BRE Students Winning HKIS Outstanding Final Year Dissertation Awards

for Undergraduate Students (2016)

In the Outstanding Final Year Dissertation Awards for Undergraduate Students (2016) organized by the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS), three alumni of the Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE) of PolyU were rewarded for their final year dissertations announced on 30 December 2016. A total of 2 full-time students and 1 part-time student from the BSc(Hons) in Surveying programme won the awards including 1 Top Award and 2 Second Awards.

Award Category

Dissertation Title Student Name Supervisor Name

Top Award (Planning and Development Division)

Empirical Study of the Impact of Railway Development on

Property Prices: The Case of West Island Line

Miss Cheung Ho-man (Full-time SUV

Student)

Mr Kong Wai-kei

Second Award (Building Surveying Division)

A Study on the Contribution of BIM to Increase Productivity in Hong Kong Public Housing

Projects

Miss Chan Hiu-yu (Full-time SUV

Student)

Mr Stephen Kong

Second Award (General Practice Surveying Division)

An Empirical Study of the Contravention of Lease

Conditions in Existing Industrial Buildings in Hong Kong

Miss Lai Tsz-man, Iris (Part-time SUV

Student)

Dr Daniel Chan

The purposes of the awards aims are to promote research amongst our future surveyors and to reward the efforts of the students. The awards were based on merits in research as well as the research output's applicability to the surveying profession. Each winner received an award certificate and a prize cheque of HK$1,500 (Top Award) and HK$1,000 (Second Award) at the HKIS Outstanding Dissertation/Thesis Awards Presentation Ceremony and Cocktail Reception 2016 held on Friday, 9 June 2017 at the Royal Plaza Hotel, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Miss Cheung Ho-man (left) and President of HKIS, Sr Thomas Ho (right)

Miss Chan Hiu-yu (right) and President of HKIS, Sr Thomas Ho (left)

Miss Lai Tsz-man, Iris (middle), President of HKIS, Sr Thomas Ho (left) and

her dissertation supervisor, Dr Daniel Chan (right)

BRE winning dissertation students with their dissertation supervisors, Mr Kong Wai-kei (left) and Dr Daniel Chan (right)