Recently, the International Conference on Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection (CIMP1-2025) was successfully held in Perth, Australia. BUCEA Professor YI Tinghua was awarded the Outstanding Researcher Award in recognition of his innovative contributions and academic impact in the field of long-span bridge health operation and maintenance. The award was jointly presented by Professor M. Todd (right), Distinguished Chair Professor at the University of California, San Diego, and Executive Editor of Structural Health Monitoring, and Professor Jose M. Adam (left), Chair Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València and Editor-in-Chief of Construction and Building Materials.

The Outstanding Researcher Award was established for the first time this year. It is presented to individuals who have made outstanding innovative contributions to civil engineering safety and resilience, and who demonstrate strong potential for breakthroughs in scientific research, technological development, and engineering practice. Professor YI Tinghua was recognized as the award recipient in the field of structural health monitoring.

During the conference, Professor YI Tinghua met with Professor J. Paxman, Head of the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Curtin University. Professor Paxman spoke highly of the rapid development and achievements of BUCEA in recent years and expressed his expectation to visit the university next year to further deepen academic exchange and cooperation between the two institutions.

The conference was hosted by Curtin University, Australia. Professor YI Tinghua and Professor LI Jun, a tenured professor at Curtin University, jointly organized a thematic forum titled the China-Australia Summit on Structural Health Monitoring. The forum attracted experts and scholars from China, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries, and focused on discussions of the latest research progress and applications in areas such as integrated “air–space–ground–structure” sensing technologies in civil engineering, multi-scale digital twin modeling of structures, intelligent structural diagnosis and assessment, and disaster prevention and early-warning theories.