Research Excellence in Construction and Environment - PolyU

Faculty of Construction and Environment建設及環境學院

Research Excellence in Construction and Environment

Issue No. 4

Faculty of Construction & EnvironmentAddress : ZS1201, 12/F, South Tower, Block Z The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong KongEmail : [email protected]: (852) 3400-8496Website: www.polyu.edu.hk/fce


Issue No. 4Faculty of C

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Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE)建築及房地產學系www.bre.polyu.edu.hk Department of Building Services Engineering (BSE)屋宇設備工程學系www.bse.polyu.edu.hk Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)土木及環境工程學系www.cee.polyu.edu.hk Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI)土地測量及地理資訊學系www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk

Faculty ofConstruction and Environment (FCE)建設及環境學院www.polyu.edu.hk/fce

ContentsDean’s Message 02

Overview of the Faculty of Construction and Environment

• History 04 • Departments 05 • Research Direction of FCE 06 • Focused Research Areas of the Departments 07 • Chinese National Engineering Research Centres (Hong Kong Branches) 12 • Research Centres 14 • International Rankings 17

Academic Staff 18

• Department of Building and Real Estate 19 • Department of Building Services Engineering 26 • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 32 • Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics 43 • PolyU Distinguished Chair Professors 47

• Professors of Practice 48

Impact Case Studies 49

University Research Facility in Chemical and Environmental Analysis 57

Selected Research Laboratories 59

Selected PhD Graduates 2015-2016 67

Selected Postdoctoral Fellows 2015-2016 68

Externally Funded Research Projects 2015-2016 69

External Prizes and Awards 2015-2016 75

Scholarly Events 2015-2016 76

The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 77

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This booklet provides an overview of the research activities of the Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in the years of 2015 and 2016, as well as the experts who lead these activities. Composed of four departments, namely, the Department of Building and Real Estate, the Department of Building Services Engineering, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, the Faculty is home to about 110 full time academic staff members at Research Assistant Professor and above levels whose expertise spans a wide range of areas in sustainable urban development and smart cities, including construction, energy, environment, urban hazards mitigation and urban informatics. In addition to 2 Hong Kong Branches of the Chinese National Engineering Research Centres at PolyU and a University Research Facility in Chemical and Environmental Analysis, it also houses 8 research centres, with a population of about 320 full time research postgraduate students (including about 300 PhD students) and 270 research staff.

It is my earnest hope that the information presented in the booklet would be useful to its readers in many different ways. Those of you from the industry with a challenging problem in need of a solution may find just the right expert from this booklet. Those of you contemplating PhD studies may find an exciting research area and your ideal supervisor here. If you are a researcher from outside the Faculty (and even within the Faculty) looking for an opportunity for collaborative research, you may be able to find your future partner(s) from the booklet. It goes without saying that merely browsing through the booklet would enable you to find out more about the world-class research being undertaken in the Faculty in a large number of research areas.

The Faculty has the largest concentration of research expertise in Hong Kong in construction and environment-related disciplines as evidenced by its success in securing competitive funding from the General Research Fund (formerly the Competitive Earmarked Research Grants or CERGs) of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC). In the category of “Civil Engineering, Surveying, Building and Construction,” PolyU remained in the lead for 22 consecutive years since 1994/95. In fact, the number of grants we won has consistently been around 40% of all grants awarded by the RGC in this category since 1994/95.

Our efforts in collaborative and multi-disciplinary research have also been fruitful. Two of our leading academics were awarded the RGC Collaborative Research Fund in 2015, with a total research funding of about HK$10 million. The majority of our academic staff has actively engaged in research collaboration both nationally and internationally. This has led to major support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China for two of our leading scholars in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) of about HK$4 million each to tackle environmental problems in 2015. Internationally, the European Commission/RGC Collaboration Scheme has awarded more than HK$2 million to one of our professors from the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics for a project on real-time high accuracy positioning, while a joint research scheme between France and the RGC has awarded about HK$2.5 million to another colleague from CEE to study the impact of air-sea exchanges on air quality in coastal megacities in 2016.

The Faculty’s research strength is also reflected by its research publications and the impact of these publications. Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 has ranked PolyU in a tie with Tsinghua University in third place worldwide for the discipline of civil engineering. According to it, we have the largest group of highly cited researchers in that field. Hong Kong alone has 18 highly cited researchers in civil engineering, 9 of whom are with the Faculty of Construction and Environment at PolyU.

In the 2016 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by subject, PolyU was ranked 12th in a tie with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the study of Civil and Structural Engineering. Not far behind is the subject of Architecture / Built Environment at PolyU, which was ranked 16th. In terms of two objective measures, namely citations per paper, and H-index citations, PolyU tops the world in the subject area of Architecture / Built Environment.

In addition, PolyU experts in the Faculty have been actively engaged in applying their research outcomes to challenging real-world problems. They have won nearly HK$28 million in funding from the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission in 2015/16 for 9 different projects, all of which will translate into real and practical benefits for society once they have been completed. To commemorate our 80th anniversary in 2017, we have highlighted some of our ground-breaking research projects that have made an impact on the world around us in this booklet. It is indeed our ultimate aim that the research conducted in the Faculty should bring about innovations in sustainable urban development and smart cities for the benefit of Hong Kong and beyond.

On the strength of the solid foundation which has been built over the years, the Faculty is well positioned to become a world leader in the construction, environment and sustainable urban development fields. A major direction of the Faculty is consolidating and enhancing its strength in the research areas in construction, energy, environment, urban hazards mitigation and urban informatics. In these areas, the Faculty offers many exciting opportunities for researchers within the Faculty as well as for our collaborative partners from both the academia and the industry. I would like to close by thanking the colleagues who have contributed to the preparation of this booklet, as well as all those who have helped the Faculty in different capacities in its pursuit of research excellence.

Ir Professor You-Lin Xu Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Environment

January 2017

Ir Professor You-Lin Xu Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Environment

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History DepartmentsThe Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) and its predecessors have created a lasting legacy of educating the professional workforce in the construction, environment and sustainable urban development fields for Hong Kong and beyond. From being little more than an idea before 1937 to the comprehensive unit embodied in the Faculty of today, the education, research and innovation of the Faculty are thriving into its eighth decade. With the largest concentration of academic expertise in the construction and environment disciplines and the only local university with a Faculty relating specifically to the construction industry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is marking its 80th anniversary in 2016/17. A brief look at its history will show its remarkable growth to keep up with changing times.

In 1937, the first milestone in public technical education was established with the opening of the Government Trade School in Wanchai, PolyU’s earliest predecessor. When the Pacific War broke out in 1941, chaos reigned throughout the city and the Trade School was closed. In 1947, the Trade School was damaged and devoid of equipment. To start over after the war ended, it was renamed the Hong Kong Technical College, which later moved to a new and larger site in Hung Hom in 1957. Focusing on Land Surveying and Building, it continued the tradition started by the Trade School of providing education in these disciplines.

The renaming of the Hong Kong Technical College and the subsequent birth of the Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1972 resulted in a corresponding development of education designed to meet the construction boom of the 60s and 70s in Hong Kong. In 1977, “Divisions” were created across the Polytechnic. The two which marked a milestone in the journey towards the Faculty we have today were the Division of Applied Science, which contained the Department of Building and Surveying, and the Division of Engineering which contained the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering. These Divisions remained in place for six years. With the range of expertise then available, the new Division of Construction and Land Use was composed of three Departments, namely, the Department of Building and Surveying, the Department of Building Services Engineering (BSE), the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, and one Centre, the Centre of Land and Engineering Surveying. By 1992, two years before the inauguration of the Polytechnic as a University, this Division had grown to become the Faculty of Construction and Land Use. The structure of the Departments remained the same, with the Centre of Land and Engineering Surveying becoming the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI) and the Department of Building and Surveying becoming the Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE) in 1993.

A time of major significance in the development of the PolyU came in 1994, when it officially gained university status. Since 1994, it has made tremendous progress with the growth in the number of research areas and the spread of a vibrant research culture. To better reflect its expertise, the Faculty was renamed the Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) in 2011, the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering was renamed the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) in 2012, and BRE, BSE and LSGI remained the same. The academic programmes of FCE are well known for nurturing students for professional careers and leadership positions in a range of disciplines, including Civil, Environmental and Building Services Engineering, Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, General Practice Surveying, Real Estate, Land Surveying and Geomatics. Their syllabuses are underpinned by the research activities of the Faculty's four departments, which have placed PolyU among the leading universities in the areas of construction, energy, environment, urban hazards mitigation and urban informatics in the world.

The Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) consists of the following four departments.

Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE)建築及房地產學系www.bre.polyu.edu.hkSince we sowed our seeds in 1937, we have become internationally recognized as a leader in providing professional education for the building and real estate industry in the region and beyond. With our dedication to excellence, we have a multi-disciplinary team of faculty members who possess expertise in the respective fields of surveying, engineering, construction health and safety, town planning, building technology, real estate, finance, law and economics. The tireless devotion to a variety of high-quality research projects and consultancies is part of our commitment. We are well-known for our research strengths in construction and building technology. For knowledge transfer and networking, we actively maintain strong bonds with the industry and our alumni, many of whom are senior staff in government departments, leading consultancy practices and private enterprises.

Department of Building Services Engineering (BSE)屋宇設備工程學系www.bse.polyu.edu.hkThe Department of Building Services Engineering (BSE) was officially established in December 1981 under the Division of Applied Science in the Hong Kong Polytechnic. After the establishment of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1994, BSE became part of the Faculty of Construction and Land Use, which is now known as the Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE). As a leading provider of trained building services professionals for the unique environment of Hong Kong, research in BSE is focused on the quality of the environment, energy efficiency and safety and resilience in buildings to effectively address contemporary concerns and future challenges of urban environments. Its core mission is to devise and improve engineering systems to sustain human habitation through environments designed to promote the health and well-being of occupants, providing sanctuary from the elements and the extremes of temperature, noise, light, toxins and pathogens at the lowest cost in energy and resources. It offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes serving the needs of local industry at various levels.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)土木及環境工程學系www.cee.polyu.edu.hkContinuing the tradition began by the first Government Trade School in 1937, the mission of the Department is to provide high quality application-oriented programmes to educate future professionals to meet the future infrastructure needs of Hong Kong and China. It also seeks to advance scientific knowledge and facilitate technology transfer in sustainable development through research and consultancy activities. The Department has about 40 academic members teaching undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, supervising MPhil/PhD students and research personnel, leading research projects and undertaking community services. To sustain and strengthen its research capability, three research centres and four research groups have been established in the Department.

Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI)土地測量及地理資訊學系www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hkEstablished in 1984, the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics is the only academic unit amongst the local tertiary institutions offering a range of opportunities for education, training and research in the fields of Land Surveying & Geo-Informatics. We focus on acquisition, modelling, analysis, and management of spatially referenced data for a wide range of applications. These include map-making, navigation, monitoring of engineering projects and geological hazards, environmental monitoring, boundary determination and geographic information management. The Department has close links with both international and local academic institutions and the professions. Links with the local professional community are maintained through our community service and consultancy activities, hence our courses and research are oriented towards the needs of Hong Kong.

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Research Direction of FCEThe Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) has a wide range of research expertise in the construction and environment fields, and is uniquely positioned to develop innovative solutions for problems arising from the massive urbanization process around the world. The rapid urban development process in different parts of the world as well as major infrastructure projects of Hong Kong present many challenges and opportunities for the Faculty. Sustainable Urban Development has therefore been identified as the major research direction of the Faculty.

Sustainable Development means "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." ["Our Common Future", 1987 ]. Accomplishing sustainable urban development is one of the crucial challenges for Hong Kong as well as other large, vibrant cities around the world in the twenty-first century. Through research, innovation, entrepreneurship, consultancy service, and professional training provided by our faculty members, the Faculty is a place where research and innovation meets application to address major urban planning, development and resilience issues.

With the largest concentration of research expertise in the construction and environment fields in Hong Kong, FCE is at the forefront of leading and engaging in multi-disciplinary and cutting edge research on Sustainable Urban Development. Interdisciplinary by nature of the focused research areas of our four departments, the research on Sustainable Urban Development impinges on and is informed by the areas of Construction, Energy, Environment, Urban Hazards Mitigation and Urban-informatics, as illustrated in the chart below. By consolidating and enhancing our strengths in the interlocking areas, the Faculty is well positioned to become a world leader in creating innovative solutions for Sustainable Urban Development and Smart City.

Sustainable Urban Development and Smart City

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Urban Informatics

Energy

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Focused Research Areas of the Departments

Department of Building and Real EstateConstruction Health and Safety This research area aims to create a safe, healthy, and productive environment (eSHAPE) for construction workers by developing anti-heat stress measures, detecting and mitigating noise hazards, profiling workers’ health, developing health and safety measures for workers exposed to silica dust in construction, and reducing the health risks of workers due to hazardous chemicals emission.

An anti-heat stress measure such as a construction uniform that provides better ultraviolet protection, better breathability and a faster evaporation rate of sweat has been developed for workers who have to toil in hot and humid conditions. Since its launch, the uniform has been adopted by the construction industry. Assessing the level of environmental and physical hazard exposures in the construction industry, and investigating the impacts of different types of chemical and physical hazards on the occupational health of construction workers will provide useful information for directing occupational health and safety (OHS) policy and measures, applying controls when and where appropriate, as well as informing construction workers about adverse health behaviors.

Digital Construction This research area aims to develop digital solutions to ensure successful project delivery of construction projects with minimum time and cost, while maintaining high quality and reducing accidents. The emergence of digital technologies has the potential to drastically improve the project delivery processes. For example, Building Information Modelling (BIM) enables 3D representations of building components and processes. The Internet of Things (IoTs) facilitates information exchange between machines without the need for human intervention. Industrial robotics and 3D printing technologies can automate construction operations.

Sustainable Urban SystemsThis research area aims to achieve sustainable urban development by conducting scientific studies at a whole range of levels, from industrial to city to districts, etc. A 3D spatial analysis of different plot ratio/building height (PR/BH) scenarios on urban skyline, visual effect, shadow and insolation, wind ventilation, and air temperature has enabled decision makers to formulate scientific and rational decisions for sustainable urban development. At the building level, an energy assessment system for new buildings and a unified decision support system for green retrofit in existing buildings have been developed. At the project level, a RFID-Enabled BIM Platform for Prefabricated Housing Production in Hong Kong has facilitated effective management of the supply chain in prefabricated housing production. This platform has been widely regarded as a very useful tool for information management by stakeholders in the supply chain, including the Housing Authority (the client), Gammon Construction (the contractor), and Wing Hong Shun (the façade supplier). Research in this area is primed to inform the construction of smart cities, which is the foreseeable trend of the future.

The Faculty is the largest contributor in Hong Kong to university-based research in construction. At FCE, where ideas thrive and build upon one another, academic staff are involved in cutting edge research covering a range of disciplines related to construction and environment. Looking ahead, we shall continue our endeavors, which include but not limited to the following inter/multi-disciplinary focused research areas of individual departments, to address pressing local and international challenges.

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Anti-heat stress uniform for construction workers



Department of Building Services EngineeringBuilding Energy EfficiencyEnergy issues in the building and built environments will be addressed in the context of both demand and supply. Enhancing energy efficiency on the demand side by optimized design and smart control of energy systems, and the effective use of renewables on the supply side as well as the innovative use of waste for clean energy generation. Research topics include: robust and optimal design of building HVAC systems; optimal control of building HVAC systems; energy assessment/diagnosis of buildings with deficient high volume information (Big Data); demand management for smart grid; photovoltaic integration; hybrid solar-wind power generation; development of advanced renewable energy technologies; hybrid ground-coupled heat pump applications for air-conditioning in hot-climate region; highly dispersed nanocomposite for self-cleaning photovoltaic panels; green building nanomaterial and novel building envelope technology development; novel solar heat-reflective insulation material based on hollow glass micro-balloon cores with hierarchical porous rutile TiO2 coating; sustainable energy conversion and storage with emphasis on high temperature fuel cells for efficient energy conversion from biofuels or organic waste; planting techniques for enhancing CO2 absorption for urban rain gardens; technology development and economic feasibility of applying new urban bio-refinery to convert solids wastes derived lignocellulosic biomass into biofuels; low-carbon construction processes.

Building EnvironmentResearch in this area has helped improve indoor and outdoor environments, such as HVAC systems to control indoor air temperature and humidity for thermal comfort and energy efficiency. Improving indoor built environments involves thermal, indoor air quality (IAQ), visual and acoustic aspects. Technology enabling ventilation and sound insulation has been applied in hostels, public housing estates and a private housing estate. For the best possible indoor environment at the least energy consumption, research needs to focus on developing innovative technologies and improving and integrating existing technologies. These include: precise control of indoor thermal parameters; novel ventilation strategy for improved IAQ at the lowest possible energy use; ventilation-enabling sound insulation technologies; novel indoor silencing devices; the use of daylight for energy saving and visual comfort etc. A fundamental understanding of human responses to light stimuli, including visual, non-visual, and behavioral responses, from psychophysical, physiological, and psychological perspectives, is also required. Enhanced wind and thermal comfort in the urban environment can be developed through computational modeling, new design tools and policy reviews. Multi-disciplinary sound quality assessment and improvement strategies for sustainable city design is another focus. This includes the improvement of total thermal, visual, air and sound quality of the neighborhood environment.

Building Safety and Resilience With intelligent facilities in tall buildings, traditional aspects of building safety such as structural strength and fire resistance must also include newer concerns, such as interference of lightning bolts with electrical and electronic systems. To develop fire safety provisions for supertall buildings, fundamental studies on smoke movement are conducted. An earlier study of wind effects on fires in a supertall building has demonstrated that heat and smoke emitted from a fire in a supertall building would spread upward, with air entrained at lower levels. The structural response to fire is simulated to facilitate an understanding of the progressive collapse mechanisms of tall buildings in large fires that may spread over multiple floors. In collaboration with the Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau, a 362 m-high tower was installed with sensors and measuring systems to provide a unique experimental platform for researching the atmospheric environment, such as enabling the interaction of lightning with modern facilities to be investigated in real scale. As the actual lightning current is captured for testing, practical and effective techniques for protection of buildings against lightning can be developed. The mechanisms and process of fire ignition due to lightning current could also be investigated.

Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringSmart and Resilient TransportationTraffic congestion, air pollution, and inclement weather are ongoing problems in many densely populated cities in Asia such as Hong Kong. Their impacts on economic productivity, network resilience, the environment, human health and safety are undeniable. However, due to the topography and the constraints of urban development in Hong Kong, further expansion of the existing road transport network is open to question. Smart and resilient transportation addresses the multi-modal transportation needs of society in a sustainable manner. The development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is one of the essential steps towards smart and resilient transportation in Hong Kong’s congested transportation network under uncertainties.

This research area includes developing various advanced solution algorithms for data fusion of different real-time traffic sensor data, robust solution algorithms for on-line estimation of journey times, traffic speeds and traffic states in congested networks with uncertainties, reliability-based path finding algorithm for ITS applications, and computational methods for enhancing network resiliency. The results have contributed to the advancement of the relevant research fields, and at the same time have made significant impacts in Asian cities. Some of the robust solution algorithms developed have already been implemented in the ITS projects in Hong Kong and Bangkok. It is hoped that further research would improve the efficiency and resiliency of traffic systems together with the planning, design and operation of urban infrastructure.

Sustainable Materials and StructuresThe sustainability of urban infrastructure is an issue of great concern to all major cities and particularly high-density cities such as Hong Kong. Research in the area of Sustainable Materials and Structures aims to enhance the sustainability of urban infrastructure by minimizing the use of materials and resources (and hence the carbon footprint) per year of service for a given infrastructure project. Researchers from structures, pavements and concrete technology in CEE work synergistically with researchers outside CEE (e.g., researchers in material science, chemistry and computer science) to enable major advances in the area.

The infrastructural use of high-strength materials such as fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites, high-strength steel and ultra-high performance concrete for a new generation of infrastructure has enabled huge savings in construction materials. Research on long-life infrastructure, through the use of high-durability materials and/or the use of advanced monitoring and retrofitting techniques, is another related aspect. In ensuring the long-service life of infrastructure, smart technologies are needed to equip our infrastructure with the ability to sense, respond to and recover from severe environments (e.g., marine environments) and extreme loadings (e.g., typhoons and earthquakes).

Despite the use of high-performance materials and advanced technologies to extend the life-span of infrastructure, any structure/facility will still have a finite life. Therefore, end-of-life strategies for demolition wastes form an important part of the sustainable infrastructure pursuit. How to recycle demolition and other wastes into new structures and useful products also belongs in this research area.

High-performance materials extend the sustainability of infrastructure

Research endeavoursto improve the indoor environment.

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362 m-high tower with various sensors and measuring systems, aiming to form a unique experimental platform for the research of atmospheric environment including lightning and its effects.

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Focused Research Areas of the DepartmentsDepartment of Land Surveying and Geo-InformaticsSmart Positioning and MobilityNavigation technologies are the core technologies to support a mobile internet, Location Based Services (LBS), and the Internet of things (IoT). Satellite based navigation systems (i.e. GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, and Galileo), as the backbone of navigation technologies, have become the fundamental infrastructure for national security and economic growth. Smart mobility is crucial for a smart city by reducing traffic congestion and pollutions, improving transfer speed and people safety, and reducing transfer cost. LSGI has conducted research on navigation technologies and smart mobility for more than 30 years. A Navigation Laboratory has been established since 1999. In recent years, research on key issues (i.e. GNSS signal shadowing, GNSS multipath, and seamless positioning) for urban positioning and navigation technologies has supported economic development in Hong Kong. As a satellite navigation system developed in China, Beidou has been integrated with other navigation systems to improve navigation performance in urban areas and to promote the applications of the Beidou system internationally. A public transport enquiry system has also been developed and adopted by the Transport Department for public use since 2010.

Spatial Big Data Modelling and AnalyticsSpatial big data modelling and analytics is based on a) the emerging research topic of big data, especially spatial big data in the geographic information science (GIS) community, and b) the related research accumulation of LSGI in the areas of spatial, temporal and dynamic data modelling, and spatial analyses in GIS. The proposed focus will contribute to the research and development of urban informatics in smart city with respect to data modelling and analysis. Strategies for this research focus include (i) identifying the need for spatial big data modelling and analytics in the context of smart city development; (ii) forming an inter-disciplinary research team at PolyU on spatial big data analytics; (iii) applying for large research grants related to this research focus; (iv) developing solutions for spatial big data modelling for heterogeneous, multi-resolution sources of spatial data; (v) creating spatial data models for an integrated indoor and outdoor environment; (vi) proposing analytical methods for dynamic urban data; (vii) analyzing and predicting urban mobility and dynamic behavior based on spatial big data.

Urban Sensing and MeasurementResearch in this area has included urban heat island research, urban atmosphere monitoring, urban hazard monitoring, urban utility and infrastructure monitoring and management, urban 3D mapping, and 3D modeling for urban applications. The research prospect for the future will include (i) urban remote sensing for environment monitoring and modelling; (ii) urban remote sensing for hazard/deformation monitoring of urban infrastructures; (ii) urban underground utility monitoring and management; (iii) advanced photogrammetric hardware and software systems for near real-time 3D measurement of urban scenes; (iv) more automated 3D/4D city modelling with a high level of details from multiple-source remote sensing datasets; (v) developing a spatial data infrastructure for smart city development in Hong Kong.

Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringSustainable Urban EnvironmentDeteriorating air quality, increasing amounts of wastewater and solid waste, and rapidly growing energy consumption have been major environmental problems in densely populated cities such as Hong Kong. These issues pose threats to human health and the ecosystem, and impede the potential for urban development. Owing to their extreme complexity and rising mitigation/treatment costs, the solutions to these issues remain elusive. The research area on Sustainable Urban Environment explores cost-effective pathways of development in theory and in practice for combating these environmental problems in urban cities.

The research area includes studies on the formation mechanism and abatement strategy of atmospheric pollution, the chemical and biological treatment of wastewater, the generation of energy by harnessing wastewater, wood and food waste, and the conversion of different types of waste to construction materials (e.g. Eco-block). The research findings have contributed to the formulation and evaluation of pollution control policies both locally and internationally (e.g., assessment of vehicular emission control and cross-border impact on air quality in Hong Kong and of air pollution mitigation measures during the Beijing Olympics); the Eco-block technology has been transferred to the private sector and it has been widely used in Hong Kong.

In-place inclinometers are being installed in a slope in Baichuan, Sichuan Province, China after the Great Sichuan Earthquake.

Lateral displacements with time at different depths at the slope.

Urban Geohazards and Mitigation There are over 60,000 registered cut-slopes in Hong Kong, but there are numerous slopes in natural terrain in Hong Kong. Our research efforts are divided into hazard analyses of cut-slopes and their remediation, and hazard analysis and remediation of natural terrain in terms of debris flows. Fatal cut-slope failures have been rapidly reducing in recent years. Thus, the focus has been shifted to the study and monitoring of slopes in natural terrains.

Our efforts on geohazards and mitigation relating to landslides can be classified into two main domains: (1) theoretical, experimental and numerical analyses on landslides, rockfalls and debris flows hazards; (2) Field monitoring technologies for slope monitoring. First, numerical, theoretical, experimental analyses and field studies on debris flow, slope failures, rockfall and various innovative slope stabilization methods/materials were conducted at PolyU. Secondly, GIS, GPS, IOT, fibre optic sensors and cloud computing have been employed for slope monitoring in the last few years. Commercial software “Slope 2000” and “Slope3D” were developed and approved by the Buildings Department, and have been used in many large scale/national projects all over the world. Recently, a Collaborative Research Fund was granted by RGC for building a large scale debris flow flume. The surface temperature of Kowloon peninsula and northern

part of Hong Kong IslandSolar Energy Supply in Cloud-prone Areas of Hong Kong

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Major Work ThemesWork Theme A: Sustainable Infrastructure DevelopmentTo address potential durability problems of the infrastructures in Hong Kong, the CNERC will investigate various controlling mechanisms in corrosion in both reinforced concrete structures and exposed structural steelwork, particularly with respect to the following two research areas:• Atmospheric corrosivity of exposed structural steelwork under local environments in

Hong Kong• Localized corrosion in galvanized steel reinforcements in reinforced concrete structuresThe CNERC will develop design recommendations suitable for implementation in Hong Kong, which will be of paramount importance for durability assessment of existing structures as well as durability design of new structures in Hong Kong and in neighbouring cities in the Pearl River Delta Region.

Work Theme B: Structural Engineering on Modern Steel ConstructionTo promote sustainable infrastructure development for construction projects in Hong Kong as well as overseas, the CNERC will formulate effective use of high performance constructional materials, in particular, of high strength steel materials produced in China. The following four research areas will be addressed:• Effective use of high performance steel materials – Q690 to Q960• Application of high performance steel materials Q690 to Q960 in building and civil engineering structures• International practice on engineering design and management• International visibility of Chinese Steel Construction Industry

By conducting various research and development projects, the CNERC will compile design recommendations for application of high strength steel materials in Hong Kong and beyond. This will facilitate the export of steel materials and structural steelwork to overseas construction projects.

Chinese National EngineeringResearch Centre (Hong Kong Branches)

Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch)The CNERC for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch) is established to promote sustainable infrastructure development through effective use of constructional steel materials and modern technology in structural engineering. The core objectives of the CNERC are:

• To establish a high level technological platform to enable effective design and construction of modern building and civil engineering structures to promote sustainable infrastructure development in Hong Kong.

• To advance technological capabilities of the Hong Kong Construction Industry in design and construction of super high-rise buildings, long-span bridges and buildings of large enclosure using high performance materials in Hong Kong and overseas.

The CNERC for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch) is dedicated to promote technological developments and internationalization of the steel construction industry in both Hong Kong and China. It is actively engaged with international as well as national exchanges in research and development of steel construction.

Two Chinese National Engineering Research Centres (Hong Kong Branches) (CNERCs) were approved to be established at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University by the State Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in October 2015. There are the Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch), and the Chinese National Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Centre (Hong Kong Branch).

The approval of these two CNERCs by MOST is a recognition on the R&D capability of our research teams as well as our successful technology transfer experiences in the areas of rail engineering and steel construction. These two CNERCs will work closely with their mainland counterparts, and leverage on the respective strengths of both sides to work on research and development projects conducive to both the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.

On 6th December 2015, Mr. Wan Gang, Head of Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China officiated the launching of CNERC at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, accompanied by Mr. Nicholas W. Yang, Secretary for Innovation and Technology of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR.

Chinese National Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Center (Hong Kong Branch)The Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Center (CNERTE) was established with visions of rail technical innovation and translational research in conjunction with high speed rail (HSR) enterprises, striving for resolutions to pressing technical problems in the railway industry and advancing China’s HSR.

Three research laboratories under CNERTE, namely the Research Laboratory for High Speed Rail Traction Power System and Safety Technology, the Research Laboratory for Advanced Sensing Techniques for High Speed Rail Monitoring and the Research Laboratory for Condition Monitoring and Vibration Control of High Speed Trains, have been set up and put into operation.

CNERTE is now equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and top-notched research personnel. Proactive in building collaboration with various Chinese HSR enterprises, it also actively develops an international network by inviting world renowned academics and professionals to speak at its seminars/workshops.

Specifically, CNERTE strives to make contribution to the development of rail transit industry in Mainland and Hong Kong as follows.

• Adopt cutting-edge monitoring technologies in the operational monitoring of high speed railway system, vehicle system and traction system;

• Enhance the standard of operational monitoring system in high speed railway industry;• Standardize operation of technologies;• Commercialize innovative technologies; • Increase international engagement in Chinese high speed railway development and bring international exposure

to Chinese high speed railway industry; and• Nurture high-calibre professionals and specialists who are equipped with advanced technologies and global

vision.

Chinese National EngineeringResearch Centre (Hong Kong Branches)

Strives for advancement of China's high speed rail

High strength steel materials promote the sustainable infrastructure development in Hong Kong, China and overseas.

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Research CentresResearch in the Faculty takes place within a framework of research centres. Each of the eight centres has a group of researchers focusing on research activities based on specific research areas.

Research Centre for Construction Innovation www.bre.polyu.edu.hk/rcci/ The Research Centre for Construction Innovation (RCCI) is committed to the research and development in construction innovation. It is operating within the Department of Building and Real Estate. RCCI was established to create and apply new knowledge and advanced understanding of construction innovation, including information technology (IT) systems to provide new solutions that improve construction processes. The mission of RCCI is to act as a focal point for addressing the construction industry’s research and consultancy needs as well as providing specialists who will bring about a step change in the industry practice. The primary objectives of RCCI are to solve practical problems related to the time, cost and quality aspects of a project delivery process in the Hong Kong construction industry, and to become one of the leading research centres in construction innovation.

Research Centre for Construction & Real Estate Economics www.bre.polyu.edu.hk/rccree/The Research Centre for Construction & Real Estate Economics (RCCREE) has been supporting the advancement of the construction and real estate industries in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland since 2000. Our expertise includes land and construction economics, construction safety and health, real estate economics and housing. We have more than 30 members, who are academics from the Department of Building and Real Estate as well as local and overseas universities. They continually add to our knowledge by undertaking cutting-edge and multi-disciplinary research at local and international levels. The primary objective of RCCREE is to promote solution-oriented research and consultancy for construction and real estate related economic issues. Its mission is to be the preferred centre for solution-oriented research and consultancy in construction and real estate.

Research Centre for Fire Engineering www.bse.polyu.edu.hk/researchCentre/Fire_Engineering/Research activities related to fire engineering are carried out actively at the Research Centre for Fire Engineering in the Department of Building Services Engineering. In addition to explore basic fire and thermal science, these research projects address practical engineering problems, search for advanced knowledge in fire engineering and maintain the quality of teaching in these areas. Advanced and practical degree courses up to the MSc level are offered with the mission to conduct applied research. The research findings are useful to the industry in both Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. Research in Fire Engineering aims to enhance the scientific understanding of building fire problems and fire protection engineering. This is very critical for the implementation of Engineering Performance-Based Fire Codes to improve overall safety.

Research Centre for Building Environmental Engineering www.bse.polyu.edu.hk/researchCentre/index_BEE.htmlThe mission of the Research Centre for Building Environmental Engineering (RCBEE) in the Department of Building Services Engineering is to undertake research and provide specialist consultancy services related to the energy efficiency and environmental performance of buildings, the environmental systems and building surroundings. The general aim is to achieve healthy, comfortable and productive building and environments with minimal energy consumption. The Centre particularly encourages interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. It is concerned with two critical issues: indoor environmental quality as it affects the health, comfort and productivity of building users; and energy efficiency associated with the heating and/or cooling of buildings, which impinge on the sustainable development of modern cities. Research activities are grouped into six strategic areas: indoor environmental quality studies; energy efficiency and utilization of renewable energy; building automation and intelligent buildings; HVACR technology development; and advanced engineering and computer simulation analysis.

Research Centre for Advanced Technology in Structural Engineering http://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/research-structural.htmlThe Research Centre for Advanced Technology in Structural Engineering (RCATISE) was established in 1999 under the general management of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The primary aims of the Centre are to conduct research in structural engineering and to develop advanced technologies; to facilitate the transfer of these technologies to the construction industry through specialist consultancies, technical and professional publications, conferences and seminars, and continuing professional development training courses. The Centre focuses on advanced technologies in structural engineering and related disciplines which are important for the sustainable development of metropolitan cities, such as Hong Kong and other major cities in the Chinese mainland, in particular, in the Pearl River Delta area.

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Research Centre for Environmental Technology & Management http://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/research-environmental.htmlThe Research Centre for Environmental Technology and Management is designed to integrate, and further develop the existing strengths in environmental engineering and management in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, into a leading centre of excellence in the region. Its strategic objectives are to carry out application-oriented research to develop pollution abatement and management technologies, to transfer the developed technologies and knowhow to local and regional users, and to educate environmental engineers and other professionals by providing continuing professional development courses. The aspiration of this Centre is to establish a regionally reputable centre for environmental research and education, through skills developed in-house.

Research Centre for Urban Hazards Mitigation http://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/research-hazardmitigation.htmlThe Research Centre for Urban Hazards Mitigation was established by the Faculty of Construction and Environment in 2002 to conduct focused and multidisciplinary research on the consequences of natural and man-made hazards in urban areas as well as to develop innovative engineering methods and new technologies for monitoring and mitigating damages to urban infrastructures. It facilitates knowledge dissemination and technology transfer to the Government and related industries through specialist consultancy, continuing professional training as well as undergraduate and postgraduate education. The Centre focuses on the effects of windstorms and earthquakes on tall buildings and long-span bridges and the effects of landslides. The Centre is also actively investigating the effects of global climate change on urban infrastructure as well as multi-hazard assessment and mitigation.

Research Centre for Geo-Information Science & Technology www.lsgi.polyu.edu.hk/RCGIST/The Research Centre for Geo-Information Science and Technology in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics aims to conduct specialised research in geoinformation science and technology, promote external research collaborations, promote applications of the latest research outputs, and provide services to the local and international communities. The Centre consists of three laboratories: the Laboratory for Environmental Change (LEC) which is concerned with the monitoring of environmental changes and natural hazards; the Laboratory for Integrated Navigation Technologies (LINT), focusing on integrated navigation technologies and information systems; and the Cyber City Laboratory (CCL), which conducts research on technologies for the development of cyber cities.

Research CentresThe Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) has not only changed the lives of thousands of students and staff, but also brought enormous benefits for the city, the region, and the world. We conduct world-class research and at the same time, we offer world-class academic programmes. Our outstanding achievements have been documented by a number of international universities’ ranking systems.

The 2016 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject ranked PolyU 16th in the world for the subject area of Architecture/Built Environment. For the subject area of Civil & Structural Engineering, PolyU was ranked the 12th best institution worldwide.

The ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 conducted by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked PolyU in a tie with Tsinghua University in 3rd place worldwide for the discipline of Civil Engineering. According to it, we also have the largest group of highly cited researchers in that field. Hong Kong alone has 18 highly cited researchers in civil engineering, 9 of whom are with FCE at PolyU. In terms of publication of articles related to the field of construction and building technology, PolyU tops the world as cited in a research paper entitled “Construction and Building Materials” which was published in early 2014.

According to the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) 2015-16, a ranking system based on the quality and quantity of scholarly publications, PolyU was ranked 4th globally in the Architecture field. In the field of Civil Engineering, PolyU was ranked 23rd worldwide.

In accordance with the National Taiwan University Ranking 2016 of world universities based on the performance of scientific papers, PolyU ranked 6th in the world in the Civil Engineering subject category. The Best Global Universities Rankings 2017 by the U.S. News and World Report also ranked PolyU 15th in the world for the subject of Engineering.

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Faculty of Construction and Environment Department of Building and Real EstateProfessor XU You-lin 徐幼麟教授MSc, PhD, FHKIE, FASCE, FEMI, FIStructEFaculty Dean & Chair Professor of Structural Engineering

FACULTY DEANTelephone no.: (852) 2766-6050Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasSeismic Design of Building Structures, Wind Engineering, Structural Mechanics, Structural Analysis, Structural Dynamics

Research interestsWind Effects on Tall Buildings and Long Span Bridges, Structural Health Monitoring of Large Civil Structures, Structural Vibration Control and Smart Structures, Seismic Effects on Tall Buildings and Long Span Bridges

BiographyProf. Xu received his PhD degree from University of Sydney, Australia. He is Chair Professor of Structural Engineering (2003), Founding Director of Research Centre for Urban Hazards Mitigation (2002) and former Head (2007-2013) of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has conducted research and consulting in structural engineering over three decades with special interests in wind engineering, structural health monitoring and structural vibration control. He has been engaged in many high-level projects, including the projects on the Tsing Ma Bridge and the Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong, the CCTV Tower in Beijing and Shanghai Tower in Shanghai. He has published more than 230 SCI journal papers, delivered over 80 keynote/invited lectures at international conferences/symposiums/workshops, and served in various capacities in many international associations and international journals. He has received several prestigious awards, including the 2006 Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, the 2010 Qian Ling Xi Computational Mechanics Award, and the 2012 Robert H. Scanlan Award in recognition of his outstanding research achievements. He has written two books Structural Health Monitoring of Long-Span Suspension Bridges and Wind Effects on Cable-Supported Bridges, which were published by Spon and Wiley respectively. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the USA, and the Institution of Structural Engineers, UK.

Professor CHAN Ping Chuen Albert陳炳泉教授MSc (Aston), PhD (S. Aust.), FCIOB, FAIB, FHKICM, FHKIE, MAIPM, MIEAust, AAIQS, MRICS, Hon. FHKIPM, RPE(Bldg)Department Head & Chair Professor of Construction Engineering and Management

HEAD & CHAIR PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5814Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areas Project Management, International Construction

Projects, Construction Engineering Management, Construction Procurement Management

Research interestsProject Management & Project Success, Project Finance & Public Private Partnerships (PPP), Construction Procurement & Relationship Contracting, Construction Industry Development, Construction Health and Safety

BiographyA Chartered Construction Manager, Engineer, Project Manager, and Surveyor by profession, Prof. Albert Chan has worked in a number of tertiary institutions both in Hong Kong and overseas. He joined the Department of Building and Real Estate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1996 and was Associate Head (Teaching) from 2005 to 2011; Associate Dean and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Environment from 2011 to 2013, and from 2013 to 2014 respectively. Apart from teaching and research, Prof. Chan has been commissioned by a number of organizations to provide consultancy services in project management and construction health and safety. He has won numerous prestigious awards since 1995. Prof. Chan holds an MSc in Construction Management and Economics from the University of Aston in Birmingham, and a PhD in Project Management from the University of South Australia.

Professor LI Xiangdong李向東教授BSc, MSc, PhD, DICAssociate Dean & Chair Professor of Environmental Science and Technology

ASSOCIATE DEANTelephone no.: (852) 2766-6041Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasEnvironmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Management System and Audit, Environmental Science

Research interestsEnvironmental Science, Land Contamination and Remediation, Environmental Impact Assessment

BiographyProfessor Li obtained his BSc in Earth Sciences and his MSc in Geochemistry from Nanjing University, and his PhD in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London. His major research interests include regional environmental pollution, urban environmental geochemistry and phytoremediation of contaminated soils. His recent research projects have mainly focused on environmental changes in the fast developing Pearl River Delta region of South China. Prof. Li’s research team has been engaged in the study of trace metals and organic pollutants in soils, sediments, biological samples and atmospheric particles, including their impacts on human health and ecological systems. He has been the principal investigator of numerous research projects funded by RGC and the UGC Area of Excellence Scheme. He has published more than 150 papers, mostly in leading international journals. Professor Li is one of the highly cited authors in Environment/Ecology research fields, and five of his publications have been listed among the top 1% most cited papers by the Thomson Reuter ISI database. His current research topics consist of the emissions, transport and environmental fate of metal and organic pollutants, contaminated soil remediation, and the environmental loadings and implications of emerging pharmaceutical contaminants in surface water systems.

Professor SHEN Qiping Geoffrey沈岐平教授BEng (Tsinghua), PhD (Salford), FRICS, FHKIVM, VMF (List A)Associate Dean & Chair Professor of Construction Management

ASSOCIATE DEAN & CHAIR PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5817Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasValue Management in Construction, Construction Project Management, Research and Consultancy Techniques

Research interestsCollaborative Working in Construction, Value Management and Partnering, Construction Information Technology, Sustainable Development

BiographyProf. Shen has a proven track record of academic and research leadership in construction management with special interest in value management and collaborative working in construction, suppor ted by information and communication technologies. He pioneered the development of an innovative Interactive Value Management System which utilizes group decision support technologies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of value management workshops. He has led a large number of research projects with total funding over HK$30 million including five RGC-CERG grants in a row and has authored more than 300 publications including 180+ papers in academic and professional journals. He is member of the editorial boards of several leading journals, and has been invited to give keynote presentations in a number of international conferences. He served on the built environment panel of the Research Assessment Exercise in Hong Kong in 2006, and he is the Immediate Past Chair of the Global Leadership Forum in Construction Engineering and Management Programs. Professionally, he is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Hong Kong Institute of Value Management (HKIVM). As a certified Value Management Facilitator (List A) recognised by the HKSAR Government and a Cer tif ied Value Specialist (CVS) of SAVE International, he has professionally designed and facilitated a number of value management and partnering workshops for many client organisations in both the public and private sectors. He received the Presidential Citation Award from SAVE International in 2009 for his“energetic and engaging effort to enhance value research and education”.

Professor DING Xiao-li丁曉利教授BEng, PhDAssociate Dean & Chair Professor of Geomatics


Teaching areas Engineering Surveying, Least Squares Adjustment, Survey Data Analysis

Research interests Satellite Positioning Technologies (such as GPS), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Technologies for Ground Deformation and Structural Health Monitoring

BiographyProf. Ding obtained his BEng from the Central South University of Metallurgy (now Central South University), China in 1983 and his PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia in 1993. He lectured at the Northeastern University, China and Curtin University, Australia respectively before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1996. He is currently Chair Professor of Geomatics in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics. For many years, Prof. Ding has been working on developing advanced technologies for monitoring ground and structural deformations and geohazards especially GNSS and InSAR technologies that have been widely used by the industry. He has attracted a significant amount of research funding and published extensively in these areas. Prof. Ding is a Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), an Editor of Journal of Spatial Science and an editorial member of a number of journals.

Professor LI Heng李恒教授BE, ME, PhD(Syd.), MAIB, MAIQS, MHKIEChair Professor of Construction Informatics

CHAIR PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5879Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasConstruct ion Vir tual Prototyping, Construct ion Information Technology, Construction Management, Construction Technology

Research interestsConstruction Virtual Prototyping Technology, Construction Management and Innovative Technology

BiographyProf. Li has established an international reputation in the area of construction management research through developing innovative IT solutions to enhance project delivery processes. He probably holds the highest record of journal papers and citations in his research field. His recent research interest has been developing the construction virtual prototyping technology. Virtual Prototyping or VP technology enables contractors to identify construction problems and explore possible solutions and improvements to the construction plan before the actual work begins. His future research plan is to adapt the business model of IKEA furniture shops that seamlessly integrates design and on-site installation, in order to further reduce the management costs of a construction project. He envisages that VP technology would provide a natural interface to all stages of a project lifecycle, and that the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the Hong Kong construction industry can be improved by the use of this technology.

Professor Michael ANSON安禮信教授BA(Oxon), DIC, PhD (London), FHKICM, FHKIE, C.Eng, FICE

EMERITUS PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5796Email address: [email protected]

Research interestsConcrete Structures and Technology, Theories of Failure for Concrete, The Concrete Supply, Distribution and Placing Industry, Construction Site Management

BiographyAs a former Head of the Department of Engineering at Lancaster University as well as the Department of Civil & Structural Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic and the first Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Land Use at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Prof. Anson has made useful contributions to his field in the following areas: Precise measurements of Poisson’s ratio for concretes and mortars as affected by mix proportions (1965); Implementation costs measured of the application of the critical path method in construction(1964-68); explanation of why site placed concrete is four times more likely to be pumped in Germany than in the UK (1984-6); Precise measurements of early age tensile strains in concrete tanks under construction(1986-8); Productivity of ready mixed concrete resources for a mostly rural par t of the UK (1985-7); Benchmarking concrete placing productivity on Hong Kong construction sites (1991-6); Productivity of concrete supply resources in Hong Kong and measurement of the matching being achieved between concrete supply to sites and the requirements of those sites (1995-2001) and an explanation of that matching performance (2013-2016); Special responsibility for enabling the Faculty’s internationally recognized strength in atmospheric chemistry and pollution studies (1992-2000).

Professor SHEN Qiping Geoffrey沈岐平教授BEng (Tsinghua), PhD (Salford), FRICS, FHKIVM, VMF (List A)Associate Dean & Chair Professor of Construction Management


Teaching areasValue Management in Construction, Construction Project Management, Research and Consultancy Techniques

Research interestsCollaborations, Value Management and Partnering, Construction Information Technology, Sustainable Development

BiographyProf. Shen has a proven track record of academic and research leadership in construction management with special interest in value management and collaborative working in construction, suppor ted by information and communication technologies. He pioneered the development of an innovative Interactive Value Management System which utilizes group decision support technologies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of value management workshops. He has led a large number of research projects with total funding over HK$30 million including five RGC-CERG grants in a row and has authored more than 300 publications including 180+ papers in academic and professional journals. He is member of the editorial boards of several leading journals, and has been invited to give keynote presentations in a number of international conferences. He served on the built environment panel of the Research Assessment Exercise in Hong Kong in 2006, and he is the Immediate Past Chair of the Global Leadership Forum in Construction Engineering and Management Programs. Professionally, he is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Hong Kong Institute of Value Management (HKIVM). As a certified Value Management Facilitator (List A) recognised by the HKSAR Government and a Certified Value Specialist (CVS) of SAVE International, he has professionally designed and facilitated a number of value management and partnering workshops for many client organisations in both the public and private sectors. He received the Presidential Citation Award from SAVE International in 2009 for his“energetic and engaging effort to enhance value research and education”.

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Professor CHAN Hon Wan Edwin陳漢雲教授BA(AS)(Hons), PgDip(Arch), MA(Arch), LLB(Hons), PgD(PRC Law), PhD (Lon U), Barrister Finals, MBEng, FHKICM, FHKIArb, RIBA, MRICS, (Arbitrator and Mediator)

PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5800 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areas Urban Planning/Design, Construction Law, Dispute Management

Research interests Urban Renewal/Heritage Conservation, Land Use, Green Building, Policy of Sustainable Built Environment, Dispute Management

Biography Prof. Chan studied Architecture in England and then learnt Law in London and Hong Kong. He obtained his PhD degree from King's College, London University. He is a Chartered Architect/Surveyor/Engineer and also a Barrister. Currently, he is a full professor in the Building and Real Estate Department and the leader of the Land Use Laboratory of the Research Institute of Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD), PolyU. He has been invited as an Adjunct/Visiting Professor of the University of South Australia, Sun Yat-sen University and Hunan University in China and a Visiting Scholar of the UC Berkeley, USA and the University of Cambridge, UK. He has carried out a wide range of research related to urban development including: Sustainability policy for built environment; Urban renewal/ heritage conservation; Community issues; Low carbon cities; Institutional analysis/Transaction costs for green promotions; and Dispute management. He has published his work in over 120 international journal papers and many book chapters. He serves as an editor or editorial board member of several research journals and has edited many books related to his research. To enrich teaching/research that is relevant to industry, he plays active roles in professional bodies and serves a number of government boards/ committees.

Professor WONG Kwan Wah Francis黃君華教授BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD, FCIOB, FHKIE, FHKICM, RPE(Bldg), ARICS, MCIArb, MCMI, MIOSH

PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5821Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasConstruction Process Management, Construction and Project Management, Housing Studies

Research interestsConstruction Safety Management, Affordable Housing Development

BiographyProf. Wong obtained his BSc (Hons) in Building Degree from the Brighton Polytechnic in the UK. He worked for a building contractor in Hong Kong in 1980 and the Mass Transit Railway Corporation two years afterwards. He joined the Department in 1984. In 1988, he completed his Master’s Degree at the University of London, majoring in building economics and management. He completed his PhD Degree at the South Bank University in England in 2000 on ‘Construction Safety in Hong Kong’. He is currently the Director of the Research Centre for Construction and Real Estate Economics. In terms of community and professional services, he was the Senior Vice-Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Building (HK Branch) in 1994/95, Chairman of the Safety Specialist Group of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) in 1999/2000, and Vice-chairman of the Construction Safety and Health Committee of the Occupational Safety and Health Council in Hong Kong from 2001 to 2004. Prof. Wong is currently the Chairman of the Health and Safety Advisory Sub-Group for the CIOB (HK Branch).

Professor HUI Chi Man Eddie

許智文教授BSc(Hons), MPhil(Cantab), PhD (Cantab), MRICS, MHKIS, MHKICM, FHKIR


Teaching areasLand and Construction Economics, Housing Studies, Property and Investment

Research interestsLand and Construction Economics and Finance, Urban and Real Estate Economics

BiographyProf. Hui is an all-round professional with diverse experience in research and consultancy projects. Before joining PolyU, he was responsible for research and development for a major professional surveying firm in Hong Kong. At The University of Hong Kong, he obtained his BSc (first class honours) with support from the Chan Kai Ming Prize and Building Management Prize. At the University of Cambridge, UK, he finished his MPhil in Land Economy (first class) with a Commonwealth Scholarship. With another Commonwealth Scholarship, he completed his PhD at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK, where he is a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.

Dr FAN Hongqin樊宏欽博士BSs (Tsinghua University), MSc (University of British Columbia), PhD (University of Alberta), MHKICM, MCIOB

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5788Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasTemporary Works Design, Structural Analysis and Design

Research interestsConstruction Equipment Management, Construction Knowledge Discovery through Data Mining, Construction Industry Microeconomic Analysis, Computer Integrated Construction, Computer-Assisted Instruction in Engineering Education

BiographyDr Fan received his Bachelor's degree in Hydraulic Structure Engineering from Tsinghua Universi ty in 1991, MSc in Construct ion Engineer ing and Management from the University of British Columbia in 2003, and PhD in Construction Engineering and Management from the University of Alberta in 2007. He worked for 10 years in the construction industry before switching to academia. He was with the China Harbor Engineering Company from 1991 to 2000, serving as a project engineer for the Macau International Airport, CHEC between 1993 and 1995, and worked with All-span Construction Engineering Ltd, Canada in 2000. He was an Assistant Professor of construction technology at Missouri Western State University, Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA in 2007/2008 before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2008.

Professor CHIANG Yat Hung蔣日雄教授BA(AS), BBldg, MBA, PhD, MRICS, MHKIS, MCIOB,

RPS(QS)


Teaching areasConstruction Economics, Real Estate Finance & Investment

Research interestsConstruction Economics, Real Estate Finance & Investment

BiographyProf. Chiang obtained his BA in Architectural Studies, Bachelor of Building, Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors and the Chartered Institute of Building. Before joining the University in 1990, he had been working for the Hong Kong Government for ten years in the field of Quantity Surveying. His current research interests are in sustainable construction, construction economics, and real estate finance and investment.

Dr CHAN Wai Ming Daniel

陳煒明博士BEng(Hons), PhD, MAPM, MHKICM, MASCE, MHKIPM, MAIPM, MCABE, MAIB, C.Build E, CBP, RCM

Associate Head

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 2766-4387 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areas

Construction Management, Project Management, Procurement Systems, Relational and Collaborative Contracting, Research Methods

Research interests Construction Time Per formance, Construction Procurement Systems, Relational and Collaborative Contracting, New Engineering Contract (NEC), Project Partnering and Strategic Alliancing, Target Cost Contracting, Public Private Partnership, and Construction Safety Management

Biography Dr Chan obtained his BEng(Hons) degree in Civil and Structural Engineering and PhD degree in Construction Project Management from The University of Hong Kong. He started his engineering profession as an Assistant Structural Engineer by joining a leading local structural building design consulting engineering firm. He is a project manager, Chartered Building Engineer (United Kingdom), Chartered Building Professional (Australia) and Registered Construction Manager (Hong Kong) by profession. He joined PolyU as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Building and Real Estate in mid-April 2001. Then he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in July 2003 and was promoted to Associate Professor in Construction Project Management in July 2010. He served as the Programme Award Co-ordinator for MSc/PgD in Construction and Real Estate for 10 years between January 2007 and June 2016. He has been appointed as the Associate Head of Department (Teaching and Learning) since 1 July 2016. He has published over 200 research papers on the broad theme of project management in leading construction management journals and international conference proceedings. Dr Chan has been serving as the Chairman of the CPD Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Project Management (HKIPM) since July 2013

Professor Meng NIBSc, MSc, PhDAssociate Head

PROFESSOR Telephone no.: 852-2766-4152Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasEnvironmental Science, Building Services, Construction Technology and Structure

Research interestsSolid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs), Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cells (SOEC), Energy Recovery from Waste Treatment, Flow Batteries, and Microfluidics.

BiographyProf. Meng NI studied Aero-engine engineering in China and obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2007. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in HKU, before joining BRE as an Assistant Professor in July 2009. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2012 and Professor in July 2016.

Prof. Ni focused his research on solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and other electrochemical systems for energy conversion/storage. His research has received funding support from the RGC (GRF, ECS, SFC/RGC joint scheme, and France/HK Joint Scheme), ECF, NSFC, and ITF. Prof. NI has published over 100 papers in prestigious scientific journals with over 4800 SCI citations, and his H-index is 29. He serves as an Associate Editor for 4 journals, an Editorial Board Member for 7 journals, and a reviewer for over 60 journals. Prof. Ni has been invited 17 times to deliver keynote/invited lectures at different international conferences. He received the Young Scientist Award from the Hong Kong Institution of Science in 2007. In 2011, he received the Top Reviewer Award from Applied Energy (a top Energy Journal). In June 2016, Prof. Ni was listed in the World's Highly Cited Researchers in Energy Science and Technology by ShanghaiRanking. Prof. Ni was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Fellowship in July 2017. In August 2016, Prof. Ni received the Best Associate Editor Award from Science Bulletin.

Dr FONG Sik Wah Patrick方識華博士BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD, MRICS, MHKIS, MIVMAssociate Head


Teaching areasEngineering Economics, Professional Practice, Knowledge Management, Value Management

Research interestsKnowledge Management, Project Management, Knowledge Workplaces

BiographyDr Fong was an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. His PhD in Industrial and Business Studies was obtained from the Warwick Business School, UK. He has a multi-disciplinary background and his research interests include knowledge management (KM) and project management. He has authored or co-authored many refereed KM research papers and received funding for research into many different facets in knowledge management. He coedited a book entitled Management of Knowledge in Project Environments, published by Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann in 2005, and has also contributed chapters to several leading knowledge management books in construct ion as wel l as encyclopedias in knowledge management. He maintains close links with industry, and was Vice President of the Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society. He is also a member of the international body, CIB W102 - Information and Knowledge Management in Building, and a Visiting Research Scholar in Knowledge Management of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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Dr LAM Tsun Ip Patrick林俊業博士PhD, MSc, Associateship (HKPoly), DipFinance, MHKIS, MHKIE, MHKICM, MSISV, MSIArb, MRICS, MCIOB, RPE, RPS, CCP, CAP


Teaching areasConstruction Economics, Project Evaluation & Development, Development Finance

Research interestsProcurement Systems, Project Financing and Public Private Partnerships, Construction Contracts and Specifications, Quality and Buildability Issues, Smart Cities

BiographyDr Lam has accumulated a wealth of professional and academic experiences since graduating from The Hong Kong Polytechnic in the 1980s. He practised for 10 years in a multi-disciplinary design office, served as a consultant in quantity surveying and a contractor/developer both in Hong Kong and Singapore. He also taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in universities and polytechnics both locally and overseas. Apart from teaching, he is active in research and consultancy projects. Dr Lam is a Certified Cost Professional as well as a Certified Carbon Auditor Professional.

Dr HO Man Fong Christabel何曼芳博士BSc (Hon), MSc, AAIQS, MCIOB, MAIB

ASSISTANT PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5871

Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasConstruction Management, Procurement and Contract Administration, Building Measurement

Research interestsConstruction Management, Professional Ethics, Quantity Surveying Practices

BiographyDr Ho worked for the construction industry in the field of Quantity Surveying before switching to academia. She is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Building Engineer by profession. She is a member of both the Chartered Institute of Building and the Australian Institute of Building. She is also a member of the Australia Institute of Quantity Surveyor. She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her current research interests are in professional ethics and construction management.

Dr KIM Min-Koo 金珉玖博士BSc, MSc, PhD

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Teaching areasSensing Technology, Construction Information Technology, Construction and Maintenance Technology, Structural Analysis

Research interestsSensing based Construction/Maintenance Technology, Robotics based Construction Technology, Supply Chain Management Technology

BiographyDr Min-Koo Kim received his Bachelor’s (2009) and Master’s (2010) degrees in Architecture and Civil Engineering respectively from South Korea. He did further studies in a dual-degree PhD programme between the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and received his PhD in Civil Engineering from both KAIST and HKUST in 2015. Afterwards, Dr Kim worked as a Research Associate (Mar – July 2015 at KAIST and Aug 2015 – June 2017 at the University of Cambridge), before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor in July 2017. Dr Kim’s research focuses on the improvement of construction and maintenance of buildings using smart sensing and information technologies (ITs). His recent research outcome was spotlighted as a most downloaded paper in a top journal, Automation in Construction. In particular, his future research plan is to develop automated manufacturing and assembly of building components using robotics and Building Information Modeling (BIM), as well as develop intelligent building facility management techniques/systems using smart sensors and BIM. He envisages that these automated construction and maintenance technologies would improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the Hong Kong construction industry.

Dr YEUNG Chi Wai Stanley楊志威博士BSocSc, MSc, PhD, MRTPI, MHKIP, RPP


Teaching areasLand Development Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, International Real Estate – China

Research interestsSocio-political Aspect of Urban Redevelopment, Regional Integration and Economic Growth, Housing Market Development in China, Urban Planning and Sustainable Development, Planning Gain and Social Impact Assessment

BiographyDr Yeung specialises in social and political aspects of urban and regional planning. He obtained his Bachelor of Social Sciences from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Science in Urban Planning from The University of Hong Kong and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. He is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute as well as the Hong Kong Institute of Planners. Since graduation, he has been engaged in the areas of teaching, research and consultancy. His current research interests are urban planning and real estate development in the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.

Dr SEO JoonOh 徐博士BSc, MSc, PhD (University of Michigan)

ASSISTANT PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5823 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasConstruction Information Technology, Construction Materials

Research interests Sensing Technologies (e.g., computer vision, wearable sensors) for Safety and Health Monitoring, Construction Ergonomics, Computer Simulation

BiographyDr JoonOh Seo received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Architectural Engineering from Seoul National University in South Korea. He obtained his master's degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering (specializing in Ergonomics) and his PhD degree in Civil Engineer ing (construction management program) from the University of Michigan in the United States in 2016. Prior to starting his PhD, he gained 5 years of industry experience in construction. He used to work as a cost and safety manager in building construction projects in South Korea. His research focuses on understanding the relationship between construction workers' physical demands and their impact on construction operations. In his studies, various computing and IT approaches—including vision-based motion capture, machine learning-based action recognition, and computer simulation such as discrete event simulation and system dynamics—have been applied and implemented. Additionally, he is interested in total scene understanding and wearable sensing, aiming to enhance construction workers' performances in terms of safety, health, and productivity. He is serving as a reviewer for 5 international journals.

Ir Dr YAM Chi Ho Michael任志浩博士BSc, MSc, PhD, FASCE, FHKICM, FHKIE, RPE, MIPENZ,

PEng,

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 2766-4380Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areas Structural Analysis and Design, Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering

Research interestsStructural Steel Design, Connections, Structural Rehabilitation, Structural Application of Shape Memory Alloys, Full-Scale Testing of Structural members, Construction Safety

BiographyIr Dr Michael C. H. YAM received his BSc degree in Civil Engineering with Distinction from the University of Alberta, Canada and subsequently completed his MSc and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering at the same University. Prior to joining PolyU in 2002, Dr Yam was involved in the design of high-rise buildings in an international consultant company in Hong Kong. He was also an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Macau from 1995 to 1998. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Building and Real Estate at PolyU. He has over 23 years of experience in teaching and researching structural engineering, with a focus on the experimental and numerical investigation of steel members and connections. Dr Yam has over 130 publications including refereed journal and conference papers, research monographs, research reports and design guide.

Dr Yam was appointed Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch) in 2015. He is also the Vice President of the Hong Kong Constructional Metal Structures Association, the Vice-President of the Chinese Research Institution of Construction Management and the Deputy Chairman of the Building Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.

Dr Yam is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and The Hong Kong Institute of Construction Managers.

Atty. Stephen D. MAU 繆嘉榮法律博士BA, LLM, JD, NH Bar, US District Court (NH), US Circuit Court of Appeals (1st), Fellow- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, HKMAAL Accredited Mediator

ASSISTANT PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 3400-3865Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasArbitration, Dispute Resolution, Contract, Tort, Property

Research interestsArbitration, International Trade, Education

BiographyAtty. Mau obtained his Master of Laws degree in Transnational Business Practice from the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, and the Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the University of Connecticut. He has over 25 years of legal practice, business experience and teaching in the US and Hong Kong. He is an accredited tutor and/or examination marker for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. He also writes arbitration-related articles and books on Hong Kong Law.

Dr YU Tit Wan Ann余帙芸博士BSc, MSc, PhD, MAIB, MHKIVM


Teaching areasResearch and Consultancy Techniques, Human Resources Management, Project Management, Value Management

Research interestsSustainable Development, Green Buildings, Construction and Demolition Waste Management, Requirements Management, Project Management, Design Management, Value Management

BiographyDr Yu has a BSc degree in Building from the University of Brighton, UK and a MSc degree in Construction Management from the City University of Hong Kong. She obtained a PhD from the Department of Building and Real Estate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007. She started her profession as an Assistant Architect and worked for a number of different professional firms, including architectural firms, quantity surveying practice as well as the Hong Kong Housing Authority. Dr Yu was appointed Assistant Professor in Value Management and Construction Management by the Department of Building and Real Estate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in September 2007. She was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2014. She has a strong track record and has published extensively on the broad theme of project management in leading construction management journals and international conference proceedings.

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Department of Building and Real Estate Department of Building and Real EstateDr SING Chun Pong Michael成振邦博士BSc(Hons), MEng, PhD, MRICS, MAIBS, MASCE, MAIIB, ICIOB

RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 3400-8117Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasBuilding Maintenance for Sustainability, Maintenance Management and Operation, Design Adaptation and Conversion

Research interestsProject Performance and Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation, Building Maintenance and Surveying Practices, Sustainability in Construction and Asset Management

BiographyDr Michael Sing obtained his BSc in Building Surveying with Arup's Best Student Award and MEng with distinction from the City University of Hong Kong and PhD with a full scholarship from Curtin University in Australia. He has more than nine years' industrial experience in the field of building surveying and project management prior to starting his academic career. He is a chartered building surveyor and engineer by profession. Prior to joining the Department of Building and Real Estate, he was a Senior Lecturer at the Curtin University in Australia and also Visiting Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. Dr Sing has a track record in publications in the fields of project management, modeling and simulation. His papers have been published in top-tier journals such as ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Journal of Operational Research Society, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. He also serves on the Editorial Review Board of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE-TEM).

Dr TAN Yongtao譚永濤BEng, MSc, PhD


Teaching areas Construction Technology, Construction Management

Research interestsCompetitiveness and Strategic Management in Construction, Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Urbanization

BiographyDr Tan obtained his BEng in Civil Engineering and MSc in Engineering Management from Southeast University in Nanjing, China in 1998 and 2003 respectively. He obtained his PhD degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2009. He has more than 10 years' research experience in construction management and three years of working experience in construction and real estate industry. He has won two competitive research grants (RGC Early Career Scheme and Environmental Conservation Fund) as a Principal Investigator. He has 23 papers published in international journals (9 SCI/SSCI journal papers), 8 conference papers and contributed chapters to three textbooks. A reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences, he is also a Council member of The Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRIOCM) and an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Dr WONG Siu Wai Ivy黄小慧博士BSc(Hons.), M.DevPlan, PhD (UBC), MHKIS, MRICS


Teaching areasUrban Studies and Real Estate Development

Research interestsReal Estate Development, Property Taxation, Land Ownership Reforms, Urban Development and Local Governance

BiographyDr Ivy Wong received her PhD in Planning (2013) from the University of British Columbia, Master of Development Planning (2004) with High Distinction from the University of Queensland, and BSc (Hons) in Real Estate (1998) from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As a General Practice Surveyor, she started her career with a private real estate firm, in which she gained practical experience in property management. Subsequently, she worked for three government departments in Hong Kong, including the Lands Department, the Housing Department, and the Rating & Valuation Department. Dr Wong has a track record in publications in the fields of real estate and urban studies. Her papers were published in SSCI/SCI journals such as International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, The China Quarterly, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Urban Studies, Cities, Housing Studies, and Habitat International. Between 2009 and 2013, she received a full scholarship and two competitive research grants to support her doctoral research at the University of British Columbia. In 2015, she received an ECS grant from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council for her research on property rights reforms in peri-urban China.

Dr WONG Kwok Wai Johnny黃國偉博士BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, FRICS


Teaching areasBuilding Measurement and Documentation, Quantity Surveying Practice, Cost Planning and Control; Sustainable Building

Research interestsGreen and Intelligent Building, Green BIM (Building Information Modeling), Age-friendly Built Environments, Culture in Construction Industry

BiographyDr Johnny Wong Kwok Wai graduated from the University of New South Wales (Australia) in 1998 with a Bachelor of Building Construction Management and stayed on to complete a Master's degree in real estate. After that, he worked as a Quantity Surveyor in Australia and Hong Kong before moving to academia in 2003. Dr Wong received his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007. Prior to joining the Department of Building and Real Estate, he was a Senior Lecturer in Quantity Surveying at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. The main directions of Dr Wong's research have been towards developing a better understanding of green and intelligent buildings, and the application of BIM in supporting sustainable building practices. Johnny has a strong track record and has published extensively in a variety of top journals, such as Automation in Construction, Building and Environment, Habitat International, Construction Management and Economics, and ASCE's Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, etc. He was the Associate Editor of the UK-based journal Intelligent Buildings International (IBI).

Dr WADU MESTHRIGE JayanthaBA (Hon), Pg.Dip., MA, PhD

Research Assistant ProfessorTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5802E-mail address : [email protected]

Teaching AreasConstruction Economics, Construction Economics and Finance

Research InterestsUrban and Real Estate Economics, Urban (Re)Development and Property Market

BiographyDr Wadu Mesthrige obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees (both in economics) as well as a Post-Graduate Diploma (in economic development) from the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. He completed his PhD at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2004, afterwhich he worked there as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (PDF) from 2005-2008. He then joined the Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE) at PolyU as an Instructor. He was promoted to Research Assistant Professor in July 2016. He has published in top refereed journals such as Habitat International, Urban Policy and Research, and Facilities. He has also been involved as a co-investigator in a GRF (RGC) project.

Dr YUNG Hiu Kwan Esther容曉君博士BArch, MSc(CPM), Dip Legal Studies, PhD(HKU)


Teaching areasUrban design (MSc level) and Development Control Law (Undergraduate)

Research interestsUrban Sustainability, Built Heritage Conservation, Urban Planning and Active Ageing

BiographyDr Yung graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1997. She obtained her MSc and PhD degrees in the Department of Real Estate and Construction, the University of Hong Kong. Dr Yung worked as an assistant architect in Hong Kong before studying for her PhD. After obtaining her PhD, she worked as a research officer in a NGO for the handicapped for two years. Dr Yung joined the department as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2009. She has published extensively in top refereed journals such as Land Use Policy, Landscape and Urban Planning, Urban Affairs Review, Cities and Habitat International, etc. Dr Yung obtained the Departmental Research Publication Award 2014-15.

Dr WEI Hsi-Hsien魏希賢博士BSc, MSc (Columbia Univ.), PhD (Univ. of Maryland)


Teaching areasEnvironmental Impact Assessment, Design Adaption and Conversion

Research interestsConstruction Project Management, Resilience and Sustainability of the Built Environment, Disaster Risk Management, Information Technology Applications in Construction Engineering, Machine Learning in Disaster Management

BiographyDr Wei's research covers a broad range of topics including resilience and sustainability of buildings, information technology in construction engineering and management, project management, machine learning in disaster management, and climate change adaptation. He was a senior research fellow in the Department of Structural Engineering at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, working on the assessment of the resilience and sustainability of urban systems to extreme events on behalf of Israel's Ministry of Science, Technology and Space. With solid experience in consulting and professional practice in the design and management of major sustainable construction projects, Dr Wei is a US Green Building Council LEED AP specializing in Building Design and Construction.

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Department of Building Services Engineering Department of Building Services EngineeringProfessor Asif Sohail USMANIBE, MS, PhD, CEng, FIStructEDepartment Head

HEAD & PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 2766-5842 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasNumerical Methods and Computing, Finite Element Methods, Nonlinear Structural Analysis, Fire Resistance of Structures, Fire Safety Engineering

Research interests - Development of Computational Tools for Integrated Simulation of Structures

subjected to Fire based on Open-source Software Framework OpenSees; - Development and Characterisation of Realistic Fire Loading Scenarios for

Performance Based Structural Engineering for Fire Resistance within a Probabilistic Framework;

- Progressive Collapse Simulation of Tall Building Under Multiple-floor Fires; - Simulation of Structural Response under Multi-Hazard Scenarios, e.g. fire

following an earthquake; - Load-induced Thermal Strain in Concrete Structures subjected to fire; - Stainless Steel Structures in Fire; - Cementitious Fire Protection Damage and Estimation of Reduced Fire

Resistance in Steel Framed Structures; - Development of Closed-form Solutions for the Thermo-Mechanical

Response of Plate and Shells under Non-uniform and Transient Thermal Loading;

- Hybrid Simulation/Testing of Structures subjected to Loading and High Temperatures; and

- Real-time Emergency Response Systems in Buildings in the Context of Smart Cities

BiographyProfessor Usmani joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in August 2016. He was the Head of Civil Engineering at Brunel University London and before that the Head of the Research Institute for Infrastructure and Environment and Professor of Structural Engineering and Computational Mechanics at the University of Edinburgh (until September 2015).

Professor DENG Shiming鄧仕明教授BEng, PhD, FHKIE, MASHRAE

PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 2766-5859 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasAir Conditioning and Ventilation, Building Energy Efficiency

Research interestsDirect Expansion (DX) Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration System Simulation and Control Strategies Development, Applying Air-Conditioning and Thermal Comfort in Sleeping Environment in the Tropics or Subtropics, Frosting and Defrosting for Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP), etc.

BiographyProf. Deng obtained his PhD in Environmental Engineering from South Bank Polytechnic, UK, in 1991. He joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic as a lecturer in 1992 and is now a Professor in the Depar tment of Building Services Engineering. He is a fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers.

Ir Professor NIU Jianlei牛建磊教授BSc(Eng), MSc(Eng), PhD, CEng, RPE, FASHRAE, FCIBSE, FHKIE, FIBPSA, FISIAQChair Professor of Building Environment and Energy


Teaching areas Thermofluids, Heat Transfer, Air-Conditioning System Design and Analysis, Indoor Air Quality Engineering

Research interestsBuilding Thermal System Modelling and Simulation Analysis, Turbulence Modelling and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Application, Experimental and Questionnaire Survey Design Methods

BiographyProf. Niu received BSc in HVAC Engineering and MSc in Thermal Engineering from Tsinghua University, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He started his academic career at Tsinghua University, and also had industrial R&D exposure in China and UK in the 1980s. His research interests are computational fluid dynamics and thermal simulation, aiming at solving real-world problems in indoor air quality, infection control in built environments, building energy use, and more recently in urban thermal comfort. Since joining PolyU, he has won an impressive number of competitive grants such as RGC/GRF and CRF, ITF, and RFCID/HMRF. He has produced more than 200 publications. He has successfully supervised nearly 20 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. He receives numerous awards, and was conferred fellowship from ASHRAE, CIBSE, HKIE, IBPSA and ISIAQ, and he was awarded ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer 2009-2013, sponsored to give invited lectures worldwide. He serves as an RGC Engineering Panel member, the co-editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Energy and Buildings. He served as vice-president of Indoor Air 2014, the flagship conference of ISIAQ. He is a founding member of IBPSA-China.

Professor MAK Cheuk Ming麥卓明教授BEng, Dip, PhD, FHKIE, MHKIOA, GB Faculty, BEAM Pro


Teaching areasAcoust ics Engineer ing, Noise and Vibrat ion in Sustainable Built Environments, Building Acoustics, Indoor Environmental Quality Assessment, Research Methods, Research Projects, Dissertation

Research interestsAcoustics, Noise and Vibration, Building and Urban Ventilation, Inter-unit Dispersion, Wind Comfort, Indoor Environmental Quality, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Green Building Features

BiographyProf. Mak received his Bachelor degree in Building Services and Environmental Engineering and his Doctor of Philosophy (in Acoustics) from the University of Liverpool and received his Postgraduate Diploma in Acoustics and Noise Control from the Institute of Acoustics of United Kingdom. He was the programme leader of the full-time self-financed bachelor degree programme in Building Services Engineering from 2006 to 2011. He has committed to research for over 20 years and has produced over 200 publications. He gained various research funds from the RGC, including the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2014/15. He was the Chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics (HKIOA) from 2006 to 2008 and served the HKIOA executive committee from 2001 to 2012. He was a Building Services Discipline Advisory Panel Member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), a member of the Training Review Sub-committee (Group II) and a member of the Education & Examinations Committee of HKIE. He was the PolyU Student Branch Advisor of the Hong Kong Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE-HK Chapter) from 2008 to 2010.

Professor CHOW Wan Ki, JP周允基教授太平紳士BSc, MST, PhD, CEng, FCIBSE, FHKIE, FSFPE, FHKEng, FASME, CPEng, MIE(Aust), MACS, MASHRAE, MIFireEChair Professor of Architectural Science and Fire

Engineering

CHAIR PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 2766-5843Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasFire Science and Engineering

Research interestsArchitectural Science and Fire Engineering (Fire Model, Active Protection System, Smoke Control, Full-scale Burning Tests on Heat Release Rate and Performance-based Design)

BiographyProf. Chow joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1981 and was promoted to Chair Professor in 1998. Apart from research and teaching in Architectural Science and Fire Engineering with over 1000 publications, he is active in consultancy on performance-based fire safety design in the Asia-Oceania region. He also assisted government departments in approving such projects, including the Olympic halls in Beijing. He is the Founding President of the Hong Kong Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) in the USA, President of the Asia-Oceania Association for Fire Science and Technology, and Chair of Asia-Oceania Chapters Coordinating Group, SFPE. He was elected to the SFPE Board of Directors in 2016, and re-elected for 2017 to 2019. A Guest Professor and Supervisor of doctoral degree candidates at the University of Science and Technology of China and Harbin Engineering University, and Visiting Professor to many other universities in Australia, China and the UK, he has successfully supervised over 50 PhD candidates as Chief Supervisor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and several universities in the UK and China. He was elected a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in December 2012; and appointed as a Justice of the Peace by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in July 2013. He was awarded the Lifetime Contribution Award by the Asia-Oceania Association for Fire Science and Technology (AOAFST) in October 2015.

Professor DU Ya Ping Patrick杜亞平教授BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MIET

Associate Head

ProfessorTelephone no.: (852) 2766-7784 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasElectrical Services in Buildings

Research interestsElectrical Power Distribution and Utilization, Power Quality Control, Lightning and Surge Protection, Electromagnetic Environment and Compatibility

BiographyProf. Du received his BSc degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and his PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA. His research interests include power quality in power distribution systems, electromagnetic environment and compatibility, and l ightn ing and surge protect ion in bui ld ings, ra i lway systems and telecommunication systems. He has been awarded more than eleven external research grants from the Research Grants Council and several grants from industry partners. He has made significant contributions in the areas of modelling various structural systems and simulating electromagnetic phenomena in different systems with FDTD and PEEC methods. He also developed the single-line transmission line theory, and a user-friendly PEEC-based electromagnetic simulation software package. The accumulated research funding exceeds HK$ 10 million. He has produced more than 100 publications. Prof. Du is an active EMC consultant, and has completed more than 50 projects related to electrical systems in buildings, railway systems and telecommunications. He is a member of IET, and is a chartered engineer.

Professor WANG Shengwei王盛衛教授BSc(Eng), MSc(Eng), PhD, CEng, RPE, FCIBSE, FHKIE, MASHRAEChair Professor of Building Services Engineering


Teaching areasIntelligent Building, Building Automation and Control, Air-conditioning and Energy Efficiency

Research interestsEnergy Saving in Buildings, Optimal Design of HVAC&R and Energy Systems Concerning Uncertainty and Reliability, Optimal and Robust Control of HVAC&R Systems, Building Demand Response (DR) for Smart Grids, Building and System Diagnosis, Dynamic Simulation of Building Systems, District Cooling System and Intelligent Building Technologies

BiographyProf. Wang is one of the most active research scientists internationally on building system optimal and energy efficient control, building energy system optimal design, building and system diagnosis as well as building demand response to smart grids in the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration (HVAC&R) field. He is extensively involved in research and applications in the field of energy saving in buildings. He has obtained about thirty research grants, including 14 GRF grants from the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, and grants from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He is a recipient of the Overseas Outstanding Young Talents Research Grant of NSFC (2011). He also received significant amount of funding from industry (totally over HK$ 16 millions over last 12 years). He is also very active in applying the technologies developed by his team to enhance energy efficiency in new and existing buildings, including the International Commerce Centre (ICC), New World Centre redevelopment, MTR station, PolyU campus buildings and industrial buildings with energy savings ranking from 15% to 40%. He has written two books, co-authored four books, and published over 320 papers in refereed journals (including 190 papers in journals cited by SCI). He is ranked as one of the top 150 most highly-cited scholars in “Energy Science and Engineering” (by Elsevier in 2016). He has received a number of international and national awards for building energy research and technology development and applications, such as ASHRAE Technology Award (2014). He is an associate editor of “Science and Technology for the Built Environment”, a journal of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers and serves on the boards of a few other journals. He holds guest/adjunct professorships in ten leading universities in Mainland of China and US.

Professor TANG Shiu Keung鄧兆強教授BSc(Eng), PhD, MHKIOA, MIOA, MASAAssociate Head


Teaching areasBuilt Environment and Acoustics

Research interestsBuilding Acoustics and Vibration, Aeroacoustics, Fluid Dynamics, Environmental Noise Control

BiographyProfessor Tang obtained his BSc(Eng) from the Mechanical Engineering Department of The University of Hong Kong in 1987. He finished his PhD in acoustics and fluid dynamics from the same department in 1992. He joined the Department of Building Services Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in July 1993. He is currently the leader of the Building Acoustics and Vibration research group in the Department and is a member of a number of research centres at the University. He is also active in organising acoustics conferences and providing services to the industry. Prof. Tang has published over 109 research papers devoted to the science and applications of fluid mechanics, acoustics and mathematics. He has also completed over 100 consultancy projects. His current research interests are aeroacoustics, building acoustics and ventilation-enabling façade sound insulation devices.

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Dr CHEN Mingli 陳明理博士BEng, Msc, PhD


Teaching areasElectrical Technology, Power & Machines, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Installations and Systems, Electrical Installation, Building Services

Research interestsLightning Detection & Protection, Building Electrical Services, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Power Quality

Biography Dr Chen has a BSc (1985, Lanzhou U, China) in Theoretical Physics, MSc (1988, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)) in Atmospheric Physics, and PhD (2000, Gifu U, Japan) in Electrical & Electronic Information Systems. Dr Chen joined the Department of Building Services Engineering in 2002 and is now an Associate Professor. Before joining the Department, he was a researcher in the CAS and a system engineer at Morimatsu Ltd in Japan. He is now in charge of teaching subjects in the area of electric services. His research/consultancy interest is in the areas of lightning detection and protection, building electrical services, EMC, and power quality. He has been engaged in more than 42 various research projects and published 140 more journal and conference papers. He is the recipient of Science and Technology Progress Award by CAS in 1993 and that by the Headquarter of People’s Liberation Army in 1995. He is also the recipient of a Best Presentation Award of the 6th Asia Lightning Protection Forum in 2009, and two Dean's Awards for Excellence in External Competitive Research Funding in 2011 and 2014, respectively.

Professor YANG Hongxing楊洪興教授 BEng, MEng, PhD, FHKIE, RPE


Teaching areas Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Applied Solar Energy in Buildings, Renewable Energy Applications, HVACR Design and Analysis, Bui lding Energy Simulation

Research interestsBuilding-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), Solar Cell Materials, Off-shore Wind Power Generation, Hybrid Solar-Wind Power Generation, Indirect Evaporative Cooling for Air-conditioning and Ground Coupled Heat Pumps for Air-conditioning

Biography Prof. Yang received his BEng in 1982 and MEng in 1985 at Tianjin University, China. He obtained his PhD in 1993 at the University of Wales College of Cardif f, UK. He has been involved in renewable energy research and development projects throughout his career in the Chinese mainland, Britain and Hong Kong including geothermal, solar energy, and wind energy resources. Prof. Yang is now leading the Renewable Energy Research Group at the Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has published over 300 academic papers including more than 150 SCI journal papers and five professional books. He has been on the list of the world 150 most-cited researchers with impactful research in the disciplines of Civil Engineering according to the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 by Elsevier. He intends to develop the Renewable Energy Research Group into a flagship group of the Faculty of Construction and Environment, and a leading worldwide research and development organisation.

Dr LAI Hung Kit Joseph黎鴻傑博士BEng(Hons), MSc, PhD, DLS, CEng, RPE, FBSOMES, FCIBSE, MHKIE, F.PFM


Teaching areas Maintenance Management of Built Assets, Legal Aspects of Facility Management, Facility Management Professional Practice, Facilities Support Services M anagement , Fac i l i t y M anagement and t he Workplace, Design Project, Research Project, A r ch i te c t u r e an d B u i l d in g s , O p e r a t i o n an d Maintenance, Testing and Commissioning

Research interestsDesign and Construction Management, Operation and Maintenance, Facilities Economics and Contracts, Performance Benchmarking and Assessment, Legislative Controls on Built Facilities, Building Energy Use and Carbon Footprint, Building Information Modelling

Biography Dr Joseph Lai possesses a first-class honours degree in Building Services Engineering, a Master’s degree in Environmental Management and a PhD in Facilities Management. He is a registered professional engineer, working for over a decade in building services consultancy, property development, and facilities management before embarking on his academic career. Dr Lai has earned the 2010/11 Departmental Teaching Excellence Award, the 2011/12 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the 2014/15 Departmental Teaching Excellence Award, and the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Academic Programme Development 2016. He is the programme leader of the MSc in Facility Management, a co-editor of the journal Facilities and a regional editor of the journal Smart and Sustainable Built Environment. As the departmental coordinator of the facility engineering and management discipline, Dr Lai has actively undertaken research studies and he has published widely in scholarly journals. In addition to teaching and consultancy services, Dr Lai has served on the committees of many professional institutions and government departments. Appointed as a Subject Specialist of the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, Dr Lai has chaired a number of programme validation exercises. He has also served as External Examiner and Accreditation Panel Member for various academic programmes.

Dr LU Lin Vivien 呂琳博士BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MEI, MCIBSE


Teaching areasEngineering Thermodynamics, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration, Renewable Energy

Research interestsRenewable Energy Applications, Heat/Mass Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Related to Building Studies Green Building Material Development

Biography Dr Lu obtained her BEng from Shandong Jianzhu University and her MEng from Tongji University, both in HVAC engineering. She finished her PhD degree in Renewable Energy at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2004. She then worked for Parsons Brinckerhoff (Asia) Ltd as an engineer/energy specialist for two years. In 2006, she joined the Department of Building Services Engineering as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2012. Her total secured research grant amounts in a PI/PC capacity has exceeded HK$15 million, including HK$ 11.4 million from external competitive research grants such as UGC GRF, ITF, CPU PPR, and ECF. She has authored or co-authored two book chapters and two books, and published over 119 refereed SCI journal publications with h-index of 24. She received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Funding in 2010 and 2014, a gold medal as a co-inventor from the 44th International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva 2016, and a silver medal as a co-inventor from the 40th International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva 2012.

Dr CHAU Chi Kwan 周志坤博士MS(Arch), MS(Mech), PhD, MCIOB, PFM, MHKIOA

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-7780 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasSustainability, Construction Management, Benchmarking, Indoor Air Quality

Research interestsSustainability, Soundscape, Outdoor and Indoor Air Quality, Environmental Performance, Decision-Making Sciences, Engineering Economics, Cost Modelling, Econometrics

BiographyDr Chau has a diversified academic background in quantity surveying, architecture and mechanical engineering. He earned his Master’s degrees in Architecture and Mechanical Engineering, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering. His major research interests are the inter-relationships between the human and built environments, economic valuation and benchmarking of sustainable built environments, air quality and soundscape. He has also been actively involved in consultancy projects related to the costs and financial benefits of undertaking green building assessments, life cycle energy analysis of building construction, cost effectiveness study for noise barriers.

Dr LEE Wai Ling 李慧玲博士APHK, MSc, PhD, HD, CEng, FCIBSE, FHKIE

Associate Head


Teaching areasAir-conditioning and Refrigeration Systems, Sustainable Built Environment, Building Energy Performance

Research interestsBuilding Energy Assessments and Simulations, Advanced Air-conditioning System Design Technologies, and Sustainable Building Development

BiographyDr Lee has practised as a professional building services engineer for more than ten years, with extensive experience in all the trades of building mechanical services. Her experience embraces design through installation, testing and commissioning of services systems for new buildings and operation and maintenance of service systems in existing buildings. She has acquired a wide spectrum of practical experience to teach services design and air-conditioning-related subjects, and to lead the development of a new subject area - sustainable development of the built environment. Dr Lee is a member in the Technical Task Force on Mandatory Implementation of the Building Energy Codes by EMSD, and the HKIE Building Services Division Committee. She is also a member of the editorial committee of the HKIE handbook on the mandatory building inspection scheme (MBIS), and the HKIE Journal. She has been working on the development and refinement of the HK-BEAM (renamed as BEAM Plus) since the scheme was launched in 1996. She has published over 60 journal papers and more than 50 conference papers and technical reports. Her research outputs have made significant contributions to mitigate global climate changes arising from buildings.

Dr FONG Nai Kong方乃剛博士BSc, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 2766-5854


Teaching areasFire Dynamics, Design Considerations for Fire Safety Management, Fire Engineering System, Computational Fire Modelling in Building Design, Intelligent Building and Associated Fire Safety, Fire Fundamentals

Research interestsFire Modelling, Sprinkler Research, Fire Detection System, Performance Based Fire Safety Design, Video Fire Detection

Biography Dr Fong graduated from University College of North Wales, Bangor, UK with a BSc degree in Applied Mathematics and Computing in 1986. He obtained his degree in Fire Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1991.

Dr MUI Kwok Wai Horace 梅國威博士BEng, PhD, HD, CEng, RPE, MCIBSE, MHKIE, MASHRAE


Teaching areas Air Conditioning and Ventilation, Sustainable Built Environment, Building Technology, Architectural and Buildings, Building Services and Design Process, Building Environmental Performance, Design Operation and Management, Indoor Air Quality Engineering

Research interestsIndoor Environmental Quality, Indoor Air Quality, Building Energy, Plumbing and Drainage

Biography Dr Mui obtained his BEng (Hons, First Class) degree in Building Services Engineering (BSE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He finished his PhD specialising in building environmental performance from the same department. He received his industrial training in building services designs and project management in a mechanical and electrical engineering consulting company. He joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2000. Over the years, Dr Mui has also attained professional memberships from a number of professional bodies worldwide, including, HKIE, CIBSE, ASHRAE, CEng and RPE. He has worked on research projects and consultancy works in the fields of energy efficiency, energy benchmarking system, building environmental performance, thermal comfort, indoor environmental quality and indoor air quality.

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Dr WONG Ling Tim 王寧添博士BEng(Hons, First Class), PhD, CEng, MCIBSE, MHKIE, RPE


Teaching areasPiped Services, Building System Performance, Service Learning: Science for Healthy and Sustainable Living Environments, Research Project, Service Design

Research interestsIndoor Environmental Quality, Water Systems for Buildings

BiographyDr Wong joined the Department of Building Services Engineering in 1996. He was the programme leader of BEng(Hons) in Building Services Engineering (with specialism in Fire Engineering) in 1997-2002, and of MSc/PgD in Fire and Safety Engineering in 2003-2008. Dr Wong is a recipient of the Hans B. Thorelli Award of the 2006 Awards for Excellence by Emerald Literati Network. With the help of Dr Horace Kwok Wai Mui, he founded an IAQ BioAerosols laboratory in 2007. He is a working commission member (W062-water supply and drainage for buildings) of the Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB). He had also organised the 34th CIBW062 International Symposium of Water Supply and Drainage for Buildings in Hong Kong (2008). He has been listed in Who's Who in World 2009. He serves as a member for a number of local and international committees, including editorial board of academic journals, scientific committee of symposium and management committee for some local and regional primary, secondary schools. He also serves as a court member for Hong Kong Baptist University in 2016-2017.

Dr CHAN Ming Yin Jonathan陳銘賢博士BEng(Hons), MEd, PhD, MHKIE, RPE (BSS), MCIBSE, CEng

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 2766-5836 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasHVAC & Refrigeration Engineering

Research interestsRefrigeration, HVAC

BiographyDr Chan holds a Bachelor degree in Civil & Building Engineering, a Master degree in Education and a PhD in Engineering.

Dr CAO Sunliang曹孫亮博士BEng, MSc, DSc (Tech.)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Research interests Low-energy and Zero-energy Buildings, Advanced On-site Renewable Energy Systems, Building Integrated Energy Storage Solutions, HVAC Technologies, and the Integrations between Buildings, Hybrid Smart Grids and New Energy Vehicles.

BiographyDr Cao obtained his Doctor of Science (Technology) degree in April 2014 from the School of Engineering at Aalto University (formerly known as Helsinki University of Technology), Finland. His Master of Science degree was obtained in June 2010 from the University ofJyvaskyla, Finland, while his Master’s thesis project was conducted at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Before joining PolyU in 2017, he had been successively full-time employed as a research assistant, doctoral researcher and postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, Finland, since 2010. Moreover, in January and February 2016, Dr Cao also worked as a Visiting Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Germany, for a joint research between Fraunhofer ISE and Aalto University. His main research expertise is in the fields of low-energy and zero-energy buildings, advanced on-site renewable energy systems, building integrated energy storage solutions, HVAC technologies, and the integrations between buildings, hybrid smart grids and new energy vehicles. He participated in the IEA SHC T44/HPP A38 and IEA EBC A67 as a Finnish representative and a Finnish observer, respectively. So far, he has published more than 20 scientific publications, including 13 high-IF (impact factor) international SCI journal papers.

Dr XIAO Fu Linda 肖賦博士BA, BSc(Eng), MSc(Eng), PhD, MASHRAE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 2766-4194


Teaching areasBuilding Automation and Control, Air-Conditioning and Ventilation, Thermodynamics

Research interestsBuilding Automation and Diagnostics, Optimal Control of Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer in Energy-Related Equipment in Buildings, Liquid Desiccant, Building Energy Efficiency

Biography Dr Xiao obtained her double Bachelor's degrees in Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) Engineering and Marketing from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1998, her Master's degree in Refrigeration and Cryogenics Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2001, and her PhD in Building Services Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2004. She worked in Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd from 2005 to 2006. She returned to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in March 2006 and became a Lecturer in July 2006. She was promoted to Assistant Professor in July 2013 and became Associate Professor in July 2013.

Dr KOO Choongwan 丘忠完博士BEng, MEng, PhD

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 3400-8284Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areas

Building Energy Monitoring and Diagnostics, Building Energy Retrofit Strategy, Distributed Solar Energy Generation, Intelligent Decision-Support System, Big Data Analytics, Engineering Economics, Environmental Impact Assessment, Cost Estimation and Management

Research interestsSustainable Facility Engineering and Management, Real-Time Urban Energy Demand-side Management, Occupant Behaviour and Energy Consumption, Urban Sustainability Policy, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Supply-side Management, Data Visualization, Data Mining Techniques, Simulation Modeling Techniques, Sensor and Actuator

BiographyDr Koo Choongwan received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Architectural Engineering from the University of Seoul, South Korea. He obtained his PhD degree in Architectural Engineering from Yonsei University, South Korea, in 2014. Dr Koo has a good mix of academic and industrial experience. Before joining the Department of Building Services Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dr Koo served as a Research Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Yonsei University, South Korea, and as a Visiting Scholar in the Division of Construction Engineering and Management at Purdue University, USA from 2015 to 2016. Also, he worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Inha University, South Korea in 2014 and gained professional industrial experience during his work at HanmiGlobal Co. Ltd., an international construction engineering and management company of South Korea, from 2007 to 2010. Dr Koo has more than 50 SCI publications in peer-reviewed international journals, over 30 conference papers (including articles), and more than 10 patents. Furthermore, he has been listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World® 2016 (33rd Edition). Dr Koo is recently interested in the research of a real-time energy demand-side management in the building sector from a city's point of view, which focuses on monitoring, diagnosing, and retrofitting the building energy performance with the concept of“dynamic approach”under the new paradigm of an“urban organism”.

Dr CHA Seung Hyun 車丞賢博士BEng, MSc, PhD, LEED AP


Teaching areasFacility Management Professional Practice, Economics for Facility Management, Research Projects, Indoor Environmental Quality Assessment

Research interestsHis research interests include building information modelling, building energy and space efficiency, immersive virtual environments, occupant behaviour, and post-occupancy evaluations. His current research interests are directed towards improving the space efficiency and maximizing occupants' satisfaction by exploring and formalizing relationships and interactions among many users, user activities and three-dimensional space in a systematic and quantitative manner.

BiographyDr Cha Seung Hyun obtained his Bachelor 's degree in Architectural Engineering from Korea University in South Korea in 2009. He received his Master's degree in Sustainable Design and Construction from Stanford University in the USA and his PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge in the UK in 2011 and 2015 respectively. Prior to his appointment at PolyU in November 2015, Dr Cha was a visiting research scholar in the Design and Decision Support System (DDSS) group at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2013 and in Architecture and Civil Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong in 2014. He worked as a Research Associate in Nanyang Centre for Underground Space at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2015.

Department of Building Services Engineering Department of Building Services Engineering

Dr WEI Minchen魏敏晨博士BEng, MSc, PhD, MIES, MSLL, IALD Educator


Teaching areasIlluminating Engineering, Daylighting, High Performance Building

Research interestsIlluminating Engineering, Solid-State Lighting, Colour Science, Daylighting

BiographyDr. Wei obtained a B.Eng from Department of Illuminating Engineering & Light Sources at Fudan University in 2009, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University (USA) in 2011 and 2015 respectively. His research interests include human visual and non-visual responses to light stimuli, indoor and outdoor luminous environmental quality, and LED lighting. Currently, he serves on various technical committees in the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES).

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringProfessor LAM Hing Keung William林興強教授 BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, FHKIE, FIHT, MASCE, CMILT, MICE, MITEDepartment Head & Chair Professor of Civil and Transportation Engineering

HEAD & CHAIR PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-6045Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasHighway Engineering, Traf f ic Surveys and Transpor t Planning, Public Transport Studies, and Project Management

Research interestsTransport Planning and Traffic Forecasting, Traffic Surveys and Simulation, ITS Technology and Planning, Public Transport and Pedestrian Studies

BiographyProf. Lam received his PhD degree from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. He is Chair Professor of Civil and Transportation Engineering and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Lam is currently the President of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (www.hksts.org) and the Past Chairman of Civil Division and of Logistics and Transportation Division, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (www.hkie.org.hk). He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Transportation, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the SCI Journal – Transportmetrica and is now one of the Editors-in-Chief of Transportmetrica A: Transport Science. Prof. Lam is also the Convenor of the International Advisory Committee of the International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT) (www.isttt22.org) and a member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR) (www.instr.org). Prof. Lam was the Chang Jiang Scholars Chair Professor at the Beijing Jiaotong University, China from 2010 to 2013. He received the State Natural Science Award (2nd Prize) from the State Council of the People's Republic of China in 2011. Prof. Lam has over 35 years professional experience in research and practice for planning of transport infrastructures. He has published more than 250 SCI journal papers together with 70 consultancy reports.

Professor POON Chi Sun潘智生教授BSc(Eng), PhD, DIC, FHKIEAssociate Head & Chair Professor of Sustainable Construction Materials


Teaching areasConstruction Materials, Waste Management

Research interestsWaste Recycling and Management (Solid, Hazardous, Construction), Concrete Technology

BiographyProf. Poon obtained his PhD from Imperial College London. He is currently Chair Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Environmental Technology and Management at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Poon specializes in the research and development of environmental-friendly construction materials, waste management and recycling technologies, and sustainable construction. He has published over 300 papers in international journals and conferences. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) and Past Chairman of the HKIE Environmental Division. He is also a Fellow of the Hong Kong Concrete Institute (HKCI) and a member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI). He is currently Vice-President of the HKCI, and was President of the ACI (China) Chapter. He has served on the Advisory Council on the Environment (ACE) of the Hong Kong SAR Government and chaired the Waste Management Sub-committee of ACE (2003-2008). He is now a member of the Council for Sustainable Development and the representative of HKIE's Environmental Discipline.

Professor CHAU Kam Tim周錦添教授MEng, PhD, SrDip(CE), HonDip(CE), FHKIE, MAAM, MASCE, MASEE, MASMEChair Professor of Geotechnical Engineering


Teaching areasSoil Mechanics, Soil and Rock Engineering, Geo-mechanics, Structural Mechanics and Analysis

Research interestsGeo-mechanics and Geo-hazards, including Bifurcation and Stability Theories in Geo-materials, Fracture and Damage Mechanics in Brittle Rocks, Three-Dimensional Elasticity, Earthquake Engineering and Mechanics, Landslides and Debris Flows, Tsunami and Storm Surges, and Rockfalls and Dynamic Impacts, Seismic pounding, Vulnerability of Tall Buildings with Transfer System, and Shaking Table Tests

BiographyProf. Chau obtained his Honours Diploma with distinction from the Hong Kong Baptist College, a MEng in Structural Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Northwestern University (USA), and an Executive Certificate from the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University (2005). A former Associate Head of CEE (2000-2006) and former Associate Dean of FCE (2006-2011), he is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), a recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholar Award of the National Natural Science Foundation, China (2003) and of the 2013 Teaching Excellence Award from CEE. He was the President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2004-2006), Chairman of the Geo-mechanics Committee (2005-2010) of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), the Vice President of the Hong Kong Institution of Science (2010-2011), and Chairman of the Elasticity Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (2010-2012) as well as the Technical Committee of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (2010-2013). He was the Chair of the Grievance and Appeal Committee of PolyU (2006-2008, 2014-2016) and is a scientif ic advisor to the Hong Kong Observatory (2008-2018).

Professor WANG Tao王韜教授BSc (Nankai University), PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology)Chair Professor of Atmospheric Environment


Teaching areas Environmental Science, Climate Change and Society Response, Sustainable Development and Environmental Planning

Research interestsChemistry of Natural and Polluted Atmosphere, Air Pollution-Cloud Interactions, Urban and Regional Air Quality Management

BiographyProf. Wang obtained a BSc in Chemistry from Nankai University in 1985, then spent one year at Peking University studying for a MSc in Environmental Chemistry. He obtained his PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992. He has been a Chair Professor since July 2013. Prof. Wang has led a number of research and consultancy projects, including serving as chief scientist for China's National Basic Research Project on acid rain funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2005-2010, RMB 25M), and the principal investigator of a photochemical study funded by the Environmental Conservation Fund (2010-2014, HK$6.55M). His findings have been adopted in a United Nations climate assessment report, used for air-pollution improvement at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and air pollution regulations in Hong Kong. Professor Wang is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project, an Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere and a Guest Editor for Atmospheric Chemistry Physics, which are two leading international journals in geosciences. He currently serves on RGC's Engineering Panel (Joint Research Scheme) and the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Selection Panel. He is also a Scientific Advisor of the Hong Kong Observatory and a member of the Academic Committee for one national and three ministry-level Key Laboratories in China.

Professor CHAN Siu Lai陳紹禮教授PhD, FHKIE, MIStructE, FHKISCAssociate Head & Chair Professor of Computational Structural Engineering


Teaching areasSteel Structure Design, Structural Stability, Structural Mechanics and Analysis, Glass Structures

Research interestsSteel Structures, Non-linear Solution Methods, Buckling, Stability, Advanced Nonlinear Design, Glass and Slender Skeletal Structures, Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis, Second Order Direct Analysis, Steel, Bamboo and Aluminum Scaffolding and Pre-tensioning Steel Structures

BiographyProf. Chan is the chief and founding editor of two SCI-E journals in steel structures, a board member of 8 other journals and a principal consultant of the Code of Practice for the Structural Uses of Steel 2005 and 2011 as well as the up-coming code of practice for structural uses of glass, Hong Kong published by the Buildings Department. He developed a computer-based and practical design method bypassing the prescriptive use of effective length, charts and tables in Code. Since 1998, this “simulation-based” design method has been utilised in a number of practical steel structures in the region and was adopted in the 2008 and 2009 HKIE award-winning projects in Hong Kong and Macau. Further, Professor Chan and his PhD students were the recipients of a structural excellence award for a project in Singapore in 2013 and two awards separately from the Geotechnical and Structural Divisions for their research and project related to nonlinear analysis in 2016. He has received numerous research and consultancy awards from his university and served as the Chairman of the Structural Division of HKIE in 2014/15, of Structural Discipline in 2016 and in several other advisory committees in Government and learnt societies. Prof. Chan was given the Class I Award by The Ministry of Education of the Chinese mainland in 2009, for the collaboration work with Tongji University (China) in nonlinear analysis and design of high rise buildings.

Professor TENG Jin-Guang滕錦光教授BEng, PhD, FHKEng, CorrFRSE, FHKIE, FIIFC, FIStrucEKo Jan Ming Professor in Sustainable Structures and Materials, Chair Professor of Structural Engineering & Director of Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development


Teaching areas Structural Engineering

Research interestsSustainable Structures and Materials, Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites in Construction, Strengthening/Retrofit of Structures, High-Performance Structural Systems, Steel Structures, Thin-Walled Structures

BiographyProf. Teng received his BEng degree from Zhejiang University in 1983 and his PhD degree from the University of Sydney in 1990. He is the author/co-author of over 190 SCI journal papers which have received over 7,000 citations according to the Web of Science Core Collection, leading to an H-index of 42. He is on both the Civil Engineering and the Mechanical Engineering lists of Most Cited Researchers developed for ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 by Elsevier. Many of his research findings have been adopted by relevant design guidelines/codes in China, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. He has won 19 competitive grants (i.e. GRF grants and CERGs) from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council as a Principal Investigator over the past 21 annual rounds. His research has been recognized by a number of prestigious awards, including the State Natural Science Award of China, the IIFC Medal from the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC), and the Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was elected a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2013 and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015.

Professor LI Xiangdong李向東教授BSc, MSc, PhD, DICAssociate Dean & Chair Professor of Environmental Science and Technology

ASSOCIATE DEAN & CHAIR PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-6041Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasEnvironmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Management System and Audit, Environmental Science

Research interestsEnvironmental Science, Land Contamination and Remediation, Environmental Impact Assessment

BiographyProfessor Li obtained his BSc in Earth Sciences and his MSc in Geochemistry from Nanjing University, and his PhD in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London. His major research interests include regional environmental pollution, urban environmental geochemistry and phytoremediation of contaminated soils. His recent research projects have mainly focused on environmental changes in the fast developing Pearl River Delta region of South China. Prof. Li’s research team has been engaged in the study of trace metals and organic pollutants in soils, sediments, biological samples and atmospheric particles, including their impacts on human health and ecological systems. He has been the principal investigator of numerous research projects funded by RGC and the UGC Area of Excellence Scheme. He has published more than 150 papers, mostly in leading international journals. Professor Li is one of the highly cited authors in Environment/Ecology research fields, and five of his publications have been listed among the top 1% most cited papers by the Thomson Reuter ISI database. His current research topics consist of the emissions, transport and environmental fate of metal and organic pollutants, contaminated soil remediation, and the environmental loadings and implications of emerging pharmaceutical contaminants in surface water systems.

Professor XU You-lin徐幼麟教授MSc, PhD, FHKIE, FASCE, FEMI, FIStructEFaculty Dean & Chair Professor of Structural Engineering

FACULTY DEAN & CHAIR PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-6050Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areasSeismic Design of Building Structures, Wind Engineering, Structural Mechanics, Structural Analysis, Structural Dynamics

Research interestsWind Effects on Tall Buildings and Long Span Bridges, Structural Health Monitoring of Large Civil Structures, Structural Vibration Control and Smart Structures, Seismic Effects on Tall Buildings and Long Span Bridges

BiographyProf. Xu received his PhD degree from University of Sydney, Australia. He is Chair Professor of Structural Engineering (2003), Founding Director of Research Centre for Urban Hazards Mitigation (2002) and former Head (2007-2013) of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has conducted research and consulting in structural engineering over three decades with special interests in wind engineering, structural health monitoring and structural vibration control. He has been engaged in many high-level projects, including the projects on the Tsing Ma Bridge and the Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong, the CCTV Tower in Beijing and Shanghai Tower in Shanghai. He has published more than 230 SCI journal papers, delivered over 80 keynote/invited lectures at international conferences/symposiums/workshops, and served in various capacities in many international associations and international journals. He has received several prestigious awards, including the 2006 Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, the 2010 Qian Ling Xi Computational Mechanics Award, and the 2012 Robert H. Scanlan Award in recognition of his outstanding research achievements. He has written two books Structural Health Monitoring of Long-Span Suspension Bridges and Wind Effects on Cable-Supported Bridges, which were published by Spon and Wiley respectively. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the USA, and the Institution of Structural Engineers, UK.

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Professor YIN Jianhua 殷建華教授BEng, MSc, PhD (University of Manitoba), MHKIE

Chair Professor of Soil Mechanics


Teaching areasGeotechnical Engineering, Foundation Engineering, Geotechnical Modelling, Properties and Behaviour of Soils

Research interestsTesting Study of Properties and Behaviour of Soils, Constitutive Modelling, Soft Soil Improvement, Geosynthetics-Reinforcement and Modelling, Slope Analysis and Stabilization, Geotechnical Monitoring Using both Optic Fibre Sensor and Conventional Technologies, Soil /Structure Interactions, Geotechnical Numerical Analyses

BiographyProf. Yin received a BEng degree in 1983 and an MSc degree in 1984 in Mainland China and a PhD from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1990. He came to Hong Kong in 1994 and worked in a consulting firm until he joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1995. He is Vice-President of the Internat ional Associat ion for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), a Co-editor of the International Journal of Geomechanics, as well as GeoMechanics and GeoEngineering, and is on the Editorial (Advisory) Board of eight other journals. He received the prestigious John Booker Medal of IACMAG in October 2008 and the Chandra S. Desai Excellence Award of IACMAG in May 2011 for an experimental study of the nonlinear and time-dependent stress-strain behavior of soils, development and applications of elastic visco-plastic constitutive models, and innovative development of laboratory testing facilit ies and optical f ibre sensing technologies. Prof. Yin received the 2000 Mao Yi-Sheng Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Youth Award in China. He delivered the 2011 Huang Wen-Xi Lecture entitled“From Constitutive Modelling to Development of Laboratory Testing and Optical Fibre Sensor Monitoring Technologies”on 9 April 2011 in Nanjing, China.

Professor CHU Wei 朱威教授BSc, MEng, PhD, IWT, HWCT, PE, MIWA


Teaching areas Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Design, Sewerage and Water Supply Engineering, Water Quality Management

Research interestsWater/Wastewater Treatment, Industrial Effluent Treatment and Design, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Remediation

BiographyProf. Chu obtained his BSc and MEng degrees in Tunghai and National Taiwan University in Taiwan in 1985 and 1987, respectively. After working for several years as a professional engineer, he obtained a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Purdue University, USA in 1994; then he joined the PolyU. Prof. Chu has a proven track record in academic and research areas. He has published more than one hundred SCI journal papers. Prof. Chu is a former recipient of the Faculty Awards for Outstanding Performance/Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities in 2003/04 (Individual award) and 2006/07 (Team award-Leader), and the Young Scientist Paper Award from the American Academy of Science in 2006. He has established many research collaborations with top universities in the USA and the UK. He is interested in developing more research and/or professional collaborations with academic, governmental and industrial institutions both locally and internationally.

Professor CHAU Kwok Wing周國榮教授BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MHKIE, MICE


Teaching areasFluid Mechanics, Hydraulics & Hydrology, Coastal Hydraulics

Research interestsHydrodynamic Modelling, Water Quality Modelling, Hydroinformatics, Artificial Intelligence Applications

BiographyProf. K.W. Chau was awarded the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree with First Class Honours by the University of Hong Kong, the Master of Science in Civil Engineering degree with Distinction by the University of Hong Kong, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree by University of Queensland in Australia. He is very active in undertaking research and the scope of his research interest is very broad, covering numerical flow modeling, water quality modeling, hydrological modeling, knowledge-based system development and artificial intelligence applications. Prof. Chau has published over 140 Science Citation Index journal papers and the total number of non-self citations is over 4,000. He acquired many prestigious research awards: 2008 Natural Science Class 1 Award conferred by Ministry of Education of China, 2009 Dean's Award for Outstanding Publication Achievement (Overall performance in citation in the past 10 calendar years), 2009 National Natural Science Class 2 Award, and 2012 Dean's Award for Outstanding Publication Achievement (Highly-cited papers).

Professor GUO Hai 郭海教授BSc, MSc, PhD, ISIAQ, AWMA, SEGH, EGU


Teaching areasAir and Noise Pollution Studies, Air and Noise Pollution Control, Introduction to Environmental Science, Introduction to Indoor Air Quality, Environmental Engineering, and Air Pollution Control Engineering

Research interestsAtmospheric Chemistry, Regional and Urban Air Pollution, Source Apportionment, Photochemistry, Acidic Ultrafine Particles and Secondary Aerosol

BiographyProfessor Hai Guo completed his PhD in Air Quality at Murdoch University, Australia. He did his postdoctoral research at New York University, University of California at Irvine (Nobel laureate group), Queensland University of Technology, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and an Adjunct Professor in the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at the Queensland University of Technology and Wuhan University. Prof. Guo is a highly active scholar in air pollution research with a focus on atmospheric chemistry of volatile organic compounds and ultrafine particles. Since joining the department in 2007, he has secured research grants from numerous sources with a total amount of ~18 million dollars. He has published 99 refereed papers in high-quality international journals, 1 book chapter, 9 research reports, and 78 conference papers. The number of SCI citations to his papers is over 2500 with an h-index of 27. He is a recipient of numerous awards, and was selected as an editorial advisory board member of the prestigious Atmospheric Environment in April 2015, Aerosol and Air Quality Research in July 2015, and four other international journals. Prof GUO is an Executive Board Member of the Australia-China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management. He is an invited reviewer for RGC GRF grant applications, and for more than 35 journals.

Professor KO Jan-ming高贊明教授BSc(Eng), PhD, CEng, FIStructE, FASCE, FHKIE, FHKEng, RPEEmeritus Professor of Structural Engineering

EMERITUS PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5037Email address: [email protected]

Research interestsStructural Dynamics, Vibration Monitoring & Control, System Identification, and Damage Detection

BiographyProf. Ko was the Chairman of the Accreditation Board (2001-2006) of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), and the Chairman of both the Hong Kong Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Monitoring Committee, and the Hong Kong Engineering Mobility Forum Monitoring Committee (2006-2009). Prof. Ko was the President of both The Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1999/2000), and The Hong Kong Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology (2000/01). He was also a Member of the Construction Industry Council (2007-2010), and the Advisor of the Beijing-Hong Kong Academic Exchange Centre (since 2002). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Smart Structures and Systems, and a Member of the Scientific Steering Committee, State Key Laboratory on Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering (2009-2013). Prof. Ko was the President of Asian-Pacific Network of Centres for Ear thquake Engineer ing (2005-2007), and a Council Member of the Internat ional Society for Structural Health Monitor ing of Intel l igent Infrastructures (since 2004). Prof. Ko was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the HKIE in 2010. In 2011, he was presented the HKIE Gold Medal, and the prestigious Aftab Mufti Medal by the International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure in recognition of his lifetime achievement in civil structural health monitoring. He was also presented by PolyU the degree of Doctor of Engineering honoris causa on 12 Nov 2016.

Professor CHUNG Kwok Fai 鍾國輝教授BEng, PhD, DIC, CEng, FIStructE, MHKIE, RPEAssociate Head


Teaching areasStructural Mechanics, Structural Design, Steel and Steel-concrete Composite Structures, Fire Engineering and Fire Protection

Research interestsSteel Structures, Composite Structures, Light Gauge Construction, Metal Roof Systems, Code Development, Structural Fire Engineering, Computational Heat Transfer, Real Fires in Buildings and Tunnels, Structural Bamboo and

Sustainability

BiographyProf. K F Chung is a renowned academic, researcher and structural engineer with established expertise in steel construction. He works on a wide range of inter-disciplinary engineering analysis and design, especially on modern steel and composite building structures. His research interests include limit state analysis and performance-based design of structural systems, structural fire engineering and f ire protection in buildings and tunnels, and design codification. In recent years, with strong support from the construction industry as well as various government departments and agents, Prof. Chung has extended his applied research interests into construction sustainability, durability of infrastructures, and corrosion protection of structural steelwork. Moreover, he has served the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), U.K. in various capacities. He was General Secretary of the IStructE Centenary Conference held in 2008 at Hong Kong, and Chairman of IStructE Conference on Structural Engineering in Hazard Mitigation held in October 2013 in Tsinghua University, Beijing as well as in Tongji University, Shanghai. Currently, Prof. Chung is Founding President of Hong Kong Constructional Metal Structures Association as well as Vice President of the Institution of Structural Engineers, U.K.

Professor Anthony CHEN BS, MS, PhD (University of California at Irvine)


Teaching areasTransport and Society, Transportation and Highway Engineering, Public Transport: Operation and Service Planning

Research interestsTransportation Systems Modeling and Analysis, Transportation Network Reliability/Vulnerability/Flexibility/Redundancy/Resiliency Analysis, Non-motorized Transport Modeling, Applied Optimization to Civil Infrastructure Problems

BiographyProf. Anthony Chen received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering specializing in Transportation Systems Engineering from the University of California at Irvine, USA. Prior to joining PolyU, he was a Professor in the Depar tment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Head of the Transportation Division at Utah State University in the United States for seventeen years. Prof. Chen was a recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2002. As of 2015, there were only six Chinese faculty who received this prestigious award in Transportation. Currently, he also serves as the Chang Jiang Chair Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Prof. Chen was a member of the Transportation Network Modeling Committee of the Transportation Research Board from 1999 to 2009, and an editorial board member of the ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development from 2007 to 2014. He is currently serving as an associate editor for Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, Networks and Spatial Economics, and Journal of Advanced Transportation, and an editorial board member of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.

Professor LEE Shuncheng Frank李順誠教授BSc, MSc, PhD, MHKIE


Teaching areasAir and Noise Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Indoor Air Quality Management, Risk Assessment and Management

Research interestsIndoor/Outdoor Air Pollution Studies, Toxic Air Pollution Modelling, Emission Source Characterization, Carbonaceous Aerosol Characterization, Risk Assessment of Air Pollution Exposure, Odour Control and Technology

BiographyProf. Lee has been a Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 2005. He earned a Doctorate in Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. He was appointed Assistant Professor after graduation and has been working on indoor and outdoor air pollution studies, namely toxic air pollution modelling, emission source characterization and carbonaceous aerosol characterization. Apart from air pollution studies, he is devoted to risk assessment research with respect to public health, such as the exposure to volatile organic compounds in indoor environments. He was Chairman of the Air and Waste Management Association in Hong Kong from 1997 to 1999. He received a Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Funding in 2008, and Best Paper Award on Indoor Air Quality Research organized by the Chinese Society of Particuology. In 2012, Prof. Shun-cheng Lee was honored with the State Natural Science Award of the People’s Republic of China (second class). He has published 200 papers with over 5600 citations according to the Thomson database.

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Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringProfessor LI Chi Wai 李志偉教授 BSc(Eng), PhD, MASCE


Teaching areasHydraulics and Fluid Mechanics

Research interestsNumerical and Experimental Investigations of Flows Through Vegetation and Gravels, 3-D Modelling of Flow, Water Qualities and Near Field Dispersion in Coastal and Estuarine Waters, Numerical Wave Prediction, Wave-Current-Structure Interaction, Modelling of Wind-Flow around Structures

BiographyProf. Li obtained his BSc(Eng) and PhD degrees from The University of Hong Kong in 1982 and 1987, respectively. His research interest is to develop numerical models and integrate them with experiments to study various hydraulic and fluid mechanics problems. He has published over 150 papers in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydro-Environment Research and the Journal of Engineering Applications of Computational Engineering Mechanics. He received the President's Award for Outstanding Performance/ Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities in 2000. He is also a specialized consultant in the areas of physical and numerical modelling of hydraulic, coastal and wind engineering.

Dr CHENG Yung Ming 鄭榕明博士BBSc(Eng), MPhil, PhD, CEng, RPE, MHKIE, MICE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-6042


Teaching areasGeotechnical Design and Advanced Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests Numerical Methods, Discrete Element Analysis, Slope and Pile, Deep Excavation

BiographyDr Cheng Yung-ming had worked for the design and construction of the Mass Transit Island Line, Eastern Harbour Crossing, Island Eastern Corridor and other projects before joining the University. Currently, he teaches mainly geotechnical engineering and carries out research works in geotechnical engineering, numerical methods and structural engineering. Dr Cheng has published more than 100 research papers and 2 books, and is also interested in bridging the gap between research and practical engineering. He has developed SLOPE2000, SLOPE3D and PLATE which have found applications in various countries. Besides research, Dr Cheng has also been involved in the analysis of some national hydropower projects in China and other consultancy works in Hong Kong, Macau and Egypt.

Professor Agachai SUMALEEBEng, MSc, PhD


Teaching areasUrban Transpor t P lann ing, Tra f f ic Mode l l ing, Infrastructure Planning, Highway Engineering, Public Transport Planning and Operation

Research interestsTransport Modelling and Optimisation, Uncertainty and Reliability Analysis in Transport System, Congestion Charging/Road Pricing, Dynamic Traffic Model, Sustainable Transport Planning and Development, Multi-Modal Transport Planning, Intelligent Transportation System

BiographyProf. Sumalee holds a BEng in Civil Engineering, a MSc(Eng) with Distinction in Transportation Planning and Engineering and a PhD from Leeds University. His research areas are network modelling and optimisation, network reliability, intelligent transport system, road pricing, and sustainable transport planning. He has received several prizes and awards for his research, including the APEC ASPIRE Prize, the Hans-Jürgen Ewers Prize, the Smeed Prize, and two outstanding paper awards at the EASTS conferences. Prof. Sumalee has also secured several research grants from the Hong Kong RGC, UK DfT, Volvo Research Foundation, and EU Commission. He is currently the Co-Editor in Chief of Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, Associate Editor of Networks and Spatial Economics, and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Advanced Transportation. 28

Dr HUNG Wing Tat

熊永達博士Dip(CE), MSc, PhD, FCILT, FHKSTS, MHKIOA


Teaching areas Transportation Planning and Engineering, Highway and Pavement Designs and Construction Transportation Infrastructure Design, Design of Drainage, Roads, Junct ions, Rai lway and Airpor t Transpor tat ion Environmental Assessment, Environmental Impact Studies for Transportation Infrastructure Development

Research interestsTransport and Traffic Modelling, Vehicle Energy, Noise and Exhaust Emissions, Road Safety, Pavement Engineering

BiographyDr Hung Wing Tat lectures on transport infrastructure design and development as well as its environmental impact. His research interests fall in the areas of vehicle emissions, highway noise and safety, as well as railway development. In his over 25 years of academic career, Dr Hung has published widely in refereed journals, books, conferences and local paper columns. He is also an inventor of the low cost particulate trap for light goods vehicle and has designed and fabricated the first local tyre/ road noise measuring device based on the draft ISO 11819-2 standard. Dr Hung is also active in many professional bodies. He is a Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and Board Member of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. He is involved in many Government projects on vehicle exhaust and noise emission control including a) alternative fuels for taxi and minibuses; b) low cost after treatment devices for small diesel vehicles; c) diesel catalyst for heavy duty diesel vehicles and d) tyre/road noise measurements for low noise pavements.

Professor NI Yiqing 倪一清教授BEng, MSc, PhD, MASCE, MISHMII, MIABMAS


Teaching areasStructural Analysis, Structural Dynamics, Reliability in Civ i l Engineer ing, Seismic Design of Bui lding Structures

Research interestsStructural Health Monitoring, Structural Dynamics and Control, Smart Materials and Structures, Sensors and Actuators, Monitoring and Control in Rail Engineering

BiographyProf. Ni is a professor at the Depar tment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Director of the Hong Kong Branch of National Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Centre. He is a council member of International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (ISHMII), and a co-chair of the International Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Guidelines Standing Committee, ISHMII. He serves as an associate editor of Journal of Vibration and Control and an editorial board member for four refereed journals: Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Advances in Structural Engineering, Advanced Steel Construction and Structural Monitoring and Maintenance. He has published over 140 SCI journal papers with an H-index of 29, and more than 250 international conference papers. He is a recipient of the 2016 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Second Class), China. His Mega-Structure Diagnostic and Prognostic System was awarded a Gold Medal and a Grand Prize at the 37th International Exhibitions of Invention, New Techniques and Products in Geneva in 2009; and his Intelligent Ship-Bridge Anti-Collision Surveillance System was awarded a Gold Medal and a Grand Prize at the 41st International Exhibitions of Invention, New Techniques and Products in Geneva in 2013.

Dr DAI Jianguo 戴建國博士BEng, MSc., PhD, MJCI, MISO/TC71, MACF, MIIFC


Teaching areasDesign of Concrete Structures, Advanced Concrete Mechanics and Maintenance of Concrete Infrastructure

Research interestsFibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites for Infrastructure Applications, Durability and Life Cycle Management of Marine Concrete Structures, Fibre-Reinforced Cementitious Composites, Geopolymer Concrete, Prefabricated Concrete Structures

BiographyDr Jian-Guo Dai joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2013. He has a PhD in Structural Engineering from Dalian University of Technology and another PhD in Socio-Environmental Engineering from Hokkaido University. His major research areas are fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites for construction, durability & life cycle management of concrete structures in marine environments, structural applications of fiber-reinforced cementitious composites and geopolymer concrete. With more than 170 journal and international conference papers published in the above fields, Dr Dai is an active researcher who has received many awards for his work, including the Best Basic Research Paper Award from ASCE, Journal of Composites for Construction. Since joining PolyU, he has secured many external research grants (exceeding ten million HK dollars) as a principle investigator, including four GRF, three NSFC, one ITF, one CIC and some other grants from industry. At present, he is an Editor of the Journal of Advances in Structural Engineering and an active reviewer for over 50 international journals. He also serves the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC) as a Vice President and the Asian Concrete Federation (ACF) as the Chair of its Technical Board.

Professor WAI Wing Hong Onyx韋永康教授 BAppSci, MS, PhD, MHKIE

PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-6025


Teaching areasFundamentals of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics, Development and Application of Hydrodynamic and

Water Quality Models, and Coastal Protection

Research interestsSediment Transport Phenomena and Modelling, Environmental Sediment Dynamics, Pattern Recognition

BiographyProf. Wai's research activities are primarily concerned with the fate and transport of sediment particles in water bodies, with interdisciplinary scopes ranging from the prediction of beach erosion to the quantification of sediment-nutr ient exchange rate in the water column. His research approach encompasses f ield investigations, laboratory exper iments, and the development and application of high performance numerical models. Prof. Wai is a specialist consultant to the Hong Kong Government and to international consultants companies on a number of large-scale infrastructure projects. Recently, he has expanded his research focus to include urban eco-greening. His newly-involved projects investigate the suitability and sustainability of eco-roofs and eco-flood channels in urban areas.

Dr LAM Ka Se 林嘉仕博士BSc(Eng), MPhil, PhD, AWMA, MAGU


Teaching areasSafety Technologies (Electricity, Woodwork and Metal Machines, Fire, Confine Space and Welding), Applied Mathematics for EOSH (Linear Programing and Statistics, ANOVA, Regression)

Research interestsMeteorology and Air Quality, Climate Change, Air Quality in Pearl River Delta Region, Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Urban Heat Island, Ground Monitoring, Remote Sensing and Numerical Modelling

BiographyDr Lam's PhD thesis was on near-building air dispersion. He began his career in the Safety Office at The University of Hong Kong. He gained eight years' experience in industrial hygiene, indoor air quality and safety management. He started to teach at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1992. He has built and operated a background-air monitoring station in Hok Tsui. He has been monitoring total ozone and solar ultraviolet radiation over Hong Kong and submitting data to the world data centre since 1995. He has conducted research on indoor air quality and urban heat island. He specialises in air quality monitoring instruments. Recently he has begun to work on numerical models.

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Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDr LAM Siu Shu Eddie林少書博士 MSc, PhD, PgDip(Law), PCLL, CEng, RPE, RSE, Class 1 - RSE -

PRC, FIStructE, RI, FHKIE, MIMechE, Barrister


Teaching areasConstruction Law, Structural Engineering

Research interests Structural Repair and Strengthening, Earthquake Engineering, Construction Law

BiographyDr Lam is an Associate Professor with a varied career in industry. He received his PhD in 1989 and has over 20 years of experience in Civil and Structural Engineering, and 3 years' experience in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Barrister specializing in construction disputes and matters related to structural engineering, and an expert witness in legal cases. He is a Fellow of the HKIE and the IStructE, a Registered Structural Engineer, a Class-1 Registered Structural Engineer of PRC, a member of the IMechE, chairman of the HKIE Joint Structural Division (2011-2012) and chairman of the Quality Building Award 2012. He also served on various tribunals and appeal boards.

Dr CHAN Tak Ming

陳德明博士BEng, MSc, DIC, PhD, PCAPP, CEng, MIStructE


Teaching areasStructural Analysis, Structural Design

Research interestsTubular Structures, Steel Structures and Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, Pultruded FRP Structures and Smart Structures, Earthquake Engineering and Impact Engineering

BiographyDr Tak-Ming Chan graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2001 with a First Class Honours degree in Civil Engineering. He started his structural engineering career by joining Arup (Hong Kong) as a Graduate Structural Engineer. He received his Master’s degree with Distinction in Structural Steel Design in 2004 and was awarded a Ph.D. in the area of Tubular Structures in 2008, both from Imperial College London, United Kingdom. Dr Chan is currently an Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an honorary academic staff at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He is a corporate member of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE, United Kingdom) and is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch). Dr Chan is a committee member of the United Kingdom mirror group for Eurocode 3 on Steel Structures and a committee member of the Structural Members Committee of the Technical Administrative Committee on Metals, the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI, American Society of Civil Engineers, United States). Dr Chan also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Advances in Structural Engineering and a member of the Editorial Board for Structures and Buildings (The Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom), Advanced Steel Construction, Steel and Composite Structures, International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering, Structures (The Institution of Structural Engineers, United Kingdom).

Dr XIA Yong夏勇博士BEng, MEng, PhD


Teaching areasStructural Analysis, Structural Mechanics

Research interests Structural Health Monitoring, Damage Detection, Finite Element Model Updating, Nonlinear Vibration of Cables

BiographyDr Xia got the Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in 1992 and 1997 respectively, both from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. In 2002 he obtained the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Civil & Structural Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He then spent the next four years at the University of Tokyo, Japan and the University of Western Australia as a post-doctoral fellow. Dr Xia joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. He also has three years’ experience in consulting companies. Dr Xia has published six books/proceedings/standards, about 80 refereed journal papers, and over 100 international conference papers. He won The Nishino Prize in 2013. Dr Xia is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the SCI journal Advances in Structural Engineering.

Dr DUAN Huan Feng段煥豐博士BEng, MPhil, PhD, M.ASCE, M.IAHR, M.HKIS


Teaching areasFluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, and Waves in Hydro-systems

Research interestsHydraulics in Pipe Flows, Fluid Transients (Water Hammer), Pipe Defects Detection (Leakage, Blockage, Air-Pocket, and Unknown/Illegal Branch), Wave-Fluid-Structure Interaction (WFSI), Numerical Modeling and Simulation for Turbulent Flows, Design and Optimization of Water Engineering Systems, Water Quality Assessment in Water Supply Systems, and Computational Fluid Dynamics

BiographyDr Duan joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU) as an Assistant Professor in 2013. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2011. Prior to joining HKPU, he had two years of experience as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the CEE department of HKUST. He has published over 40 papers in the top peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 20 papers in the international conferences in his research field (hydraulics and water resources engineering). Dr Duan was the recipient of the PhD Research Excellence Award from HKUST (2011), the Excellent Paper Award from the Association of Science and Technology of China (2007), Excellent Graduate of Shanghai City of China (2006), and the National Scholarship of China (2002). He is an active member of ASCE, IAHR, ASME, and HKIS. Dr Duan serves on the executive committee of IAHR-HK, and the scientific committee of the International Conference of Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI), and is an active reviewer for more than 20 key journals in the water related field.

Dr WANG Yuhong 王予紅博士PhD


Teaching areasConstruction Engineering and Management, Pavement Engineering, Management of Infrastructure Systems

Research interestsSustainability in Construction, Pavement Engineering and Management, Construction Project, Program, and Portfolio Management

BiographyDr Yuhong Wang received his bachelor's degree in construction management engineering from Tongji University in China in 1996. He worked for a construction consulting firm in Shanghai before furthering his studies in the United States. Dr Wang has master's and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Kentucky, where his focus was pavement engineering and management. He has worked as a research engineer at the Kentucky Transportation Center as well as taught at Lawrence Technological University in the Civil Engineering Depar tment and East Carolina University in the Construction Management Depar tment. Dr Wang is also a registered professional engineer in Kentucky. Dr Wang has been a Principal Investigator or key researcher on more than 16 research grants sponsored by various US and international agencies, most of which were in highway pavement, highway construction and management, and construction management. The total amount of these grants is over US$3 million. In addition, Dr Wang has published many refereed papers, book chapters, and research reports. A member of the Transportation Earthworks Standing Committee, the Transportation Research Board and an elected member of the Construction Research Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers, he won first place in the International Data Analysis Contest for Long-term Pavement Performance Study in 2002. He joined PolyU in December 2010.

Dr DONG You 董優博士BSc(Eng), PhD


Teaching areasStructural Concrete Design, Reliability in Civil Engineering, Risk Assessment

Research interestsLife-Cycle Management, Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Optimization and Decision Making, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, Hazard Mitigation, Climate Change

BiographyDr You Dong joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering in December 2016. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Bridge Engineering from Hunan University, China in 2009 and his PhD in Structural Engineering from Lehigh University, USA. Af ter that, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Lehigh. He has published several journal papers, refereed proceedings, and invited keynotes. He has also been a reviewer for some international scientific journals. Dr Dong serves as a committee member of the ASCE-SEI Technical Council on Life-Cycle Performance, Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structural Systems. His research mainly focuses on the development of the next generation of civil and marine structures, incorporating risk, resilience, and sustainability in a life-cycle context. Specifically, he has formulated possible solutions to make our cities and communities safer, more resilient, and more sustainable.

Dr ZHU Songye 朱松曄博士BSc, MSc, PhD


Teaching areasStructural Mechanics, Material Science and Technology

Research interests Smart Materials and Structures, Structural Health Monitoring, Structural Vibration Control, Energy Harvesting

BiographyDr Zhu obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Structural Engineering from Tongji University in China in 2000 and 2003 respectively, and a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in the USA in 2008. He joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in May 2008. He teaches undergraduate courses in structural mechanics and construction materials, and supervises undergraduate and graduate students in their research projects. Currently, he serves as Director of American Society of Civil Engineers—Hong Kong Section and Editor of Advances in Structural Engineering. Dr Zhu strives to promote the development and application of advanced technology in structural engineering via his research and teaching at PolyU. He has published more than 30 refereed journal papers and 60 conference papers.

Dr HSU Shu Chien徐書謙博士BSc, MSc, PhD


Teaching areasProject Management, Infrastructure Management, Project Cost Accounting and Economics

Research interestsComplex Systems in Construction, Carbon Trading and Pricing, Project Finance and Risk Management

BiographyDr Hsu obtained his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and master's degree in Construction Engineering and Management from National Central University in Taiwan in 2004 and 2006 respectively. He worked for the Taiwan Construction Research Institute and the Public Construction Commission as a civil engineer in Taiwan before furthering his studies in the United States. Dr Hsu has a PhD degree in Civil Engineering with the specialty in project management from the University of Maryland. His primary research areas are using computational modelling techniques, such as Agent-Based Modelling (ABM), to help understand and analyze complex phenomenon in construction. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in the fields of project organization management, sustainable management, and construction management. He also served as an editorial assistant for Automation in Construction, an international research journal published by Elsevier.


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Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDr LAI Siu Kai 黎紹佳博士BEng, PhD, RPE, CEng, CPEng, NER, MHKIE, MIMechE, MIEAust


Teaching areasNoise Pollution Control, Structural Dynamics, Statutory Framework for Construction Practice

Research interestsNonlinear Dynamics, Noise and Vibration Control, Smart Structures and Materials, Computational Fluid Dynamics

BiographyDr Lai joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in July 2015 as an Assistant Professor in Noise and Vibration. He obtained his BEng and PhD degrees form City University of Hong Kong. After graduation, he did postdoctoral research at University of Western Sydney and University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining PolyU, he worked in the construction industry and was involved in many large-scale consultancy projects in both Hong Kong and Macau. Professionally, Dr Lai is a Registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical Discipline) in both Hong Kong and Australia. He is also a Char tered Engineer of the Engineering Council (UK) and a Char tered Professional Engineer of Engineers Australia, a member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and the Institution of Engineers Australia. He has published more than 30 refereed journal papers and 20 conference papers in structural and mechanical areas. He now serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies.

Dr LEUNG Yat Fai Andy梁日暉博士BEng, MS, PhD, PE, MASCE


Teaching areasSoil Mechanics, Soil and Rock Engineering

Research interestsSoil-structure Interactions, Optimisations of Pile Groups and Piled Rafts, Spatial Variability of Soil/Rock Properties, Debris Flow Modelling, Application of Optical Fibre Strain Sensors in Geotechnical Engineering

BiographyDr Leung joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in April 2013. He received his undergraduate education from The University of Hong Kong, after which he obtained his MS degree from the University of California at Berkeley in the USA and his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge in the UK. Prior to joining PolyU, Dr Leung has practiced geotechnical engineering both in Hong Kong and the United States, and is a registered professional engineer in California. Dr Leung had been involved in a number of large-scale civil engineering projects in Hong Kong and other countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, India and Kuwait, and is active in integrating the latest research in soil-structure interactions into engineering practice.

Dr LENG Zhen冷真博士BEng, MEng, PhD


Teaching areasTransportation and Highway Engineering, Pavement Mater ials and Design, Pavement Evaluation, and Construction Management

Research interestsSustainable Pavement Materials; Nondestructive Evaluation of Transportation Infrastructure

BiographyDr Leng received his BEng in Traffic and Civil Engineering and MEng in Highway and Railway Engineering from Southeast University, China, and a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, USA. Before he joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the Illinois Center for Transportation in the USA for one year. Dr Leng’s research aims to improve the sustainability and cost-effectiveness of pavement systems through material characterization and testing, numerical modeling, and application of nondestructive evaluation technologies, such as ground penetrating radar. He has received several research awards, including the Sweet 16 High Value Research Award from the American Association of Highways and Transportation Officials in 2013, and the Innovative Research Award at the 52nd Annual Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference in the USA in 2011. His current research studies are mainly funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the Hong Kong Highways Department. He is an active member of several international associations, such as the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Transportation Research Board, and a referee for many international journals.

Dr TSANG Chiu Wa Daniel 曾超華博士BEng, PhD, CEnv, PG Dip (Tert Tchg)


Teaching areasWater/Wastewater Treatment, Solid/Hazardous Waste Management

Research interestsContaminated Land Remediation, Waste Recycling, Wastewater Treatment

BiographyDr Tsang joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2012. He was a Senior Lecturer (2011-2012) and Lecturer (2008-2010) at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (2011-2013), and a Post-doctoral Fellow at Imperial College London (2007-2008) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2006-2007). Dan has been a Principal Investigator of more than 10 research grants in Hong Kong and New Zealand. He has published more than 120 journal and conference publications and served as a reviewer for 25 journals. His research emphasizes a strong link to real-life environmental challenges in the regional context. To ensure sustainable urban development, we need to enhance our engineering infrastructure and create new ways in which we manage solid waste, urban water, and contaminated land. Dan and his research group strive to develop cost-effective and low-impact solutions that are informed by fundamental investigations and applied research of natural and engineered systems.

Dr LEE Po Heng Henry李伯亨博士BEng, MEng, PhD


Teaching areasWater and Wastewater Treatment, Water and Wastewater Techniques

Research interestsThermodynamics Applications in production of Energy and Valuable Chemicals from wastewaters and Green Wastewater Engineering, i.e. Anaerobic Digestion, Fermentation, Anammox, Electrochemical Cell

BiographyDr Po-Heng (Henry) LEE obtained his PhD in the Dept. of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering from the Iowa State University, USA in 2010. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the National Ilan University and the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan in 2001 and 2003, respectively. Prior to joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in August 2012, Dr Lee served as a full-time Lecturer in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering at the Inha University in South Korea from September 2010 to July 2012. Dr Lee’s research focuses on thermodynamics applications in energy production, valuable by-product recovery, and efficient pollution control simultaneously via fermentation, anaerobic digestion, partial oxidation, electrochemical cell, and biological autotrophic nitrogen removal through partial nitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) from wastewaters.

Dr SZE Nang Ngai Tony施能藝博士BEng, PhD


Teaching areasConstruction Safety, Disaster Control and Management, Sustainable Development and Environmental Planning

Research interestsAccident Prediction, Injury Prevention, Applications of Statistical Model for Safety Analysis, Human Behavior for Safety Studies, Safety Policy and Regulation

BiographyDr Sze joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2016. He was Lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand (2013-2016), Post-doctoral Fellow at The University of Hong Kong (2010-2012), and Researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (2008-2009). Dr Sze obtained both his BEng and PhD degrees from The University of Hong Kong. He has over 80 research outputs, including journal publications, conference presentations and technical reports. Dr Sze is currently Associate Editor of Accident Analysis and Prevention and a member of the Editorial Board of Safety Science, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Journal of Safety Research and Analytic Methods in Accident Research. He also serves as a guest editor of special issues of Asian Geographer and the International Journal of Transportation, and a reviewer for over 30 international journals. Dr Sze is one of the team members received the Best Original Paper Award from the Hong Kong Medical Journal in 2010 and an Outstanding Health Promotion Project Award from the Food and Health Bureau of the Hong Kong Government in 2015.

Dr LEU Shao Yuan Ben呂紹元博士PhD, PE (California)


Teaching areasEnvironmental Chemistry, Solid and Hazardous Waste Control (BSc), Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (MSc)

Research interestsBiomass to Biofuels Techniques, Waste management, Wastewater Engineering, Biological Processes, Wood-based Composites

BiographyDr Leu's research interests are in biofuels, wood science, and timber waste treatment. He obtained his BSc/MSc Degrees from the Forestry Department of the National Taiwan University; and then accomplished his PhD and 1-yr postdoc research in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of UCLA in 2011. His PhD work was on energy auditing and process improvement for advanced biological wastewater treatment. He lectured in UC-Riverside in 2010 and was licensed as a California Professional Engineer in 2011. Between December 2011 and June 2013, Dr Leu worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the USDA Forest Products Laboratory (FPL, Madison, WI) and his research was on converting forestry residues into the second generation biofuels. He joined PolyU in June 2013 and has been working on various techniques to convert t imber waste into value added products ( i.e. glucose, biofuels, and biocomposites) for sustainable urban development in Hong Kong.

Dr ZHU Jianbo朱建波博士BEng, MEng, PhD


Teaching areasRock Engineering, Advanced Rock Engineering, Soil and Rock Engineering

Research interestsRock Dynamics, Wave Propagation, Earthquakes, Tunnels

BiographyDr Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Rock Mechanics in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He got his bachelor and master degrees from Sichuan University in 2005 and 2008, respectively, and PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in 2011. Before joining PolyU, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology. He teaches subjects on rock mechanics and engineering. His research interests include rock caverning, rock dynamics and induced earthquakes. He has authored over 50 papers including over 20 in international journals. He was awarded the Fellowship for Prospective Researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation. An Editorial Board member and Guest Editor of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, he also served as a member of the Rock Dynamics Commission of International Society for Rock Mechanics, the Rock Dynamics Committee, the Protective Engineering Committee, the Youth Committee and the Underground Engineering Committee of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, and Council of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (Hong Kong Branch).


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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informaticsDr WANG Zhe 王哲博士PhD


Teaching areas Global Climate Change and Society; Environmental Chemistry; Introduction to Environmental Science; and Law and Governance for Sustainable Development

Research interestsAir quality and Atmospheric Chemistry, Cloud-aerosol-gas Interactions, Atmospheric Heterogeneous/Multiphase Chemistry, Secondary Aerosol Formation

BiographyDr Wang Zhe received his PhD degree in Environmental Engineering from Shandong University, China, in 2011. During 2008-2009, he was awarded a government scholarship from the China Scholarship Council and spent one year as a joint PhD student at Harvard University. After graduation, he joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at PolyU as Research Associate in March 2012 and then Postdoctoral Fellow in January 2013. He commenced his appointment as Research Assistant Professor in the same department towards the end of July 2014. Dr Wang has participated in several large atmospheric field studies in urban and rural areas of China (including Hong Kong). He has collaborated with various groups in US and Europe, and has more than 20 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He currently serves as PI of two RGC projects and one NSFC project, and as co-PI of RGC-CRF project and NSFC major research plan. His recent research focused on the heterogeneous chemistry of reactive nitrogen, cloud/fog chemistry, and secondary aerosols formation, by using state-of-the-art instruments and multiphase modeling. He serves as a member of International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC), Chinese Society for Environmental Science (Atmos. Environ.) and China Environmental Culture Promotion Association, and also served as reviewers for several leading academic journals in the atmospheric research field.

Professor SHI Wen-zhong, John 史文中教授BEng, MEng, DNatSc, MHKIS, MRICSDepartment Head and Chair Professor of Geographical Information Science and Remote Sensing

HEAD & CHAIR PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5975 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areas Geographical Information Systems Concepts and Principles, Advanced Geographical Information Systems, Design and Development of Geographical Information Systems

Research interests GISci, Remote Sensing, Integration of GIS and Remote Sensing, Uncertainty Modeling and Quality Control for Spatial Data, 3D GIS and Virtual Reality, Dynamic Modeling in GIS, Design, Development and Management of GIS, Classification, Object Extraction and Change Eetection based on Satellite

Images and Lidar Data

BiographyProf. Shi is a Chair Professor in GIS and Remote Sensing, and head of Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his doctoral degree from University of Osnabrück in Vechta, Germany in 1994. He has published some 380 research articles (including over 80 SCI papers) and 10 books. He received the State Natural Science Award from the State Council of China in 2007; ESRI Award for Best Scientif ic Paper in GIS (First place) from the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 2006; Chang Jiang Scholar (Chair Professor) of the Ministry of Education of China in 2006; and The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance/ Achievement from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1999 and 2007. Prof. Shi is President of Technical Commission II, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2008-2012), and was President of the Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association (2001-2003).

Professor LI Zhi-lin 李志林教授BEng, PhD, DScChair Professor of Geo-Informatics

CHAIR PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5960 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areas Cartography, GIS, Remote Sensing Image Processing, Spatial Data Modelling and Visualization

Research interests Digital Cartography, GIS-Based Spatial Data Modelling, Feature Extraction from Remote Sensing Images

BiographyProf. Li obtained his BSc in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from Southwestern Jiaotong University in 1982 and his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1990. Since 1990, he has worked at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne as a postdoctoral research associate, the University of Southampton and the Technical University of Berlin as a postdoctoral research fellow. In 1994, he took up a lectureship at Curtin University of Technology. He joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1996 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998 and to Professor in 2003. Prof. Li has published over 120 papers in international journals and three research monographs. He serves as a regional editor for The Cartographic Journal and editorial members of a number of international journals such as the prestigeous International Journal of Geographical Information Science. He was elected Vice-President of the International Cartographic Association and Honorary Vice President of the Chinese Society of Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography, both in 2007. Prof. Li has received a number of prestigeous awards and honours, including DSc (Doctor of Science) from Glasgow University in 2009, the Gino Cassinis Award from the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) in 2008, the State Natural Science Award from the Central Government of China in 2005, and the Schwidefsky Medal, also from the ISPRS, in 2004.

Professor DING Xiao-li 丁曉利教授BEng, PhDAssociate Dean and Chair Professor of Geomatics

ASSOCIATE DEAN & CHAIR PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5965 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areas Engineering Surveying, Least Squares Adjustment, Survey Data Analysis

Research interests Satellite Positioning Technologies (such as GPS), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Technologies for Ground Deformation and Structural Health Monitoring

BiographyProf. Ding obtained his BEng from the Central South University of Metallurgy (now Central South University), China in 1983 and his PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia in 1993. He lectured at the Northeastern University, China and Curtin University, Australia respectively before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1996. He is currently Chair Professor of Geomatics in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics. For many years, Prof. Ding has been working on developing advanced technologies for monitoring ground and structural deformations and geohazards especially GNSS and InSAR technologies that have been widely used by the industry. He has attracted a significant amount of research funding and published extensively in these areas. Prof. Ding is a Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), an Editor of Journal of Spatial Science and an editorial member of a number of journals.

Professor CHEN Yong-qi 陳永奇教授PhDEmeritus Professor and Visiting Chair Professor of Land Surveying

EMERITUS PROFESSOR & VISITING CHAIR PROFESSORTelephone no.: (852) 2766-5966 Email address: [email protected]

Research interests Geodesy, Engineering Surveys, Hydrographic Surveys, Deformation Monitoring, GNSS surveys, Data Processing and Analysis, and Development of Fibre Optic Sensors for Monitoring of Structure Health and Environment

BiographyCHEN Yong Qi obtained his PhD in Surveying Engineering from University of New Brunswick, Canada in 1983. He was professor and department chairman in Wuhan Technical University before joining PolyU. Since 1994 he served LSGI as Chair Professor and Department Head for 16 years. He is now Emeritus Professor and Visiting Chair Professor in the Department. He has published 7 Books and over 400 technical papers. Dr Chen also actively served the professional/academic communities in various capacities: Honorary Research Fellow at UNB, Canada; Honorary/Advisory Professor in 16 universities and research institutes, China; member of the scientific application committee of China's ChangE-1 lunar exploration; Vice Chaiman/Chairman of Commission 6 of International Federation of Surveyors; editorial Board member for various journals, like the Journal of Geodesy, the GPS Solution; RGC Engineering Panel member, etc. He got various awards/honours, like International scientist exchange award by National Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada; a special award by the State Council of Chinese government in recognition of his significant contribution to Chinese higher education; named as the Father of Modern Deformation Analysis by the Canadian Centre for Geodetic Engineering.

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Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics

Dr Shuk Ching PUN CHENG Lilian潘鄭淑貞博士BA, MPhil, PhD, PgC(Ed)Associate Head



Teaching areas Geographic Information System (GIS), Cartography, GIT in Transportation, Logistics, Urban Science and Utility Data Management

Research interests Intelligent Transport System, Cartographic Visualization, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Networking

BiographyDr Pun is Associate Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She obtained her BA degree from The University of Hong Kong (1984), MPhil from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1994) and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (1999). She has also been a Fellow of the British Car tographic Society and executive member of the Hong Kong GIS Associat ion. Her teaching, research and consultancy interests and publications are in the areas of Cartography, Geographic Information System Modelling and Application, especially in GIS-T and Networking. She has collaborated with the Transpor t Depar tment of the Hong Kong SAR Government in the development of a Public Transport Enquiry Service.

Sr. Professor MOK Chi-ming, Esmond莫志明教授測量師BSc, MSc, PhD, MInstCES, MRICS, MHKIS, RPS(LS)


Teaching areas Land and Engineering Surveying, Global Positioning Systems, Location Based Services

Research interests Satellite Geodesy, Intelligent Satellite Navigation and Seamless Indoor and Outdoor Positioning Based on Wireless Positioning and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Integration

BiographyProf. Mok is Professor in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his BSc from the University of Toronto in 1980, MSc from the University of London in 1984 and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on GPS positioning research in 1996. Before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (formerly Hong Kong Polytechnic) in 1986, Prof. Mok had been responsible for several engineering surveying projects in Tuen Mun New Town Development and the construction of the Light Rail Transit System. He has been engaged in satellite positioning research since early 1990. Prof. Mok is currently the Hong Kong Representative of Commission 5 (Positioning and Measurement) of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), and Editorial Board Member of a number of journals, including Survey Review, Journal of Global Positioning Systems, Journal of Applied Geodesy and Journal of Location Based Services.

Dr WU Bo吳波博士BSc, MSc, PhD, MRICS



Teaching areas Photogrammetry, GIS, Spatial Analysis

Research interests Photogrammetry and Robotic Vision, Planetary Mapping and Planetary Science, GIS and Applications

BiographyDr Wu obtained his doctoral degree from the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing of Wuhan University in China in June 2006. After that, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher (07-2006 to 07-2008) and a Research Associate - Engineering (07-2008 to 07-2009) at the Ohio State University in the United States. Since 2006, Dr Wu has been working on NASA-funded projects for Mars and Lunar exploration missions, including Mars Rover localization, landing site mapping, and Lunar topographic mapping. Currently he is serving as the Vice President of the Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association and the Co-Chair of the Working Group II/6 (Geo-Visualization and Virtual Reality) of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He has published over 30 research articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He was a recipient of the Duane C. Brown Senior Award (Photogrammetry) in 2009.

Professor CHEN Wu陳武教授BSc, MSc, PhD Associate Head


Teaching areas Geodesy, Surveying, Positioning Technology

Research interests GNSS Applications on Transportation, Kinematic GPS, System Integration, GNSS Performance Evaluation, GPS Software Receiver, Regional GPS Network, Vehicle and Personal Navigation Systems, and Wireless Sensor Network

BiographyProf. Chen joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2000 and is currently Professor in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was awarded a BSc by the Chinese University of Science and Technology in 1982, a MSc by the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1985, and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1992. From 1985 to 1988, he worked at the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics as a research associate, specialising in GPS-related research. From 1992 to 2000, he joined the Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy, the University of Nottingham, to work on various research projects on GNSS.

Sr Dr TANG Hong-wai Conrad鄧偉康博士BScEng, MEng, LLM, PhD, FHKIS, RPS(LS)


Teaching areas Surveying, Land Boundary Survey, Cadastre and Land Management

Research interests Land Boundary Dispute Resolution, Enhancement of the Land Boundary Survey System in Hong Kong, Land Survey Laws

BiographyDr Tang received a Bachelor of Science in Surveying Engineering and a Master of Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He obtained his PhD degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on the topic of enhancing the Hong Kong land boundary system in 2002. He also has a Master's degree in Common Law with research on land boundary law. As a land surveyor, he has served continuously in the Land Surveying Division Council of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors since 1998. He is a member of the Cadastral Survey Consultative Committee of the Lands Department. He has served over six years as a delegate to Commission 7 (Cadastre and Land Management) of the International Federation of Surveyors, and is now an associate to the Commission.

Dr LIU Zhizhao George劉志趙博士BSc, MSc, PhD, FHKMetS, FHKIES


Teaching areas Advanced Surveying Data Adjustment and Analysis, Satellite Positioning and Navigation, Hydrographic Surveying, Mapping

Research interests Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Theory and Applications, Space Geodesy, Engineering Surveying, Atmospheric Remote Sensing Using GNSS Technique, the Ionospheric Study and Modelling Based on GNSS Data

BiographyDr Liu is an internationally recognised specialist in the Global Positioning System (GPS)/Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) community. His research group discovered a GPS ionospheric data anomaly that has existed in the GPS community for more than two decades. For the first time in Hong Kong, ionospheric scintillations due to tropical cyclones were observed by his team, who established Hong Kong's first GPS/GNSS-based ionosphere scintillation monitoring system (two stations), GPS/GNSS and Radiosonde Water Vapor Observation Co-location System, as well as a GPS-PPP-based (Precise Point Positioning) Atmospheric Precipitable Water Vapor Real-Time Monitoring System (PWVRMS) for the Pearl-River-Delta (PRD) Region. He is the founder of the New GNSS Algorithms and Techniques for Earth Observations (nGATEo) biennial Summer Course Series. He earned his PhD degree from the University of Calgary in 2004, and worked in the Canadian GPS/GNSS industries prior to joining the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics as an Assistant Professor in June 2009. Currently, he is the Managing Editor of Journal of Global Positioning Systems and the Secretary of a Sub-Commission on the Multi-Constellation GNSS of the International Association of Geodesy. He is Director of the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems. He is a recipient of many awards, including the inaugural Hong Kong Research Grants Council’s Early Career Award (2012).

Ir Dr LAI Wai-lok, Wallace賴緯樂博士工程師BSc, PhD, MHKIE

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 3400-8960


Teaching areas Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Engineering Structures, Surveying, Condition Assessment and Monitoring of Underground Utilities, System and Design of Underground Utilities, Construction, Maintenance and Management of Underground Utilities

Research interests Imaging the Unseen Components in Engineering Structures and Underground World via Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), Near-sur face Geophysical Technologies and Advanced Signal Processing. These technologies include Ground Penetrating Radar, Infrared Thermography, Acoustic, Electrical Resistivity, etc.

BiographyDr Lai obtained his PhD in 2006 and his BSc in 1999, both in Building Technology and Management from the Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Following his graduation, Dr Lai worked for a major contractor and an engineering consultant for six years. He then served as a Project and Research Fellow in the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering (CSE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and later as the Adolf Martens Postdoctoral Fellow at the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany. He is now a Visiting Scientist at BAM, a corporate member in the Materials Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), and a Technical Assessor for the Hong Kong Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (HOKLAS) administered by the Hong Kong Government. Seeing the unseen is truly Dr Lai's cup of tea. His main teaching duties will be with the Department's innovative and world-leading Utility Surveying stream of the BSc (Hons) in Geomatics programme.

Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics

Dr LIU Xin Tao 劉信陶博士BEng, MSc, PhD


Teaching areasGeographic Information Systems, Geomatics Algorithms and Geodatabase, Infrastructure and Utility Management.

Research interestsGISci, Complex Network, GIS in Transportation, Transportation Geography, Urban Computing, Urban Mobility and Sustainability, State-of-the-ar t Technologies for Smart Cities

BiographyDr Xintao Liu received a Bachelor of Engineering in Survey from Hohai University, China in 1998, a Master of Science in Cartography & GIS from Nanjing Normal University, China in 2003, and a PhD in Geo-Informatics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden in 2012. In the same year, he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Ryerson University in Canada and worked as a postdoc fellow in GIS and Transportation until 2016. He was also a sessional lecturer and the manager of the Urban Transportation Lab at Ryerson University since 2015. He is a recipient of many awards, including the Lundbergs Scholarship from Lars Erik Lundbergs, and a Mobility scholarship from Nordic Network in GIS. He spearheaded and co-organized the 4th International Conference on Earth Observation for Global Changes (EOGC) and the 2013 Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) Annual Conference in Canada, and the ISPRS and International Geographical Union (IGU) Joint International Conference in 2014 in Canada. He participated in several national projects funded by Sweden and Canada. He is a reviewer of a series of major international journals such as IJGIS and AAG.

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Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics PolyU Distinguished Chair Professors

Dr ZHANG Lei張磊博士BEng, MEng, PhD

RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 2766-5964 Email address: [email protected]

Teaching areas: Land Surveying, Deformation Monitoring, and Geodesy

Research interests Development of Advanced Satellite Radar Interferometric Processing Techniques and their Applications to Ground Subsidence and Infrastructure Stability Monitoring, Seismic Modeling, Mining-induced Displacement Mapping, Natural Hazard Mitigation, and Land Use Change Detection

BiographyDr Zhang obtained his PhD in Geodesy and Geodynamics from LSGI in 2011, M.E. in Geodesy from Tongji University (Shanghai) in 2007 and B.E. in Civil Engineering from Shandong University of Science and Technology in 2004. Dr Zhang has worked as a Research Assistant, Research Associate, and Postdoctoral Fellow in LSGI since 2007. He was a visiting researcher at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from March to August 2010. He has published more than 15 SCI papers and 2 book chapters in the past 5 years. He developed a software package termed TCPInSAR processor that has been used by several international research agencies for satellite radar image processing.

Dr WONG Man Sing Charles黄文聲博士BSc, MPhil, PhD, Fulbright, MHKInstES, MRICS


Teaching areas Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System

Research interests The Use of Remote Sensing to Study Urban Heat Island Effect, Urban Environmental Quality, Landslides, Vegetation and Ecosystems, Spectral Mixture Analysis, Aerosol Retrieval, Air Quality Monitoring and Water Vapor retrieval. Applications of Geographical Information System to Analyze Wind Ventilation Corridors,‘Wall-effect' Buildings, and Spatial Inequity. Sensors

Development and Integration for Micro-Environmental Monitoring

BiographyDr Wong Man Sing, Charles, received his PhD in Remote Sensing and GIS in 2009, MPhil in Remote Sensing and GIS in 2005, and BSc in Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics in 2003, all from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Not only did Dr Wong achieve the highest academic qualification from LSGI, he also established a strong connection in research areas. In 2005, Dr Wong joined LSGI as a part-time research fellow and stepped up to a Senior Research Fellow in 2011. He was a Fulbright scholar at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center of the University of Maryland in College Park from 2006 to 2007. Currently he is the official site manager for two AERNET stations in Hong Kong. He has various research project experiences, including the use of remote sensing to study urban heat island ef fect, urban environmental quality, landslides, vegetation and ecosystems, spectral mixture analysis, aerosol retrieval and air quality monitoring. Moreover, he has published over 30 scientific papers, 2 book chapters, 10 peer-reviewed journals and over 50 conference proceedings in the last 7 years.

Professor Guy Pierre BRASSEUR

•Member, Academia Europaea

• Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

• Founding and Ordinary Member, Academy of Sciences of Hamburg, Germany

• Senior Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany

• Dist inguished Scholar, Nat ional Center fo r Atmospheric Research, USA

• Distinguished Chair Professor of Climate Change and Environment, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Professor Miroslaw J. SKIBNIEWSKI

• Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Engineering

• Professor, Cente r o f E xce l lence in Pro jec t Management, Department of Civil Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

• Distinguished Chair Professor of Robotics and Automation in Construction, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Professor Mei Po KWAN

• Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Distinguished Chair Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Professor Michael GOODCHILD•Member, US National Academy of Sciences

•Foreign Member, Royal Society of Canada

•Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

•Foreign Member, Royal Society

•Corresponding Member, British Academy

• Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

• Distinguished Chair Professor of Geographic Information Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Professor Yeong-Bin YANG

•Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering

•Foreign Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences

• Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers and International Association of Computation Mechanics

• Honorary Dean, School of Civil Engineer ing, Chongqing University, China

• Emeritus Professor, National Taiwan University in Taiwan

• Dist inguished Chair Professor in S t ructural Eng ineer ing, The H ong Kong Po l y techn ic University, Hong Kong, China

Professor David NETHERCOT

• Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering

• Emeritus Professor, Imperial College London, UK

• Dist inguished Chair Professor of S t ructural Engineering and Steel Construction, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Dr ZHU Xiaolin 朱孝林博士PhD


Teaching areasRemote Sensing, Geostatistics, Spatial Analysis

Research interestsRemote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis, with focusing on Missing Data Reconstruction, Spatiotemporal Data Fusion, Classification, Change Detection, Land Surface Information Retrieval, and Applications of Geoscience in Urban and Ecological Studies

BiographyDr Xiaolin Zhu received his BSc in 2007 and MSc in 2010, both from Beijing Normal University. He received his PhD in geography at Ohio State University in 2014. Before coming to PolyU, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Center of Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing at the University of California, Davis. His research interests include remote sensing methods and applications. In particular, his research covers three areas: 1) developing new techniques to improve the quality of remote sensing data, 2) monitoring ecosystems and urban environment in spatial and temporal

domains, 3) analyzing the spatial patterns and causes of land surface disturbances. Dr

Zhu has published 30 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has received prestigious awards, including the Presidential Fellowship from Ohio State University, and the Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship Award from the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Dr XU Wen-bin許文斌博士PhD

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Telephone no.: (852) 2766-5956


Teaching areas Living on a dynamic earth, Satellite positioning and

surveying, Spatial Data Acquisitions

Research interests The use of satellite remote sensing and radar interferometry (InSAR) to study crustal deformation due to a variety of geophysical and anthropogenic processes, such as earthquake cycle, volcanic activity and land subsidence; InSAR time series analysis and InSAR atmospheric corrections.

BiographyDr Xu obtained his BS in Geomatics and MSc degrees in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from Central South University in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He received his PhD degree in Earth Science from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, in 2015. Prior to joining the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he worked as a postdoc researcher in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Dr Xu has authored and co-authored more than 10 peer-reviewed journal and conferences papers.

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Professors of PracticeDepartment of Building and Real Estate


Dr CHAN Man Wai 陳文偉博士Professor of Practice (Programme Management) Telephone no.: (852) 2766-5875 Email address: [email protected]

Ir CHAN Pak-keung 陳柏強工程師Professor of Practice (Infrastructure) Telephone no.: (852) 2766-6033Email address: [email protected]

PolyU's newly designed work uniform

Participant exercising on a treadmill (left) and recovering after exercising (right) inside the climatic chamber wearing the newly designed uniform

Construction workers p r o v i d i n g t h e i r feedback of the newly d e s i g n e d w o r k uniform after the wear trial test

Construction workers wear ing the newly designed uniform to perform their routine tasks during the trial test

Mr POON Nai Tung Thomas 潘乃楝先生Professor of Practice (Real Estate)Telephone no.: (852) 2766-5875 Email address: [email protected]

3D models of the Kai Tak and their surrounding areas

Ir PANG Tat-choi Paul 彭達材工程師Professor of Practice (Structural Engineering)Telephone no.: (852) 3400-8815Email address: [email protected]

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Multi-scale Multi-regional Studies of Sustainable ConstructionA multi-scale strategy framework was developed by Prof. Geoffrey Shen et al. to formulate scientific and rational decisions for sustainable development at different levels. Land footprint distribution patterns were explored at the national level. Inter-sectoral energy transfers were decomposed through the whole upstream supply chain at the industrial level. A decision support framework was conceptualized for sustainable urban renewal at the city level. A 3D spatial analysis was conducted at the district level. An energy assessment framework of new buildings and a unified decision support system for green retrofit of existing buildings were also developed. Such research outputs have combined to make an environmental impact.

For example, the national land use analysis utilized an input-output model to develop an integrated land use management model. By providing suggestions on improving modern agricultural technology, as well as consumption and trade structure adjustment, the findings in this study can balance economic and environmental benefits to avoid land loss of China.

The investigation on industrial energy use employed a series of macro-level economic theories, to make an in-depth study of sectoral embodied energy use in China’s economy. Given the important implications from this case study, the Hong Kong Green Building Council nominated this research project as one of the finalists for its Green Building Award in 2016.

Anti-heat Stress Clothing for Construction Workers in Hot and Humid WeatherConstruction workers in Hong Kong often have to work outdoor for long hours under hot and humid weather conditions. To alleviate their discomfort and risk of heat stroke, the research team led by Prof. Albert Chan from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) developed an anti-heat stress construction uniform that meets the challenges of rising temperatures and specific industry requirements. The newly designed uniform provides better ultraviolet protection, and allows for better breathability and a faster evaporation rate of sweat. Taking into consideration that the technology concerned would benefit construction workers via non-profit promotion by the Construction Industry Council (CIC), PolyU licensed the technology to the CIC for a nominal value of HK$1 as a service to the community. This arrangement would ensure the uniforms be fabricated under the specification provided by the research team, thus meeting the requisite standards, while enabling a wider use of the uniforms.

The new uniform not only enhances the well-being of construction workers when they are wearing it to work, but also improves their productivity. Its design and engineering have been the result of applying fundamental science to application technology and ultimately to product innovation. Over 300,000 construction workers in Hong Kong are expected to benefit from wearing this award-winning uniform.

Department of Building andReal Estate

FCE celebrates our vibrant and innovative research with the following impact case studies. They represent some of our world-leading research, that have cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries and addressed pressing global problems for the benefit of both local and international communities in many different ways.

Impact Case Studies

Dean's Message Impact Case Studies Impact Case Studies

Virtual Environment in PCMS Anchor sending signal to the workerSystem framework

Location of PCMS devices

User interface in PCMS

Development of a Highly-dispersed Self-cleaning PasteA team of researchers has developed a low-cost, environmentally friendly and highly transparent nano paste that can be coated on different kinds of surfaces, including solar panels and curtain walls, to protect them from organic and inorganic dirt under sunlight activation and rainwater brush. Led by Prof. Hongxing Yang, they have significantly reduced cleansing costs by 70% as well as increased the average output power of solar panels up to 11.7%. The highly transparent, robust and multifunctional coating also protects surfaces from corrosion by sandstorms and acid rain so that their life span can be greatly extended. This invention was highly valued by both local and global industries, winning the Green Building Environmental Protection Award Merit Prize 2014 in Hong Kong as well as a Gold Medal and Special Merit Award at the 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. Moreover, a licensing agreement has been signed with a local company to commercialize this product.

Life-Cycle Optimization and Diagnosis for Saving Energy in New and Existing BuildingsA team led by Prof. Shengwei Wang and Dr Fu Xiao has developed comprehensive methodology/approach, methods and technologies for optimized design and control, diagnosis and commissioning at different stages of lifecycle for saving energy in both newly-developed and existing buildings. They have initiated a fundamental understanding and global reorganization of life-cycle optimization, diagnosis and commissioning of buildings in the profession. Their methods/technologies have been documented in numerous highly cited academic publications, and implemented in a number of major projects (e.g., landmark buildings, MTR stations and airports) in Hong Kong with a total energy saving of over 100 million kWh per year.

The technologies that have contributed to significant energy savings include (i) a building performance quick evaluation and diagnostic tool, (ii) a detailed evaluation and diagnostic tool for air-conditioning equipment and BASs, (iii) a building system online performance simulation test platform, (iv) an existing building commissioning and upgrading assessment tool, (v) a BAS control and diagnosis strategy online test platform, (vi) a package of collected online optimal and energy efficient control and diagnosis strategies and (vii) an intelligent building integration and management platform (IBmanager).

Department of Building Services Engineering

Energy saving in International Commerce Centre (ICC) – The tallest building in Hong Kong

Effect of self-cleaning coating on window glazing

Comparison between solar PV surfaces with and without the coating

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Department of Building andReal EstateIntegrating Major Community Planning Projects into Urban Renewal for Sustainable Urban DevelopmentFocusing on integrating community planning projects into urban renewal, the research has led to more social sustainability in urban planning. The research of Prof. Edwin Chan and his team has addressed concerns that development themes of major community facilities or event flagships have not been attuned to the needs of local communities and historic urban fabric. The high expectation on attracting investors and travelers in the post-event period has often been dampened by event legacies that are high maintenance, underused, low adaptability and isolated from the community. The speed and multi-disciplinary nature of these projects have not been met with the necessary government approval mechanism leading to delay and cost over-run. The effect on emerging host cities is of particular concern, because of their eagerness for instant image-building and the predominance of a top-down approach which leave little concern over regeneration of the affected community and urban sustainability.

Research on related topics has highlighted the need for a cross departmental coordination unit to facilitate the approval process for development. A Policy and Project Coordination Unit has been established by the Hong Kong government’s Development Bureau since May 2013. The government also commissioned a study on the feasibility, framework and implementation plan for setting up a statutory heritage trust in Hong Kong.

PCMS: a Digital Solution for Proactive Management of Construction Projects Today's construction management is often reactive to progress delays or safety accidents due to lack of automated project data collection, communication and distribution of important information. The Proactive Construction Management System (PCMS) that was developed by Prof. Heng Li and his research team has facilitated the progress and safety management of construction projects. An extension of the behavior-based safety (BBS) approach, proactive behavior-based safety (PBBS), was proposed to improve construction safety. By integrating the theory of BBS with the technology of PCMS, it was found that PCMS performed well on construction accident prevention and the Safety Index (SI) of the two project teams, with increased improvements by 36.07% and 44.70% respectively.

The use of the PCMS in construction projects has led to a) decreased safety incident possibility by immediately alerting site workers to safety hazards, b) rapid incident response from managers by immediately locating where an incident happens, c) incident cause analysis using track records, d) immediate grasp of construction resources, e) daily safety reports to safety officers, and f) an improved construction safety culture.

Applying innovative community planning to an old town ZCA, Xiamen

Important facilities/open spaces added via community planning


Lightning – Its Effects, Detection and ProtectionWith the increasing usage of electrical and electronic devices, equipment damage or malfunction caused by lightning and other sources has been on the rise. A research group led by Prof. Patrick Y. Du and Dr Mingli Chen at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has made great contributions to the improvement of lightning detection and protection as well as electromagnetic environments in buildings. Its main contributions include (a) the development of user-friendly software for lightning surge analysis, which is currently used in the telecommunications industry for product design, (b) the evaluation and improvement of lightning protection measures in signaling and traction systems of electrified railway, and (c) the development of architectural shielding with low-cost techniques, which has been adopted in large buildings in Hong Kong, Macau, Manila, Guangzhou and Shanghai.

A software package for lightning surge analysis in 3D wire structure has been adopted by Huawei Technologies, Ltd., a leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer, to facilitate effective lightning protection for radio base stations, and protective measures for downsizing telecommunications equipment. The PolyU researchers who have helped to improve system resistivity against lightning and other interference sources include Prof. Patrick Y. Du and Dr Mingli Chen. They have gained substantial support from industry. In the last 15 years, more than 50 consultancy projects (some of them in the nature of contract research) have been awarded for developing practical solutions to the challenges faced by the industry.

Protecting Society from Fires with Fire Engineering Research35 years of research on fire engineering have contributed to building fire safety and atrium fire engineering. Focusing on fire spread and control for buildings, the research on fire models, fire suppression systems, fire safety of different types of buildings, and indoor aerodynamics has advanced knowledge, solved practical engineering problems and informed quality teaching. Since 1998, research results have been applied to assist the government in reviewing fire safety provisions for big construction projects while implementing a fire engineering approach. Two academic staff members, Prof. Wan-Ki Chow and Dr Nai Kong Fong, have served the Hong Kong government departments concerned in the past 20 years, assessing construction projects with respect to a fire engineering approach and steering the development of the code of practices for fire safety. Their contributions have ensured a comfortable, safe and healthy environment for tall, sustainable buildings with large space volumes as well as for infrastructure located deep underground.


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Improving Air Quality through Cutting-edge ResearchPhotochemical smog has been a major air pollution problem in Hong Kong and mainland cities in the Pearl River Delta. High ozone concentrations at the ground level adversely affect human health and crop production while contributing to global warming. Developing an effective control strategy requires understanding the complex processes controlling ozone formation, including local emissions of air pollutants at surface, chemical reactions in the atmosphere, as well as trans-boundary contributions. The PolyU’s atmospheric team includes Prof. Tao Wang, Prof. Hai Guo and Prof. Shun-Cheng Lee. Their research findings have assisted the local government in improving its emission control, air-quality monitoring, and evaluation of the efficacy of adopted control measures.

Research on new radicals/sources in photochemical chemistry has enhanced the capability of state-of-the-art models to predict air quality and design mitigation policies both locally and internationally, providing guidance for the setup of environmental monitoring stations. For example, the finding that ship emissions contribute fine particulates near container terminals has led to the implementation of a clean fuel regulation for ocean-bound vessels in the port of Hong Kong. The Environmental Protection Department of the Hong Kong government has also made use of PolyU’s research findings to update the public on the most recent air quality trends.

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Monitoring Technology for Mega InfrastructureUrbanization to meet economic development worldwide has resulted in mega buildings and civil engineering structures such as super-tall buildings and long-span bridges. These structures are vulnerable to natural disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, and ocean waves. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) research team has conducted pioneering research to develop emerging monitoring technology to ensure structures remain functional, safe and resilient in the face of calamities. The developed technology has been applied to a few landmark structures including the Tsing Ma Bridge, Stonecutters Bridge, Canton Tower and Shanghai Tower. The research has led to improved structural design methods, reliable structural performance assessments, and scientifically based structural inspection and maintenance programmes.

PolyU researchers engaging in structural health monitoring include Prof. You-Lin Xu, Prof. Yi-Qing Ni, Dr Yong Xia and Dr Songye Zhu. They have ensured major

structures can withstand the passage of time and the onslaught of natural disasters. On account of their subs tan t ia l knowledge and experience in monitoring technology, members of the research team were subsequently involved in the development of the first Structural Health Monitoring Standards in China.

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Collecting air samples at roadside in Hong Kong

Canton Tower, a TV tower of 600 m high in Guangzhou with PolyU involved in the design and installation of wind and structural health monitoring system

Tsing Ma Bridge, a suspension bridge with a main span of 1377m in Hong Kong with PolyU involved in the research of wind and structural health monitoring of the bridgeThe PolyU/USTC Atrium

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Department of Civil andEnvironmental EngineeringTransport Smart in Congested Networks with UncertaintiesReliable real-time traffic information is essential for road users in making timely decisions on departure times and route choices in congested road networks with stochastic traffic variations. The research led respectively by Prof. William Lam and Prof. Agachai Sumalee has developed an innovative people-oriented intelligent transportation system (ITS) for the provision of real-time road traffic information in Hong Kong and Bangkok, using limited available data from multiple sensor systems (on-line data) in combination with historical data (off-line data). The ITS helps road users search for faster and more reliable routes with better chances of on-time arrivals. The real-time traffic information is useful for both pre-trip planning and en-route decision-making. Based on the traffic information provided, travelers can choose alternative reliable routes to their destination in order to avoid congested and unreliable routes, and in turn would improve the road traffic conditions. Moreover, it enables logistics operators for fleet management to determine an optimal logistics strategy, including the optimal delivery routes and the optimal vehicle fleet composition to minimize their delivery times and to provide just-in-time delivery services.

Turning Waste into Eco-construction MaterialsIn Hong Kong, construction and demolition (C&D) waste, waste glass and timber and incinerator ash are produced in huge quantities, contributing significantly to the total amount of solid waste. The disposal of these wastes has aggravated the severe social and environmental problems due to the acute shortage of landfill and public filling capacities. Government has been encouraging the reduction and sorting of these waste through the implementation of various levies and charges, and research for recycling these wastes for beneficial use has become increasingly important.

Prof. Chi-Sun Poon has been leading a Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) team since 2000 to develop methods to recycle these wastes. Recycled materials have been used to pave roads, make concrete, concrete blocks and architectural mortars. The research has led to a new government policy and technical specifications for the use of recycled materials in construction. Some of the developed techniques have been used to produce eco-blocks and eco-glass cement, which are now commercially available for the construction industry.

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The development of Eco- blocks Glacier distribution in Southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau mapped by remote sensing technologies

Advanced remote sensing satellite data receiving station at HK PolyU

Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics Fundamental Theories and Models for Spatial Big Data AnalyticsBig data is meaningless without big analysis. A LSGI research group has made systematic studies on the theories and methods for modelling uncertainty and quality control of spatial data, modelling the uncertainty propagation in spatial analysis and surface reconstruction, measuring and computing the reliability in spatial analyses and spatial data mining, algorithms and models for spatial modelling, the multi-scale representation of spatial data and spatial analysis results.

The theoretical research on uncertainty in data quality and in spatial analysis has been widely applied in spatial data quality assessment and control in Hong Kong and the region; the data quality assessment standards of Macao Geographic Information System (GIS) data, for the Macao government; and the quality assessment for the 1st National Geographic State Survey of China. The work in digital terrain modelling has been the basis for establishment of the national accuracy specifications for digital elevation models and used for quality control in the establishment of national digital elevation models.

Highly recognized internationally, the work has honoured Prof. Wen-zhong Shi and Prof. Zhilin Li with the State Natural Science Award (the second class prize) from the Central Government of China in 2007 and in 2004 respectively. They also won prestigious awards from the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

New Technology for Remote Monitoring of the Environment and Hazards Environmental change and geohazards often have drastic impacts on our society. Better understanding of the problems, and developing effective technologies to detect the precursors of emergent situations can help mitigate the problems and reduce their impacts. A group of LSGI researchers, including Prof. Xiaoli Ding, Prof. Janet Nichol, Dr Zhizhao Liu, Dr Charles Wong, Dr Wallace Lai, and Dr Lei Zhang has developed advanced satellite and ground-based remote sensing technologies to study the environment, geohazards and problems in urban infrastructure (including underground infrastructure). Their research has led to both new discoveries and technological advancements.

The technologies have been used widely in Hong Kong and internationally, contributing to a healthier and safer living environment. For example, technologies for mapping the effects of urban air quality and heat islands have been transferred to the Hong Kong government’s Planning Department, Lands Department, as well as the Hong Kong Observatory. The GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) deformation monitoring technology has also been used widely in several countries for monitoring landslides and structural safety. A multi-antenna GNSS technology has become an industry standard for monitoring landslides and structural safety.

A number of awards have been received, including the 1st Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education in China in 2014.

Vertical profile of aerosol concentrations over southwest Kowloon from MODIS satellite images

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Novel Integrated Lunar Mapping ModelAn innovative lunar mapping model has been developed for high-precision lunar topographic mapping by integrating cross-mission cross-sensor remote sensing datasets. Essential for proper calibration, registration, and analysis of multi-source lunar topographic datasets collected from different missions, the new model enables the full comparative and synergistic use of them.

By integrating multi-platform satellite/ aerial imagery and laser scanning data for 3D mapping, the new model has greatly reduced inconsistencies among different datasets and improved the mapping accuracy.

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Research students are working on the satellite image processing of the Chang’E-3 landing area

Contributing to the advancement of planetary mapping and scientific research, it was cited by Nature Index as a landmark in lunar topographic models. The mapping model has been used for landing site mapping and selection of the Chinese Chang’E-3 and Chang’E-5 lunar landing missions.

The research team led by Dr Bo Wu won a Gold Medal and a Special Merit Award at the 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in April 2016. The team also won the First Honorable Mention of the 2016 Talbert Abrams Award by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) in 2016.

Reliable Navigation and Smart Transport Techniques for Highly Dense Urban AreasLocation-based services and vehicle navigation have become emerging spatial information technologies. The GNSS-based (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) positioning and navigation technology is the cornerstone for numerous applications in modern society. A research group in LSGI has identified a number of key problems related to GNSS positioning and navigation in dense urban areas like Hong Kong. These include the effects of low latitude ionosphere anomaly, a highly humid GNSS observation environment, and canyon effect. GNSS has also been integrated with GIS (Geographic Information System) for vehicle navigation and public transport systems. Such work addresses some of the key problems in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) with great industrial and societal impact.

In addition to the development of a land vehicle navigation system with 95% reliability, the research team also developed a public transport enquiry system that has been available for public use since 2010. With over 20,000 users per day and more than 1,000,000 downloads of the mobile apps version, the product for enhancing the public transport system has won a Merit Award in Mobile Infotainment of HK Wireless Technology Excellence Award (2005), a Best Public Service Application Silver Award in ICT Award (2009) and a Meritorious Award of the Civil Service Outstanding Award (2011).

The development won a Gold Medal and a Special Merit Award at the 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in April 2016

A smart public transport enquiry system (upper) and a reliable land vehicle navigation system

The University Research Facility in Chemical and Environmental Analysis (UCEA), jointly established on 1 December 2015 and managed by the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Textile together with this Faculty, is one of the University Research Facilities to provide a gateway to world-class research at PolyU. UCEA aims to build up a leading platform in the chemical and environmental community through maintaining core and shared facilities, coordinating chemical and environmental-related activities, training undergraduates and postgraduates, and launching interdisciplinary collaboration. It provides equipment for the needs of both sophisticated research projects and general purposes. Users can request experiments to be done by the UCEA staff or training in the operation of equipment.

UCEA is equipped with Orbitrap MS, Ion Mobility ToFMS, Nano-FTIR, Mercury detection platform, Amino Acid Analyzer, Multicollector ICP-MS, ToF-CIMS, PTR-QiToFMS, HiSeq-DNA Sequencer and Solid-state NMR at FCE sites. This article introduces the instruments closely related to environmental analysis, i.e., the Multicollector ICP-MS, the ToF-CIMS, the PTR-QiToFMS, the PacBio Sequel system and Solid-state NMR.

Thermo Scientific Neptune Plus High Resolution Multicollector ICP-MS

The Thermo Scientific Neptune Plus high resolution multicollector ICP-MS is used to characterize the isotope composition of different elements in a variety of different materials including sediments, fluids, rocks and biological phases. It enables a wide variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects, covering topics from chemical and environmental sciences, earth sciences, nuclear sciences to other fields requiring high-precision isotope ratio measurements. Its jet interface, double-focusing mass analyzer, retarding potential quadrupole lenses and fully flexible detection system offers ultimate high mass resolution, ground-breaking sensitivity, unsurpassed linearity and robust stability.

Chemical Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

The Chemical Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ToF-CIMS) combines chemical ionization with high-resolution time of flight mass spectrometry for sensitive, real-time identification and quantification of gas-phase compounds in sampled air. The soft ionization combined with high mass resolving power enables molecular and elemental speciation. The high ion duty cycle achieves simultaneous measurement of all mass-to-charge ratios. The data acquisition rates of this instrument exceed 200 complete mass spectra per second. I t is applicable for both laboratory and f ield measurements and can be employed in climate change and air quality research.

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Proton Transfer Reaction Quadrupole ion Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

The Proton Transfer Reaction Quadrupole ion Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (PTR-QiToFMS) is a fast and ultra-sensitive instrument for trace analysis of volatile organic compounds at a very high time-resolution and mass resolving power. It is the most powerful PTR-ToFMS instrument available on the market. The high-end orthogonal acceleration reflectron time of the flight mass spectrometer, the Quadrupole ion guide, the IONICON PTR technology and the ULTRA-PURE ion source enable the PTR-QiToFMS to achieve a mass resolution of more than 5,500 and reach a detection limit of below 1 pptv in 60 seconds and an unmatched sensitivity of more than 1,500 (up to 4,500) cps/ppbv.

Pacific Biosciences Sequel DNA Sequencing System

The PacBio Sequel system is equipped with the third generation sequencer PacBio Sequel, utilizing the Single Molecule Real-Time (SMRT) sequencing technology that was launched in September 2015 by Pacific Biosciences in California, United States. Long read lengths are its signature. Such capability facilitates genome annotation and de novo assembly, especially with repetitive elements, as well as finishing draft genomes by filling in gaps and minimizing alignment errors, which is a challenge with second generation sequencers. Long read lengths also enable sequencing of full length transcripts and increases resolution of heterozygosity in diploid genomes via haplotype phasing.

Our facility also includes other equipment to ensure the quality of DNA prior to sequencing. These include: Covaris M220 focused-ultrasonicator, Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer, Thermo Fisher Scientific Qubit 3.0 Fluorometer and NanoDrop 2000c, Sage Science BluePippin system, Applied Biosystems StepOnePlus Real-Time PCR system and Veriti Thermal Cycler, Next Advance Bullet Blender, and Hoefer and Baygene gel electrophoresis systems.

Jeol ECZR 500 MHz Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic ResonanceThe solid-state NMR is a popular tool for structural determinations of substances in the solid state, especially those that are insoluble in typical solvents used for liquid-state NMR. To overcome the non-homogeneity of solid samples and the close dipole-dipole and anisotropic interactions, the samples will spin at a high rate and at a specific angle, known as the magic angle. The cross-polarization (CP) technique utilizes energy transfer from protons to enhance carbon-13 signals. The combinatory CP-MAS (cross-polarization magic angle spinning) is a common feature in solid-state NMR to enhance the spectrum’s signal strength and resolution. Solid-state NMR can be used for studying drug-membrane interactions, characterizing polymorphs of active pharmaceutical ingredients, visualizing high molecular weight amyloid fibrils, and determining structure and dynamics of molecules in solid polymers and inorganic porous materials.

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Construction Virtual Prototyping Laboratory The Construction Virtual Prototyping Laboratory (CVP Lab) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University was founded in 2004. It has been providing industrial services covering and extending the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM), process simulation solutions, and professional training to the construction industry. Construction Virtual Prototyping (CVP) enables “construction in the computer”. It provides a modeling and simulation environment so powerful that the production, fabrication, and assembly of construction components, including the associated operational processes, can be simulated in the computer. Virtual Prototyping takes into account all the variables in the project procurement process, from feasibility analysis to maintenance management. The primary objective is to evaluate the feasibility of construction processes with a view to saving time and resources.

In developing this technology, Prof. Li Heng and his 15-member team have not only published many research papers in international journals, but also put theory into practice through working closely with industrial partners. They are now able to turn two-dimensional technical drawings into detailed three-dimensional images of skyscrapers and other complex building structures. More importantly, they can keep track of every step of the actual construction process through visualizing the workflow as well as the logistics arrangements.

The vision is to manage the life cycle of buildings using BIM technologies, and services to industry are supported by a strong research team and a large pool of experts who can tackle issues and complexities that may arise during different stages of a project.

In particular, CVP Lab has developed a design-build optimization system for the construction industry. Built on the latest virtual prototyping technologies, it provides an efficient approach to simulate all the required dimensions (or variables) related to a complex construction project, including space analysis, logistics, time-cost trade-off, quality and safety concerns. The system has proven to be an effective tool to improve the efficiency and accuracy of project planning, hence saving time and cost.

With the sophisticated use of Virtual Prototyping techniques and positioning technologies, a new safety system called the Proactive Construction Management System (PCMS) has been developed, which combines the use of Building Information Modelling on the project management side and the installation of RFID sensors on the helmets of construction workers on site. The application of information modelling has provided useful 4D models of the project in progress as a control platform. More importantly, the PCMS facilitates the real-time tracking of the position of workers and machinery. If there are any chances of collision, the system will automatically alert site workers of possible fatal blows by giving warning signals built-in with the helmets.

On the project management side, the PCMS will also automatically compares the 4D models with site situations to smooth out the timing and cost performances of large-scale construction projects. With PCMS, project managers can now closely monitor the real-time progress of workers on their computers with remote control. They can also give orders to foremen / workers and correct the latter’s errors when they see any deviations about to happen.

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Excellent research infrastructure is indispensable to facilitate high impact scientific research. To further advance the FCE's forefront position of ground-breaking research in construction and environment, the Faculty and its Departments provide tremendous funding for research infrastructure development and enhancement. Two research laboratories of each constituent department have been selected out of the 60 research laboratories, to briefly highlight our state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.

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Ng Wing Hong Laboratory for Sustainable CityThe Ng Wing Hong Laboratory for Sustainable City (SCL) was founded in December 2013 and named after our donor Dr Ng Wing Hong (one of PolyU’s Outstanding Alumni). The laboratory aims to create a high-level information technology infrastructure for examining the sustainable development of Hong Kong at the building and city level. It facilitates the effective use of GIS and BIM techniques in urban sustainability, urban development, construction and other relevant disciplines.

The multimedia laboratory integrates high-quality sound system, high-definition video images, light control system, and video tracking system for video-conference functions meeting international standards. The net floor area of this laboratory is 94.6 square meters while the room can accommodate around 40 persons. It not only provides teaching and research facilities for BRE department, but also provides a space for interacting with external stakeholders (including the industry and other universities) to address complex issues in the built environment.

The SCL has been opened since March, 2015. Currently, hardware, software and the Hong Kong database (2D & 3D) of this laboratory are available for departmental s t a f f a n d r e s e a r c h s t u d e n t s . M o r e information could be found through SCL website: http://www.bre.polyu.edu.hk/scl/

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Fire Laboratory The Fire Laboratory on the 10th floor of the Z block of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, has two fire chambers and a room for the cone calorimeter. The laboratory also accommodates working benches and 3 smoke exhaust hoods (each has an extraction rate of 50 L/s) for bench scale experiments. The two major chambers are used for fire suppression and smoke detection experiments. Both chambers have smoke extraction fans installed providing an extraction rate of 600 L/s. In one of the chambers, a piping network has been installed for conducting sprinkler tests and water mist and drencher experiments. In the other chamber, an addressable fire detection system is installed to facilitate detector response experiments. Other equipment available are self-developed wind tunnel, a critical oxygen index apparatus; thermocouples trees and data loggers; a heat flux transducer; and two detector panels for various experiments.

Fire Chamber I is designed for sprinkler experiments, water mist studies, and the drencher experiments

Fire Chamber II is designed for studying smoke detector responses


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Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort LaboratoryComfort, health, and productivity of occupants are the top considerations in the design and operation of modern buildings, while high building energy efficiency is essential for a low carbon economy. This lab supports our research activities for the development of technologies that achieve good indoor air quality with minimal energy use.

The Laboratory has the following state-of-the-art facilities:

• FLEC (European standard Field and Laboratory Emission Cell) for the characterization of IAQ pollutant emission from common building materials

• SF6 tracer gas, a harmless gas that does not exist in nature, multiple dosing and sampling system for ventilation and pollutant (such as infectious pathogens) dispersion studies

• Instruments for monitoring indoor air pollutants like Radon, VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds), aerosols, O3, CO, CO2, and indoor environmental parameters such as air temperature, relative humidity and air velocity

• Three thermal manikins that can simulate human body heat generation, and one with an artificial lung for the study of inhaled air quality

• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and high-performance PC for simulating air flow, temperature, and pollutant dispersion both indoors and in building surroundings

• Multiple sets of mobile mini weather stations for outdoor thermal comfort study: radiosity, wind speed and directions, globe and air temperature and air humidity

Thermal manikins for assessing indoor thermal comfort

Model 3330 Optical Particle Sizer Spectrometer (TSI3330)



Structural Engineering Research LaboratoryThe Structural Engineering Research Laboratory is one of the largest laboratories in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. It has a reaction wall and a strong floor area of 178m² for large-scale testing. Apart from major facilities like the universal testing system and the APS shaker, the laboratory is equipped with laser displacement transducers, MTS hydraulic actuators, a 1000-toncable tension machine and four loading frames of 100 tons in capacity for static and dynamic testing of a board range of structures. Control and data acquisition are performed by fully computerized systems. Installed with the state-of-the-art equipment, the laboratory enhances the Structural Unit in its leading position in advanced structural research, consultancy and educational services in the Pan Pearl River Delta region.

The universal testing system has loading capacities at 1000 tons (vertical) and 150 tons (horizontal) with full displacement control for monotonic and cyclic loading cycles. It has been extensively used to assess the load carrying capacities of a wide range of members. Recent research studies and consultancies include loading tests on reinforced concrete columns, beam-column joints, concrete filled steel columns, brick wall, falsework, scaffolding, bamboo truss, FRP strengthened sections, etc.

Other tests include post-buckling tests of cold-formed steel sections with initial imperfection, shear tests of stone panels, compression tests of brickwork, tension tests of wall panels, loading tests of cantilevered truss, etc.

The Laboratory has facilitated field work in carrying out full-scale loading tests of semi-precast slabs, dynamic tests of bridge decks, damage detection of bridges, cyclic fatigue tests of carriageway overlay, dynamic loading tests of floor slabs, vibration measurements on buildings, etc.

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Using the shaking table to apply earthquake loading to two structures connected by dampers

Damage detection through APS shaker (frequency to 200 Hz and force rating to 900 N)

T e s t i n g o f a s c a l e beam-column joint by the universal testing system


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PolyU - Wuhan University Partner GNSS Research CentreThe Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI) has a long history of conducting cutting-edge fundamental research in satellite-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). This PolyU - Wuhan University Partner GNSS Research Centre (established in January 2014) has virtually become a research habour for researchers at LSGI, Wuhan University as well as in Hong Kong to carry out innovative satellite-based PNT research by taking advantage of state-of-art facilities at the Partner Research Centre. The research activities at the Partner GNSS Research Centre are well supported by an array of advanced high precision GNSS receiver instruments and software tools.

The Partner GNSS Research Centre has developed advanced algorithms for high precision GNSS data analysis, which have been widely used internationally. Researchers there have developed a number of fundamental research facilities to advance GNSS-research and its wide applications. For instance, the multi-antenna GNSS system, an integration of both hardware and software systems, has been successfully licensed to China and multiple international clients. China’s first atmospheric Precipitable Water Vapor Real-time Monitoring System (PWVRMS) for the Pearl River Delta region based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) Precise Point Positioning (PPP) technique was developed by the Research Centre, where researchers also established Hong Kong’s first GNSS-radiosonde precipitable water vapor collocation observation system. A system of hardware and software has been developed for an advanced GNSS-based instrument to investigate the space weather and ionospheric science.

The establishment of these fundamentally important facilities provides valuable GNSS-based observation data for research on the atmosphere and the ionosphere in the Hong Kong and Pearl-River-Delta regions. The GNSS method provides a unique tool for the study of global warming and environmental change regionally.

The fundamental research conducted at the PolyU - Wuhan University Partner GNSS Research Centre has earned itself a worldwide reputation. A number of international GNSS manufacturers, such as Hemisphere GNSS, Hi-Target and Leica, have generously donated advanced GNSS instruments to the Centre, which is equipped with the following:

• More than 10 GNSS receivers • Ionosphere scintillation monitors• Inertial navigation system • Vehicle navigation system • Automatic identification system • GNSS reflectometer • GNSS data server • WiFi Indoor positioning system • Range-based indoor positioning system

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Prof. Alex Wai (PolyU) and Prof. Jingnan Liu (Wuhan University) unveiled the plaques for the PolyU - Wuhan University Partner GNSS Research Centre on 20 January 2014.

Students visiting the PolyU - Wuhan University Partner GNSS Research Centre and learning how the GNSS satellite positioning works


The Water and Waste Laboratories were established in 1976 to facilitate the application of research in environmental engineering and sciences to meet the needs of industry. The present group of laboratories, comprising a teaching laboratory, a research laboratory, a microbiology laboratory, a chemical store, a sample storage cold room, and an instrumental laboratory, are extensively equipped with advanced measuring and analytical instruments for complete physical, chemical and biological sample characterization.

The Water and Waste Laboratories have been very active in consultancy projects. The main research and consultancy areas of the laboratories are as follows:

- Industrial / Trade Effluent Treatment Technology and Quality Monitoring - Municipal Sewage Treatment Technology and Quality Monitoring - Sewage Sludge and Waste Management - Advanced Potable Water Treatment - Characterization and Stabilization / Solidification of Waste and Sludge - Management of Solid, Construction and Demolition Waste - Contaminated Land and Sediment Quality Monitoring

The Water Analysis Laboratory supports the advanced research of environmental engineering and sciences in the department. As an important component of the Water and Waste Laboratories, it is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments for detailed analysis of chemical compositions of environmental samples. It is divided into two areas. The main area is reserved for organic characterization and the ICP Room is specifically for the trace analysis of metal species in environmental samples. The group of laboratories also includes a mini greenhouse for the study of properties and applications of phytoremediation in pollution control.

The Water and Waste Laboratories recently became a partner laboratory of the State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution under the Ministry of Science and Technology (Chinese mainland) and the Innovation Technology Commission (Hong Kong) Joint Laboratory Scheme.

Major Equipment in the Water and Waste Laboratories Group include the following:1. Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometer with OES2. Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometer with MS3. Gas Chromatography with TCD4. Gas Chromatography with MS5. High Performance Liquid Chromatography with PDA6. High Performance Liquid Chromatography with RI7. Ultra High Pressure Liquid Chromatography with MSMS8. Ion Chromatography9. Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer10. Flow Injection Automatic Analyzer11. UV-Vis Spectrophotometers12. Liquid and Solid Total Organic Carbon Analyzer13. Total Nitrogen Analyzer14. Biosafety Cabinet15. Inverted Microscope16. Mercury Analyzer17. MicroTox Analyzer18. Headspaces Autosampler19. Computerized Photo-Reactor20. Ozone Analyzers21. Ozone Generators22. Surface Tension Analyzer23. High Temperature Tube Furnace24. Fermentors25. High Pressure/High Temperature Reactor

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Underground Utility Survey LaboratoryAn underground utility survey laboratory in LSGI has been in operation since July 2014. Scale-down networks and matrix consisting of metallic & non-metallic fresh & salt water supply pipes, drainage & sewerage pipes connected with manholes, power cables and gas cables, and valve chambers of various kinds are embedded in a big tank in the laboratory. These networks of underground utilities and the back-filled soil serve as a scale-down model comparable to actual field conditions. The laboratory provides an indoor and controllable environment where orientations, depths, sizes, material types, coordinates of various utilities networks are carefully designed and recorded. All these attributes are geo-referenced and integrated into a geographic information system.

Students and practitioners can operate various survey instruments to position and map the networks and matrix of underground utilities and other objects, as well as to carry out condition surveys, assessment & monitoring with advanced nondestructive instrumentation and software. The instrumentation includes ground penetrating radar, electromagnetic induction, acoustic leak noise correlation, noise logger, etc. The software refers to commercial and in-house developed programmes, which functions as signal processing and multi-dimensional subsurface imaging of the collected electromagnetic, acoustic and thermographic signals. In the lab, students and practitioners can practise with the survey instruments, software and standard survey procedures, understand what can and what can’t be done, realize the relationships between accuracies/ uncertainties of each survey method and any particular problem. Such an indoor and controlled environment enhances the confidence of students and practitioners who carry out underground utilities surveys, assessment and monitoring in actual site environment, where most utilities are unseen and accuracies of records are not guaranteed.

The laboratory also serves as a hub to validate non-standardized survey methods and procedures for particular problems in two categories. The first is positioning and mapping, such as orientations, depths, sizes, material types of the utilities. The second is condition survey, assessment and monitoring, such as effects of water leaks, subsurface voids, soil types and moisture content, coverage of concrete and asphalt structures on various types of survey signals. Each individual validation between any particular survey technology and any particular problem characterizes itself via provision of the signal fingerprints. These validated fingerprints in the lab serve as a basis of pattern matching in actual field surveys. We consider this an essential step to substantiate any interpretation of survey findings. The setting in the laboratory provides an ideal environment of such validation process for better interpretation of positioning, mapping, condition survey, assessment and monitoring of the very complicated and congested underground utilities in Hong Kong and elsewhere.

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Tutorial and study area the lab (left) and ground penetrating radar with total station tracking 360o surveying prism (right)

Electromagnetic induction technology (left) and acoustic leak noise correlator (right)

Before soil backfill After soil backfill and decking

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3 D s u b s u r f a c e i m a g i n g o f t h e buried utilities in the underground utility survey lab

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PhD GraduateEmployment Record After Graduation

Thesis Title Chief Supervisor Graduation YearInstitution (Country) Position

Dr AMEYAW Ernest Effah

Kingston University, London (United Kingdom) Lecturer Risk Allocation Model for Public-Private Partnership Water Supply Projects in Ghana Prof. CHAN Ping Chuen 2015

Dr LU Chen Guangzhou University (China) Lecturer A Framework of Evolution and Optimization of Regional Population Distribution for Sustainable

Development in China Prof. SHEN Qiping 2015

Dr Siti Hajar Binti MISNAN

University of Technology in Malaysia (Malaysia) Lecturer Relationship between Neighborhood Physical Design and Institutional Changes: Patterns and Their

Effect on Housing Price in MalaysiaProf. CHAN Hon Wan

Edwin 2015

Dr MOHAMAD RAMLY Zuhaili Bin

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Malaysia) Senior Lecturer Performance Management of Value Management Implementation in the Malaysian Construction

Industry Prof. SHEN Qiping 2015

Dr SHAN Ming National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Holistic Evaluation of Corruption Issues in the Chinese Public Construction Sector Prof. CHAN Ping Chuen 2015

Dr CHANG Xuhua Tongji University (China) Assistant Professor Faculty Invention Disclosure and Patent Assignment in University-Industry Technology Transfer in China: A Mixed Methods Study Dr FONG Sik Wah 2016

Dr WU Zezhou Shenzhen University (China) Assistant Professor Determinants of Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Mainland China: A Contractor's Perspective Dr YU Tit Wan 2016

Dr ZHENG Keqing China University of Mining and Technology (China) Lecturer Numerical Modeling of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Prof. NI Meng 2016

Department of Building Services Engineering (BSE)



Dr AI Zhengtao Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)

H.C. Orsted Postdoctoral Fellow

Numerical Investigation of Single-sided Natural Ventilation and Interunit Dispersion in Multistory Buildings Prof. MAK Cheuk Ming 2015

Dr CUI Borui Oak Ridge National Laboratory (United States)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Optimal Design and Control of Cool Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Building Demand Management Prof. WANG Shengwei 2015

Dr MA Tao Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) Assistant Professor Study on Renewable Energy Systems with Different Energy Storage Solutions for Power Supply in

Remote Areas Prof. YANG Hongxing 2015

Dr CUI Dongjin Shenzhen University (China) Assistant Professor Investigation of Pollutants Inter-unit Dispersion and Natural Ventilation in Buildings due to Wind Effect Prof. MAK Cheuk Ming 2016

Dr FAN Cheng Shenzhen University (China) Assistant Professor Development of Data Mining-based Big Data Analysis Methodologies for Building Energy Management Dr XIAO Fu 2016

Dr GANG WenjieHuazhong University of Science and Technology

(China)Associate Professor Performance Assessment and Optimization of District Cooling Systems in Subtropical Region Prof. WANG Shengwei 2016

Dr XUE Peng Beijing University of Technology (China) Assistant Professor Quantification of Luminous Comfort with Dynamic Daylight Metrics for Energy-efficient Residential

Buildings Prof. MAK Cheuk Ming 2016

Department of Civil Environmental Engineering (CEE)



Dr CHONG Dan Shanghai University (China) Assistant Professor Life Cycle Optimization of Flexible Pavement Design and Management Based on the Principles of Sustainability Dr WANG Yuhong 2015

Dr FU Xiao Southeast University (China) Lecturer Modelling Activity and Travel Choice Behaviour: A Network Equilibrium Approach Prof. LAM Hing Keung William 2015

Dr GUO Jia Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

Assistant Research Scientist A Modelling Study of Multiphase Chemistry in Cloud Droplets and Deliquescent Particles in China Prof. WANG Tao 2015

Dr HE Wenyu Hefei University of Technology (China)

Professor / 黄山青年學者

Multi-scale Structural Damage Detection Using Wavelet Finite Element Method Dr ZHU Songye 2015

Dr SU Jiazhan Fuzhou University (China) Lecturer Construction Settlement Monitoring and Thermal Actions Monitoring of Supertall Structures Dr XIA Yong 2015Dr ZHENG Yue Tongji University (China) Assistant Professor SHM-based Seismic Progressive Collapse Analysis of RC Bridge Structures Prof. XU You Lin 2015

Dr ZHU Qing Tongji University (China) Assistant Professor Frequency-domain Buffeting Analysis of a Long-span Twin-box-deck Bridge with Distributed Buffeting Loads Prof. XU You Lin 2015

Dr JING Haiquan Central South University (China) Lecturer Rain-wind-induced Cable Vibration through Wind Tunnel Tests and Numerical Analysis Dr XIA Yong 2016

Dr QIU Canxing Shandong University (China) Lecturer Seismic-resisting Self-centering Structures with Superelastic Shape Memory Alloy Damping Devices Dr ZHU Songye 2016

Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI)



Dr LIU Qiliang Central South University (China)

Research Associate Professor Scale-driven Clustering of Geographical Point Data Prof. LI Zhilin 2015

Dr WANG Bin Lancaster University (United Kingdom)

Senior Research Associate Analyzing and Predicting Risks of Infectious Diseases by Geographic Information Science Prof. SHI Wen Zhong 2015

Dr WANG Qunming China University of Petroleum, East China (China) Lecturer Soft-then-hard Sub-pixel Mapping Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Prof. SHI Wen Zhong 2015

Dr ZHU Wu Chang'an University (China) Lecturer Estimation and Correction of Ionospheric Effects on SAR Interferometry Prof. DING Xiaoli 2015

Dr LI Zhongbin South Dakota State University (United States) Postdoctoral Fellow Toward Generic Object Extraction from Remote Sensing Images Using Spectral and Spatial Contextual

Information Prof. SHI Wen Zhong 2016

Dr MIAO Zelang Central South University (China)

Special Term Associate Professor Integrated Spectral and Geometrical Information for Road Extraction from VHR Satellite Images Prof. SHI Wen Zhong 2016

Dr XIAO Fei Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping (China) Postdoctoral Fellow Sensor Web and Geospatial Cloud Computing Modeling and Its Application in Real-time Collaborative

Earth Observation Data ProcessingDr SHEA Yu Kai

Geoffrey 2016

Selected Research Laboratories Selected Research Laboratories Selected PhD Graduates in 2015-16

Dean's Message

Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE) Postdoctoral Fellow

Award Institution of the PhD Degree (Country) Project Title Principal

Investigator

DR AN Dadi Tongji University (China) Public Open Space Regenerative Design Integrating the Consideration of Elderly People Prof. CHAN Hon Wan Edwin

DR CAO Dongping Tongji University (China) Location-based Technologies for Asset Tracking and Risk Management Prof. LI HengDR HE Wei University of Science and Technology of China (China) Development of Novel Perovskite-type Cathode Materials for Low-temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Prof. NI Meng

DR LEE Kwang-pyo Seoul National University (South Korea) Evaluation of Construction Workers' Physical Demands through Computer Vision-based Kinematic Data Collection and Analysis Dr SEO Joonoh

DR TANG Pan Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) Analysing stakeholder-organization relationships in mega construction projects: a social network approach Prof. SHEN QipingDR ZHANG Houcheng Xiamen University (China) Mechanism Modeling and Waste Heat Recovery Strategies of a Molten Carbonate Direct Carbon Fuel Cell Prof. NI Meng

DR ZHANG Yanyang Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (United Kingdom) Local Web Buckling Strength and Behaviour of Double-Coped Beams with and without Web Stiffening Dr YAM Chi Ho Michael

DR ZHANG Ying University of Science and Technology of China (China) Developing a Personal Cooling System for Combating Heat Stress in the Construction Industry Prof. CHAN Ping Chuen

Department of Building Services Engineering (BSE) Postdoctoral Fellow


InvestigatorDr Howard CHEUNG Purdue University (United States) Energy Performance Assessment and Optimization on Buildings in PolyU Campus - Stage 1 and Whole Campus Prof. WANG ShengweiDr JIANG Liming University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) Further Development of OpenSees structures-in-fire (SiF) Simulation Prof. Asif Sohail USMANIDr LU Hao Tsinghua Univeristy (China) Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Airborne Dust Deposition on Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Modules Dr LU LinDr ZHANG Tiantian Harbin Institute of Technology (China) Renewable Energy Application and Energy Conservation in Public Rental Housing (PRH) Development Prof. YANG HongxingDr ZHENG Lingling Peking University (China) Highly Efficient Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells Prof. YANG Hongxing

Department of Civil Environmental Engineering (CEE)Postdoctoral Fellow


InvestigatorDr CAI Weizi South China University of Technology (China) Wastewater-derived Energy for Smart Towns Prof. LI Xiangdong

Dr CHEN Pi-cheng National Taiwan University in Taiwan Toward Energy-Positive Sewage Sludge Management in Hong Kong: An Eco-efficiency Approach Using LCA and DEA Dr HSU Shu-Chien

Dr FANG Han Monash University (Australia) Application of Polygonal High Strength Concrete-filled Composite Column in Seismic-resistant Buildings in Hong Kong Dr CHAN Tak Ming

Dr FU Xiao Tsinghua University (China) Heterogeneous Chemistry of Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Oxides: An Integrative Programme for Cutting-edge Science Prof. WANG Tao

Dr GUO Siyao Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) Design Theory for Concrete Structures Strengthened with Inorganically Bonded Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites Dr DAI Jianguo

Dr HUANG Xiaowu Kumamoto University (Japan) Wastewater-derived Energy for Smart Towns Prof. LI Xiangdong

Dr JIN Ling The University of Queenland (Australia) Identifying Major Drivers of the Mixture Effect in Ambient Air Particulate Matters: Bioassay-Directed Size and Chemical Fractionation Study Prof. LI Xiangdong

Dr LI Jiangshan University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Collaboration Research Study on Sustainable Land Decontamination Methods for Application in Land Development Projects Prof. POON Chi Sun

Dr LIANG Xiaoliang Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) The Effect of Substitution on the Reduction Activity of Magnetite Interacted with Aqueous Fe(II) Prof. CHU Wei

Dr LIU Hao South China University of Technology (China) Technology Development and Economic Feasibility of Applying New Urban Biorefinery to Convert Solids Wastes Derived Lignocellulosic Biomass into Biofuels Dr LEU Shao Yuan

Dr MA Qingxin Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Heterogeneous Chemical Processes of Reactive Nitrogen Oxides and Its Roles in Regional Air Pollution Prof. WANG Tao

Dr MENG Mei University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) The Study of Inhaled Ambient Particulate Matters (PMs) in Urban Areas: Particle Sizes, Chemical Compositions and Pollutant Toxicological Effects Prof. LI Xiangdong

Dr Rabindra Kumar PADHAN University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (India) Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Asphalt Pavement Construction Using Innovative Nondestructive Methods Dr LENG Zhen

Dr PU Shengyan Nagoya University (Japan) Catalytic Oxidation for the Removal of Refractory Pollutants in Water Prof. CHU WeiDr SUN Jianteng University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Regional Combined Organic Pollution in Soils Prof. LI XiangdongDr TAN Giin Yu Amy Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Wastewater-derived Energy for Smart Towns Prof. LI XiangdongDr WANG Jian Jilin University (China) Airborne Bacterial Communities within Serviced High Speed Rail Carriages: Diversity, Sources and Health Impacts Dr LEE Po HengDr WANG Jianxu Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Sediment Quality Assessment in Coastal Waters – Mercury Geochemical Cycling Prof. LI XiangdongDr WANG Ying Kyushu University (Japan) Wastewater-derived Energy for Smart Towns Prof. LI XiangdongDr WU Zhuoying University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Wastewater-derived Energy for Smart Towns Prof. LI XiangdongDr XU Fei Zhejiang University (China) Application of High Performance Steel-concrete Composite Structures Prof. CHUNG Kwok FaiDr XUAN Dongxing Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) Investigation of Technological and Environmental Behaviour of MSW Bottom Ash as Cement Treated Road Base Prof. POON Chi Sun

Dr YUAN Maodan Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea) Development of Rail Crack Monitoring System Using Fibre Optic Based Ultrasonic Guided Wave Detection Technology Prof. NI Yiqing

Dr ZHANG Yuan Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) Feasibility of Building Warm Mix Asphalt Pavements Using Synthetic Zeolite Derived from Sewage Sludge Ash Dr LENG Zhen

Dr ZHU Wenjun Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Toulous (France) Localized Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete Structures Prof. POON Chi Sun

Dr ZHUANG Jianqi Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Physical Model Test Study and Analysis of the Impact of Debris Flow on Barriers Prof. YIN Jianhua

Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI)Postdoctoral Fellow


InvestigatorDr JIA Tao KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) Exploring the Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems with the Fusion of Massive Geospatial Data Prof. SHI Wen ZhongDr LI Na Wuhan University (China) Spatial Infrastructure for Smart City Prof. SHI Wen Zhong

Dr SHI Lei Wuhan University (China) Development of Radar Remote Sensing Technology for Geo-hazards Monitoring/Spatial Information for Smart City Development Prof. DING Xiaoli

Dr WAN Yiliang Wuhan University (China) Dynamic Characterization of Smart City Prof. SHI Wen ZhongDr ZHANG Penglin Wuhan University (China) Spatial Infrastructure for Smart City Prof. SHI Wen ZhongDr ZHAO Pengxiang Wuhan University (China) Sensing Human Behavior for Better Understanding of Urban Structures Dr LIU Xintao

RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF)

2014/15

Dept Project Title Staff Name Allocated Amount

BSE Development of Design Methodologies for the Improvement of Wind and Thermal Comfort in the Urban Environment Prof. MAK Cheuk Ming $4,368,468

CEE Heterogeneous Chemistry of Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Oxides: An Integrative Programme for Cutting-edge Science Prof. WANG Tao $4,925,180

2015/16


CEE Thermal Desorption Aerosol Gas Chromatograph and Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer for Research on Airborne Particles and their Impact on Health and the Environment Prof. Hai GUO $4,258,296

CEE Chemically-enhanced Membrane Filtration and Side-stream Acidogenic Sludge Fermentation for PHA Biosynthesis# Dr LEE Po Heng $900,000

CEE Fe-enhanced Primary Sedimentation and Sludge Acidogenesis for Resources (P and PHA) Recovery during Wastewater Treatment - The Chemical Forms of P in the Process# Prof. LI Xiangdong $700,000

# Sub-Project

RGC General Research Fund (GRF)

2015/16


BRE Less is More in the Construction Industry: Less Working Days for More Safety and More Recruits Prof. CHIANG Yat Hung $695,788

BRE Local Web Buckling Strength of Coped Beams with Slender Web Dr YAM Chi Ho Michael $495,922

BSE An Investigation of the Impact of Composite Neighbourhood Sceneries and the Combined Sounds on the Total Sound Perception within Dwellings Dr CHAU Chi Kwan $579,121

BSE Study of the Effect of Hydrometeor Dynamics on Lightning Initiations Within a Thundercloud Based on Cloud Modelling and Lightning Observations Dr CHEN Mingli $696,029

BSE A Study on Electric and Magnetic Effects Associated with an Internal Fire Whirl in a Vertical Shaft Prof. CHOW Wan Ki $871,044

BSE Lightning-Generated Electromagnetic Transients in a Planar Structure Using a PEEC Approach Prof. DU Ya Ping $695,788

BSE Optimisation of Operating Resources and Carbon Footprints for Attaining Sustainable Commercial Buildings Dr LAI Hung Kit Joseph $695,788

BSE Investigating the Unsteady Film Pattern and Turbulence for Heat/Mass Transfer Performance of Falling Film Liquid Desiccant Air-Conditioning System Dr LU Lin $695,788

BSE Parametric Study of Sound Transmission Across Plenum Windows and the Prediction of Sound Transmission Loss Prof. TANG Shiu Keung $695,788

BSE Development of a Fast Building Power Demand Response Control Strategy for Smart Grids Prof. WANG Shengwei $695,788

BSE Inverse Heat Transfer Optimization of Foundation Energy Piles in the Present Three-Dimensional Groundwater Advection for Ground-Coupled Heat Pump Air-Conditioning Prof. YANG Hongxing $495,922

CEE Second-Order Analysis of Flexible Steel Cable Nets Supporting Debris Prof. CHAN Siu Lai $695,788

CEE Experimental and Numerical Investigation into Fabricated Steel Sections Using High Strength Steel Materials Prof. CHUNG Kwok Fai $495,922

CEE Large Rupture Strain FRP Composite-Confined Rectangular Reinforced Concrete Columns Subjected To Seismic Loading: Behavior and Modeling Dr DAI Jianguo $695,788

CEE Automatic Calibration of Activity-Based Travel Demand Model Using Re-Identified MAC Addresses Prof. LAM Hing Keung William $695,788

CEE Exposure and Source Apportionment of Indoor PM2.5 at Residential Homes in Hong Kong/ Xi’an/ Shanghai/ Guangzhou Prof. LEE Shuncheng $695,788

CEE Microscopic Analysis of the Interaction Mechanism Between Virgin and Aged Asphalt Binders in Warm Mixtures Dr LENG Zhen $695,788

CEE Response of Building Foundation To Tunnellling-induced Ground Movements Considering Three-Dimensional Soil Displacement Field Dr LEUNG Yat Fai $655,788

CEE Structural Condition Prognosis of Bridges Using Long-Term Structural Health Monitoring Data and Bayesian Updating Prof. NI Yiqing $695,788

CEE Elliptical FRP Tube-Confined Concrete Columns Prof. TENG Jinguang $695,788

CEE Integrating Biodegradable Chelant-Enhanced Metal Extraction with Biochar Soil Amendment for Low-Impact Remediation Dr TSANG Chiu Wa $495,922

CEE Tropospheric Ozone Trend in 1994-2017 in Hong Kong, Southern China: Quantifying the Driving force of Emission and Climate Prof. WANG Tao $695,788

CEE The Oxidative Aging of Asphalt Binder in Long-Life Hot-Mix Asphalt (HMA) Pavements in Hong Kong Dr WANG Yuhong $695,788

CEE Buffeting-Induced Stress analysis of Long-Span Cable-Supported Bridges with Steel Box Girders Under Distributed Aerodynamic and Aeroelastic forces in the Frequency Domain Prof. XU You Lin $695,788

LSGI Developing Ground Penetrating Radar as a Spectral Analyzer for In-Situ Evaluation of Construction Material Properties Dr LAI Wai Lok $495,922

LSGI Automated Generation of Display-Adaptive Multi-Scale Schematic Representations of Line Networks with Preservation of Line and Network Structures Prof. LI Zhilin $695,788

LSGI Spatio-Temporal Sub-Pixel Mapping for Continuous Land-Cover/Land-Use Monitoring Prof. SHI Wen Zhong $695,788

LSGI Detection and Retrieval of Asian Dust Storms From Geostationary Satellite Images: An Integrated Knowledge-Based Technique Dr WONG Man Sing $695,788

LSGI High-Resolution and High-Precision 3D Modeling of Lunar Topography by Integrating Multi-Image Shape-From-Shading, Image Matching and Range Data Dr WU Bo $695,788

6968

Selected Postdoctoral Fellows 2015-16 Externally Funded Research Projects 2015-2016

Dean's Message

2016/17


BRE Establishing a Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework for Smart City Projects with Consideration of the Suitability of Possible Public-Private Partnerships Dr LAM Tsun Ip $563,039

BRE A Multi-Scale Multi-Regional Assessment of Embodied Energy Use in China's Construction Sector Prof. SHEN Qiping $482,605

BRE Electrical and Mechanical Safety in Repair, Maintenance, Alteration and Addition (RMAA) Works Prof. WONG Kwan Wah $675,647

BRE A Study of the Tensile Strength and Behaviour of High Strength Steel Angles Dr YAM Chi Ho Michael $675,647

BSE Modelling of Currents, Lights and Electromagnetic Fields of Lightning Return Strokes Based on Maxwell Integral Equations and its Validations with Observations Dr CHEN Mingli $675,647

BSE A Study on Powder Explosion Hazards and Control Schemes When Clouds of Coloured Powder are Sprayed in Partially Confined Areas Prof. CHOW Wan Ki $675,647

BSE A Novel Direct Expansion Based Standalone Enhanced Dehumidification Air Conditioning System for Improved Year-Round Indoor Humidity Control in Hot and Humid Climates Prof. DENG Shiming $482,605

BSE PCM in Water Nano-Emulsion Functional Thermal Fluid for Thermal Energy Storage Prof. NIU Jianlei $675,647

BSE Robust Optimal Design of Energy Systems for Grid-Connected and Stand-Alone Zero Energy Buildings Prof. WANG Shengwei $482,605

CEE Experimental and Numerical Investigation of High Strength Steel-Concrete Composite Octagonal Shaped Column Dr CHAN Tak Ming $675,647

CEE A Methodology for Measuring and Designing Redundant Transportation Networks for Enhancing Resiliency Prof. CHEN Anthony $675,647

CEE Study of GFRP and CFRP Soil Nails with Different Methods of Installation in Loose Fill Soil Slopes, Advantages and Limitations, Stress Transfer and Failure Mechanism Dr CHENG Yung Ming $321,737

CEE Experimental Investigation Into Ductility of High Strength S690 Steel Plates and Welded Connections Under Cyclic Loadings Prof. CHUNG Kwok Fai $675,647

CEE Impact of Catalytic Converter Replacement in LPG-Fueled Vehicles on VOC/NOx Chemistry and Ozone Formation in the Atmosphere of Hong Kong Prof. GUO Hai $675,647

CEE Understanding the Water-Energy-Climate Nexus of Smart Wastewater Treatment Systems: A Hybrid Agent Based-System Dynamics Approach Dr HSU Shu-Chien $675,647

CEE Optimization of Different Sensor Locations for Estimation of Origin-Destination Traffic Demand and Travel Times in Road Network with Uncertainty Prof. LAM Hing Keung William $675,647

CEE Non-seismically Designed Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints with Chamfers: Shear Strength Prediction by Strut-And-Tie Models Dr LAM Siu Shu Eddie $402,172

CEE Nitrogen and Sulfur Interaction: Demystifing a New Anaerobic Ammonium Sulfate Syntrophy (AASS) Dr LEE Po Heng $675,647

CEE SHM-Oriented Blind Source Separation Using a Bayesian Approach Prof. NI Yiqing $482,605

CEE Novel FRP-Reinforced Concrete Columns for Aggressive and Special Environments Prof. TENG Jinguang $675,647

CEE Sediment Transport Processes in Surf Zones Induced by Breaking Waves: Numerical Investigations Prof. WAI Wing Hong Onyx $637,039

CEE The Evolutions and Connections of Asphalt Binder Properties During the Binder Aging, Rejuvenation, and Re-aging Processes and Factors Affecting Rejuvenation Effectiveness Dr WANG Yuhong $675,647

CEE Heterogeneous Uptake of Glyoxal and Methylglyoxal by Ambient Wet Aerosols and Cloud Droplets in a Polluted Subtropical Environment: Direct Field Measurement in Hong Kong Dr WANG Zhe $675,647

CEE Improving Construction Precision of Supertall Structures Through Integration of Field Monitoring and Advanced Analysis Dr XIA Yong $675,647

CEE Use of Structural Health Monitoring for the Seismic Collapse Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Structures Prof. XU You Lin $675,647

CEE Development and Verification of a New Simplified Hypothesis B Method for Calculating Consolidation Settlement of Clayey Soils Exhibiting Creep Prof. YIN Jianhua $675,647

LSGI A Study of Water Seepage in Construction Materials with Phase Velocity Dispersion of Wide-Band Ground Penetrating Radar Wave and Spectral Analysis of Surface Wave (SASW) Dr LAI Wai Lok $675,647

LSGI Optimization of Cartographic Design for Multi-Scale Image-Map Generation Prof. LI Zhilin $482,605

LSGI A Novel Approach for Calibrating Satellite Remote Sensing Water Vapor Observations by Using Ground-Based Multi-Station, Multi-Sensor PWV Data Dr LIU Zhizhao $844,559

LSGI An Integrated Knowledge-Based Remote Sensing Technique for Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Dr WONG Man Sing $675,647

RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS)

2015/16Dept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

BRE A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Urban Sustainability Assessment and Simulation Dr TAN Yongtao $576,075

BRE Urbanization of Rural China: an Empirical Study of Shareholding Cooperatives in Guangzhou Luogang District Dr WONG Siu Wai $576,078

CEE Developing a Multi-Agent Life-Cycle Assessment Framework for Sustainable High Speed Rail: the Case of Hong Kong Dr HSU Shu-Chien $576,075

CEE Chemical Characteristics of Cloud/Fog Droplets and its Roles in Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Subtropical Hong Kong: A Field and Modeling Study at a High-Elevation Site Dr WANG Zhe $576,075


Allocated Amount

BSE Development of a Metric for Characterizing Light Source Whiteness Rendition for Architectural Lighting Dr WEI Minchen $618,470

CEE Investigation of Transient Water-Air Flows in Stormwater Drainage Pipelines Dr DUAN Huanfeng $618,470

CEE Exploiting Mechanical Nonlinearities in Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesting Via Thermo-Acoustic Waves for Broadband Transduction Dr LAI Siu Kai $618,470

RGC Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS)


Allocated Amount

BSE Safety, Reliability, and Disruption Management of High Speed Rail and Metro Systems# Prof. CHOW Wan Ki $1,350,000

CEE Smart Urban Water Supply Systems (Smart UWSS)# Dr DUAN Huanfeng $1,080,000# Sub-Project

RGC Joint Research Schemes

EC/RGC Collaboration SchemeDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

LSGI Real-Time High Accuracy Positioning with Multiple GNSS Constellations Prof. CHEN Wu $2,020,000

ANR/RGC Joint Research SchemeDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

CEE Impact of Air-Sea Exchanges on Air Quality in Coastal Megacities Prof. WANG Tao $2,503,500

NSFC/RGC Joint Research SchemeDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

CEE Experimental and Numerical Studies on Geomechanics of Methane Hydrate-bearing Sediments in South China Sea During Gas Production Dr LEUNG Yat Fai $902,200

CEE Square Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns with Internal High-Strength Steel Confinement Prof. TENG Jinguang $1,105,200

PROCORE - France/Hong Kong Joint Research SchemeDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

BRE Development of Novel All Porous Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (AP-SOFC) for Long-term Stable Power Generaton Using Hydrocarbon Fuels Prof. NI Meng $61,200

CEE PotEntially HArmfull Trace METals in the Hong Kong and South China Region: Baseline, Sources, and Recommendations (PEAT-MET) Prof. LI Xiangdong $86,400

Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research SchemeDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

CEE Sustainable Treatment of Asphalt Pavement Surface with TiO2-Containing Materials for Cleaner Air and Alleviated Urban Heat Island Effect Dr LENG Zhen $89,600

7170

Externally Funded Research Projects 2015-2016Externally Funded Research Projects 2015-2016

Dean's Message

China Academy of Space TechnologyDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

LSGI XX-5 Probe - Lunar Topographic Mapping and Analysis Dr WU Bo $992,550

Chinese National Engineering Research CentreDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

CEE Hong Kong Branch of National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction Prof. CHUNG Kwok Fai $15,000,000

CEE Hong Kong Branch of National Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Centre Prof. NI Yiqing $15,000,000

National Natural Science Foundation of China (國家自然科學基金 )^Dept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

BRE A Social Network Analysis and NK-model Based Study of Stakeholder Relationship in Mega Construction Projects Prof. SHEN Qiping $554,231

BSE Study on Thermal and Electrical Performance of Building-integrated Photovoltaic System with Phase Change Materials Dr MA Tao $260,814

CEE Critical Process of the Microbial Redox Transformation and Mobility of Arsenic in the Shallow Aquifer of the Pearl River Delta Dr CUI Jinli $213,598

CEE On Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Piezoelectric Functionally Graded Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Composite Material Structures Dr LAI Siu Kai $247,324

CEE Identifying the Mixture Effects and Major Toxicity Drivers of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter: A Comparative Study of the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta Regions Prof. LI Xiangdong $3,898,726

CEE Heterogeneous Chemistry of Reactive Nitrogen Oxides and its Impacts on Atmospheric Oxidative Capacity and Regional Air Pollution over North China Prof. WANG Tao $4,182,024

CEE The Structure and Development Mechanisms of Asphaltene Microstructures in Pavement Asphalt Binder and their Impacts on Asphalt Rheological Properties Dr WANG Yuhong $697,004

CEE The Roles of Atmospheric Aqueous Reactions in Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation: A Field and Modeling Study in Pearl River Delta Region Dr WANG Zhe $283,298

LSGI Spatial-Temporal Distribution Characteristics of Impact Craters on Lunar Maria Based on Multi-Source High-Resolution Lunar Remote Sensing Data Dr WU Bo $730,730

^Allocated amounts are converted from RMB based on the exchange rate of 1 RMB =1.1242 HKD

National Key R&D Programme (國家重點研發計劃 )^Dept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

BRE A Comparative Study of Standards and Supply Chains of Industrialization of Building Construction in China and Overseas Countries# Prof. SHEN Qiping $393,470

BRE BIM and Internet of Things-Enabled Synergy and Collaboration Mechanism on Logistic Monitoring, Smart Installation, and Site Management# Prof. SHEN Qiping $191,114

CEE Formaldehyde Degradation & Anti-bacteria by Nanomaterial Technology and Application in Indoor Air-cleaning Apparatus Innovations# Prof. LEE Shuncheng $3,529,988

CEE Stereoscopic Observation Technology for Air Quality Research on Mountains and Aircraft# Dr WANG Zhe $843,150

LSGI Seamless, Multiple Source Collaborative Positioning with Mass Users# Prof. CHEN Wu $3,147,760

LSGI High Precision Indoor Positioning with Radio Basestations# Prof. CHEN Wu $786,940^ Allocated amounts are converted from RMB based on the exchange rate of 1 RMB =1.1242 HKD# Sub-project

Innovation and Technology FundDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

BRE Location-based Technologies for Asset Tracking and Risk Management Prof. LI Heng $4,909,500

BRE Smart Construction Platform Based on Cloud BIM and Image Processing Prof. LI Heng $6,287,050

BSE Research and Development of Novel Inline Hydropower and Energy Storage Systems for Power Supply to Data Monitoring Systems of Medium Water Pipelines Prof. YANG Hongxing $384,100

CEE Development of an Energy Absorbing Device for Flexible Rock-fall Barriers Prof. CHAN Siu Lai $3,781,000

CEE Advanced Detection of Water Seepage in Buildings (Stage 2) Dr LAM Siu Shu Eddie $1,380,805

CEE Application of Nanotechnology to Develop Ultra-thin Semi-precast Slabs Dr LAM Siu Shu Eddie $2,998,050

CEE Design and Development of Highly Hydrophobic Conduits with Riblet Surface for Sustainable Urban Drainage System Prof. LI Chi Wai $1,014,384

CEE Wastewater-derived Energy for Smart Towns Prof. LI Xiangdong $8,900,553

CEE Development of Rail Crack Monitoring System Using Fibre Optic Based Ultrasonic Guided Wave Detection Technology Prof. NI Yiqing $1,399,895

CEE Advanced Dispersion Technology of Nanoparticles for Ultra-durable Concrete Prof. POON Chi Sun $902,750

CEE Development of Biobased Fiber-reinforced Composite Materials for Use in Energy-saving Warm Mix Asphalt Dr WANG Yuhong $463,450

CEE Research & Development of A Novel Type of Electromagnetic Negative-Stiffness Damper Dr ZHU Songye $744,050

LSGI Development of a Hong Kong Indoor Positioning Infrastructure based on GPS Technologies Prof. DING Xiaoli $5,807,494

LSGI Multi-form Geological Disasters Monitoring Over City using MT-InSAR Technique Prof. DING Xiaoli $1,037,200

LSGI Technology for Land Use Monitoring in Hong Kong Based on Remotely Sensed Satellite Images Prof. SHI Wen Zhong $1,379,500

Hong Kong Scholars ProgramDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

BRE Developing a Personal Cooling System for Combating Heat Stress in the Construction Industry Prof. CHAN Ping Chuen $335,000

BSE Highly Efficient Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells Prof. YANG Hongxing $315,000

CEE Catalytic Oxidation for the Removal of Refractory Pollutants in Water Prof. CHU Wei $315,000

CEE Experimental and Numerical Investigation into Fabricated Steel Sections Using High Strength Steel Materials Prof. CHUNG Kwok Fai $315,000

CEE Design Theory for Concrete Structures Strengthened with Inorganically Bonded Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites Dr DAI Jianguo $315,000

CEE Development of Smart Transportation Systems for Urban Road Networks with Uncertainties Prof. LAM Hing Keung William $315,000

CEE Sediment Quality Assessment in Coastal Waters – Mercury Geochemical Cycling Prof. LI Xiangdong $315,000

CEE Structural Health Prognosis of Bridges Based on Bayesian Inference Prof. NI Yiqing $315,000

CEE Collaboration Research Study on Sustainable Land Decontamination Methods for Application in Land Development Projects Prof. POON Chi Sun $315,000

CEE Physical Model Test Study and Analysis of the Impact of Debris Flow on Barriers Prof. YIN Jianhua $315,000

LSGI Development of Radar Remote Sensing Technology for Geo-hazards Monitoring/Spatial Information for Smart City Development Prof. DING Xiaoli $315,000

LSGI Exploring the Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems with the Fusion of Massive Geospatial Data Prof. SHI Wen Zhong $315,000

Environment and Conservation FundDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

BRE A New Method for Simultaneous Plastic Waste Treatment and Electricity Generation Using High Performance Direct Waste Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (DW-SOFC) Prof. NI Meng $500,000

BRE Study on Green Retrofit of Aged Residential Buildings in Hong Kong Dr TAN Yongtao $492,620

BSE Envelope Design to Improve Ventilation Performance of Residential Buildings in Dense Urban Environments Prof. MAK Cheuk Ming $441,240

CEE Application of Quartz Crystal Micro-balance (QCM) for the Measurements of Acidic Ultrafine Particles in the Atmosphere Prof. GUO Hai $1,318,433

CEE Toward Energy-Positive Sewage Sludge Management in Hong Kong: An Eco-efficiency Approach Using LCA and DEA Dr HSU Shu-Chien $490,605

CEE Feasibility of Building Warm Mix Asphalt Pavements Using Synthetic Zeolite Derived from Sewage Sludge Ash Dr LENG Zhen $1,060,240

CEE Developing a High-Throughput Vegetable Waste Valorisation Technology to Produce High-Value Green Substitutes of Petroleum Derivatives Dr TSANG Chiu Wa $1,358,996

Construction Industry Council (CIC) Research FundDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

BRE Waistband Enabled Construction Workers Low Back Health Monitoring System Prof. LI Heng $1,264,850

BSE Investigation on the Thermal and Power Performance of Vacuum Solar PV Curtain Wall Technology and its Application Potential in Buildings in Hong Kong Prof. YANG Hongxing $542,000

CEE Application of Polygonal High Strength Concrete-filled Composite Column in Seismic-resistant Buildings in Hong Kong Dr CHAN Tak Ming $1,413,000

CEE Development of Precast BFRP Grid-reinforced Geopolymer Sandwich Wall Panels for Green Building Construction Dr DAI Jianguo $1,265,000

CEE Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Asphalt Pavement Construction Using Innovative Nondestructive Methods Dr LENG Zhen $779,000

LSGI A Practical Application of Integrated Micro-Environmental Monitoring System for Construction Sites Dr WONG Man Sing $835,000

CPU Public Policy Research Funding SchemeDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

BRE An Empirical Study of the Town Planning Board's Planning Control Decisions on Residential Development Applicants since Hong Kong's Handover to China Prof. HUI Chi Man $369,909

BRE The Effect of Isomorphic Pressure for BIM in Hong Kong Construction Industry Prof. LI Heng $470,695

CEE Electrification of Single-Deck Bus and Minibus in Hong Kong Dr HUNG Wing Tat $700,000

Drainage Services DepartmentDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

CEE Energy Efficient Treatment of Sewage and Sludge Liquor Dr LEE Po Heng $1,420,000

Externally Funded Research Projects 2015-2016

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Dean's Message

Building Services Operation and Maintenance Executives SocietyDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

BSE Building Operation and Maintenance: Key Performance Indicators for Commercial Buildings and Manpower in Hong Kong Dr LAI Hung Kit Joseph $200,000

The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Hong Kong Branch and The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (Building Services Division)


BSE Research Study -Towards Adoption of Building Information Modelling in Building Services Engineering in Hong Kong Dr LAI Hung Kit Joseph $200,000

The Hong Kong International Airport Environmental FundDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

CEE Transforming Food Waste at the Hong Kong International Airport into Value-added Chemicals Dr TSANG Chiu Wa $1,574,350

Macedonian - Chinese Scientific and Technological CooperationDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

CEE Behavior of Tall Buildings Under Seismic and Wind Forces Prof. NI Yiqing $150,400

Occupational Safety and Health Research GrantDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

CEE Assessment and Mitigation of the Adverse Health Effects of Asphalt Fumes Generated in Road Construction in Hong Kong Dr WANG Yuhong $423,360

Technical University of DenmarkDept Project Title Staff Name

Allocated Amount

CEE Design of Low-carbon Emission Bus System for Congested High Density Cities Prof. LAM Hing Keung William $113,810

哈爾濱滬周清工科技發展有限公司


BSE Research and Development of Regenerative-type Indoor Air Cleaning and Processing Technologies Prof. NIU Jianlei $350,183

FCE Staff Dept Prizes/Awards (Granting Authority)

Co-recipient(s)(Non-PolyU

co-recipients should not be

included)

Prof. CHAN Ping ChuenProf. WONG Kwan WahDr YAM Chi Ho MichaelDr CHAN Wai Ming Dr LAM Wai Ming

BRE HKIPM Project Management Achievement Award(Hong Kong Institute of Project Management (HKIPM), 2015)

Dr GUO YuepingDr YI Wen

Dr YANG Yang


BRE CIC Innovation Award: Local Grand Prize Award (Construction Industry Council (CIC), 2015)


Dr YANG Yang


BRE CIOB International Innovation & Research Awards: Premier Award (Category: Innovation)(Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) of the United Kingdom, 2015)


Dr YANG Yang


BRE Grand Prize (Honorable Mention) of China Delegation of Invention and Innovation and Gold Medal (The 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2016)


Dr YANG Yang

Dr CHAN Wai MingProf. CHAN Ping ChuenDr LAM Tsun Ip

BRE HKIPM Project Management Achievement Award(Hong Kong Institute of Project Management (HKIPM), 2015)


Dr YANG Yang

Prof. SHEN Qiping BRE Highly Commended Paper Award(Emerald Literati Network, 2016) Ms ZHENG Wei

Prof. SHEN Qiping BRE The Prize in the 1st Combinatorial Black-Box Optimization Competition in Madrid, Spain (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2015) Dr XUE Fan

Prof. YANG Hongxing BSE Special Merit Award and Gold Medal (The 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2016)

Dr LU LinDr WANG Yuanhao

Prof. CHAN Siu Lai CEE Structural Excellence Award (Research and Development)(HKIE/IStructE Joint Structural Division Award, 2016)

Prof. CHAN Siu Lai CEE HKIE Geotechnical Paper Award (The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), 2016)

Dr CHAN Tak Ming CEE Merit Award (HKIE/IStructE Joint Structural Division Award, 2016)

Dr CHENG Yung Ming CEE HKIE Best Transactions Paper Prize(The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), 2015)

Prof. GUO Hai Dr Ka-se Lam CEE Second Prize of the Excellent Research Award

(Ministry of Education of China,2015)

Prof. LAM Hing Keung William CEE The HKIHT Highways and Transportation Excellence Award (Hong Kong Institution of Highways and Transportation, 2015) Dr TAM Mei Lam

Prof. LAM Hing Keung William CEEThe 2015 EASTS Best Paper Award for Methodological Development(The 11th International Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 2015)

MS TANG QiongDr LI Xingang

Dr HO Hung Wai

Prof. POON Chi Sun CEE CIC Innovation Award: Second Prize of Local Academia(Construction Industry Council (CIC), 2015)

Prof. Agachai SUMALEE CEE National Innovation Award of Thailand (National Innovation Agency of Thailand, 2016)

Dr SZE Nang Ngai CEE Outstanding Health Promotion Project Award (Team Award)(Health Care and Promotion Fund, Food and Health Bureau, HKSAR Government, 2015)

Dr WU Bo LSGI Special Merit Award (R. Alekseev Award) and Gold Medal (The 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2016)

Dr WU Bo LSGI Talbert Abrams Award (First Honorable Mention)(American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), 2016)

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Externally Funded Research Projects 2015-2016External Prizes and Awards 2015-2016

Dean's Message

Date Dept Titles Venue

11-14 Oct 2015 BRE The 6th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management (co-organizer) South Korea

29 Jan 2016 BRE Building Smart Hong Kong BIM and Hardware Conference (co-organizer) Hong Kong

22 Jun 2016 BRE The 15th Academic Conference for Post-graduate Students in Construction Management and Real Estate (organizer) Hong Kong

30 Oct 2015 BSE CIE Hong Kong 6th International Lighting Symposium (co-organizer) Hong Kong

27 Nov 2015 CEE International Symposium on Advances in Steel and Composite Structures 2015 (co-organizer) Hong Kong

5 Dec 2015 CEE CEEAA 20th Anniversary Symposium - Development vs Conservation: Is Engineering a Solution? (co-organizer) Hong Kong

13-16 Jun 2016 LSGI 16th International Conference of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR 2016) (organizer) Hong Kong

International conferences/ Symposia Organised or Supported by the Faculty and/or its Departments

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Scholarly Events 2015-2016

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) invites expressions of interest from graduates, irrespective of country of origin and ethnic background, with evidence of academic excellence, research ability and potential, and good communication, interpersonal and leadership abilities for full-time PhD study in Hong Kong within the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme.

The Scheme, established in 2009 by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), aims to attract the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD programmes in Hong Kong. It provides:

- an annual stipend of HK$240,000 (approximately US$30,000) and

- a conference and research-related travel allowance of HK$10,000 (approximately US$1,300) per year to each awardee for a maximum period of three years.

In addition, each awardee of the University will enjoy a full waiver of tuition fees for the same period. The Scheme calls for applications around September each year. Applicants must be able to demonstrate outstanding qualities of academic performance, research ability/potential, communication and interpersonal skills, and leadership abilities. Each applicant may choose up to two programmes in one or two institutions for PhD study, and applications should be made through the Online Application System.

Shortlisted applications, subject to their areas of studies, will be reviewed by one of two expert selection panels:one for science, medicine, engineering and technology; and another one for humanities, social science and business studies. More than 230 PhD Fellowships will be awarded in the 2017/18 academic year.

Applicants to PhD programmes at the University via the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme who are not nominated for the Scheme, or those who are nominated but are not finally offered an award, may be given separate consideration for admission via the award of Postgraduate Studentships by the University, subject to the fulfillment of eligibility requirements.

Further information:

www.rgc.edu.hk/hkphd

www.polyu.edu.hk/ro/hkphd-fellowship

2015/16Dept Name of Awardee Name of SupervisorBRE Irfan ZAFAR Prof. SHEN QipingCEE LAU Yee Ting Dr TSANG Chiu WahCEE LI Lingfang Dr XIA YongLSGI Shamsa KANWAL Prof. DING Xiaoli

2016/17Dept Name of Awardee Name of SupervisorBRE Emmanuel Kingsford OWUSU Prof. CHAN Ping ChuenBSE Alessandro DEL PIZZO Prof. MAK Cheuk Ming CEE LU Haoxian Prof. GUO HaiCEE LAN Xiaoyi Dr CHAN Tak MingCEE Valeria Isabel ALVARADO ROMAN Dr HSU Shu-ChienLSGI Milad MORADI Prof. LI ZhilinLSGI Wael Mohamed Sayed AHMED Prof. SHI Wen ZhongLSGI Mst Ilme FARIDATUL Dr WU BoLSGI Sidrah HAFEEZ Dr WONG Man Sing

The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme

Awardees of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme

Published in January 2017

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