In the Outstanding Final Year Dissertation Awards for Undergraduate Students (2015) organized by the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS), one alumni of the Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE) of PolyU was rewarded for his final year dissertation announced on 11 November 2015. Under the bachelor degree category (building surveying discipline), Mr Ho Man Lai, Alfred (何文禮) received the Second Award for his empirical study of identifying and analyzing the critical success factors for implementing Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Hong Kong. He was a full-time surveying degree graduate in June 2015 with Upper Second Class Honours whose dissertation was supervised by Dr Daniel W.M. Chan, Associate Professor of BRE. Alfred has been working for Gammon Construction Ltd as an Assistant Quantity Surveyor (AQS) since July 2015. A total of five BRE full-time students won the awards including 1 Top Award and 4 Second Awards.
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$1,000 at the HKIS Outstanding Dissertation/Thesis Awards Presentation Ceremony and Cocktail Reception 2015 held on Monday, 30 May 2016 at the Royal Plaza Hotel, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.