RIB Software AG has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the University of Hong Kong (HKU), to establish an iTWO 5D Lab within HKU's Shanghai Study Centre within the Post Office building in the Bund district of Shanghai. This collaboration between RIB and HKU gives students and academic researchers at HKU and their university partners, access to edge and disruptive iTWO 5D BIM technology in engineering & construction management, architectural and urban design, and urban planning and management, integrating the Virtual into the Physical process. iTWO 5D technology will form the integrated Big Data platform for a new international network of teaching, learning and research among HKU's staff, students and international university partners.