The Hong
Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) (YMC and CPDC jointly) organized debriefing
seminar named “Insights
from Israel on Innovation, Infrastructure & Investment” on 12th July 2019. The
HKIE-YMC Overseas Delegation is a sustainable programme that arouses young
engineer’s potential in leadership and motivates the young ones’ vision to
learn from overseas experiences. Israel has applied many
innovative technologies to overcome the country’s challenges and enhance the
quality of people’s life. She has a thriving start-up culture and has attracted
a number of investment and partnerships in high-technology industries. The
debriefing seminar aimed to share a 9-day trip to Israel and a year-long study
result so as to propose some insight for Hong Kong development. I arrived the HKIE and took a photo.
During
registration, a report of oversea delegation 2019 Israel was distributed.
In the
beginning, Mr. Thomas Lam (CLP) was MC and introduced the program and speakers.
He introduced the frame “Innovation • Infrastructure • Investment”.
The
first speaker was Mr. Benny Cheung (Graduate Trainee, HK Electric) and his
topic entitled “Innovation”. Firstly, he
briefed Innovation as idea, creative thoughts, new imaginations of better
solutions involved the practical implementation via the engineering process for
problem solving.
Then he
compared HK and Israel in education.
Hong Kong has top university education and Israel has Israel Defence
Force (IDF) which exposure to cutting edge technologies and intensive
training. They experienced to address
real live solution and flat hierarchy. And
then Mr. Benny Cheung compared Closed Innovation to Open Innovation. He added
to adopt open innovation that third party innovation facilitators (e.g. The
Floor – Israel’s First Fintech Hub; CoCoon – HK coworking space) were
needed.
Lastly, he briefed the industry 4.0 in Hong Kong and gave some insight from their study involved Education, Third Parties coordinator and Digital Manufacturing.
The
second speaker was Mr. Tim F.T. Chan (Assistant Construction Officer, Hip Hing
Construction Co. Ltd.) and his topic named “Infrastructure”. He said “Infrastructure is not only required
to serve the basic needs of the citizens, but also provide them with more
caring services with diversity.” In his talk, there are two case studies
included Water Supply and Construction Industry to be discussed.
Mr. Tim Chan
briefed the existing water supply in HK that 79% from Dongjang water and 21%
from local. Then he presented the progress
of Tseung Kwan O desalination plant which started from 2017 and expected
completion in 2022. The forecasting sources
of fresh water supply in 2020 for Hong Kong and Israel were showed in the
following diagram.
And then
Mr. Tim Chan briefed aobut Sorek Desalination Plant and shared some insights
such as Press Center consisted of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane segment, high
pressure (HP) pumping and energy recovery system; Large Membrane Diameter and
Multiple Energy Source.
After that
he briefed the second case study of Hong Kong Construction Industry. There are
six major challenges in industry and they are significant volumes, high cost, poor
mega-project performance and site safety, declining productivity and lack of
innovation.
Mr. Chan
also introduced some construction innovation in Hong Kong such as Integrated
Digital Project Delivery (IDPD) included Building Information Modelling (BIM). Some solutions such as Innovation360 and Tech
Hub were discussed. Some startups of
Construction-Tech were demonstrated.
Finally,
he concluded construction innovation ecosystem was a circle supported by
Startups, Construction Companies, Investors, Software Vendors, Policy Maker and
Regulatory.
The last
speaker was Ms. Eileen Cheng (Graduate Trainee, ATAL) and her presentation
topic was “Investment”. She firstly
mentioned investment included capital (Government / Private) and intangible and
value adding such as education and environmental.
Ms.
Eileen Cheng briefed Hong Kong governmental funding and then introduced Israeli
Government Funding Policy from Israel Innovation Authority. Their funding would up to 85% of the R&D
costs for no equity in their incubators incentive program. All grants were based solely on technological
excellence and business potential.
And then
she briefed the Technology Transfer Centre – Yissum which provided legal
support, strategically register the IP for researchers and identified business
potential, etc.
Lastly,
she stated impact investment that was not only financial return but also
considered social and / or Environmental Impact. She presented a case study “ECOnrete” which was
a combination of proprietary bio-enhancing concrete admixtures, complex surface
textures and innovative science-based designs while improving structural
performance and concluded that we need right partner, show case and proving for
new ideas.
At the
end, Mr. Thomas Lam briefed their study journey from Sep 2018 to July 2019.
And
showed the summary video.
Before
the end of seminar, Mr. Thomas Lam presented a souvenir to their supervisor Ir.
Paul YC Chan (Chairman, CPDC, HKIE).
Reference:
HKIE – http://www.hkie.org.hk/en/
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