Rate My Professor Patrick Tang

Tang’s research specializations include advanced construction materials, architectural technologies, AI applications in construction for sustainable practices, green construction, energy efficiency, circular economy, low-carbon concrete, thermal energy storage, waste management, and building science. He leads the Circular Economy and Sustainable Construction research group and serves as Research Leader in the SmartCrete CRC. His achievements encompass recognition as one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University since 2019, PVC Award for Outstanding Research in 2018, PVC Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in 2017, CESE Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award in 2022, and Inaugural SABE International Engagement Prize (Research) in 2016. Key publications include Green Concrete for a Better Sustainable Environment (2020), Composite building materials and construction and demolition waste (C&DW): ecotoxicological perspectives (2024), Red Mud (2022), and Properties of self-compacting concrete with recycled concrete aggregates (2020). Tang has secured major funding, such as an ARC Discovery Project Grant in 2015 for structural-functional integrated concrete and $320,000 from SmartCrete CRC in 2022. He represents the university on the Hunter & Central Coast Circular Economy Think Tank and maintains international collaborations, including as key investigator on National Natural Science Foundation of China grants in 2013 and 2017.