Events for 11-2010

Speaker Prof. Carlos Borrego Full Professor of Department of Environmental & Planning, Former Vice-Rector University of Aveiro Abstract Air pollution is enacted on all geographical and temporal scales, ranging from urban problems related to immediate and long-term effects on human health and material damage, over local, regional and global phenomena. Numerical air quality modelling is a powerful tool for air quality evaluation and management, and has been used to study the repercussions of emission reduction scenarios in air quality levels, and their impacts on human health and vegetation. Since the world's cities are the heart of most of the human activities, the major consumers of natural resources, and the major producers of pollution, it is obvious that the sustainability debate ...

Speaker Mr. Andy Chan Mr. John Battersby Biography Mr. Andy Chan is the Sales Manager of Topcon Beijing (H.K.) Ltd. He is a Fellow member of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineering Surveyors. He has been an expert in Mobile Mapping and he will share his experiences in Mobile Mapping System and Application. Mr. John Battersby is a Quantity Surveyor by profession having worked in the construction industry for 43 years. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, Hong Kong Institute of Construction Managers, Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators and a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. John ...