• Congratulations to Edward Ng, Kevin Lau and Ren Chao. They received Merit Award (Research & Planning Category) at the Green Building Award 2023 by their research project titled "Increasing The Resilience To The Health Impacts Of Extreme Weather On Elderly People Under Future Climate Change" (posted: 6 Nov 2023)

• Prof Edward Ng received Doctor of Science (DSc) degree honoured by Cambridge University (posted: 20 Oct 2023)

• Congratualtions to Ren Chao. She received Rosie Young 90 Medal for Outstanding Young Woman Scholar at HKU.

• Prof Edward Ng received CUHK Research Mentorship Award 2022. (posted: 1 Mar 2023)

• The most cited articles from Urban Climate published since 2018: "Ran Wang, Meng Cai, Chao Ren, Benjamin Bechtel, Yong Xu, EdwardNg. Detecting multi-temporal land cover change and land surface temperature in Pearl River Delta by adopting local climate zone. Urban Climate, Volume 28, June 2019" (posted: 7 Feb 2022)

• Congratulations to Kevin Lau, Shi Yuan and Ren Chao. They received Merit Award (Research Category) at the HKIUD Urban Design Awards 2021 by their research project titled "Improved urban heat island mitigation using bioclimatic redevelopment along an urban waterfront at Victoria Dockside" (posted: 24 Sep 2021)

• Congratulations to 1U1V team. 1U1V rural sustainable development assistance programme was awarded as a winner in "Benefitting Society" category at 2021 International Green Gown Awards. (posted: 7 July 2021)

• A Chinese Patent (patent no. ZL 20160816126.5, 11 Jun 2021) was granted to the team's invention entitled "3D Building Extraction Apparatus, Method and System" (posted: 30 Jun 2021)

• Congratulations to Ren Chao, Edward Ng, Kevin Lau and Shi Yuan. They received Silver Award in Hong Kong Institute of Planners Awards 2020 by the project titled "Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities". (posted: 6 Jan 2021)


• Congratulations to Ren Chao. She recieved 2020 IAUC Timothy Oke Award for Original Research in the Field of Urban Climatology. (posted: 28 Sep 2020)


• Congratulations to 1U1V team. Their paper was selected as one of commended papers at the PLEA 2020 conference. (posted: 7 Sep 2020)


• A US Patent (patent no. 10,521,694 B2, 31 Dec 2019) was granted to the team's invention entitled "3D Building Extraction Apparatus, Method and System" (posted: 3 Jun 2020)

• Congratulations to Cai Meng and Wang Ran. They won one first prize and one third prize under "Innovation Category (Research Thesis/ Invention)" at The 6th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. (posted: 2 Jun 2020)

• Three PhD Students' Papers About Healthy City Achieved “Most Cited Articles” in the Journal of Urban Climate (posted: 31 May 2020)

• Liu Shing and Cheung Ka Ming received a 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. (posted: 30 Nov 2019)

• Congratulations! The team received Green Building Award 2019 as below (posted: 7 Nov 2019):

Post-earthquake reconstruction demonstration project of Guangming Village(under New Building Category: Completed Projects - Residential Building)

• Grand Award
• Special Citation on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities (under Research & Planning Category)

• Grand Award

Modern Bamboo Structure Research Group(under Research & Planning Category)

• Finalist

• Congratulations to Ren Chao. She received The 3rd prize of Beijing Science and Technology Awards 2018 by the "Study on the Application of Urban Planning Climate Assessment and Ventilation Corridor Design Technology". (posted: 29 Aug 2019)

• Congratulations to Shao Changzhuan. He received Jury’s Award of Sustainable Achievement of RICS Award China 2019 by the bridge project "Yi Xin Qiao in Dujia Village, Chongqing, China". (posted: 29 Apr 2019)

• Congratulations to Wanli and Edward Ng. Their paper with title "Study on the Application of Building Environmental Assessment Methods in Rural Areas of China " received an award from the Urban Planning Society of China .(posted: 22 Nov 2018)

• Congratulations to Ren Chao and Wang Ran.  Their paper at the ICUC10 conference in New York have won Poster Honourable Mention Awards. (posted: 15 Oct 2018)

• Prof Renchao is plenary speaker of 10th International Conference on Urban Climate/ 14th Symposium on the Urban Environment in New York, 6-10 August 2018 .(posted: 10 May 2018)

• Workshop on Urban Climate, Human Thermal Comfort and Building Energy Consumption, 15 Jan 2018 (posted on 16 Jan 2018)

• Ms Zheng Yingsheng and Mr Shi Yuan received a Nomination Award for 2017年金經昌中國城市規劃優秀論文獎. (posted: 18 Oct 2017)

• One of top 10% most cited PLOS ONE articles: "William B. Goggins, Emily Y. Y. Chan, Edward Ng, Chao Ren, Liang Chen. Effect Modification of the Association between Short-term Meteorological Factors and Mortality by Urban Heat Islands in Hong Kong". Plos One, 22 Jun 2012 (posted: 20 July 2017)

• Prof Edward Ng, Dr Wanli and Mr Chi Xinan received AR House Award 2017 by the project ‘Guangming Village Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Demonstration House, Yunnan, China', Congratulations! (posted: 10 July 2017)

• Mr Shao Changchuan (PhD student) won a prize in 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) (posted: 12 Jun 2017)

• The design project “C3 Farming” by Miss Xiang Luyao and Miss Wang Ran (PhD students) has won The Best “Living” Building Award in WSBE17 Hong Kong - International Youth Competition. (posted: 9 Jun 2017)

• The most cited building environment articles published since 2012: "NG Yan Yung; LIANG C; WANG Yingna and YUAN, Chao.  "A study on the Cooling Effects of Greening in High Density City: an experience from Hong Kong". Building and Environment.2011.07.014. 16 pgs. 2011.07. (posted: 26 May 2017)

• Dr Xuyong and Prof Renchao won the 4th place in The 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest, organized by the IADF TC in collaboration with WUDAPT and GeoWiki (posted: 8 May 2017)

• Seminar on Urban Ventilation Assessment and Air Path Plan in Shenzhen, 8-9 Dec 2016 (posted: 14 Dec 2016)

• WUDAPT Workshop was held successfully in CUHK during 5-6 December (posted: 13 Dec 2016)

• WUDAPT Workshop @ CUHK, 5-6 Dec 2016. Click [here] to see more details.

• Call for Abstract on the Urban Environment - 97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 22-26 Jan 2017, Seattle, USA (posted: 19 July 2016)

• Prof Edward Ng and Dr Wanli received Terra Award 2016 by the project ‘Ma’anqiao Village, Sichuan’ under “Architecture and Local Development Category”. Congratulations! (posted: 15 July 2016)

• Prof Renchao received 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' (posted: 8 July 2016)

• Call for Paper - First International Conference on Urban Physics, Quito - Galápagos, 25 Sep - 2 Oct 2016 (Deadline for paper submission: 30 Apr 2016)

• Call for Paper - World Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2017 Hong Kong, 5-7 June 2017 (Deadline for abstract submission: 31 May 2016)

• Call for Abstract - 50th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association Adelaide, 7-9 December 2016 (Deadline: 28 Mar 2016)

• Croucher Advanced Study Institute on “Changing Urban Climate and the Impact on Urban Thermal Environment and Urban Living” and WUDAPT Workshop were held successfully in CUHK during 7–13 December (posted: 14 Dec 2015)

• Congratulations to Dr Yuan Chao awarded "CUHK Postgraduate Research Output Award 2014" nominated by Faculty of Social Science (posted: 19 Nov 2015)

• WUDAPT Workshop @ CUHK, 12-13 Dec 2015. Click [here] to see more details.

• A New Book edited by Edward Ng and Renchao - Urban Climatic Map – A Methodology for Sustanable Urban Planning, Taylor & Francis, London, UK. [link here]

• Call for Abstract - International Conference on Geographies of Health and Living in Cities: Making Cities Healthy for All (Deadline: 10 Jan 2016)

• Call for Application - Croucher Advanced Study Institute 2015-2016: Changing Urban Climate & the Impact on Urban Thermal Environment and Urban Living, 7 –11 Dec 2015, Hong Kong


• Call for Papers - The Fourth International conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands, 30 May-1 Jun 2016, Singapore


• Call for Papers - 14th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, 25th-27 Aug 2015, Nottingham, UK

• Congratulations to Zheng Ying Sheng, Shi Yuan, Gong Fang Ying and Tan Zheng on winning the Postgraduate Group Merit of Professor Charles K Kao Student Creativity Awards 2015 (posted: May 2015)