Dongping Fang World Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2026

Dongping Fang

Dr. Dongping Fang is a professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University. He also serves as the director of the Institute for Future Cities and Infrastructures. He is currently president of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB). Professor Fang specializes in construction safety and urban resilience. He developed a cognition-based Leadership-Culture-Behavior (LCB) approach for construction safety and a Trio-space Framework (Physical-Societal-Cyber) for urban resilience. Currently his research focuses on human-centric approaches to improve urban resilience against earthquakes and floods. Professor Fang has authored over 200 papers in peer-reviewed academic journals. He has been invited as keynote speakers at more than 50 international conferences such as World building Congress 2016 and 2022, and Urban Transitions 2017. His contributions have earned him awards from the Construction Industry Council in Hong Kong, and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) in the UK. He also serves as Co-President of International Consortium of Construction Engineering and Project Management (ICCEPM) and vice-chair of the Specialists Committee of the China Construction Industry Association. From 2020 to 2025, he was the dean of civil engineering at Tsinghua University.