Code : 2021020
Event Name : BS Channel: Discovery of century-old underground Reservoir on Bishop Hill 隱世水宮之傳說: 主教山
CPD Code : Formal Events
Speaker : Sr Vincent Ho Kui Yip, JP, Managing Director | Freevision Limited

Sr Vincent Ho Kui Yip, is the past President of HKIS in 2014 to 2015, Chairman of BSD
of HKIS in 2010 to 2012. Sr Ho is now the current member of the Antiquities
Advisory Board. Sr Ho is an experienced qualified Building Surveyor and Authorized
Person, specializing in building maintenance, alteration and addition, property
development projects. He is also a prominent opinion leader on building safety,
design, planning and development matters with wide coverage by the media.

Mr. Faustus Lam Sair Ling, Head of Property | Caritas – Hong Kong

Mr. Faustus Lam is an experienced Registered Architect who previously worked in
Heritage Unit of Architectural Services Department. Mr. Lam is a conservation
specialist with experience in a number of projects on historical buildings including
restoration of Tai Fu Tai, Kun Ting Study Hall, King Law Ka Shuk, etc. Mr. Lam was
also previously Adjunct Associate Professor of Division of Architectural Conservation
Programmes in The University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Sharon Wong, Assistant Professor | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prof. Sharon Wong is Assistant Professor of Department of Anthropology in The
Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof. Wong specializes in archaeology, museology,
cultural heritage studies and Southeast Asian cultures. She was also the member of
the Antiquities Advisory Board. Prof. Wong studied Southeast Asian archaeology and
cultures and received her PhD in Southeast Asian Studies from the National
University of Singapore. Her PhD research focused on China and Khmer ceramics
industries from the ninth to fourteenth centuries AD, examining the cultural
interaction between China and Southeast Asia in the pre-modern period. She is
currently working on Khmer-Chinese ceramics research project in Angkor,
Cambodia, ethnoarchaeological research project on storage jars found in South
China and Southeast Asia in early modern period, and an intangible cultural heritage
project on Hong Kong traditional ceramic crafts.

Mr. Yu Ka Sing, Assistant Professor of Practice | The University of Hong Kong

Mr. Yu, a Registered Architect and Authorized Person, has previously worked as an
architect at Ronald Lu & Partners (Hong Kong), a leading architectural practice in
Hong Kong. In 2011, upon his graduation with Distinction to his MSc(Conservation)
degree from The University of Hong Kong, he focused his professional practice in the
field of architectural conservation through the consultancy he founded, Substance
Lab Limited (SLAB, established in 2010). Today, he has accumulated over 35
conservation projects in his portfolio, ranking him one of the leading conservation
practitioners in Hong Kong. In 2017, he was recruited by The University of Hong
Kong, and appointed the first Assistant Professor of Practice in the Division of
Architectural Conservation Programmes (ACP), and assuming the Directorship of
ACP’s undergraduate programmes (the BA(Conservation) programme and the ACP
Common Core Courses).
Event Date : 2021-01-07
Event Time : 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Registration Closing Date : 2021-01-06
CPD Hour(s) : 1.5
Divisional PQSL Hour(s) : 1.5
Venue : By online media – ZOOM
Division : BSD
Organizer : Building Surveying Division
Fee : Free of charge
Language : Cantonese (supplement with English)
Details :

A century-old underground reservoir which was built in 1904 by the British colonial government was recently discovered on a hilltop in Shek Kip Mei. It was created to assure the water supply to the Kowloon peninsula in meeting the demand of the expanding population at the time. The sudden discovery of the reservoir has caught attention of the general public and experts due to the unique structure and its construction arrangement. In this CPD, it is an honor to have speakers from different aspects to discuss the architectural merits, cultural values, conservation possibilities and related matters for this breathtaking underground reservoir.

Remarks :

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