ICE Breaker Newsletter of ICE Hong Kong 2018 Issue 1 Messages and News Together we can! ear Fellow members and friends, D We are now into the final quarter of the 2017/18 session for the ICE HKA committee. It has been a remarkably challenging and fruitful time for the committee. On top of our usual suite of high quality learned society activities, we have been exceedingly bold in launching an ambitious ICE 200 programme around three strands, namely knowledge, branding and inspiration. Our vision for this milestone year of the ICE bicentenary is to enthuse the profession, enhance our public image and inspire the next generation. Our ICE 200 events are centred around the TECH (ie technology, engineering, climate and humanitarian) themes. Some of our flagship events to date are as follows: (a) Innovation Summit on 12 January 2018. The Honourable Mrs Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of HKSAR Government, gave the opening address as the Guest of Honour. (b) Distinguished Lecture on 13 March 2018 delivered by Dr Robin Sham, CBE, and Dr Ana Ruiz-Teran from Imperial College London. Mr Andrew Heyn, British Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macao, gave the opening address as the Guest of Honour. (c) Grand Opening of the World’s Longest Span LEGO® bridge on 21 March 2018. The Honourable Mr Matthew Cheung, Chief Secretary for Administration, was the Guest of Honour for the Grand Opening Ceremony. About 80 students from 8 schools contributed to pre-assembling the bridge components. The LEGO® bridge was displayed to the public in ELEMENTS for one month. (d) ICE 200 Board Game Design Competition, which attracted more than 300 participants and 26 entries from a wide spectrum of background. (e) ICE 200 technical seminar series entitled “New Advances in Civil Engineering”, with various esteemed overseas and local speakers covering topical issues. (f) Masterclass for Tomorrow’s Global Leaders - over 100 students from 19 local and international schools plus 5 tertiary institutes attended, with Lord Robert Mair, President of ICE, as the keynote speaker. (g) ICE 200 UK delegation, with a team of around 30 practitioners visiting signature sites and University of Cambridge and attending Lord Mair’s Presidential Address at ICE Headquarters building. (h) ICE 200 Shaping Our Future City Campaign, which comprises a series of technical visits, workshops and competition targeting high schools students from 9 schools. All in all, the responses have been very positive. By and large, we have managed to accomplish our mission in impressing the public and the next generation that civil engineering as a profession is characterised by 4Cs – viz. creative, challenging, charismatic and contribution. I can personally testify that each and every flagship ICE 200 event has called for a significant amount of human resources involving committee members, volunteers for the various subcommittees, collaborators, and a considerable number of helpers working tirelessly together in various teams to make the events ‘shine’. I take great pride in the wonderful teamwork and enthusiasm shown by all involved. It was inevitably super hard work, as the vast majority of the team members have a full time job. I am very touched that many members were willing to sacrifice their precious personal time to take up the various tasks on a voluntary basis. I am grateful that so many members, friends and helpers have volunteered their valuable time to contribute unconditionally to this year’s events for the sake of the profession. It is truly gratifying to see that those involved have demonstrated ownership and found great personal satisfaction in the planning and implementation of the various ICE 200 as well as the more routine events. We set out to make a difference and I trust we have quite possibly exceeded expectations. We have somehow managed to deliver these memorable and remarkable ICE 200 events on top of our routine programme without the need for any additional funding from ICE HQ and with very limited human resources. At times, it felt like mission impossible, but the reality is: TOGETHER WE CAN! Special thanks are due to all our committee members, volunteers and sponsors. The next exciting ICE 200 programme in line is the ICE Bicentennial Dinner on 1 June 2018. I sincerely hope that you will continue to show your appreciation and support to our team by being there. The theme of the Bicentennial Dinner is “Invisible Superheroes”. Your strong support of this special and fun-packed event will be a tremendous encouragement to us all. Prof Ken Ho, JP Chairman, Session 2017-18 ICE Hong Kong Association 2 Messages and News Report of Council Member for Hong Kong t is my honour to represent you in ICE Council. I took up this duty in November last year, and since then I I have attended two council meetings. In the last year, the ICE has worked towards its set strategy and objectives and achieved good results. In the annual strategy meeting held in October 2017 the Council updated its strategy and objectives for 2018. It plans to accelerate progress on the three overriding objectives of growing the membership, providing whole life learning assistance to our members, and identifying and sharing the big issues on infrastructure and civil engineering. The plan for growing the membership is to continue deepening and broadening the membership, becoming more diverse, and growing internationally. Regarding whole life learning it will make available to us relevant knowledge and professional development opportunities at each stage of our careers, feeding us sector insights and organising networking events. For big issues on infrastructure and civil engineering it will complement its existing engineering output with insights into the big social, political, technological and economical trends shaping civil engineering and shape the public and industry agenda for infrastructure and the built environment, although these will primarily be UK focused. The detail plans for these objectives are explained in the Annual Report, which will be released soon. I encourage you to read them when it is available. There are two actions in the report I consider of particular interests to us in Hong Kong. The first is about helping our BEng graduates to demonstrate they have achieved the further learning to Masters Levels requirement of the Engineering Council so as they are eligible to apply the Chartered Professional Review. The ICE will launch an Exam to help them to do so. It will launch the syllabus and start to put in place the necessary processes to deliver the Exam in 2019. The second is about whole-life learning. Keeping accurate and thorough records of our continuing professional development will become obligatory if we vote to accept the change to the By-Laws in June. The ICE will help us meeting this obligation by a Career Guidance Tool, an online platform and an improved CPD recording tool. There are already over 80 technical courses created and put on the pilot online learning platform. All ICE’s library and archive material will be searchable online in 2018. Also, as the ICE celebrates its bicentenary it is preparing for its next two hundred years. It will propose a new governance structure for our decision in June. Please give your support to it. Dr Patrick Chan ICE Council Member for Hong Kong Global Engineering Congress uring 22 – 26 October 2018 the ICE will host the first Global Engineering Congress (GEC) at ICE headquarters, One Great D George Street in London. Led by the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) and hosted by ICE, the Congress is an ambitious effort to unite the global engineering community, to agree and mobilise a response to five of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals identified as key areas where engineering can lead: What is happening? Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all The GEC is a 5 Day conference programme. There will be 90 hours of content, more than 100 global speakers, more than 100 global delegates and there will be representatives from over 150 different countries. Over 20 engineering organisations Ensure access to affordable, reliable, Goal 7: sustainable and modern energy for all from across the globe will take part. Activities will include workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions, as well as allowing networking opportunities and Build resilient infrastructure, promote a governmental engagement programme. Further details can Goal 9: sustainable industrialization and foster be found on the GEC homepage: ice.org.uk/congress. innovation Become part of the discussion The programme will put real-world problems to delegates, Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and challenging them to work together through diverse Goal 11: sustainable approaches to agree creative solutions. All lessons and outcomes from the Congress will be widely and freely available to assist with planning and engineering Take urgent action to combat climate change projects around the world. Goal 13: and its impacts Ensure you don’t miss the opportunity to become part of the discussion. 3 Messages and News Garth Watson Medal Winner – Dr Patrick Chan, former ICE Regional Director Hong Kong r Patrick WT Chan, former ICE Regional Director Hong Kong and now Council Member for Hong Kong was D awarded the Garth Watson Medal for his long, dedicated and valuable service to ICE. In March 2007, Patrick was invited by ICE to become its first Regional Director outside the UK, in our Hong Kong office. He took up the challenge because being an ICE member for thirty years he wanted to contribute back to the Institution. Since then he has developed ICE Hong Kong, increased membership numbers, rationalised processes and critically ensured that HKIE and the HKSAR authorities have supported ICE on that journey. His understanding of the HK system, his unerring wisdom in how best to engage with the authorities and his willingness to utilise contacts built up over a lifetime of engineering for the benefit of ICE marks him out as utterly committed and hugely loyal to ICE.