News : Visited by CIBSE officials

Senior officials of CIBSE, Past President David Hughes and Membership Director Marie Dignan, and Ir Professor K.K. Lam, committee member of the Hong Kong Branch visited the department in the morning of 4 June, 2008.

Background information of the department on the history, staff, courses was introduced by Professor W.K. Chow, Acting Head of department. The programmes were presented by Dr K.T. Chan, Associate Head. Departmental facilities were introduced by Dr T.M. Chung, Chairman of DLTC.

CIBSE is the most important professional insitutions in building services engineering in the world. Before HKIE takes over role recognizing engineering professional qualifications in Hong Kong, the degree programme offered by BSE was accredited successfully by CIBSE. In addition, subjects in the MSc programmes are still recognized by CIBSE. BSE department won the Happold Brilliant Award on education in building services engineering twice. A majority of BSE staff have the professional qualifications of FCIBSE and MCIBSE, and take actively role in CIBSE activities. Dr Chung is the Honorary Secretary of the Hong Kong Branch.  

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From left : Dr. K.T. Chan, Ir K.K. Lam, David Hughes, Marie Dignan, Prof. W.K. Chow, Dr. T.M. Chung