MECHANICAL, MARINE, NAVAL ARCHITECTURE & CHEMICAL

Certificate courses on noise control, road traffic noise assessment and road traffic noise measurement
(Jointly organised with Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics and supported by EPD)

Date & venue
5 July - 6 August 2010 (Mon, Wed, Fri & Sat); HKPC or CUHK

Programme highlights
These courses aims at providing local professionals with a structured frame starting from refreshing the basic acoustics concept, noise assessment and measurement. These courses will include a practical session with hands-on experience on three dimensional (3D) noise assessment and a practical session on road traffic noise site measurement. For more details, please refer to the website at http://mc.hkie.org.hk.

Speaker
Please refer to the website at http://mc.hkie.org.hk.

Fee
Please refer to the website at http://mc.hkie.org.hk.

Registration & enquiries
For registration, please download the reply form on the website at http://mc.hkie.org.hk and return it to Course Administrator, Miss Sara Ma by Fax: 2618 4500, Email: sarsma@uti.hk or sent to Unit 909, 9/F, Favour Industrial Centre, 2-6 Kin Hong Street, Kwai Chung, NT on or before 24 June 2010. For enquiries, please contact Miss Sara Ma at Tel: 2494 5925.

Seminar on serve the community with your professional, engineers!
(Jointly organised with the EN, EV, IT Divisions, AMC and YMC)

Date, time & venue
23 July 2010 (Fri); 6:15pm registration for 6:30pm - 8:00pm; HKIE

Programme highlights
As an engineer, we can provide a lot of professional knowledge to serve the community as a volunteer or a consultant to some charity organisation on some projects in Hong Kong, the PRC or overseas. This seminar is about the work of a Hong Kong based charity organisation, Christian Action (CA), providing humanitarian services to target groups without any government support and also serving a wide range of multi-national clients eg Africans, South Asians Tibetans, Mongolians, etc of various religions such as Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, etc. CA also deeply involves in the poverty alleviation work in Qinghai and have been co-managing children's homes with the provincial local government for 13 years. Our recent project in Qinghai is involved in the rebuilding of Yushu.

Speakers
Ms Dora Kwan is a Senior Manager of the Development & Advancement Department of CA. She has been working for this organisation for over 15 years. She has worked for different projects in CA including employees retraining scheme, Corporate Communications Department and now Development & Advancement Department.

Registration & enquiries
The seminar is free of charge and no prior registration is required. The number of participant is limited to 80. All members and potential members are welcome. For enquiries, please contact Mr Benjamin Lam at Tel: 9152 2316. CPD certificate will be available.

The 1st Greater Pearl River Delta conference on building operation and maintenance: sustainable and value-for-money built facilities
(Organised by BSOMES and jointly organised with the BD, BS, CA, EL, FE Divisions, SSC, the PolyU - BSE, South China University of Technology, AEEMM and the other institutions)

Date, time & venue
22 October 2010 (Fri); 8:30am - 5:00pm; Chiang Chen Studio Theatre, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Programme highlights
In view of the need of value-for-money and sustainable facilities, the Building Services Operation and Maintenance Executives Society (BSOMES) with the supports from three other co-organisers in the GPRD Region and 26 supporting organisations in Hong Kong, organised this conference which is the first of its kind focusing on building operation and maintenance. With the main theme of "sustainable and value-for-money built facilities", this conference will embrace the following sub-themes:
- Reliable installations and safety systems
- Services operation and maintenance
- Energy management and facilities economics
- Regulatory controls and revitalisation of facilities

Speakers
Various practising engineers/practitioners

Fee
Non-member: HK$800; HK$700 for early bird registration before 22 August 2010
Members of BSOMES, co-organisers and all supporting organisations: HK$650; HK$600 for early bird registration before 22 August 2010

Registration & enquiries
The number of participants is limited to 250 and applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis (priority will be given to members of the organiser, co-organisers and supporting organisations). For more details, please refer to the website at http://bs.hkie.org.hk/en_it_events_inside_Upcoming.aspx?. For registration, please complete the registration form via the website at http://www.bse.polyu.edu.hk/Link/BSOMES_Conference.html and return it together with a crossed cheque to PO Box 95872, Tsimshattsui Post Office, Kowloon. For enquiries, please contact Ms Persia Lai, Conference Secretariat, at Tel: 2766 5851 or Email: bepersia@polyu.edu.hk or Ir K F Yee, the BS Division at Tel: 3520 2838 or Email: kf.yee@langhamplace.com.hk.