1. BACKGROUND
1.1 This Award is established in memory of the late Ir Peter H K Chan, a Past Chairman of HKIE’s Environmental Division.

2. OBJECTIVE
2.1 The primary objective of the Award is to recognize engineers’ efforts in any environmental research and projects in which green building development, such as assessment standard and protocol, energy conservation and efficiency, reduction of greenhouse gas emission, use of renewable energy, application of green technologies, waste recovery and recycling, carbon & energy audit and management, and waste treatment and disposal, are fully considered and properly addressed. This Award is intended to encourage widespread emergence of environmentally sound projects.

3. REPORT

Result of 2015 Environmental Paper Award

Champion prize:

Paper title: A Novel and Eco-friendly Method for Recycling Waste Formwork into Cement-bonded Particleboard

First Runner-up (Two awards):

(1)   Paper Title: Improvement of coal-fired generation units at Lamma Power Station for NOx emission control

(2)  Paper Title:  A Life Cycle Eco-efficiency Analysis of the Proposed Landfill Extension and Advanced Incineration Facility in Hong Kong 

Outstanding papers “Certificate of Merit” (five awards)

(1) Paper Title: Low Impact Development on Integrated Water Resources Management

(2) Paper Title: Integration of Heat Recovery and Cooling System in Laundry

(3) Paper Title: UV disinfection of chemically enhanced primary effluent: modelling UV transmittance influencing parameters

(4) Paper Title: Optimisation for cultivation of microalgae Chlorella vulgaris and lipid production in photobioreactor

(5) Paper Title: Pedestrian level wind field under influence of the twisting effect, a case study of isolate building