About Yongjiu Shi’s work
From June to December 1995, Yongjiu Shi held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. At the time, Shi was based at Tsinghua University.
Biography
Shi Jianyong graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree. In 1989, he graduated with a Doctorate from the Department of Civil Engineering of Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom. He has been teaching at Tsinghua University since 1992 and serves concurrently as the Director of the Structural Engineering Inspection Center of Tsinghua University and the Deputy Chief structural engineer of the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University. He also serves as Vice President of the China Steel Structure Association, Vice Chairman of the Architectural Structure Branch of the Architectural Society of China, Vice Chairman of the Structural Branch of the China Survey and Design Association, Vice Chairman of the Steel Structure Major of the China Engineering Construction Standardization Association, and Fellow of the British Institution of Structural Engineers. Shi's research fields include high-performance steel steel structure system design theory and methods, steel structure connection and node design theory and methods, multi-high-rise steel structure system design methods and applications, lightweight steel structure system design theory and applications, long-span steel structures Design and calculation methods, construction safety of large steel structures.