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HKIS 2012 Thesis Awards for
Postgraduates
The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) honoured two
recent alumni of the Department of Building and Real Estate
for their master’s theses. Ms Choi Nga Yee, Tracy, won in the
MPhil category with her investigation of the current application
and future development of the Pay for Safety Scheme in the
construction industry. She also won a Distinction Award in the
Postgraduate Division of the Annual Best Final-Year Dissertation
Competition 2012 of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Student Chapter of CIB. In the MSc category, her classmate Mr
Zhou You, Joe, received an award for his study of the application
of solar chimneys and earth tube systems for BEAM Plus and
LEED assessments. They were supervised by Dr Daniel Chan
and Dr Ni Meng respectively. Congratulations to all of them.
2012
CIOB(HK) Outstanding Student
Awards 2011/12
An alumna from the Department of Building
and Real Estate has won an award from the
Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) for
her final year thesis, which was a feasibility
study of extensive green roof applications
in Hong Kong’s new private residential
buildings. Supervised by Dr Daniel Chan, an
associate professor in BRE, Miss Wong Lai
Ching, Cherry, was a graduate of the BSc
programme in Surveying. She received an
award certificate and a cheque for HK$4000
at the CIOB(HK) annual dinner at the Nikko
Hotel on 19 October 2012.
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2012
CEE alumnae honored for their thesis/
final year project
At the 15th annual dinner of the Hong Kong section of the
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on 14 November
2012, two alumnae from the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering were rewarded for their thesis/ final
year project. Miss Huang Di received a honorable mention for
her master’s thesis, which was an assessment of the quality
of model nails using BOTDA technology, while Miss Cheng Ka
Man received an award for the best final year project. The title
of her project was “Attenuation of blasting induced peak particle
velocity: Constructing a new empirical formula considering
energy dissipation.” They were supervised by Prof. Yin Jianhua
and Prof. Chau Kam Tim respectively. Congratulations to all of
them.
2012
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