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HKIS Outstanding Final Year<br />
Dissertation Awards 2011<br />
On 13 July 2012, two former undergraduates from the<br />
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI) were<br />
honoured at the <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> Jockey Club in Happy Valley with the<br />
Outstanding Final Year Dissertation Awards. Organized by the<br />
<strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) to promote research<br />
amongst its future surveyors and reward the efforts of students,<br />
the awards were based on merit and the applicability of the<br />
research output to the surveying profession. <strong>The</strong> Top Award in<br />
Land Surveying went to Zhang Anshu, whose dissertation was<br />
on geographic information systems for an indoor fire evacuation<br />
system, while the Second Award went to Carmen Siu, who<br />
worked on a real time vegetation monitoring programme for<br />
registering old and valuable trees. Congratulations to both of<br />
them for their achievements.<br />
<strong>The</strong> panel of assessors for these awards includes members of<br />
the HKIS Research Committee and a non-academic member<br />
from each division of the HKIS recommended by the division<br />
chairman. For more details of the awardees’ dissertation, please<br />
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HKICM Construction Management<br />
Awards 2011/12<br />
In the first ever construction management awards sponsored<br />
by the <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> Institute of Construction Managers (HKICM),<br />
3 alumnae of the Department of Building and Real Estate were<br />
rewarded for their final year dissertations. At the master’s degree<br />
level, Ms. Choi Nga Yee was the champion with her investigation<br />
of the current application and future development of the Pay for<br />
Safety Scheme in the <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> construction industry. Her fellow<br />
classmate, Yiu Sze Nga, Nicole, received a merit award for her<br />
study of heat stress management in the same industry. Both of<br />
them were supervised by Dr Daniel W. M. Chan.<br />
At the bachelor’s degree level, Ms. Lee Mun Wai, Wendy, was<br />
given a merit award for her study of personal knowledge<br />
management practices for construction professionals in the<br />
public sector of <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong>. She was supervised by Dr Patrick<br />
Fong.<br />
<strong>The</strong> awards aim to provide an open competitive platform for<br />
students to demonstrate their knowledge and share their learning,<br />
promoting the profession of construction management at the<br />
same time. <strong>The</strong> champion received a certificate and a cash coupon<br />
of HK$10,000 at the HKICM Annual Dinner in September 2012.<br />
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