SCSDA was established in Chongqing in 2019.
Non-confidential research portfolio
Smart Cities and Sustainable Development Academy
A nonprofit applied research platform for smart cities, digital built environments, smart infrastructure, and sustainable urban systems.
Purpose
Institutional evidence, written for international academic review.
This English site presents SCSDA as an institutional research platform, while making clear Dr Daguang Han's founding and executive leadership in the Academy's early platform-construction period.
Reported for the 2019-2023 platform-construction period.
Reported in the implementation report for the construction period.
Reported in the implementation report for the construction period.
Leadership evidence
Built around platform leadership, not personal promotion.
SCSDA is presented first as a research-organization website. Its UK-facing value is that it documents how Dr Han helped initiate, structure and coordinate a research platform across BIM, digital twins, sensing, smart infrastructure and sustainable urban systems.
During SCSDA's early platform-construction period, Dr Daguang Han served as the principal responsible person and founding executive lead, coordinating research-centre development, international expert engagement, enterprise-facing applied research, and externally supported research-platform delivery.
Evidence map
A reviewer-facing bridge between the Academy and Dr Han's academic case.
The Evidence page explains how SCSDA supports Dr Han's UK and European academic applications while keeping institutional claims cautious, public-facing and source-bounded. This is deliberately stronger than a personal profile, because it lets reviewers see an institutional record and Dr Han's role inside that record.
Research themes
Digital built environment, smart infrastructure and sustainable cities.
The site foregrounds research areas that align with UK and European academic posts in digital construction, construction informatics, infrastructure resilience and sustainable urban systems.
BIM, Digital Twins and Reality Capture
Building information modelling, bridge and building digital twins, point-cloud processing, laser scanning, and model-based engineering assurance.
Supported by SCSDA's BIM and Digital Twin Research Centre and selected bridge, curtain-wall and enterprise BIM projects.
Smart Infrastructure and Structural Health Monitoring
Data-driven monitoring, sensing, performance assessment, lifecycle health evaluation, and infrastructure resilience for bridges and complex structures.
Supported by smart infrastructure centre materials, bridge monitoring projects, and Dr Han's wider digital structural engineering record.
MEMS Sensing and AIoT for Built Environment
Micro-electromechanical sensing, sensing modules, AIoT integration, and field-oriented sensing approaches for built-environment applications.
Supported by SCSDA smart MEMS sensing centre records and implementation-report outputs.
Sustainable Construction and Circular Materials
Sustainable urban systems, recycled construction materials, green construction methods, and applied research for lower-impact built environments.
Supported by SCSDA sustainable materials and construction-waste research-centre records.
Selected case studies
Public-facing examples of applied research platform development.
These examples are intentionally limited to public, non-confidential summaries. Sensitive or security-adjacent topics from older records are not foregrounded on the English site.
Research platform leadership
SCSDA Platform Construction, 2019-2023
A nonprofit applied research platform developed around smart cities, sustainable infrastructure, international collaboration and industry-facing research.
- Dr Daguang Han was the listed responsible person in the implementation report.
- The platform reported 12 centres and laboratories during the construction period.
- Research areas included BIM, digital twins, MEMS sensing, smart infrastructure and sustainable materials.
Digital built environment
BIM and Digital Twin Research Centre
A research centre focused on BIM, digital twins, reality capture and large-structure engineering applications.
- Connected BIM, 3D laser scanning, point-cloud processing and structural-performance evaluation.
- Supported enterprise-facing BIM implementation, training and model-based quality assurance.
- Public summaries are limited to non-confidential engineering applications.
Institutional research-platform website, not a personal-only profile
This claim is intended for a cautious international audience and is mapped to preserved website materials, the implementation report or Dr Han's verified academic profile.
Public-facing and non-confidential research summaries
This claim is intended for a cautious international audience and is mapped to preserved website materials, the implementation report or Dr Han's verified academic profile.
Nonprofit applied research organization
This claim is intended for a cautious international audience and is mapped to preserved website materials, the implementation report or Dr Han's verified academic profile.
Platform-construction evidence for smart cities and sustainable infrastructure
This claim is intended for a cautious international audience and is mapped to preserved website materials, the implementation report or Dr Han's verified academic profile.
Dr Daguang Han as principal responsible person and founding executive lead
This claim is intended for a cautious international audience and is mapped to preserved website materials, the implementation report or Dr Han's verified academic profile.