ICE and CHEC: Carbon management conversations - applying PAS 2080 and sharing best practice

Dr Patrick W T Chan

Dr Patrick Chan is a retired chartered civil engineer and a holder of the ICE’s Garth Watson Medal for his valued service to the institution over many years. 

In a career spanning more than half a century, Chan contributed significantly to enhancements in construction safety in Hong Kong, where he was an executive director of a major building company. Playing a key role in the introduction of a safety management system and site induction training in the 1990s, he also helped to improve construction quality and sustainability in the special administrative region. 

The first ICE regional director in Hong Kong, Chan served as a member of the ICE Council from 2017 to 2020. He was also secretary general of the Hong Kong Construction Association and held the same post at the International Federation of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors’ Associations. 

A civil engineering graduate of the University of Hong Kong, Chan holds an MBA as well as a PhD, which he obtained through his research investigating political and economic aspects of construction projects.

Tim Wong

Since starting his civil engineering career working on green and climate-resilient transport and water infrastructure for Hong Kong in 2008, Tim Wong has participated in several major projects across South East Asia. 

Wong has more than 16 years’ experience both of digital innovation and of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG). He applied ESG principles to schemes such as the drainage tunnel construction project on the north-west of Hong Kong Island even before the term was widely recognised.

An ICE member since 2013, Wong is also a certified carbon auditor and an ESG planner and analyst. A keen advocate of environmentally sound practices, he’s a member of the Hong Kong Green Building Council’s infrastructure rating system committee, which focuses on improving carbon management and the sustainability of the built environment. 

In 2020, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineering named Wong Young Engineer of the Year. In 2023, he attended the UN’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai as a delegate of the special administrative region.

Jinhui Jeanne Huang

Jinhui Jeanne Huang is an internationally recognised expert in water resources engineering, ecohydrology and climate-change adaptation. 

A Canadian citizen, Huang gained her PhD in water resources engineering from the University of Guelph, Ontario, in 2006. She has since held key academic positions both there and in China at the universities of Nankai and Tianjin.

Huang has also served as a senior project engineer for WPS (formerly the MMM Group) in Canada, where she worked on major environmental and water infrastructure schemes. 

Huang has been instrumental in shaping urban water strategies in China, where she sits on the expert board of the state’s sponge city committee. At Tianjin, she pioneered the introduction of low-impact development in ecosystem planning in 2011 and later designed the largest constructed wetland for water treatment in northern China, providing nature-based methods of urban water quality improvement. 

A fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Huang has chaired its international affairs committee. She also serves on the water committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations.