Lab Updates
Awards, publications, presentations, and milestones from the BUILT Lab.
Two Virginia Tech IP Disclosures Approved
Two invention disclosures approved by Virginia Tech in April 2025 — DAB-CPS (INV2025-123) and LLM-Based Autonomous Building Operations (INV2025-121) — covering foundational systems developed through BUILT Lab research.
Redden Grant Awarded — EIU
Awarded the 2026 Redden Grant ($2,500) at Eastern Illinois University for the project "Generative AI-Powered Human-Robot Collaboration Demonstration for Construction Technology Education."
Paper Accepted at ACM FSE 2025 — Trondheim, Norway
Our paper "Smart Building Operations and Virtual Assistants Using LLM" has been accepted to the 33rd ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2025), June 23–27, Trondheim, Norway.
Poster at Torgersen Graduate Student Research Excellence Award — Virginia Tech
Presented "Autonomous Building Operations and Virtual Assistants Using Generative AI" as part of the prestigious 2025 Paul E. Torgersen Graduate Student Research Excellence Award at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
Journal Article Published in IS&eBM — Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in Built Environments
Our paper on DAOs in the built environment — exploring applications, potentials, and limitations — was published in Information Systems and eBusiness Management Journal (2025).
Two Papers Presented at Construction Research Congress 2024 — ASCE
BUILT Lab presented two papers at CRC 2024 in Des Moines, Iowa: the DT-DAO integration framework for smart building FM and the NFT-powered data exchange framework for AEC digital twins.
Blockchain-Based Construction Safety Paper Published in Automation in Construction
Our paper on autonomous construction safety incentive mechanisms using blockchain-enabled tokens and vision-based techniques was published in Automation in Construction (Vol. 153, 2023).