Research
Dr Han-Mei Chen's expertise is in sustainable structural design, digital construction techniques, building maintenance and renovation. Dr Chen’s main research interests are circular economy, climate change mitigation and sustainability in the built environment. Her research themes derive into low carbon structural design and construction, design for deconstruction, life cycle assessment for structural materials, heritage preservation, material and product reuse and remanufacturing, resource efficiency and waste management, waste utilization and upcycling in the built environment and civil infrastructures.
She is a member of the following Research Clusters in the School of Architecture
- The Environment, Sustainability and Technology in Architecture ESTA Research Group
- Experimental Material Ecologies Experimental Material Ecologies
- Sustainable Cities Cluster Sustainable Cities
- Design & Digital Cultures Design & Digital Cultures
She is a member of Liv. Feminist City Network Liv. Femisist City Network which links University of Liverpool researchers with policy-makers and practitioners.
Circular Economy and Sustainability in the Built Environment
Her main research interests are the circular economy and sustainability.
- Low carbon construction
- Waste management and upcycling
- System/Material Reuse/Remanufacturing (3D printing)
- Design for Deconstruction (DfD)
Soil-Structure Interaction and Structural Integrity of Masonry and Steel-Concrete Composite Structures
- The structural integrity of steel-concrete composite & masonry structures
- Soil-Structure Interaction
- Tunnel Engineering
- Geotechnical foundation (e.g. Railway substructure and piles)
Digitalisation in Construction
- BIM
- Laser scanning
- Photogrammetry