NO.7 • DECEMBER 2008 - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Recent Events
活 動 剪 影
BRE Students Stepping into the University of Cambridge
建 築 及 房 地 產 學 系 畢 業 生 負 笈 劍 橋 大 學 深 造
This academic year, with outstanding achievements, two of our very own
students, Vivien Chan Wai Yan, BSc(Hons) in Property Management and
Stephanie Chan Wai Fan,, BSc(Hons) in Surveying, joined the internationally
acclaimed Cambridge University to further their studies in MPhil - Real Estate
Finance.
Having graduated with First Class Honours, Vivien Chan ranked first in her
class and was awarded a range of honours including the Innovative Prize
of CIB Dissertation Competition, the Scholarship of the Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors (Hong Kong), the Deans Honours List and so on.
Stephanie Chan also graduated with First Class Honours for her first degree
in 2008. She had been in the U.K. for an exchange programme during
semester 2 of her year 2 and actively joined a number of extra-curricular
activities and community events.
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Stephanie Chan in the U.K.
Vivien Chan (1st in the front row) with her team mates
after seminar
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Professor K.T. Chau Visited Sichuan After the 512 Earthquake
周 錦 添 教 授 四 川 視 察 512 地 震 災 後 情 況
From 23 to 25 May 2008, Professor K.T. Chau of the Department of Civil
and Structural Engineering visited various sites severely affected by the
magnitude 8 Sichuan Earthquake of 12 May 2008. He stopped at Mianzhu
City, Dujiangyan City, and Leigu City (5km south of Beichuan County)
and called upon Fu Xin Second Primary School at Mianzhu City, Ju Yuan
Secondary School near Dujiangyan City, both completely collapsed, as well
as the severely damaged Lei Gu Junior High School at Leigu City.
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The remains of an un-reinforced
brick column at the Fu Xin Second
Primary School at Mianzhu, unable
to resist any earthquake shaking
The brick was found inside a
damaged beam at the Ju Yuan
Secondary School near Dujiangyin.
The quality control of construction
was obviously bad
The ruins of the Fu Xin Second
Primary School at Mianzhu
Professor K.T. Chau (second from the left) with earthquake engineering experts from the
Institute of Engineering Mechanics (IEM), China Earthquake Administration, at Dujiangyin (the
Rescue Center of Sichuan Earthquake)
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