Dr Georgios Kapogiannis is Assistant Professor in Building Information Modelling. He is also the Course Director of MSc in Geospatial Engineering with Building Information Modelling (BIM) programme.

In 2019, the Department of Architecture and Built Environment has extended their collaboration with the UK’s Building Research Establishment (BRE) to lead on Sino-UK collaborations including the domain of BIM. Dr Georgios Kapogiannis also contributed to the introduction and Chinese translation of BIM ISO19650 by leading the team. In fact, Tianlun Yang and Yuchen Yang, who are PhD students in University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), have successfully translated BRE ISO 19650 training materials from English to Chinese. These training materials contains lots of professional contents, including glossaries, terminologies, and background knowledge in BIM. It must be noted that UNNC has made cooperation with BRE to conduct the ISO 19650 training, aiming to make contribution to BIM education and practise for professionals, industry experts and students both in English and Chinese. This was the first of its kind in Mainland China! Noted, BRE recently won the tender for the consultancy services for the enhancement of BIM standards for Construction Industry Council in Hong Kong.

Dr Kapogiannis has made his effort in the promotion of BIM in China. He is the committee member of China Technical Entrepreneurship Association's Technical Innovation Working Committee and appointed by the Technical Committee on Building Information Model is a sub-organisation under China Association for Engineering Construction Standardization (CECS). He is also invited to join the judge panel of the upcoming national competition “China BIM Good Data Standardisation”.

As a result UNNC remains the leading teaching and research power of Digital Construction - BIM in Ningbo and the surrounding region but also in National and International level through innovative, creative and dynamic body of academics, researchers and students.