Profs Charles Ng and Clarence Choi Receive Globe Recognitions

For Prof Charles Ng and Prof Clarence Choi, it has been a busy start to the month of October as they flew first to Canada, then to the UK to claim awards in recognition of their tremendous work.

On October 2, they were presented an honourable mention of the RM Quigley Award in Ottawa. Profs Ng and Choi’s paper “Large-scale successive boulder impacts on a rigid barrier shielded by gabions” (Ng, C. W. W., Choi, C. E., SU, A. Y., Kwan, J. S. H. & Lam, C. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 53 (10) 1688-1699) was voted by 99 board members as the number two best paper published in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal in 2016, out of a total of 296.

The Canadian Geotechnical Journal is one of the world’s top 3 geotechnical journals, and the RM Quigley Award, established in 1963, recognizes considerable contributions and achievements to the advancement of the geotechnical field. This is the first time a fully Hong Kong team has won the honor.

A few days later the two arrived in London to receive the 2017 Telford Premium Award. Their paper “Coarse granular flow interaction with slit structures” (Choi, C. E., Goodwin, G. R., Ng, C. W. W., Cheung, D. K. H., Kwan, J. S. H. & Pun, W. K. Géotechnique Letters 6 (4) 267-274) was voted the Best Paper out of all published in Géotechnique Letters in 2016.

Presented by the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Telford Premium Award recognizes authors from both the industry and academia who have produced work of exceptional quality that benefits civil engineering, construction and materials science. Géotechnique Letters, published by ICE, is one of the top 5 most recognized geotechnical journals worldwide. Profs Ng and Choi’s award is the first time that an entirely Hong Kong team and a team from Greater China has won the prize.

CIVL is very thrilled and honored to congratulate Profs Ng and Choi for their outstanding achievements, and looks forward to more success to come!