​2024

• Apr 2024: SCL received funding from the Seoul Housing and Communities Corporation for research on investigating support methods and strategies to enhance the capability of owners in the Seoul construction industry.

• Feb 2024: SCL received funding from the Korea Authority of Land & Infrastructure Safety for research on the analysis of construction safety management level assessment data for predicting the risk of construction accidents.

• Feb 2024: Journal paper by Baek, J., Kim, D., and Choi, B. "Deep Leaning-based Productivity Monitoring for On-site Module Installation in Off-site Construction" was accepted by Developments in Built Environment.

• Feb 2024: Journal paper by Moon, S., Kim, S., and Choi, B. "Comparative Feasibility Study of Physiological Signals from Wristband-Type Wearable Sensors to Assess Occupatns' Thermal Comfort" was accepted by Energy and Buildings.

• Feb 2024: Prof. Choi has been selected to receive an outstanding research award from the College of Engineering at Ajou University.

• Jan 2024: Jae Hyun joined SCL as an undergraduate research student. Welcome!

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​2023

• Dec 2023: Journal paper by Kim, Y., Choi, B., Choi, M., Ahn, S., and Hwang, S. "Enhancing Pedestrian Perceived Safety through Walking Environment Modification Considering Traffic and Walking Infrastructure" was accepted by Frontiers in Public Health.

• Dec 2023: We are pleased to announce the public dissemination of our research on the economy of modular construction through a featured article in the esteemed  Daehan Economic News. Read the full story: https://www.dnews.co.kr/uhtml/view.jsp?idxno=202312141603064650886. 

• Nov 2023: Prof. Choi has been selected to receive the best paper award at the annual conference of the Korean Institute of Construction and Management. Congrats!

• Nov 2023: Jongyeon and Jiyoon have been selected to receive the outstanding paper award at the annual conference of the Korean Institute of Construction and Management. Congrats!

• Sep 2023: Journal paper by Choi, B. "An agent-based model of the effects of group norms and project identification on construction workers’ safety behavior" was accepted by the Journal of Construction Automation and Robotics.

• May 2023: Prof. Choi has been selected to receive the 2022 Outstanding Research Faculty Award from Ajou University.

• Apr 2023: Journal paper by Seo, W., Choi, B., Shin, D., and Kim, J. "Development of quality management system for precast concrete factories" was accepted by the Journal of Civil Engineering and Management.  

• Apr 2023: Prof. Choi has been selected as a recipient of the "2022 Outstanding Reviewer" award by the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

• Apr 2023: SCL received funding from POSCO for research on the quantification of non-cost factors of modular construction.

• Mar 2023: Ikhwan joined SCL as an undergraduate research student. Welcome!

• Feb 2023: Prof. Choi has been selected to receive an outstanding research award from the College of Engineering

• Feb 2023: Jongyeon was selected to receive the Univeristy President's Award in the commencement ceremony.

• Jan 2023: SCL joined the "Standard process improvement to advance the asset management process of LH" research project funded by LH.
   

2022

• Dec 2022: SCL received funding from Ajou University to develop an automated productivity analysis platform for Off-site Construction.

• Dec 2022: SCL received funding from Ajou University to develop an automated HVAC control platform using wearable biosensors and IoT sensors.

• Dec 2022: Journal paper by Choo, H., Lee, B., Kim, H., and Choi B. "Automated detection of construction work at heights and deployment of safety hooks using IMU with a barometer " was accepted by Automation in Construction

• Dec 2022: SCL signed an MOU with the Ham Research Group at Texas A&M University, USA, and the Construction Vision Lab at the University of Toronto, Canada, to develop academic and cultural interchange in the areas of education and research.

• Nov 2022: Journal paper by Choo, H., Kim, J., Lee, B., and Choi B. "Discovering Pathways to Improve Maintainability in Multifamily Residential Building Remodeling: Importance-Applicability-Analysis " was accepted by the Sustainable Cities and Society

• Nov 2022: SCL signed an MOU with the Attentive Hub at the University of Alberta, Canada, and the Human-Centered Intelligent System Lab at West Virginia University, USA, to develop academic and cultural interchange in the areas of education and research.

• Nov 2022: Prof. Choi won the best paper award at the 22nd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR2022) in Seoul, Korea. The title of the paper is “Emotional Response Modeling for Human-Robot Collaboration in Construction”. The co-authors are Francis Park, Prof. SangHyun Lee at the University of Michigan, Prof. Daeho Kim at the University of Toronto, and Prof. Gaang Lee at the University of Alberta.

• Nov 2022: Jongyeon has been selected to receive the best paper award at the annual conference of the Korean Institute of Construction Engineering and Management. Congrats!

• Aug 2022: SCL received funding from the Korea Post Procurement and Construction Center to develop the standard construction period for the postal office.

• Jun 2022: Jongyeon and Jae Suk received the Outstanding Research Award at the 2022 Ajou Architectural Engineering Conference. Congratulations!

• Jun 2022: SCL joined the "Development of Installation Guidelines for Seoul Modular School Buildings " research project funded by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education.

• May 2022: Journal paper by Oh, J., Kim, H., Choi, B., and Kim, S. "Development of Energy Conservation Measures for Office Buildings by Analyzing Monthly Energy Use Patterns" was accepted by the Journal of Architectural Institute of Korea.

• May 2022: Prof. Choi has been selected to receive the 2021 Outstanding Research Faculty Award from Ajou University.

• May 2022: Journal paper by Shin, J. and Choi, B. "Design and Implementation of Quality Information Management System for Modular Construction Factory" was accepted by the Buildings.

• May 2022: Journal paper by Kim, T., Park, S., Choi, B., Kang, Y., Park, K., Jeong W., and Koo C. "A Survey of Perception Differences Among University Students, Professors, and Practitioners on the Construction Technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution" was accepted by the Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

• May 2022: Jae Suk and Jongyeon have been selected to receive a scholarship for the Industry 4.0 Smart Production Project from the College of Engineering at Ajou University.

• Apr 2022: Prof. Choi has been selected as an Assistant Specialty Editor in the Organizational Issues Area in the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

• Apr 2022: SCL joined the "Ajou Premier 10" research project funded by Ajou University.

• Mar 2022: SCL joined the "Development of a digital safety watch system for deteriorated buildings in the regional areas " research project funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport of Korea

• Mar 2022: Jiyun joined SCL as an undergraduate research student. Welcome!

• Feb 2022: Prof. Choi has been selected to receive the Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award from Ajou University.

• Feb 2022: Journal paper by Yoon, J., Kim, K., and Choi, B. "Integrated Framework for Quantifying and Applying Nonworking Days to Planning and Scheduling for Determining Reasonable Construction Time" was accepted by the Journal of Management in Engineering.

• Feb 2022: Journal paper by Shin, J., Moon, S., Cho, B., Hwang, S., and Choi, B. "Extended technology acceptance model to explain the mechanism of modular construction adoption" was accepted by the Journal of Cleaner Production.

• Feb 2022: Jiwoong will join Shinsegae E&C as a full-time construction engineer from February 2020. Congratulations on his new career.

• Jan 2022: Journal paper by Choi, B. and Lee, S. "The psychological mechanism of construction workers’ safety participation: The social identity theory perspective" was accepted by the Journal of Safety Research.
   

2021

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• Dec 2021: SCL received funding from Ajou University to study the effects of built environments on office occupants' stress and notification.

• Nov 2021: Hyunsang has been selected to receive the best paper award at the annual conference of the Korean Institute of Construction Engineering and Management. Congrats!

• Nov 2021: Yong-Woo received the first place award in the Value Engineering competition hosted by Seoul Housing & Communities Corporation. Congrats!

• Nov 2021: Ye-Eun received the second-place award in the Construction Idea competition at the annual conference of the Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management. Congrats!

• Nov 2021: Software by Jiwoong "Modular Construction Factory Quality Management System" was registered by the Korean Copyright Association and certified by the Software Testing and Certification Laboratory.

• Nov 2021: Jongyeon joined SCL as an undergraduate research student. Welcome!

• Sep 2021: Heonsang and Ye Eun have been selected to receive an outstanding research award at the annual conference of the Korean Institute of Construction Safety. Congrats!

• Aug 2021: Yong Woo joined SCL as an undergraduate research student. Welcome!

• Jul 2021: Jae Suk joined SCL as an undergraduate research student. Welcome!

• Jun 2021: Software by Heonsang, "Constructability analysis program for typical floor demolition and reinforced concrete work in residential building remodeling project " was registered by the Korean Copyright Association.

• Jun 2021: Yeeun won the 2nd award at the 2021 Ajou Architectural Engineering Conference. Congratulations!

• Jun 2021: The conference proceeding by Choi, B. and Lee, S. on "Impact of the Dynamicity of Workgroup Changes on Social Influence of Construction Workers’ Safety Behaviors" was accepted by the 2021 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE2021).

• Jun 2021: Journal paper by Lee, M., Hwang, S., Park, Y., and Choi, B. on "Factors Affecting Bike-sharing System Demand by Inferred Trip Purpose: Integration of Clustering of Travel Patterns and Geospatial Data Analysis" was accepted by the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation.

• Jun 2021: Journal paper by Lee, G., Choi, B., Jebelli H., and Lee, S. on "Assessment of construction workers’ perceived risk using physiological data from wearable sensors: A machine learning approach " was accepted by the Journal of Building Engineering.

• Apr 2021: Prof. Choi has been selected as a 2020 Outstanding Reviewer for the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

• Mar 2021: Seunghyun joined SCL as an undergraduate research student. Welcome!
   

​2020

• Dec 2020: Journal paper by Nam, S., Yoon, J., Kim, K., and Choi, B. on "Optimization of prefabricated components in housing modular construction" was accepted from Sustainability.

• Dec: 2020: Taejin joined SCL as an undergraduate research student. Welcome!

• Dec 2020: Prof. Choi has been invited to be a guest editor for a special issue of Sustainability on "Sustainable Construction Management and Computer Simulation" . For further information, please see its call.

• Nov 2020: Homin, Na Yeon, and Ye Eun have been selected to receive an undergraduate merit paper award from the annual conference of the Korean Institute of Construction Engineering and Management.

• Oct 2020: Homin, Na Yeon, and Ye Eun have been selected to receive a scholarship for the Industry 4.0 Smart Production Project from the College of Engineering at Ajou University.

• Oct 2020: Sungwoo has been selected to receive a scholarship for an Independent Study from the College of Engineering at Ajou University.

• Sep 2020: SCL joined the "Productivity and economic improvement of smart factory technology-based HSA400/PosMAC applied modular building construction " research project funded by POSCO.

• Sep 2020: SCL joined the "Development of a Special Specification and Technical Guideline for Modular Construction Projects" research project funded by Korea Land and Housing Corporation.

• Sep 2020: Chanyeol and Heonsang joined SCL as Master's students. Welcome!

• July 2020: Jinho joined SCL as an undergraduate research student. Welcome!

• June 2020: Na Yeon and Ye Eun joined SCL as undergraduate research students. Welcome!

• June 2020: Prof. Choi has been selected to receive the 2019 Outstanding Research Faculty Award (IF Division) from Ajou University.

• June 2020: Journal paper by Lee, G., Choi, B., Jebelli, H., Ahn, C., and Lee, S. on "Noise Reference Signal-based Denoising Method for EDA Collected by a Multimodal Wearable Biosensor from Fields" was accepted from Journal of Computing Civil Engineering, ASCE

• Apr 2020: SCL joined the "Development of low cost and high-efficiency technologies for vertical extension of residential buildings" research project funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport of Korea to develop a framework for evaluating the constructability and maintainability of remodeling plans.

• Apr 2020: SCL received funding from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport of Korea to develop a performance evaluation system for off-site construction projects.

• Mar 2020: SCL received funding from the National Research Foundation of Korea to develop a wearable bio-sensor-based risk monitoring system for construction sites.

• Feb 2020: Prof. Choi has been selected to receive the 2019 Outstanding Research Faculty Award from Ajou University College of Engineering.

• Feb 2020: Jiwoong joined SCL as a Master's student. Welcome!

• Jan 2020: SCL joined the "Technical Development of Modular Construction in Mid-high Rise Building and Higher Productivity" research project funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport of Korea to develop a quality management system for modular factories.
   

2019

• Dec 2019: Hyunwoo will join Kumho Engineering and Construction as a field engineer. Congratulations, Hyunwoo!

• Dec 2019: Wonchoel will join Kolon Global as a field engineer. Congratulations, Wonchoel!

• Dec 2019: Sungwoo and Homin joined SCL as undergraduate research students. Welcome!

• Sep 2019: Jiwoong joined SCL as an undergraduate research student. Welcome!

• Aug 2019: Journal paper by Lee, G., Choi, B., Jebelli, H., Ahn, C., and Lee, S. on "Wearable Biosensor and Hotspot Analysis-based Framework to Detect Stress Hotspots for Advancing Elderly’s Mobility" was accepted by the Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE

• Aug 2019: Journal paper by Lee, G., Choi, B., Jebelli, H., Ahn, C., and Lee, S. on “Wearable Biosensor and Collective Sensing-based Approach for Detecting the Elderly’s Environmental Barriers” was accepted by the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE

• Jul 2019: Hyunwoo, Woncheol, and Heonsang joined SCL as undergraduate research students. Welcome!

• May 2019: Journal paper by Jebelli, H., Choi, B., and Lee, S. on “Application of Wearable Biosensors to Construction Sites: Assessing Workers’ Stress” was accepted by the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE.

• Apr 2019: SCL received funding from Ajou University to develop a smart construction safety management system.

• Mar 2019: Prof. Choi has been selected as a 2018 Outstanding Reviewer for the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

• Mar 2019: Journal paper by Jebelli, H., Choi, B., and Lee, S. on “Application of Wearable Biosensors to Construction Sites: Assessing Workers’ Physical Demand” was accepted by the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE.

• Mar 2019: Journal paper by Ahn, C., Lee, S., Sun, C., Jebelli, H., Yang, K., and Choi, B. "Wearable Sensing Technology Applications in Construction Safety and Health" was accepted by the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE.

• Jan 2019: Journal paper by Choi, B., Jebelli, H., and Lee, S. on "Feasibility Analysis of Electrodermal Activity (EDA) Acquired from Wearable Bio Sensors to Assess Construction Workers' Perceived Risk" was accepted by Safety Science, Elsevier