Miss Cheung Ho-man(left) and President of HKIS, Sr Thomas Ho (right)
Miss Chan Hiu-yu (right) and President of HKIS, Sr Thomas Ho (left)
Miss Lai Tsz-man, Iris (middle), President of HKIS, Sr Thomas Ho (left) and her dissertation supervisor, Dr Daniel Chan (right)
BRE winning dissertation students with their dissertation supervisors, Mr Kong Wai-kei (left) and Dr Daniel Chan (right)
In the Outstanding Final Year Dissertation Awards for Undergraduate Students (2016) organized by the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS), three alumni of the Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE) of PolyU were rewarded for their final year dissertations announced on 30 December 2016. A total of 2 full-time students and 1 part-time student from the BSc(Hons) in Surveying programme won the awards including 1 Top Award and 2 Second Awards.
| Award Category | Dissertation Title | Student Name |
Supervisor Name |
| Top Award (Planning and Development Division) | Empirical Study of the Impact of Railway Development on Property Prices: The Case of West Island Line | Miss Cheung Ho-man(Full-time SUV Student) | Mr Kong Wai-kei |
| Second Award (Building Surveying Division) | A Study on the Contribution of BIM to Increase Productivity in Hong Kong Public Housing Projects | Miss Chan Hiu-yu(Full-time SUV Student) | Mr Stephen Kong |
| Second Award (General Practice Surveying Division) | An Empirical Study of the Contravention of Lease Conditions in Existing Industrial Buildings in Hong Kong | Miss Lai Tsz-man, Iris(Part-time SUV Student) | Dr Daniel Chan |
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$1,500 (Top Award) and HK$1,000 (Second Award) at the HKIS Outstanding Dissertation/Thesis Awards Presentation Ceremony and Cocktail Reception 2016 held on Friday, 9 June 2017 at the Royal Plaza Hotel, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
