BRE Student Winning
HKIS Outstanding Final Year Dissertation Awards for Undergraduate Students (2021)
In the Outstanding Final Year Dissertation Awards for Undergraduate Students (2021) 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 her final year dissertation announced on 31 January 2022. Under the bachelor degree category (building surveying division), Miss Lam Suk On, Sharon (林屬安) received the Top Award (Building Surveying Division) for her empirical study on the provision and evaluation of barrier free access (BFA) facilities in existing revitalized wet markets in Hong Kong. She was a full-time surveying degree graduate in June 2021 with First Class Honours whose dissertation was supervised by Dr Daniel W.M. Chan, Associate Professor and Associate Head (Teaching) of BRE. Sharon was the sole BRE student winning the award in this round of application.
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 (Top Award) received an award certificate and a prize cheque of HK$1,500 at the HKIS Outstanding Dissertation/Thesis Awards Presentation Ceremony 2021 held on Monday, 1 August 2022 at the HKIS Surveyors Learning Centre, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.