Technical Seminar on Hong Kong Research on Innovative Construction Materials
Organizer: Materials Division
Co-organizer: -
Date, Time & Venue:
2024-10-14; 18:30-19:30; Chan Yat Mei Sophie Room - 9/F
Programme Highlights:
Hong Kong government
has been promoting technical innovations to resolve various challenges in
construction sector, including aging experienced workers, expensive
construction cost and long construction period, and for enhancing safety,
sustainability, productivity and low carbon emission. Among all innovation
areas, innovative and high-performance construction materials play an important
role and are closely related to other aspects, e.g., good durability and
reduced maintenance costs.
As an applied
research center specialized in material science, Nano and Advanced Materials
Institute (NAMI) has been dedicated to advanced material development and
implementation. Many advanced and high-performance construction materials and
related technologies have been developed and applied in Hong Kong construction
market.
This presentation will
introduce NAMI’s research journey in material development, and several advanced
building materials, including lightweight high-strength concrete, low-carbon 3D
printing concrete, bio-based concrete, self-compacting backfill material and
other materials, and the project applications.
Speaker:
Dr.
Wu received both his Bachelor degree and PhD degree from the Department of
Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University. After working at Beijing on Modular Integrated
Construction (MiC) design and tall building design for two years, he continued
his career in Singapore at J. Ray McDermott for three years on various large-scale
offshore structural design projects, addressing
challenges posed by strong storm and earthquake. Dr. Wu then joined AECOM (Hong
Kong), where he spent over nine years on tall buildings and complex steel
structures before joining NAMI. His research interests are primarily on complex
steel structures, application of new structural materials, innovative
structural design, tall buildings, and finite element simulation. Dr. Wu is a Chartered
Structural Engineer in China with Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
Registration and Enquiries
This seminar is free of charge but the number of participants is limited to 70, applications will be accepted on a first-come-first served basis with priority given to members of Materials Division. CPD certificate will be issued after the event. For enquiries, please contact Ir Prof. Jonathan Chung at email: jonathan.chung.hk@gmail.com.