Hadi Sarvari is presently a sinior researcher at Birmingham City University. His area of research focuses on Construction Safety and Health as well as suatainability. He also serves as a researcher at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and as an Assistant Professor in Construction Management at the Islamic Azad University Isfahan (Iran). His teaching and research interests include Construction Contract Management, Management Information Systems, Construction Project Planning and Control, Engineering Systems Analysis, Maintenance Management, and Evaluation of Performance in the Construction of infrastructure projects. In 2018, he was awarded the Best Lecturer Award in the Educational field. He was also awarded as a distinguished researcher in 2021. 

Firas AL MAHMOUD is full professor. He holds a Ph.D. in strengthening reinforced concrete structures from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Toulouse, France. Accreditation to supervise research (HDR) (2016). 

Prof. Firas AL MAHMOUD currently works at Lorraine University in France as a structural engineering educator. He teaches at several engineering schools. He was the Head of the Civil Engineering Department at Lorraine University from the 2017 – 2020 academic year. Furthermore, He also develops innovative strengthening techniques utilizing fiber-reinforced polymers and cementitious-based mortar. He supervised many Master's and PhD students. He is the author of dozens of research papers and the organizer of some international conferences.

Biao HU is currently an Associate Professor at the College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, P.R. China. He obtained his Ph.D. from the City University of Hong Kong in 2017. His main research focuses on composite materials & structures, structural retrofitting, and sustainable construction materials. He has published more than 55 SCI journal papers. The publications have attracted more than 1900 citations recorded in Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=dgo3y7gfI3AC&hl=zh-TW ) with a H-index of 22. He is the principal investigator of 6 research projects and the co-investigator of more than 10 research projects. He serves as the editorial board member of two SCI journals and the guest editor of five SCI journals. He is a regular reviewer of more than 40 peer-reviewed international SCI journals. He received several awards, including the Moisseiff Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2018, the IAAM Scientist Medal Award (2023) from the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) & Fellow of IAAM in 2023, Gold Award of the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions (2024 & 2025), Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress of Guangdong Province (2022), and First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of Guangdong Province (2024).

The degree of Ph.D. for the work: “Comparative studies of thermal diffusivity using the classic and modified impulse method on the example of iron”, Military University of Technology Warsaw, promoter Prof. Dr Hab. eng. Janusz Terpi?owski, 2007 Master of Science degree in environmental engineering for the work “Technical and economic analysis of water boiler rooms fired with various fuels”, Bialystok University of Technology, 1997 Bialystok University of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, course Environmental Engineering, higher studies in years 1992-1997