Management and Economics of Construction Safety in Hong Kong

About the Authors

s.w. Poon ABOUT THE AUTHORS S. W Poon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction at the University of Hong Kong. He obtained his M.Sc. in Construction and Ph.D. from Loughborough University, U.K. Besides being a Chartered Structural Engineer and a Corporate Member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, he is also an Expert Member of the Formwork and Falsework Scaffolding Professional Committee, and the Construction Technology Academic Committee of the China Construction Institution, Beijing, China. Dr. Poon has been appointed over thirty times as an independent safety expert in investigating construction accidents and failures. His research interests include construction and project management, temporary works design and construction,and failures during construction. He has published many papers on construction safety and accidents and is a co-author of Modem Construction Project Management and Construction Quality Management published by Hong Kong University Press. ----- 172 MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS OF CONSTRUCTION SAFETY IN HONG KONG s. l. Tang S. L. Tang is a Chartered Civil Engineer and obtained his B.Se. in Civil Engineering from the University ofHong Kong in 1972,M.Sc. in Construction Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1977, and Ph.D. from the Civil Engineering Department of Loughborough University, U.K. in 1989. Dr. Tang had nearly seven years of working experience in civil engineering practice in contracting/consulting firms and government departments before he joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in which he is currently involved in the teaching and research of construction management and water &: environmental management. Dr. Tang has written over one hundred journaVconference papers and books/reports related to the areas of his expertise. He has also taught as a Visiting Scholar or Visiting Professor in universities of different countries such as China, Australia and the USA. Francis K.W. Wong Francis Wong is the Head of Department of Building and Real Estate (BRE), as well as the Director of Research Centre for Construction and Real Estate Economics (RCCREE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University He has 28 years of academic and practical experiences, and has published more than a hundred papers in the form of refereed journal articles, refereed conference papers, professional journal papers, research monographs, and consultancy reports. Professor Wong is a Fellow Member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) , a Founding Member as well as the Chairman of the Safety Specialist Group of HKIE in 1999/2000. He is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute ofBuilding (CIOB) and the Senior Vice-Chairman of the CIOB (Hong Kong Branch) in 1994/95. He is also a Fellow and a Founding Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Construction Managers (HKICM). His main research areas include construction safety and affordable housing development. ...