Who We Are

Founded in 1993, the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) is an international network of researchers from practice and academia in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) who feel that the practice, education, and research of the AEC industry have to be radically renewed in order to respond to the global challenges ahead. For more information, refer to: www.iglc.net

Our Team

Local Organizing Committee

Dr Justin Yeoh National University of Singapore
Dr Charmaine Ng Kyoto Institute of Technology
Dr Chae Soungho Kajima
Dr Vincent Gan National University of Singapore
Dr Nguyen Thi Qui Singapore Institute of Technology
A/Prof Goh Yang Miang National University of Singapore
Prof Vicente Gonzalez University of Alberta
Prof Luis F Alarcon Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile(PUC)
Dr Zhang Pin National University of Singapore
Dr Xu Jinying National University of Singapore
Dr Hu Rongbo Kajima
Our Team

Scientific Committee

Chair Prof Farook Hamzeh University of Alberta
Co-Chair Dr Mani Poshdar Auckland University of Technology
Co-Chair Dr Nelly Garcia Lopez Universidad de los Andes
Local Co-Chair Dr Vincent Gan National University of Singapore
Our Team

PhD Summer School Deans

Dr Gao Shang University of Melbourne
Dr Nguyen Thi Qui Singapore Institute of Technology
Our Team

Publications Organizing Team

The IAARC publications organizing team is responsible for internalized, stable, and quality ensuring paper submission, peer-review, and proceedings/paper publication process for the yearly ISARC conferences. The publications VP can be reached at publications@iaarc.org

Technical chairs

Chair Asst. Prof. Qian Chen University of British Columbia
Vice Chair Asst. Prof. Gaang Lee University of Alberta
Vice Chair Asst. Prof. Ci-Jyun (Polar) Liang Stony Brook University
Past Chair Assoc. Prof. Jiansong Zhang Purdue University

Roles

The ISARC technical committee consists of the Chair, the Vice-Chair, the Area Chairs, and the reviewers.
Their roles, responsibilities, and rights are described below.

Chair

The Chair, with the assistance of the Vice-Chair, is responsible for overseeing the whole ISARC paper review and awards selection process to ensure high-quality reviews

Vice-Chair
  • The Vice-Chair is responsible for collecting and verifying camera-ready papers, the compilation of paper proceedings, and the video proceedings (including the presentation videos) online
  • The Vice-Chair is also responsible for indexing all the accepted papers
  • The Vice-Chair should also assist the Chair in the above paper review and awards selection process
Appointment of the Chair and Vice-Chair
  • The Vice-Chair will automatically become the next year’s ISARC Technical Committee Chair
  • The Vice-Chair for the next year’s ISARC Technical Committee should be nominated by the current Chair and Vice-Chair together
  • The Chair and the Vice-Chair must be an IAARC BOD member
Area Chairs
  • Area Chairs are responsible for finding at least 2 high-quality paper reviews for each assigned paper submission in the area, and finally, recommend acceptance/rejection of the paper submission
  • Area Chairs will be assigned to technical areas
  • In principle, Area Chairs are expected to be IAARC BOD members; any additional ACs will be recruited outside of BOD
  • If a submission has a conflict of interests with an Area Chair, it will be handled by the Chair and the Vice-Chair
Reviewers
  • Reviewers are invited by area chairs after papers are assigned to Area Chairs by the authors’ selected area
  • The authors’ selected area of any submission might be changed by the Chair & the Vice-Chair
  • Reviewers should not be Area Chairs
  • Reviewers need to carefully review the paper and fill in the Review Form.
  • Best reviewers will be selected by all the chairs
  • ISARC will incentivize high-quality reviews by recognizing the selected best reviewers, using official email/PDF certificates, and conference registration discounts
  • Each Area Chair could nominate up to X number of best reviewers after receiving all the reviews; the number X is determined by the Chair and the Vice-Chair each year; the final best reviewers will be approved by the Chair and the Vice-Chair jointly

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