From Left: Dr Daniel Chan (Dissertation Supervisor), Mr SZE Chung Yuen, Keith (Winning Dissertation Student), Mr MOK Peng Lam (President of CIOB(HK) 2014-15) and Dr Andy Ng (Chairman of CIOB(HK) Outstanding Student Awards 2013-14)
From Left: Dr Daniel Chan (Dissertation Supervisor) and Mr SZE Chung Yuen, Keith (Winning Dissertation Student)
Group photo with other winning students from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
In the Outstanding Student Awards (2013-14) organized by the Chartered Institute of Building (Hong Kong), one alumni of the Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE) of PolyU was rewarded for his final year dissertation announced on 28 August 2014. Under the bachelor degree category, Mr SZE Chung Yuen, Keith was the prize winner from PolyU with his empirical study of identifying and analyzing the key success criteria and the critical success factors for public sector design-and-build construction projects in Hong Kong. He was a full-time surveying degree graduate in June 2014 with First Class Honours and an overall GPA of 3.82 out of 4. He was supervised by Dr Daniel W.M. Chan, Associate Professor of BRE.
The primary goals of these awards are to promote excellence in project management in construction and to recognize students with outstanding academic achievements. The awards were based on the quality of student’s own work for final year project/dissertation completed in the academic year 2013-14, the contents of which should be focused on the pertinent aspects of construction project management. The winner received an award certificate and a prize cheque of HK$4,000 at the CIOB(HK) Annual Dinner 2014 held on Friday, 12 September 2014 at the New World Millennium Hong Kong Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon.
