学术报告通知：
报告题目：SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTRAL SYSTEMS
报告人：Jonathan Shi 教授
报告人单位：美国佛罗里达大学
语言：英语
时间：2014年6月27日（星期五）15:00
地点：国家重点实验室学术报告厅（农水楼一楼）

讲座简介：
   This presentation will first introduce three hot research topics: sustainability, resilience and complex systems in the U.S. Infrastructural systems, including transportation systems, buildings, water/wastewater facilities, communication, power generation and distribution systems, are essentially needed for supporting our daily life and community. They significantly affect the environment, society and economy. They form complex systems of systems depending on each other’s operation to provide normal service. A sustainable development can be accomplished with specific design and construction strategies. Studies show that financial benefits remain the most important factor for motivating sustainable development. To address the challenge, our team is currently developing an integrated decision-support tool for a developer/owner to answer three key questions for a given sustainable development project: 1) evaluation of various feasible green features, 2) estimation the costs of these features, and 3)determination of the benefits including financial ones if any. The presentation will also brief some previous and current research projects including a net zero energy home and virtual green building environment. Furthermore, the speaker will discuss lessons learned from recent infrastructural failures in the U.S. and challenges to model complex inter-dependent relationships between infrastructural systems at different level of scales for studying and improving their resilience.  Finally, the presentation will highlight a recently funded Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) key project (国家自然科学基金重大项目-重大基础设施工程的社会责任、产业竞争力与可持续发展研究) which the principal investigator (PI) is Prof. Zeng Saixing of Shanghai Jaotong University and the speaker is a co-PI.

Jonathan Shi 教授简介：
   Dr. Jonathan Shi joined the Rinker School of Building Construction at the University of Florida as Holland Professor Fall 2011. Prior to UF, he served as Professor and Chair of the Construction Management Program in the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Before joining UNL in 2008, he was a Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environment Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Director of the Center for Work Zone Safety and Mobility. His research areas include green technologies for building and community development, modeling and simulation of construction operations, project planning and scheduling, productivity analysis and improvement, artificial neural networks, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and computer applications. Dr. Shi is a registered professional engineer in Hong Kong, and a member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). Prof. Shi has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical articles, 50 of which are published in refereed journals. He is a principal investigator (PI) or co-PI of sixteen (16) major grants funded by various sources, including the U.S. Department of Energy (US DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), U.S. Department of Labor (US DOL), National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) with a total funding amount exceeding $8 million. He is currently leading the BeeHa (Building Energy Efficient Homes for America) project team for the Building America (BA) program for the US DOE and is a principal investigator of the five-year $1.25 million green building and community research project funded by the US EPA. Dr. Shi has been invited to deliver more than a dozen public lectures and seminars. As recognition of his research contribution, he has been awarded more than a dozen fellowships and honors.

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