The HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers 2011

Ms Cheryl Cham, a graduate of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2008, and Prof. Kenny Kwok, Emeritus Professor, have received the HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers 2011 for their paper entitled “Terrain Characterisation and Design Wind Profiles for Hong Kong”. The paper presents her Final Year Project supervised by Prof. Kwok, in which the Hong Kong wind characteristics obtained from the studies undertaken in the CLP Power Wind/Wave Tunnel Facilities (WWTF) over the years were analyzed and more representative wind profiles were proposed to be adopted in future edition of the Code of Practice on Wind Effects Hong Kong.