Bulletin No. 2, 2011

Planning Urban Future   15  Once the Knowledge Transfer Project Fund was available, Professor Ng filed for grants to launch a project on ‘CUHK Knowledge Centre for Climate, Urban Climate, Sustainable City Planning and Building Environmental Design’. The project aims at disseminating CUHK’s urban climate research knowledge by uploading them to the website, and hosting two one- day workshops on urban climate for design and planning for professionals from the construction industry and the government in June 2011. With a maximum of 60 participants, the two workshops were soon over-subscribed. Professor Ng thus filed another application last year. The follow-up project, ‘Urban Climatology for Tropical Regions’ was then implemented. He said, ‘While lectures for professionals will be hosted, I intend to disseminate the knowledge on urban climate and sustainable living. Secondary school students and the general public are my targets too. The future of the world is shaped by people who are now in secondary school. Therefore they should learn now what’s going on, why, and what ideal environments would be like.’ The first talk for secondary school students was hosted in September 2011 with some 500 Secondary 4 to 6 students in attendance. Professor Ng pointed out that students were interested and recognized the importance of environment protection. He also hosted a public lecture at the Hong Kong Science Museum on heat and thermal comfort in our urban environment on 5 November 2011.