Han M. Hoang, born in 1975.
Han M. Hoang has spent more than 20 years trying to make one thing true: that the building you design and the building that actually gets built can be the same building. He is the founder and CEO of The BIM Factory, an industry-leading BIM engineering consultancy in Ho Chi Minh City, and the throughline of his career is the gap between the digital model and the physical structure, and how to close it.
He started far from Vietnam. At age 9, Han left the country for Los Angeles with his sister, and grew up in the LA area. He studied architectural design at Woodbury University in Burbank starting in 1995 and earned a professional degree in architecture in 2000. But drawing buildings was never the point for him. How they got built was.
That question took him to MIT. He moved to Massachusetts in 2003 and graduated in 2005 with a Master's Degree in Architectural Studies, focused on advanced automated construction technology, work that earned him the Research Scholarship Award from the Design and Computation Group. His thesis advisor told him the technology to automate construction was still 25 to 30 years away. Han treated that as a roadmap, not a discouragement.
Before MIT, he had worked as a design associate at a Los Angeles architecture and urban planning firm, on large-scale commercial and entertainment projects across Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Arizona. After MIT, in 2005, he joined Bovis Lend Lease as an assistant project manager on major hospitality and residential projects in New York, and taught as a part-time adjunct professor at the New York Institute of Technology from 2005 to 2006. Design, then construction, then management: he was deliberately collecting the pieces of a process that the industry keeps apart.
In late 2008 he relocated to Vietnam and worked as a private project developer. What he saw there, a real need for better design and construction quality, became the reason to stop consulting on the problem and start building the answer. In 2014 he founded The BIM Factory, which had been operating since late 2013 and was officially registered that January, to create the region's most forward-thinking, highly skilled BIM engineering consultancy and master the digital model end of the problem.
From there the work moved closer to the physical build. In 2017 he founded The Fab Factory to attack fabrication and modular construction, which he rebranded and relaunched as The Fab Collective in 2025. In 2022 he began R&D on AROBOTIX, which he officially registered and launched in 2025, taking the digital plan all the way onto the job site through automation and robotics. Since 2017 he has served on the Ministry of Construction's BIM Steering Committee for Vietnam's BIM Roadmap, and he contributes to the DfMA Working Group at the BIMForum, helping define the next process for design and manufacturing in the building industry.
The mission underneath all of it has not changed since MIT: develop the technological processes for design, engineering, manufacturing, and construction that make decent housing efficient, affordable, and available to far more people than it reaches today. The companies are not a collection. They are the experiment.
Past Experiences
Current Focus
BIM consultancy and engineering. Oversee a team of 80 professionals providing consultancy in design, engineering, construction, Building Information Modeling, and Virtual Design and Construction.
Construction technology, production, manufacturing, and assembly. Oversee a team of 10 providing manufacturing and assembly of modular and prefab components for the building industry in Canada, the United States, and Vietnam.
Electric motorcycle company. A startup of 15 professionals designing and manufacturing high-performance electric motorcycles for Vietnam and, eventually, the global market.
Construction automation and robotics. A startup developing novel technologies that advance construction work through robotics and automated systems for the global construction industry.