ICMC 2026

Professor Fischer is known globally for his research and leadership in developing digital methods to increase the productivity of design and construction project teams, enhance building performance and sustainability, and create new strategic opportunities for firms in the construction industry. His award-winning research results have been used operationally and strategically by many industrial and government organisations around the world. He has co-authored the book “Integrating Project Delivery” published by Wiley in 2017, written over 200 refereed articles and book chapters, and given over 200 keynote and plenary lectures, He has been the principal thesis advisor for over 70 Ph.D. students and has lived, worked, consulted, and taught in Europe, South America, North America, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and Africa.

Professor Mohamed Al-Hussein is Senior University of Alberta Engineering Research Chair in the Industrialisation and Decarbonization of Construction and a professor in the of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He held the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in the Industrialization of Building Construction and was the inaugural director of the Nasseri School of Building Science and Engineering. He is a highly sought researcher in the areas of modular construction, lean manufacturing, construction process optimization, and BIM. Professor Al-Hussein’s research has been published in well over 400 articles in leading journals and conference proceedings.

Professor Tuan Ngo is the Research Program Leader of the Building 4.0 CRC, a $130m initiative to transform the building industry in Australia. He is a board director of PrefabAUS, the peak industry body in prefabrication and offsite construction in Australia. Prof Ngo is one of the pioneers in Australia carrying out research in the area of modular prefab technologies for buildings and infrastructure. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and a member of the ARC College of Experts. He received Scopus Research Award in 2022 for Excellence in the Research Impacting a Sustainable Future. Prof Ngo was named the world’s top Composite Materials researcher in 2023.

Kang Hai TAN is Professor of Structural Engineering and Director of the Protective Technology Research Centre (PTRC) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received both his Bachelor’s and PhD degrees from the University of Manchester. He serves as Editor/Board Editor for Cement and Concrete Composites. He joined NTU since Oct 1990 and has published around 340 top tier 1 SCI journal papers with over 95% in Tier 1 journals. He has attracted about 18,500 google citations and an H-index of 73. He is consistently ranked among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Career Scientists. From ScholarGPS website, he is among the top 10 highly ranked scholar – Lifetime All in Structural Engineering. His research encompasses both structural resilience to fire and blast effects, and innovative construction-materials, contributing to development of novel technologies.

He has previously served as Chair in international conferences, including Structures in Fire (SiF), Design and Analysis of Protective Structures (DAPS), PROTECT and ASFE series. He received the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2020, multiple Best Paper Awards from leading international conferences, and Certificate of Highly Cited Research from Engineering Structures. Besides serving as the independent external expert for assessment of competency development in blast engineering for DSTA and HTX, he is Chair of Appeal Advisory Board for Infrastructure Protection Act and he is a technical committee member in the 17th Standards Council term. Currently, he is a Blast Consultant to design of power stations, Terminal 5 and Marina Bay Sand Phase 2 in Singapore.