The Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) has announced the latest project to receive funding under the Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) on 13 July 2023. The project, " Digital Twin-empowered Landslide Emergency Risk Management," has been awarded HK$ 73.945 million and will be led by Project Coordinator Prof. Limin Zhang, Head and Chair. Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, HKUST.
This project will advance digital and smart management of landslide risks for enhancing slope safety preparedness and augmenting management capabilities under extreme storms and earthquakes, thus increasing public safety and enabling the sustainable and resilient development of Hong Kong and other regions. It aims to develop a unique city-scale simulation-enabled digital twin for comprehensively sensing, simulating, visualising, and managing landslide hazards, as well as for communicating with people at risk and coordinating societal emergency responses. A new paradigm of natural hazard emergency risk management science will be developed eventually.