows:
1. very rapid growth of economy and consequent social and environmental issues in Asian countries highlights the importance of the development and management of social infrastructure,
2. utilization of information technology is inevitable to realize effective and efficient development and management of social infrastructure,
3. it is important to share experiences and to make collaboration among the countries, to overcome technical, institutional and operational problems in effectively applying IT to the construction field,
4. AEC engineers in Japan are very glad to share the experiences obtained through the transition periods from the rapid economic growth to the stabilized aged society to help other Asian countries find solutions on various problems,
5. the Asia Construction IT Round Table Meeting can promote such cooperation, and continuous holding of the Meeting is strongly recommended,
6. the Meeting will encourage the other countries in the region to participate in this activity to widen the wheel of cooperation borne by the first Asia Construction IT Round Table Meeting,
7. the participants of the first Asia Construction IT Round Table Meeting appreciate the timely establishment of this place of interchange, and express gratitude to the Japan Society of Civil Engineers and the Japan Construction Information Center for organizing and hosting the Meeting.
(from http://shiba.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/acit2006)
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