The Department of Building Services Engineering (BSE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is delighted to announce that:-
(a) In addition to Faculty Awards in Services 2017/2018, Prof. Wang Shengwei is honoured with The President’s Awards for Excellent Performance/Achievement in Services 2017/2018; and
(b) Prof. Lu Lin, Vivien, is honoured with Faculty Awards in Research & Scholarly Activities 2017/2018.
The award is to recognize Prof. Wang for his dedicated efforts and contributions to reduce the university energy use and to create a more sustainable campus in the last few years. Together with colleagues in CSO, MFO and CDO, he has made serious efforts to in utilizing his research findings to serve the university directly by reducing the energy consumption and cost of the university campus buildings and improving the sustainability of the university. He is involved in many activities related to the development and operation of the campus buildings, including support to the design optimization of new building systems and existing building retrofitting, energy diagnosis and upgrading of existing buildings, cooling-on-demand programme, campus smart energy metering initiative, etc.
Prof. Lu has made a major and lasting impact on building science research and industry, focusing on renewable energy technologies in buildings, fluid mechanics and heat/mass transfer related to building engineering, and green building nanomaterial development. She was recognized in Clarivate Analytics’ list of Highly Cited Researchers 2018 for her exceptional impact in the above fields with 5 published books/book chapters and 150 SCI journal papers. Her prolific research output has contributed significantly to PolyU’s leading ranking in built environment engineering research. Her research findings have been adopted by researchers in over 60 countries and by the local government in its policy guidelines for renewable energy. Since joining PolyU in 2006, Prof. Lu has successfully secured over 30 research grants (with the total amount of HK$ 20 million) as a Principal Investigator. She has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, such as The Faculty Awards for Excellent Performance/Achievement 2017/2018 (Research and Scholarly Activities), the 2017 Hong Kong Green Innovations Awards (HKGIA), the TechConnect 2017 Global Innovation Award (USA), a Special Merit Award (R. Alekseev Award) and a Gold Medal in 2017 from the 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, the 2014 PolyU FCE Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Funding, Hong Kong Green Building Award 2014, a Silver Medal in 2012 from the 40th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, the 2010 PolyU FCE Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Funding, etc.
BSE would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Prof. Wang and Prof. Lu for their achievements.
BSE Chair Professor/Professor Honoured with President’s Award and Faculty Award
