Mr. Andy MITCHELL CBE was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer, Tideway full time in early summer 2014. He was previously Programme Director and board member at Crossrail. Andy has managed a number of high profile projects both in the United Kingdom and overseas. After 12 years working in the United Arab Emirates, France and South Africa and on major developments such as Hong Kong Airport and the Hong Kong West Rail, he joined Network Rail in 2001. He was Project Director for Network Rail’s Southern Power Upgrade project, and was also the Major Programme Director of the Thameslink Programme. Andy is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, former Chair of the Infrastructure Industry Innovation Platform (i3P), and the Infrastructure Client Group (ICG) and more recently became Co-chair of the Construction Leadership Council (CLC). He was awarded the CBE for his services to Civil Engineering.

Mr. Ben CHAN has been the Assistant Director of Survey and Mapping Office of Lands Department of the HKSAR Government since 21 December 2018. The Survey and Mapping Office of the Lands Department is the official land survey and mapping agency for Hong Kong in charge of maintaining the geodetic survey control network and the satellite positioning reference station network, carrying out land boundary surveys and aerial surveys, and producing maps in both paper and digital forms for Hong Kong.

Mr. CHAN is a geomatics surveyor specialised in geographical information system and geodetic survey. He joined the Lands Department as a land surveyor in 1990 and was pioneering in deploying Internet map technology for applications in Hong Kong and dissemination of the GPS correctional signals of the Hong Kong Satellite Positioning Reference Station Network on Internet to benefit the survey industry. He also participates in the integration of Building Information Modelling and GIS for 3D mapping in recent years.

Having joined Bryden Wood shortly after the practice’s formation in 1995, Mr.Jaimie JOHNSTON leads the adoption of a manufacturing-like approach to creating high performing assets on projects in the UK, Europe and Asia with clients including GlaxoSmithKline, Heathrow Airport and several government departments. As Head of Global Systems, he is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on the future of industrialised construction. He was the author of the strategy documents ‘Delivery Platforms for Government Assets: Creating a Marketplace for Manufactured Spaces’, ‘Platforms: Bridging the gap between construction + manufacturing’ and ‘Data Driven Infrastructure: From digital tools to manufactured components’. These have been adopted as a key articulation of the UK Government’s aspiration to adopt a more manufacturing-led approach to construction. This work was reflected in the Infrastructure and Project Authority’s call for evidence relating to the ‘proposed adoption of a Platform approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly’ issued in 2018. Jaimie is the Design Lead for the Construction Innovation Hub, which in 2018 was awarded £72 million to drive innovation and technological advances in the UK construction and infrastructure sectors.

Dr. Inhan KIM is a Professor of Architectural Information Technology in the Department of Architecture of the College of Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea. He is also the Chief Vice-Chairman of buildingSMART Korea. Dr KIM has more than 25 years of practical experience in architecture, including BIM, CAD, and IT in Construction. He is also an international board member of buildingSMART and elected to Fellow of buildingSMART International on March 2019. He founded the buildingSMART Korea chapter (1998) and Korea Construction IT Convergence Institute (2011). He will serves as a President for Society of Computational Design and Engineering from 2020. He recently served as a congress chair for i3CDE (i3cde.org) which was held at Penang, Malaysia July 2019.Dr. KIM’s key qualifications include: (i) Architecture: design experience for residential buildings; (ii) BIM & IT: leader for various national BIM projects including National BIM Roadmap and Guides, Korea Procurement Service (PPS) BIM Guides; (iii) National and International Research Project management experience total 50 government initiated BIM, IT R&D projects. Over 500 international and domestic Journal papers publication.

Ir Dr. PAN Wei is Executive Director of Centre for Innovation in Construction and Infrastructure Development (CICID) and Associate Professor at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He is also Chairman of HKU Civil Engineering External Relations Committee and Teaching and Learning Quality Committee. He is specialized in construction engineering and innovation, with interest covering prefabrication, modular integrated construction (MiC), smart-tech, and building energy and carbon. He developed the ‘dialectical system theory’ to lead research on zero carbon building and modular construction. Dr Pan was awarded Distinguished Young Investigator of China Frontiers of Engineering by Chinese Academy of Engineering, and achieved HKU Engineering Knowledge Exchange Award 2019 for his work on MiC for buildings of higher quality, productivity and sustainability.Ir Dr. PAN has authored over 200 publications and secured over HK$70million research grants. He is Chartered Builder, Chartered Environmentalist, Fellow of Higher Education Academy, and member of Institution of Civil Engineers and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He has 25 years of working experience in academia and practice in China, Singapore, UK and HK in building engineering, construction project management and innovation, and strategic management. Dr. Pan sits on many academic, government and industry boards and committees.

Mr. Lex RANSIJN has a background as BIM manager for a large general contractor in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He loves to share his experiences with BIM from the past 10 years working on projects in the Dutch construction industry. In 2018, he and the team, won the “openBIM Award for Construction from buildingSMART International” with the project Pontsteiger. Right now he has his own company and does mentoring on projects and companies to help them with their BIM adoption. Together with some other BIM experts he launched a 2 pages document for minimum BIM requirements. Right now he is the chairman of the expert committee from that BIM basic IDM

Ir Michael KWOKis a Civil/Structural Engineer by profession, and he has over 33 years of project experience. He is a member of Arup Group Board, and he took up the role of Chairman of East Asia Region from 1 April 2017. In the past 25 years Ir KWOKwok has been the key person in developing Arup’s business and operation in Mainland China, and he has helped the company in setting up permanent offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing and Wuhan. In China, Ir KWOKwok is the Director in-charge for several key projects associated with 2008 Beijing Olympics including Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3, CCTV Headquarter Building, National Stadium (Bird’s Nest), and the Denmark Pavilion and Korea Pavilion of Shanghai 2010 World Expo. Full time based in Beijing from 2001 to 2007 and in Shanghai from 2007 to 2017. During his stay in Mainland China he has established good working relationship with local government, investors, developers, design institutes and contractors. Recently, he has been focusing on developing business opportunities related to the Belt and Road Initiative. He is a member of the HKTDC Belt and Road Committee Professional Services Working Group; Advisory Committee of the Department of Civil Engineering in HKU; Construction Innovation and Technology Fund (CITF) Vetting Sub-committee in Manpower Development Panel and Honorary Advisor of ICE Hong Kong Association