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Reach out to Leaders: Ir Dr The Hon Lo Wai Kwok (07 October 2020)
 
 

Reach out to Leaders: Ir Dr The Hon Lo Wai Kwok, SBS, MH, JP, Representative of the Engineering Functional Constituency of the Legislative Council

Date: 7 October 2020

Time: 16:30pm

Venue: LegCo Complex

EVD Representatives: Ir Dr Anthony Ma, Ir Kelvin Tang, Ir Vincent Lee, Ir PC Lo, Ir Thomas Chan, Ir Peter Chow

EVD was privileged to have the Engineering Leader, Ir Dr The Hon Lo Wai-kwok, to share his insights into the opportunities, prospects and sustainable development of environmental engineering industry in future. An interview video will be also posted on EVD’s website, Facebook and IG in November 2020.

WK opines Hong Kong’s key environmental challenge is waste management and soon adopts the high-technology IWMF for waste-to-energy. In Great Bay Area, it is critical for various governments to establish collaboration mechanisms and targets to achieve. In the 21st century, climate change is the global challenge calling for concerted effort.

To tackle these, WK considers the Government and engineering industry should joint hands to boost environmental economics with innovative technologies as a future strategy. New forms of energy for vehicles like electric power, hydrogen fuel, etc were rapidly developed in the past 20 years. Waste-to-Energy technologies have well been applied in PRD cities aiming to achieve “near zero emission”. These demonstrate the target to achieve a circular economy which offer ample business opportunities to environmental engineers.

Today, the public acceptance and politics in the society are crucial, in addition to engineering excellence, teamwork spirits, communication skills, etc. Whilst environmental issues are common factors among different engineering disciplines, WK believes Artificial Intelligence will be blooming for rapid advancement in developing technologies for solution. Integration is another necessary component to enhance the engineering industry, so HKIE has the real advantage of offering integrated professional views based on our engineering excellence.

WK thinks it is inherent that the general public are not in close contact with engineers as compared with e.g. doctors, lawyers, etc. As environmental industry is so diversified, more promotional activities are encouraged in academic sectors to raise the public’s impression on the high standard of engineering profession.

Engineers are critical in the post COVID-19 crisis, e.g. MiC technologies for quarantine buildings, IT technologies for visual meetings, etc, which have been proven during the pandemic period. New developments in logistics, touchless payment technologies, etc, have also contributed to COVID-19 resilience. WK is optimistic that opportunities for engineers will be continuous especially for Environmental Engineers.

EVD Website: http://ev.hkie.org.hk/

IG name: hkieevd

Facebook name: HKIE Environmental Division


 

 
 

 

 
 
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