Climate change, manmade disruptions and pandemic will continue to affect the society for the years to come. To cope with all these challenges, there is a need to rethink about how to make building and infrastructure facilities more adaptable to various types of threats in future. Advance in smart technologies may open up new ways to improve the reliability, efficiency and resilience of built facilities and hence the wellbeing of the society. In this course, the evolvement of smart building and infrastructure facilities will first be introduced. It will then be followed by the discussion of a series of smart technologies being applied in the building and infrastructure sectors. The basic concept of digital twin and deep learning will then be elaborated. Finally, case studies be used to showcase some successful smart building and infrastructure facilities around the world.

To pass a course, a student must obtain minimum marks of 30% in both coursework and examination components, and an overall mark of at least 40%