RISUD Member receives RGC funding to develop tropical storm warning system

The project “INTACT: Intelligent Tropical-storm-resilient System for Coastal Cities” led by Prof. NI Yiqing, Member of the Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD), Yim, Mak, Kwok & Chung Professor in Smart Structures, Chair Professor of Smart Structures and Rail Transit in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director of the National Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Center (Hong Kong Branch), was awarded funding of HK$48.293 million under the Research Grants Council’s Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) 2023/24.

The project aims to mitigate the risk of tropical storms and enhance the resilience of high-rise building clusters in coastal cities by developing a real-time early-warning and management system, which will be made accessible to the public for guiding effective emergency responses. The project will also lead to new design methods and codes/standards for high-rise buildings that are more resistant to tropical storms, thus benefitting the construction industry, developers, public and city planners in the medium and long run.