New technologies are emerging to automate construction and maintenance processes. Ever increasing labor turnover, safety concerns, and competitions in today's domestic and international construction market made the appearance of new technologies inevitable. The emerging construction technologies include both soft and hard automation. The soft automation means the use of information technology, and the hard automation means the use of automated equipment and robots. Often times they are combined together to achieve specific goals. The key foundations of emerging construction technologies are general computing/information technology, CAD/CAE, sensing, and robotics. The laboratory is currently focusing on the research in the latest technology in engineering automation area to create newer and better solutions to the construction field.

The intelligent construction technology laboratory also seeks for better solutions to design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the infrastructure systems and other constructed facilities in the context of life-cycle systems. The technologies for infrastructure systems are closely interconnected from the initial planning stages to their operation. Vast amount of data/information should be well shared for the development of sustainable infrastructure systems. Current information technologies and automation technologies can make the infrastructure systems design, construction, and operation integrated in harmony.

The focusing areas of the laboratory are design/construction integration, construction/maintenance/operation automation, innovative sensing and information technologies for infrastructure monitoring and maintenance, CAD and Virtual Reality Systems, and construction risk analysis. The laboratory is pursuing the state-of-the-art research and development in construction and civil infrastructure systems in close relationship with the industry