I.About BUCEA
A century-old university serving national and Beijing major strategic needs
During its 110 years of school running, BUCEA has always shared the fate of the country and the nation, and formed the spirit of “patriotic dedication, perseverance, honesty and simplicity, daring to be the first” and the motto of “seeking truth from facts, striving for excellence”. It has trained more than 70,000 excellent graduates for the country and cultivated a large number of outstanding talents, including 11 winning such titles as National Engineering Survey and Design Masters, National Labor Medal Winner and Beijing Craftsmen. At present, about 70% of the technical and management professionals in the field of urban construction in Beijing are graduates from BUCEA.
BUCEA has always been active in the major projects covering the “Top Ten Buildings in Beijing” at the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Beijing Asian Games, the Olympic Games, and the Winter Olympics, and the construction of Beijing Municipal Administrative Center and the Xiong’an New Area. In recent years, BUCEA has been focusing on serving the implementation of the general plan, core area control plan and sub-center control plan of Beijing. Starting from top-level design, it has established special teams to serve the functional positioning of the capital and released the “Ten Action Plans to Serve the Functional Positioning of the Capital”. In terms of innovated mechanisms, it has integrated into regional development and formed strategic cooperation with 8 districts, 8 committees and bureaus, and 18 leading enterprises’ party organizations to set up 5 laboratories jointly established by university and local government to further form the resultant force for government-industry-university-research cooperation.
A discipline leader leading the professional system with unique architectural features
BUCEA has implemented the project of “construction of first-class disciplines” to highlight its leading position of discipline construction and formed a number of special subject areas, scientific research directions and innovation teams with comparative advantages in China, represented by architectural heritage protection, urban and rural planning and architectural design, urban transportation infrastructure and underground engineering, sponge city construction, modern urban mapping, solid waste resource technology, green building and energy-saving technology, intelligent construction and smart city, etc. It was approved as a doctoral-granting unit, and the disciplines of architecture and civil engineering were approved as first-level discipline doctoral-granting programs. With all the professional disciplines related to the field of architecture in a general manner, a professional system with unique characteristics of BUCEA and architecture has formed. BUCEA ranks among the first 1% in the world in the research filed of Engineering according to ESI(Essential Science Indicators). Three disciplines are selected into advanced innovation disciplines of Beijing universities.
1.Dean and deputy dean
2.Discipline head and laboratory director