Annual Report

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1. Chairman’s Statement
The year 2013-14 has been exciting and eventful for the
Geotechnical Division. We have organized activities at a
frequency of once a week on average.
We worked in
collaboration with the universities, consultants, contractors,
clients and various professional bodies in organising seminars,
workshops, site visits, courses, competitions and awards.
These activities received overwhelming response and support
from members of the Division. Such remarkable achievements
would not have been possible without the dedication and
commitment from all the committee members.
The HKIE Geotechnical Paper Award was reactivated this year. This will be a biennial
event organized to encourage publication of high quality papers that target practicing
geotechnical engineers in Hong Kong. The award will be announced and presented at our
Annual Seminar.
The Geotechnical Division Annual Seminar will be held on the 30th May at the Hong Kong
International Trade and Exhibition Centre in Kowloon Bay. This year, the theme of the seminar
is “Challenges and Recent Advance in Geotechnics for Foundation Engineering”.
On the International front, we continued to join hands with the Hong Kong Geotechnical
Society to encourage and sponsor our members to participate in international seminars and
conferences held in Asia and other regions. In November 2013, I led a delegation of 10
engineers to attend the Tripartite Seminar held in Taipei sharing our experience with our
counterparts in Malaysia and Taiwan on underground construction.
One of our initiatives this year was to reach out to the general public on promoting our
image and profession. With this, we co-organized a “Boulder Fence Model Design
Competition” with the Civil Engineering and Development Department, the Education Bureau
and the Hong Kong Science Museum. The Competition, aimed at promoting students’
awareness of landslide hazards in Hong Kong, was opened to all Secondary School students
in Hong Kong to participate.
Ir Terence CHAN Chun Fai
Chairman
Geotechnical Division (Session 2013/2014)
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2. Membership
As at 5 March 2014, the Geotechnical Division has a membership of 4,871, of which 216
are Fellows and 3,267 are Corporate Members. The total number of members represents a
year-on-year increase of 1.3%.
3. Financial Highlights
The Geotechnical Division began the 2013/2014 financial year with a healthy balance of
HK$570,908.34 from previous 2013/2014 Session and received a total allocation of
HK$109,871.00 from the HKIE Headquarters. At the end of this financial year, the Division
maintained a balance account of HK$614,008.47.
In this Session, incomes were also contributed from TCPT3 Training Course/Engineering
Workshops/Seminar whereas expenses were mainly associated with those technical meetings
and site visits, and sponsorship to members attending local and overseas activities and
conferences. The Division’s Income and Expenditure Account (Unaudited) for the period
between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2014 is summarized and included in Attachment 3. Full
details of the 2013-2014 “End of Year Account” will then be available for inspection after audit
shortly.
4. Technical Meetings, Workshops and Seminars and Conferences
This session has had a busy schedule of technical meetings, workshops, seminars and
conferences. They were organized either solely by the Division, or jointly with other
organizations. The events are listed in Appendix B including 11 technical meetings, 6 half-day
workshops, 1 full-day seminar and 1 top-up course. The major events are reported below.
4.1
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34 Annual Seminar – Challenges and Recent Advance in Geotechnics for Foundation
Engineering
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The 34 Annual Seminar, organised jointly with the Hong Kong Geotechnical Society, will
be held on 30 May 2014 at the Hong Kong International Trade and Exhibition Centre. The
Permanent Secretary for Development (Works) will officiate the Opening Ceremony. The
Seminar will serve as a platform for the geotechnical profession to consolidate experience and
geotechnical expertise in the recent advancement in geotechnics for foundation engineering
and to equip themselves with the knowledge to meet the challenges ahead. Two renowned
experts, Prof Ir Charles Ng and Ir Wong Chi-ming will deliver keynote lectures. There will be
presentations of selected papers covering various aspects, e.g. design guideline and code,
ground investigation and instrumentation, design and analysis, construction techniques and
equipment, quality control, verification and loading tests, risk management, information
technology, innovation, as well as research and development. Altogether, about 30 papers will
be published in the proceedings. An attendance of 600 is anticipated.
4.2
Workshops on Geotechnical Engineering
The Division, in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, has organised a sense
of three workshops targeting young engineers in the Geotechnical Discipline and civil and
structural engineers with an interest in geotechnical works. The three workshops, each
comprising two sessions, are including:
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a.
b.
c.
4.3
Workshop on slope engineering held on 8 and 15 February 2014;
Workshop on excavation and lateral support to be held on 24 and 31 May 2014;
and
Workshop on foundation engineering to be held on 19 and 26 July 2014.
Top-up Courses for TCP T3 on Ground Investigation Field Works (GIFW) and Building
Works with Significant Geotechnical Content
The Division joined force with HKU to organise a top-up course for TCP T3 on GIFW and
building works with significant geotechnical content in November to December 2013. The
course was aimed to provide graduate engineers / geologists / technical inspection
supervisors the basic knowledge in geotechnical training which is needed for those with less
than 2 years of relevant experience being qualified to be TCP T3 in accordance with the Code
of Practice for Site Supervision 2009 issued by the Buildings Department. The courses were
very well received with over 130 attendees.
5 Technical Visits
Various technical site visits were organised to projects of technical interest to members.
These visits are tabulated below.
Date
Site
Works
Client
Host
No. of
Participants
25 May 2013
LPM site visit at Fo
Tan
Upgrading of
slopes by soil
nailing
CEDD
CEDD
19
8 Jun 2013
XRL Contract 820
TBM tunneling
and launch shaft
MTR
MTR
15
3 Aug 2013
HKBCF
Land reclamation
by non-dredge
methods
HYD
HYD
25
28 Sep 2013
XRL Contract 811B
Tunnel
construction
works
MTR
GammonLeighton
Joint Venture
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2 Nov 2013
MTRC SCL 1109
Construction of
1.2m pipe pile
cofferdam
MTR
Samsung –
Hsin Chong
Joint Venture
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7 Dec 2013
Sunway (Zhuhai)
Factory, China
Sunway
Spun Pile
(Zhuhai)
Co., Ltd.
Sunway
Spun Pile
(Zhuhai)
Co., Ltd.
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4 Jan 2014
CLP Back Slope at
Castle Peak Power
Station (CPPS)
Visit to the
production of
large diameter
prestressed spun
Piles
Rock anchor
replacement
works and rock
dowel installation
CLP
CLP / China
GeoEngineering
Corporation
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22 Feb 2014
Central - Wan Chai
Bypass and Island
Eastern Corridor
Link (CWB)
Construction of
tunnel structure
HyD
AECOM
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22 Mar 2014
XRL Contract 811B
Tunnel
construction
works and ELS
works
MTR
MTR
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6 Prizes, Awards and Sponsorships
6.1 AECOM Prize
AECOM Prize for Best Student of the Year is awarded to students attaining good
performance in geotechnical subjects in civil engineering undergraduate course in local
universities. The awardees are as follows:
Awardee
University
Ms. LI Ping
The University of Hong Kong
Ms. YEUNG Ying Tung
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mr. CHEUNG Ho Yeung
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Six submissions were received from HKU, HKPU HKUST and CityU for the AECOM Prize
for Best Final-Year Geotechnical Project. A judging panel consisting of Ir Ian ASKEW, Ir Andy
NG Lik Kwok and Ir David LAI Tai Wai was formed to review the submissions. The awardees
are as follows:
Award
Winner
Awardee
University
Ms. KOW Hong Yee
The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
1st Runner-up
Mr. HO Cheuk Yin
The University of Hong Kong
2nd Runner-up
Mr. SZE Chun
The City University of Hong Kong
6.2 Fugro Prize
Six submissions were received. A judging panel consisting of Ir Ian ASKEW, Ir CHAN
Yun Cheung and Ir Rupert LEUNG Kwok Yiu was formed to review the submitted papers. The
final competition was held on 20 January 2014, in which shortlisted papers’ authors were
invited to make a presentation in front of the judging panel and other audience.
Award
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Awardee
Affiliation
Title of Paper
Winner
Mr. Ricky LEE
Golder Associates (HK)
Limited
Interpretation of
Inclinometer Data
1st Runner-up
Mr. CHANG
Dongsheng
AECOM Asia Company
Limited
An Investigation into the
Mechanism of Internal Soil
Erosion Leading to
Geotechnical Failures
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6.3
Sponsorship for Attending Overseas Events
The Division sponsored engineers to join the following overseas events and activities in
2013/2014 through its sponsorship programmes:Overseas Events / Activities
Sponsored Participants
The 18th Southeast Asian Geotechnical Conference held in
Singapore from 29 to 31 May 2013
Jason Ng and Charles Chan
The 5th International Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference
held in Paris, France from 31 August to 1 September 2013
Rachel Law and Lucy Wu
The 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering held in Paris, France, from 2 to 6
September 2013
Abby Liu, Alvin Lam and
Stanley Pang
Tripartite Seminar held in Taipei, Taiwan on 15 November 2013
Celia Choy and Fan Zhu
The International Symposium on Advances in Foundation
Engineering held in Singapore from 5 to 6 December 2013
Dennis Fung and Max Ma
6.4 Geotechnical Paper Award
With the support of the geotechnical profession, the Division launched the HKIE
Geotechnical Paper Award. This is a biennial event aiming at encouraging high quality
technical publications that targeted practicing geotechnical engineers in Hong Kong. We
believe that such papers play an important role in fostering advancements in geotechnical
practice and technology in Hong Kong. All papers published in the past five years in Hong
Kong or by Hong Kong-based personnel elsewhere in the world are eligible for the award.
Entries for the Award this year was invited on 16 Jan 2014. By the deadline on 15 March,
36 papers have been received, mostly from authors, with a few from Corporate Members who
entered others’ papers that they believe merit recognition. Assessment of the papers is in
progress to identify the best for the Award. This is not an easy task given the high quality of
the papers.
The winner of the Award will be announced in the HKIE Geotechnical Division Annual
Seminar on 30 May. Please visit http://hkieged.org/geodiv/geopaperaward.aspx for further
information of the Award scheme.
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Overseas Links
The Division co-organised the Tripartite Seminar with Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
(IEM), Chinese Institution of Engineers (CIE) on the theme of “The Management and Case
Study on Adjacent Underground Construction” at Taipei, Taiwan. A delegation from HKIE
attended the Seminar on 15 November 2013 followed by a site visit on 16 November 2013.
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Working Groups
8.1 Working Group on Cavern and Tunnel Engineering
The Working Group on Cavern and Tunnel Engineering has played a key role in the
consolidation of local and international knowledge, experience and best practice in the
development and understanding of cavern and tunnel engineering in the urban environment.
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The Working Group is at the forefront of promoting awareness among professionals,
developers, professional bodies and relevant authorities of the potential benefits of the
development of caverns and tunnels in Hong Kong.
The Work Group has developed a new “Guideline on Ground Control for EPB TBM
Tunnelling”, that will operate in parallel with the existing Guideline on Ground Control for Slurry
TBM Tunnelling. The process of collation of comments is complete with a final version handed
over to the Geotechnical Engineering Office for publication. The Working Group has also
nominated member to provide consolidated feedback for the Update of Geoguide 4 initiated by
the Geotechnical Engineering Office.
The Working Group has reviewed a number of submissions and publications on a wide
variety of topic including but not limited to, blasting vibration limits as part of the cavern study,
fire safety in caverns and more recently on the ground freezing technique. Future work is to be
carried out on the development of Ground Risk & Geotechnical Reports and a review of the
use of fibres as structural support for concrete tunnel linings.
Mr Justin Taylor has stepped down as Chairman and Mr Mark Wallace was proposed and
seconded as the new Chairman to serve over the next few years starting from March 2014. Mr.
Justin Taylor was thanked by the WG for his enthusiasm and commitment to the Working
Group over the last 2 years. He will continue to assist the new Chairman with his support for
the next year. The Working Group will continue to promote best practice in cavern and
tunnelling engineering and will be organizing various events and input to studies as well as the
industry over the next few years.
8.2
Working Group on Application of Innovation Technology in Geotechnical Engineering
The Working Group on Application of Innovative Technology in Geotechnical Engineering
scheduled six workshops/seminars, covering the topics of natural terrain hazard study,
quantitative risk assessment, debris mobility modelling, remote sensing techniques,
instrumentation, and GIS. The subjects of numerical assessment of debris-structure
interaction and potential application of energy piles are being reviewed with a view to planning
future knowledge sharing sessions. A new area on innovative construction technology would
also be explored.
8.3
Task Force on Physical Testing on Flexible Debris-resisting Barriers
The Task Force has made good progress in exploring the possibility of carrying out largescale physical tests of soil debris impacting on instrumented flexible barriers. Besides
meetings, members of the Task Force have visited two sites in South Korea and Zhuhai
respectively to explore the possibility of conducting full-scale landslide tests. Furthermore, a
number of local locations including existing and disused quarry, depot and landslide sites and
remote lands in outlying islands are also under investigation. The Task Force is also working
close with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for constructing a large-scale flume model in
Hong Kong, where a funding of HK$4M has been awarded under the RGC Collaborative
Research Fund Scheme.
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Annual Dinner
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As a major annual event of the Geotechnical Division, the 20 Annual Dinner was held at
Room N201 of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 28 February 2014. More
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than 360 distinguished guests and fellow members attended. The event provided an
opportunity for geotechnical professionals and guests to meet socially in a pleasant and
relaxed atmosphere.
The Chairman of the Division, Ir Terence Chan, officiated the start of the dinner with a
welcoming address. This was followed by a speech by the Guest of Honour, Ir Eric Ma, Under
Secretary for Development. Annual prizes of the Division in recognition of achievement of
engineering undergraduates and young engineers in the field of geotechnical engineering,
including the AECOM Prize for Best Engineering Students in Hong Kong Universities, the
AECOM Prize for the Best Final-Year Geotechnical Project and the Fugro Prize, were
presented to the awardees. The dinner was enlivened by performance of erhu by Mr. Leonard
Wong of the Geotechnical Engineering Office and two songs by Committee Member Ir Chris
Lee and his band. The evening ended in rejoicing after the lucky draws, thanks to the
generous contribution by sponsoring companies for their generous donations.
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The HKGES organised the following events during this session:
1.
2.
HKGES served as a supporting organisation of the 4th International Symposium on
Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR2013) on 4-6 December 2013 at Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology under auspices of TC304 and TC205.
HKGES also supported the organisation of the 10th International Workshop on
Bifurcation and Degradation in Geomaterials on 28-30 May 2014 at Hong Kong
Polytechnic University
11 Special Activity – Boulder Fence Model Design Competition
The Geotechnical Division this year co-organized a “Boulder Fence Model Design
Competition” with the Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO) of the Civil Engineering and
Development Department, the Education Bureau and the Hong Kong Science Museum of the
Leisure and Cultural Services Department. The Competition, aimed at promoting students’
awareness of landslide hazards in Hong Kong, was opened to all Secondary School students
in Hong Kong to participate. The response was overwhelming, with more than 500 students
from 50 schools in the territory participated in the competition.
The competition requires participating students to design and assemble a boulder fence
model with newspapers, bamboo sticks and rubber bands to resist boulder fall simulated by
impact of dry batteries. The lightest model which resisted the impact of six boulders down
from a sloping channel won the “The Most Effective Design Award”. Another two awards “the
Most Robust Design Award” and “the Most Innovative and Aesthetic Design Award” went to
the model which resisted the most number of boulders and the one judged with the most
creativity and aesthetics respectively.
A series of competition tests were held at the Science Museum in late June 2013 whereas
the award presentation ceremony was held also at the Museum on 7 July 2013. The Chairman
of the Division, Ir Terence Chan, along with other officiating guests presented prizes and
awards at the ceremony. A video showing the highlights of the whole competition had been
uploaded to GEO’s YouTube channel and can be viewed via the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyuaDGG50EY
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Appendix A - Membership Lists of Division Committee, Event Organising Committees
and Working Groups
Geotechnical Division Committee
Ir Terence CHAN
Chairman
Working Group on Application of
Innovative Technologies in
Geotechnical Engineering
Ir Tony CHEUNG
Immediate Past
Chairman
Ir Ken HO
Chairman
Ir Rupert LEUNG
Deputy Chairman
Ir Florence Ko
Secretary
Ir Dr Johnny CHEUK
Honorary Secretary
Ir Dr Mark CHAN
Ir Patrick YONG
Honorary Treasurer
Ir Dr Johnny CHEUK
Ir Ian ASKEW
Ir Freda CHU
Ir Vincent AU
Ir Ian SOLOMON
Ir Sammy CHEUNG
Dr Wang Yu Hsing
Ir David LAI
Ir WONG H N
Ir LAM Kin Chung
Ir Prof YIN Jianhua
Ir Tom LEE
Ir Chris LEE
Working Group on Cavern and Tunnel
Engineering
Ir James SZE
Mr Mark WALLACE
Chairman
Dr WANG Yu Hsing
Mr Justin TAYLOR
Immediate
Past
Chairman
Ir Dr LEE Siew Wei
Dr Ryan YAN
Ir YIM Kin Ping
Mr Pierre BOURGEIOS
Mr Ray BREW STER
Co-opted Members
Mr Guy BRIDGES
Ir Michael HENDY
Ir Clayton CHAN
Ir Andy NG
Ir CHAN N F
Ir Irene YU
Ir Kenneth KO
Ir Joseph LO
Ir LUM K H
Ex-officio Members
Ir Edwin CHUNG
Council Member
(Division)
Dr Sam NG
Mr Ray NG
AMC Representative
Mr James RICKARD
Ms Emily YU
YMC Representative
Dr. Eng. Teijiro SAITO
Ir Terence CHAN
Discipline
Representative
Ir David SALISBURY
Ir Dr Richard PANG
Mr Hans SUNDSTROM
Ir Mark SWALES
Observers
Ir CHAN Yun Cheung
Ir Chris LAU
Dr Andy LEUNG
Ir Ringo YU
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Ir Patrick YONG
CSC Representative
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Task Force on Physical Testing on
Flexible Debris-resisting Barriers
Ir Ken HO
Chairman
Ir Dr Julian KWAN
Secretary
Ir Terence CHAN
Ir Dr Johnny CHEUK
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Organizing Committee of the 20 Annual
Dinner
Ir Rupert LEUNG
Ir Ian ASKEW
Ir Chris LEE
Ir Andy NG
Chairman
Ir Patrick YONG
Ir Irene YU
Ir Raymond KOO
Ir Dr LAU C K
Ir Rupert LEUNG
Ir PANG Kwok-Kay
Dr WANG Yu Hsing
Dr Ryan YAN
Ir Prof YIN Jian-hwa
Ir Jack YIU
Ir Ringo YU
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Organizing Committee of the 34
Geotechnical Division Annual Seminar
Ir Chris LEE
Ir Sammy CHEUNG
Chairman
Ir David LAI
Ir Dr LEE Siew Wei
Ir LAM Kin Chung
Dr WANG Yu Hsing
Dr Ryan YAN
Ir Patrick YONG
Ir Irene YU
Ir Ringo YU
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Appendix B - List of Technical Meetings, Workshops, Seminars and Conferences
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Date
Speaker
Topic
4 July 2013
Guy Bridges
Construction of deep shafts using raise
boring
24 July 2013
Ray Wood
[Joint seminar with AGS(HK)
and ASCE (HK Section)]
Managing geotechnical uncertainty into
effective project delivery
16 Sept 2013
Samuel Ng, Julian Kwan,
Raymond Cheung
Enhanced Approach for dealing with Natural
Terrain Hazards
10 Oct 2013
Benson Lam, John Chan
Construction of new type of retaining wall
with stabilizing base using precast panels at
Tolo Highway widening
28 Oct 2013
Xiangdong Hu
[Joint seminar with AGS(HK)
9 Dec 2013
Raymond Wong
Review of recent building and civil works
that involved large-scale cuttings
8 Jan 2014
Kenichi Soga
[Joint seminar with HKU]
Energy piles and beyond
20 Jan 2014
Various
(Shortlisted candidates)
Fugro Prize 2013/14 Presentation
Competition
19 Feb 2014
Behzad Fatahi
Modelling of Influence of Matric Suction
Induced by Native Vegetation on Ground
Behaviour
19 Mar 2014
Charles Tang
Implementation of LPMitP works at natural
hillside catchments in the urban area
4 Apr 2014
Chaido Doulala-Rigby
[Joint seminar with PolyU]
Construction of reinforced soil walls in UAE
Artificial ground freezing

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