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BSc(First Class Hons); PGCert; PhD; FHEA; MHKIE; MCIOB; FCInstCES; CCBM; CCBC; EngBIM Coord; EngBIM Pro
Founder and Group CEO
Llewellyn & Partners Co. Ltd. (LPC) – HKU BIM Innovation Start-up/Spin-off
Honorary Associate Professor, Director,
MetaBIM Research Lab (2025-), FoA, REC, HKU
TEDx Speaker Shanghai 2018 on Future Smart City using BIM, AI and Blockchain
BIMers 2020 by CIC HK
Pioneering Talent Award (Toward net zero innovation and Technology) from the World Institute of Sustainable Development Planners 2025
Director of Innovation Center, Professor in Building Information Management,
Faculty of Science and Technology,
Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU)
(2024-2025)
Associate Professor, Program Director, Master of Science in Digital Management of Built Assets (MSc DMBA)
Director, MetaBIM Research Lab, Department of Real Estate and Construction (REC), Faculty of Architecture (FoA),
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
(2019-2025)
Founding Director of Digital City Infrastructure and Technology Innovation Laboratory (D-CiTi Lab)
Former Head of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment (2012-2017) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Former Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Reading and Loughborough University respectively
Former Deputy Chairman for the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (U.K. Chapter, 2011)
Former member of Construction Excellence BIM Industry Task Group (PAS 1192) for the U.K. Government
Professor Tang is an academic, researcher, and tech entrepreneur widely recognized for his expertise in Building Information Modeling (BIM), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins (DT), and Smart City technologies. He serves as an Associate Professor in Building Information Modeling at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), is the Founder and Group CEO of Llewellyn and Partners Company Limited, and was an Overseas Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge on National Digital Twin.
He is a committee member for the Hong Kong SAR Government on ISO/TC 59 (Buildings and civil engineering works) and ISO/TC 59/SC 13 (Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including BIM), and a member of the BIM Assessment Panel (BIMAP) of CIC. He is also a validation panelist and reviewer for CIDB Malaysia’s “Construction 4.0: A Guide for Digital Transformation” and the author of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) publication “BIM Development Roadmap in Developing Economies.”
As an international advocate for BIM-AI R&D Innovation and Information management, and a pioneer in the new normal of construction, he leverages urban and green technologies to drive sustainable development and carbon neutrality. Over the past decades, he has led/participated in various large-scale BIM, AI, and digital twin projects to reshape the world’s largest industry ecosystem. Furthermore, he first introduced the UK BIM Level 2 standard (PAS 1192/ISO 19650) to China, promoting BIM technology integration between East and West (“as-Asia region”) and advancing global digitalization and smart city development. Professor Tang has secured over HKD 120 million in research funding and industry sponsorship, with HKD 60 million as Principal Investigator (PI).
He has delivered more than 100 public speeches internationally on BIM and smart cities, supervised more than 60 PhD students worldwide, and published over 160 papers in journals, conferences, and high-impact industry reports, including the large-scale industry survey, the CIC BIM Adoption Survey 2020, a best practice guidebook on digitalizing construction for enhancing project delivery and ESG 2024, for the Hong Kong Construction Industry. He also serves as a reviewer for the EPSRC, the NSFC, and over 30 SCI journals in the field, including Automation in Construction, Construction Management and Economics, and the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
Llewellyn and Partners Company Limited (LPC), founded by Prof Tang in 2019, is a potential AI unicorn pioneer incubated by The University of Hong Kong’s MetaBIM Research Laboratory and Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP). LPC is actively positioning itself to secure true global unicorn status through massive international projects and cross-border joint ventures.
The company embeds advanced deep Natural Language Processing (NLP) and semantic parsing into its BIM+AI product development pipeline, automating data conversion and solving cross-platform interoperability issues. Key and award-winning products include:
LPC achieved global validation as the first company to receive the prestigious BSI Kitemark™ for BIM Software (ISO 19650 compliance), demonstrating that its AI-driven information management system meets rigorous international standards, reducing CAPEX and OPEX for multiple built-asset owners currently in Mainland China, Africa, India, the Middle East, South-East Asia, the UK, and Hong Kong.
LPC Group is an internationally award-winning BIM-AI company, including