Architectural Engineering: past, present and future

As a secondary school student, you might hear the words “smart city”, “sustainable development”, or “carbon neutrality” from TV, newspaper or social media. But you might not know how these issues are strongly relevant to architectural engineering, or building services engineering. Architectural engineering is so close to our daily life, affecting our society, our city and our world. Then, what is architectural engineering? How does it affect our daily life and environment? What is the future of architectural engineering? Please attend this talk, which will cover all these questions and also introduce you to the uniqueness of architectural engineering.

Stacking Blocks into a Building: An Innovation in Construction

Shortages and unaffordable prices are the unsolved housing problems in Hong Kong. To increase the housing supply and reduce construction costs, we need to change the traditional way of building with innovations. Modular Integrated Construction (MiC) is an innovative method that revolutionizes the construction industry. With the aid of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology, project teams fabricate building modules inside the factory, truck them to the site, and then stack them on top of each other to construct a building. Such modular construction offers a novel approach that is faster, greener, and smarter than ever.

The rise of augmented reality and virtual reality in the building sector: changing your lives.

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) create a new environment in which the physical and virtual objects are integrated. They allow buyers staying at home to walk through virtual tours of the properties worldwide and allow users to enter the metaverse to interact with virtual avatars. What is the difference between AR and VR? How do they break the temporal-spatial boundaries? How could they enhance our daily life? What would be the challenges and opportunities of AR and VR? In this talk, the speaker will introduce AR and VR, their applications, status quo, and future.