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PROJECT NEWS

project will expand Hong Kong International Conference at The Mira Hong Kong. Entitled
Airport from the current two-runway system Towards a Smart Sustainable City Potential
into a Three-runway system. and Opportunities for Hong Kong, the
The project includes reclamation of 650 conference attracted over 150 participants,
hectares of land, construction of a third including policy makers, industry experts,
3.8km runway, a new passenger concourse, business leaders and academics, to examine
expansion of the existing Terminal 2, the opportunities, strategies, innovative
provisional of a new 2.6 km automated technologies and collaborative initiatives
people mover, a new, high-speed baggage in developing Hong Kong into a smart
handling system along with the construction sustainable city.
of other associated airport support Dr David Chung, Under Secretary for
infrastructure and utilities. Upon completion Innovation and Technology of the Hong
of the 3RS, Hong Kong International Airport Kong SAR Government, delivered the
will be able to serve 30 million additional opening speech, sharing the governments
passengers annually. latest policy directions in smart city planning.
HKA will lead a consortium delivering Three panel discussions were delivered by
best in class planning, programming, risk a strong panel of speakers, including Mr
and building information modelling (BIM) Chiang Tung Keung from CLP Power Hong
expertise drawn from its own global pool of Kong Ltd, Mr Klaus Heidinger from Siemens
advisers and its specialist delivery partners: Centre of Competence Cities, London, Mr
Equib (risk management), Logikal (project Eli Raphael Konvitz from Atkins, Mr Leung
performance management), Waldeck (digital Wai Kin from The Hongkong Electric Co Ltd,
twin solutions), and BIMS Group (BIM Dr Ernest S Lo from Hong Kong Internet of
technology). Things Alliance, Mr Alexander Mastrovito
We are delighted to have been selected from Scania Group, Mr Robin (Yuxiang)
by the Airport Authority Hong Kong to Ren from Tesla Inc, Prof Geoffrey Shen from
augment its in-house project management The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dr
team, said Paul Roberts, HKA Partner. Our Thomas Tang, Former Managing Director
professional team of advisory specialists of Kuala Lumpur Centre for Sustainable
will be working under the direction of Innovation, and Mr Frank Wong from
the authority during the planning and Energizing Kowloon East Office of the
programming phases, providing specialist HKSAR Government.
risk management and BIM implementation Also participated in the event were BEC
support for this world-scale, highly complex Board Directors, Mr Tony Miller from Sun
megaproject, added Paul. Hung Kai Properties and Dr Raymond Yau
from Swire Properties. The conference
Strategies for developing covered three area of discussions, including:
A Smart Sustainable City From Energy
Hong Kong into a to Air Quality
Smart Sustainable City Smart Mobility for a Sustainable City

Smart decision-making: using data and
On November 22, Business Environment engaging the public
Council Limited (BEC) hosted the EnviroSeries
For more information on the conference,
please visit http://bec.org.hk/events/
enviroseries-conference-bec-1

VR technologies for the
architecture, engineering and
construction industry
Aecom announced recently that it has signed
a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
with HTC Corporation, technology pioneer
in innovative, smart mobile and virtual
reality (VR) technologies, to jointly develop
and extend the reach of VR technology to

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