Congratulations to all our graduates of academic year 2020/21! On 16 and 17 November 2021, the Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) held its 27th Congregation in five sessions at the Jockey Club Auditorium on the PolyU campus as well as online. More than 1,400 graduates from its four departments were honoured for completing their studies at higher diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Three scholars from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) have been named by the Clarivate Analytics in the "2021 Highly Cited Researchers" as the most influential in the world. They are Prof. Kwok Wing Chau in the field of Engineering, Prof. Shuncheng Lee in a Cross-Field, and Prof. Daniel Tsang in the fields of Engineering as well as Environment and Ecology.

Prof. William Lam of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) has been awarded $2,195,000 from the local government’s Smart Traffic Fund (STF) for a project entitled “Network-wide Traffic Speed-Flow Estimator.” The project aims to develop a network-wide traffic speed-flow estimator for provision of real-time traffic speeds and flows simultaneously for the entire study network by time of day based on limited traffic data from different sources.

Prof. Qihao WENG, Chair Professor and Global STEM Scholar of the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI), has been elected a foreign member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) in its 2021 class. He is also a fellow of IEEE, AAAS, ASPRS and AAIA, and has worked as the director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Change, a professor of geography at Indiana State University from 2001 to 2021, and a senior fellow at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the US from 2008 to 2009.

The research team of Prof. C.S. Poon, Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), has received a Silver Award in the Hong Kong Green Innovations Awards 2020 at a ceremony of the Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence (HKAEE) and Hong Kong Organisation Certification (HKGOC). Their winning project is entitled “Sustainable Development of High–performance Permeable Concrete Using Local Waste Materials.”

An MPhil student in the Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering (BEEE) has been granted $600,000 from the PolyU Maker Fund Programme to develop a smart building emergency system for 2 years. Under the supervision of Dr Xinyan Huang, Mr Wong Ho Yin and his team will apply artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to a smart signage network that can guide residents towards the shortest and safest evacuation paths in a fire event.

On 23 October 2021, Prof. Bo Wu of the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI) gave an online lecture on maps for space exploration to over 150 people. The lecture was part of a series of 13 talks coordinated by PolyU to introduce space sciences and technologies to secondary students and their teachers.