Professor Ioannis Brilakis has received the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC) Tucker-Hasegawa Award for contributions to the field of automation and robotics in construction.
It is a double honour to receive the prestigious Tucker-Hasegawa Award of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction and to be elected IAARC President by its Board of Directors.
Professor Ioannis Brilakis
The prestigious Tucker-Hasegawa Award recognises individuals in industry or academia who have made major, distinguished, and sustained contributions to the field of automation and robotics in construction.
Professor Brilakis said: "It is a double honour to receive the prestigious Tucker-Hasegawa Award of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction and to be elected IAARC President by its Board of Directors. As Incoming President this year, I look forward to working with the current President and Vice Presidents to co-create IAARC's future plans before assuming the role in the summer of 2025. I wish to offer in advance enormous thanks to the IAARC leadership for their help and support in the past, present and future, and give credit to the Chairs and Vice Chairs of the IAARC Technical Committee over the years for much of the work achieved."
The International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction is a global organisation dedicated to the advancement of Automation and Robotics in Construction. IAARC represents fields of construction including civil and building engineering, machine automation, robotics applications to construction, information technologies, planning, logistics, and more.
IAARC is a non-profit organisation and its membership is not just restricted to end-users, manufacturers and researchers, but welcomes participation from other industrial sectors and from government organisations.
The objectives of IAARC are:
- to encourage, facilitate and promote the coordination of scientific and technical development in Automation and Robotics in Construction (ARC).
- to facilitate the collection, compilation, publication, exchange and dissemination of scientific ARC data and information.
- to encourage the execution of fundamental ARC studies, to advance research, laboratory investigations and field tests and to accelerate the use of ARC.
- to assist the end-user application of Automation and Robotics in the construction industry.
