We are pleased to announce that Sofia Ningshuang Zeng successfully passed her disputation on Monday and may now bear the title of Dr.-Ing. after receiving her doctoral certificate.

Her work, "BIM-enabled Construction Supply Chain Integration: Bridging On-site and Off-site Processes", addresses the current challenges posed by the fragmentation of the construction supply chain. These include, for example, adversarial contractual relationships, lack of customer-supplier orientation, price-based selection, lack of coordination and communication, and inefficient use of technology.

Ms Ningshuang Zeng's paper presents approaches to integrating production, logistics and execution on the construction site, discussing causes and pointing to the lack of a holistic plan as a major limitation of current construction logistics practice.

Transparency plays a crucial role here. To make off-site processes visible and easy to understand for the construction project, this study uses CODP theory as a basis for interpreting off-site activities, decoupling off-site processes and defining process patterns. On this basis, it impressively presents two reference processes as possible solutions to the problem.

Under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr-Ing. Martin Radenberg, her first reviewer Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus König and her second reviewer Prof. Dr. Chao Mao (毛超) from Chongquin University (重庆大学) , who attended the disputation via webmeeting, came to a positive result!

•     Ningshuang Zeng, M. Sc. (more...)
•     Markus König, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (more...)