29^th Technical Talk – Application of NDT in Building Diagnostics – Sharing of Building Inspection experience in Hong Kong

Date: 12^th March 2010 – February, Time 7.00 -9.00pm

Location: SPGG, 1010 Dover Road, Singapore -139658

Synopsis

Recently a 50 years old building collapsed in an urban area of Hong Kong. Four occupants were killed and a number of them injured. This incident raised an alert of the city over the Hong Kong urban area. The government will enact a law for Mandatory Building Inspection Scheme (MBIS) for old buildings of 30 years old and the implementation of it will be end of the year. A registry of Registered Inspector (RI) will be kept by HK Building Authority to liaise with building owners and carry out the building inspection. The RI shall be RPE of HKIE. A profession named as Building Diagnosticians will emerge to actually conduct the inspection. HKAS will offer accreditation of building diagnostic testing. HKCI will publish a Code of Practice for Condition Assessment for Old Buildings. Ir. Cheung will talk about this implementation of MBIS from the perspectives of HKIE, HKAS and HKCI.

Networking & Dinner – 8.15 – 9.00pm

About the Speaker

Ir. CK Cheung is a Senior Accreditation Officer of the Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS).  He is a Registered Professional Engineer (RPE) in Civil and Geotechnical Disciplines of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). He received a MSc and DIC from Imperial College of London and a MEng from Hong Kong University (HKU). He is the President of Hong Kong Institution of Certified Auditors (HKICA). He is also the Vice-President of the Hong Kong Concrete Institute (HKCI). He is also both a Lead Evaluator of the Asian Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC) and Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (PAC). Mr. Cheung now is leading six members APLAC and PAC team to perform a peer evaluation of Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC) here in Singapore during this week.

Registration: NDTSS Members – Free, SCI Members - S$10/person, Non Members – S$20/- Person

Contact: Ms. Jean at 90460647 / Ms. Yanti at 65591208 for Registration or Email – sk.babu@vsl.com