Prof. Dr. Jianli Hao is a Senior Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She is the Chair of the University Ethics Committee. She earned her Ph.D. from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2003. She is a member of the Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRIOCM) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). Her research interests cover construction waste management, zero carbon buildings, embodied building energy efficiency modeling, life cycle assessment for infrastructures and buildings, prefabricated construction projects, and lean construction.