AWARDS & HONOURS 獎項及殊榮
(since 2011)
Received by Prof Edward NG:
Mar 2025: ‘Dahei New Village, Yunnan, China', HKIA Cross-Strait Architectural Design Awards 2024 - Merit Award in Community, Culture and Recreation Projects Category
Jan 2025: Luke Howard Award 2024 Nov 2024: ‘Dahei New Village, Yunnan, China', HKIA Annual Awards 2024 - Medal of the Year outside Hong Kong & HKIA Special Award - Sustainable Architecture
Mar 2024: (CUHK) Research Excellence Award 2022-23
Nov 2023: 'RIF Project', Green Building Award 2023 - Merit Award in the Rsearch and Planning Category
Oct 2023: Doctor of Science (DSc) degree honoured by Cambridge University, UK
Jul 2023: 'RIF Project', (CUHK) Oustanding Research Impact Award 2022-23
Feb 2023: (CUHK) Research Mentorship Award 2022 Sep 2022: Terra Centre, Yunnan, China', Honorary Mention Award (Category B-3: Public Amenity Institutional Buildings) in ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2022
May 2022: ‘Terra Centre, Yunnan, China', HKIA Annual Awards 2021 - Merit Award outside Hong Kong - Institutional Building & Special Architectural Award - Humanity & Social Inclusion
Apr 2022: ‘Terra Centre, Yunnan, China', Green Building Award 2021 - Special Citation on UN Sustainable Development Goals (New Buildings Category: Completed Projects – Institutional)
Nov 2021: ‘Terra Centre, Yunnan, China', TERRAFIBRA Award 2021 Winner (under Public Cultural Equipment category)
Oct 2021: ‘Terra Centre, Yunnan, China', Silver Award at the DFA Design for Asia Awards 2021
Jul 2021: ‘1U1V Rural Sustainable Development Assistance Programme', 2021 International Green Gown Awards (in "Benefitting Soicety" category)
Jan 2021: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Social Responsible Architecture Award in ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2020
Dec 2020: 'Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities', Silver Award in Hong Kong Institute of Planners Awards 2020
Nov 2020: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', HKIA Medal of the Year outside Hong Kong & Special Architectural Award - Social Innovation
Apr 2020: Honorable Mention, CUHK Research Mentorship Award 2019 Nov 2019: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Green Building Award 2019 - 'Grand Award' and 'Special Citation on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals' (under New Building Category: Completed Projects - Residential Building) Nov 2019: 'Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities, Green Building Award 2019 - 'Grand Award' (under Research & Planning Category)
Jun 2019: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', HKIA Cross-Strait Architectural Design Awards 2019 - Gold Award Winner in Residential Category
Nov 2018: Nomination Award for 2018年金經昌中國城市規劃優秀論文獎 Feb 2018: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', WAN Residential Award 2017
Dec 2017: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Local Grand Prize Award of the CIC Construction Innovation Award 2017
Nov 2017: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', WAF Building of the Year 2017 Winner & WAF "New & Old" Category Winner 2017
Jun 2017: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Winner of AR House Award 2017
Jul 2016: 'Ma’anqiao Village, Sichuan, China’, Winner of "Architecture & Local Development Category", Terra Award 2016
Mar 2016: ‘Maosi Ecological School’, Finalist for Terra Award 2016
Apr 2013: 「傑出義職榮譽大獎」 獅子山青年商會
Oct 2013: Achievement Award (Knowledge Transfer), KTO, CUHK
Mar 2012: University (CUHK) Research Excellence Award 2011/12
Jun 2012: ‘Urban Climatic Map’, Finalist, Green Building Awards 2012, Hong Kong Green Building Council.
Aug 2012: ‘Urban Climatic Map’, Merit Award, HKIP 2012 Awards, Hong Kong Institute of Planners.
Dec 2011: Honorable Mention, Asian of the Year, Reader’s Digest.
Sep 2011: ‘Ma’anqiao Village, Sichuan, China’, UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Awards 2011 (Jury Commendation for Innovation)
Received by Prof REN Chao:
Nov 2023: 'RIF Project', Green Building Award 2023 - Merit Award in the Rsearch and Planning Category Apr 2023: HKU Rosie Young 90 Medal for Outstanding Young Woman Scholar Sep 2021: 'Improved urban heat island mitigation using bioclimatic redevelopment along an urban waterfront at Victoria Dockside', Merit Award (Research Category) at the HKIUD Urban Design Awards 2021 Dec 2020: 'Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities', Silver Award in Hong Kong Institute of Planners Awards 2020 Sep 2020: 2020 IAUC Timothy Oke Award for Original Research in the Field of Urban Climatology Nov 2019: 'Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities, Green Building Award 2019 - 'Grand Award' (under Research & Planning Category) Nov 2018: 'Study on the Application of Urban Planning Climate Assessment and Ventilation Corridor Design Technology', The 3rd Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Awards 2018
Oct 2018: Poster Honourable Mention Awards at ICUC-10 / the 14th AMS Symposium on the Urban Environment for the papers titled "Michael Mau Fung Wong, Jimmy Chi Hung Fung, Jason Ching, Jason Wai Po Tse, Peter Pak Shing Yeung, Chao Ren, Wang Ran. Evaluation of the uWRF performance in Hong Kong with UCPs derived based on WUDAPT/NUDAPT dataset and the guidance for implementation" & "Pak Shing Yeung, Jimmy C.H. Fung, Mau Fung WONG & Ren Chao. Refinement of Roughness Length Value for the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model based on the understanding of Local Climate Zone."
Apr 2017: 4th place in The 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest
Jun 2016: Best Applied UHI Research Award in 4th IC2UHI 2016 Conference, Singapore, 30 May – 1 Jun 2016 for her study titled 'Local Climate Zone for Chinese cities and its implementation to local urban development'
Dec 2014: Finalist of The 5th Young Writers’ Debut Competition organized by SHKP and Joint Publishing (H.K.) by the book proposal titled 'The Vanishing Buildings'.
May 2012: ‘Urban Climatic Map and Standards for Wind Environment Feasibility Study, Hong Kong’ was a shortlisted project, Green Building Award 2012
‘Urban Climatic Map and Standards for Wind Environment Feasibility Study: Planning for Better Urban Climate, Hong Kong’won Certificate of Merit of Hong Kong Institute of Planners Awards 2012
Received by Dr Kevin Lau:
Nov 2023: 'RIF Project', Green Building Award 2023 - Merit Award in the Rsearch and Planning Category Jul 2023: 'RIF Project', (CUHK) Oustanding Research Impact Award 2022-23 Sep 2021: 'Improved urban heat island mitigation using bioclimatic redevelopment along an urban waterfront at Victoria Dockside', Merit Award (Research Category) at the HKIUD Urban Design Awards 2021
Dec 2020: 'Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities', Silver Award in Hong Kong Institute of Planners Awards 2020
Nov 2019: 'Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities, Green Building Award 2019 - 'Grand Award' (under Research & Planning Category)
Received by Dr Shi Yuan:
Sep 2021: 'Improved urban heat island mitigation using bioclimatic redevelopment along an urban waterfront at Victoria Dockside', Merit Award (Research Category) at the HKIUD Urban Design Awards 2021
Dec 2020: 'Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities', Silver Award in Hong Kong Institute of Planners Awards 2020
Nov 2019: 'Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities, Green Building Award 2019 - 'Grand Award' (under Research & Planning Category)
Received by Dr Xuyong:
Apr 2017: 4th place in The 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest
Received by Dr WAN Li:
Mar 2025: ‘Dahei New Village, Yunnan, China', HKIA Cross-Strait Architectural Design Awards 2024 - Merit Award in Community, Culture and Recreation Projects Category
Nov 2024: ‘Dahei New Village, Yunnan, China', HKIA Annual Awards 2024 - Medal of the Year outside Hong Kong & HKIA Special Award - Sustainable Architecture Sep 2022: Terra Centre, Yunnan, China', Honorary Mention Award (Category B-3: Public Amenity Institutional Buildings) in ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2022 May 2022: ‘Terra Centre, Yunnan, China', HKIA Annual Awards 2021 - Merit Award outside Hong Kong - Institutional Building & Special Architectural Award - Humanity & Social Inclusion
Apr 2022: ‘Terra Centre, Yunnan, China', Green Building Award 2021 - Special Citation on UN Sustainable Development Goals (New Buildings Category: Completed Projects – Institutional) Nov 2021: ‘Terra Centre, Yunnan, China', TERRAFIBRA Award 2021 Winner (under Public Cultural Equipment category) Oct 2021: ‘Terra Centre, Yunnan, China', Silver Award at the DFA Design for Asia Awards 2021
Jul 2021: ‘1U1V Rural Sustainable Development Assistance Programme', 2021 International Green Gown Awards (in "Benefitting Society" category)
Jan 2021: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Social Responsible Architecture Award in ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2020 Nov 2020: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', HKIA Medal of the Year outside Hong Kong & Special Architectural Award - Social Innovation Nov 2019: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Green Building Award 2019 - 'Grand Award' and 'Special Citation on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals' (under New Building Category: Completed Projects - Residential Building) Jun 2019: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', HKIA Cross-Strait Architectural Design Awards 2019 - Gold Award Winner in Residential Category
Nov 2018: Nomination Award for 2018年金經昌中國城市規劃優秀論文獎
Dec 2017: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Local Grand Prize Award of the CIC Construction Innovation Award 2017 Nov 2017: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', WAF Building of the Year 2017 Winner & WAF "New & Old" Category Winner 2017
Jun 2017: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Winner of AR House Award 2017
Jul 2016: ‘Ma’anqiao Village, Sichuan, China’, Winner of "Architecture & Local Development Category", Terra Award 2016. The project led by Prof Edward Ng.
‘Ma’anqiao Village, Sichuan, China’,UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Awards 2011 (Jury Commendation for Innovation). The project led by Prof Edward Ng.
Received by Dr WAI Ka Ming:
Jun, 2016: CUHK Sustainable Development Goals Programme (SDGP 2016) for research study titled 'Modifications of rainfall pattern due to urbanization effects and their implications'. The study was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
Received by PhD Students:
- Cai Meng: Jul 2023: CUHK Young Scholars Thesis Award 2022 for the thesis titled “Developing a High-resolution Urban Carbon Emissions Inventory of the Greater Bay Area: An Open-source Data Approach”. The student was supervsed by Prof Edward Ng.
- Liu Sheng: CUHK Postgraduate Research Output Award 2021. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng
- Kwok Yu Ting: Jul 2022: CUHK Young Scholars Thesis Award 2021 for the thesis titled "“Mesoscale Urban Climate Modelling of High-rise, High-density Cities: Implications for Urban Heat Mitigation in Hong Kong”. The student was supervsed by Prof Edward Ng.
- Cai Meng: Jun 2020: 1st prize for the project "Developing a High-resolution Emission Inventory Tool for Low-Carbon City Management Using Hybrid Method – A Pilot Test in High-density Hong Kong" and 3rd prize for the project "Detecting multi-temporal land cover change and land surface temperature in Pearl River Delta by adopting local climate zone"
at The 6th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- Wang Ran: Jun 2020: 3rd prize for the project "Detecting multi-temporal land cover change and land surface temperature in Pearl River Delta by adopting local climate zone"
at The 6th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- Liu Shing and Cheung Ka Ming: Nov 2019: 2019第三屆全國大學生茅以升公益橋小橋工程設計大賽三大獎.
- CHI Xinan: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Green Building Award 2019 - 'Grand Award' and 'Special Citation on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals' (under New Building Category: Completed Projects - Residential Building). The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
GONG Fangying: Post-grad Research Output Award 2018 by CUHK. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- GONG Fangying: CUHK Postgraduate Research Output Award 2018. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- CHI Xinan: Jun 2019: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', HKIA Cross-Strait Architectural Design Awards 2019 - Gold Award Winner in Residential Category. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- SHAO Changchuan: 'Yi Xin Qiao in Dujia Village, Chongqing, China', Bronze Award of World Pedestrian Bridge Award of 2019. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- SHAO Changchuan: 'Yi Xin Qiao in Dujia Village, Chongqing, China', Jury’s Award of Sustainable Achievement of RICS Award China 2019. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- WANG RAN: Poster Honourable Mention Awards at ICUC-10 / the 14th AMS Symposium on the Urban Environment for the paper titled "Michael Mau Fung Wong, Jimmy Chi Hung Fung, Jason Ching, Jason Wai Po Tse, Peter Pak Shing Yeung, Chao Ren, Wang Ran. Evaluation of the uWRF performance in Hong Kong with UCPs derived based on WUDAPT/NUDAPT dataset and the guidance for implementation" The student was supervised by Prof Ren Chao.
- SHAO Changchuan: 'Special Contribution Award for Bamboo Architecture' at the 1st Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- CHI Xinan: Feb 2018: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', WAN Residential Award 2017. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
CHI Xinan: Dec 2017: ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Local Grand Prize Award of the CIC Construction Innovation Award 2017. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- CHI Xinan: 'Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', WAF Building of the Year 2017 Winner & WAF "New & Old" Category Winner 2017. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- ZHENG Yingsheng, SHI Yuan: Nomination Award for 2017年金經昌中國城市規劃優秀論文獎. The students were supervised by Prof. Renchao and Prof Edward Ng.
- CHI Xinan: 'Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Winner of AR House Award 2017. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- SHAO Changchuan: 1st prize of University Student Bridge Design Competition 2017 (中交公規院杯”2017大學生橋樑設計大賽一等獎). The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- XIANG Luyao & WANG Ran: The Best “Living” Building Award in WSBE17 Hong Kong - International Youth Competition. The students were supervised by Prof Renchao and Prof Kevin Lau.
- YUAN Chao: CUHK 2014 Post-grad Research Output Award, Nov 2015. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- SHI Yuan: The International Association for Urban Climate and American Meteorological Society (IAUC/AMS) Student Presentation Award for his paper titled ‘Intraurban variability of particulate air pollution in Hong Kong - exploring the influence of building morphology in high density urban environment by using traverse measurement’ presented in The 9th International Conference of Urban Climate (ICUC) in Toulouse, 20-24Jul 2015. The study was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- ZHENG Yingsheng, SHI Yuan, GONG Fangying and TAN Zheng: Postgraduate Group Merit Award, Professor Charles K Kao Student Creativity Awards 2015 (高錕教授學生創意獎), bestowed by CUHK in Apr 2015 for their respective study of ‘Local Climate Zone System’. The study was supervised by Prof Ren Chao.
- ZHENG Yingsheng, SHI Yuan, GONG Fangying and TAN Zheng: Postgraduate Group Merit Award, The ‘Challenge Cup’ Hong Kong University Students Extra-curriculum Technology Contest (‘挑戰盃’香港大學生課外學術科技作品競賽), bestowed by Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association in June 2015 for their respective study of ‘Local Climate Zone System’. The study was supervised by Prof Ren Chao.
- SHI Yuan: The Best Presentation of the 47th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA) for his presentation titled ‘Wind Environment Characteristics in Chinese Vernacular Courtyard and its Design Application’ in Nov 2013." The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- CHEN Yang: nominated/shortlisted (final 4) for the Best Paper Award of PLEA Conference 2013. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- Kevin LAU and YUAN Chao: The International Association for Urban Climate and American Meteorological Society (IAUC/AMS) Student Presentation Award for their respective papers titled ‘Extending Past Temperature Record of Hong Kong from 1971 to 2010 and Optimising natural ventilation performance at high-density cities by CFD and morphometric methods’. Their papers were presented in the ICUC-Dublin 2012 Conference, 6-10 Aug 2012. The students were supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- YUAN Chao: Global scholarship for Research Excellence Award for exchanging to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2013. The student was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- CHEN Liang: Best Paper Award of the Australia and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA) Conference, 14-16 Nov 2011 at The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia for his paper on ‘Assessing pedestrian’s thermal transient condition: a bottom-up simulation approach’. The student was supervised by Prof. Edward Ng.
- MU Jun: nominated/shortlisted (final 4) for the Best Paper Award of PLEA Conference 2011. He was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- CHEN Liang: Scholarship for participating in CAAD Future 2011 in Belgium, 4-8 Jul 2011. He was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
- REN Chao: Scholarship for participating in the Winter School Styrian Academy at Graz, Austria 14-18 Feb 2011. She was supervised by Prof Edward Ng.
Received by Undergraduates:
- SIU Man and IP Kwun Lun: 1st Award in the 13th Challenge Cup (「挑戰杯」全國大學生 課外學術科技作品 競賽) held at Soochow University in Oct 2013 by the project "五專一村”鄉村可持續發展支援計劃". The project was supervised by Prof Edward Ng and Dr WAN Li.
- WONG Ho Man Francis and ZHU Yingjia: Grand Award in the 12th Challenge Cup (「挑戰杯」全國大學生課外學術科技作品競賽) held at Dalian University of Technology in Oct 2011 by the project " 川震重建 (故土新樓) 住房和城鄉建設部直屬第一示範點:馬鞍橋村災後重建綜合示範項目". The project was supervised by Prof Edward Ng and Dr WAN Li.
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