Dr. Yixiang Xu is a Lecturer in the Departments of Civil Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. He is working in the Infrastructure Group at the David Livingstone Centre for Sustainability (DLCS) to provide innovative solution in the environment, infrastructure and transportation. He studied for his Ph.D in Deployable Structures Lab (DSL) at Cambridge University. Before he took the current appointment, he was a specialist engineering consultant at the Scott Wilson Ltd, responsible for the bidding and mechanical designs for large-scale sustainable constructions.