Chairman Message
Ir Paul CHAN, Chairman for Session 2020/2021
Ir Paul CHAN
Ir Paul CHAN
I am truly honoured to be elected as the Chairman of the HKIE Civil Division for Session 2020-2021 and would like to express my gratitude to the Immediate Past Chairman, Ir Thomas Lau, for his leadership and engagement of our members in difficult time under the impacts of social unrest and COVID-19 in our engineering industry.
Changing our way of life, I believe these challenges have been making us even stronger by better use of information technology in our work, knowledge transfer by extending BIM to operational stage and the adoption of MiC and DfMA for speedy, safe and quality construction. To continue our success stories, innovation is required as a binder to connect our members from different generations in various disciplines. I will continue to work with new committee members to excel Civil Division as a platform to connect talents and nurture the youth.
To respond to the vision from the President ‘Believing is Seeing – Innovation for Transformation (相信可看見 - 創新成蛻變)’, I will adopt a three-pronged approach, namely:
• To continue the excellent work established by my predecessors;
• To pay emphasis on training not only to young engineers but also to secondary school students;
• To promote and adopt innovative solutions to bring the engineering industry out of the current economic depression
On the aspects of knowledge management, we have enhanced our broadcasting platform from physical seminars to webinars or online forums opening to greater number of participants across disciplines.
We shall continue to attract young talents to the engineering profession to sustain the world-class infrastructure development in Hong Kong. This year, we will focus on STEM programme to instil the right mindset of adopting innovation to solve practical engineering problems for secondary school students.
To echo on the President’s address on innovation, we will set up an innovation taskforce to explore and showcase the latest technology of smart city. In addition, a representative from us will join the EP Hub organised by the President to synergise the efforts across the disciplines.
I look forward to interacting with you all in serving our institution and restoring lustre of this oriental pearl which we all call home.
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