From Left: Mr Charles Mung (President of CIOB(HK) 2016-17), Miss Yeung Hang-man, Hannah (Winning Dissertation Student) and Dr Daniel Chan (Dissertation Supervisor)
Group photo with other winning students from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Morrison Hill)
In the Outstanding Student Dissertation Awards (2015-16) 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 her final year dissertation announced on 1 August 2016. Under the bachelor degree category, Miss Yeung Hang-man, Hannah (楊杏敏) was the prize winner from PolyU with her empirical study of evaluating the construction time performance of high-rise private commercial building projects in Hong Kong. She was a full-time surveying degree graduate (quantity surveying specialism) in June 2016 with First Class Honours and a final overall GPA score of 3.85 out of 4, whose dissertation was supervised by Dr Daniel W.M. Chan, Associate Professor and Associate Head of BRE. Hannah has been working for Dragages Hong Kong Ltd as an Assistant Quantity Surveyor (AQS) since July 2016.
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 2015-16, 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$1,000 at the CIOB(HK) Fellowship Reception cum Outstanding Student Dissertation Awards Presentation Ceremony 2016 held on Friday, 25 November 2016 at the British Consulate-General, Admiralty, Hong Kong.
