Management contracting in Hong Kong

Despite technological advancement in building techniques, new construction tools, equipment, and plant, and a greater variety and better quality of construction materials, the construction industry is generally regarded as one making slow progress in productivity. Here the potential of management contracting as a contracting method is considered in depth. Analysis includes assessment of its fundamental features, cost-benefit analysis and practical applications. The feasibility of its adoption in Hong Kong is evaluated.     

A survey of building envelope designs for commercial buildings in Hong Kong

Nearly 1 million m² of gross floor area is represented by the survey which identified four different building envelope designs. To enable judgements to be made on construction cost and time, a comparative study was carried out based on a 40-storey generic office building.     

香港公屋本质,公屋设计和居住实态

文章分析了香港在不同时期的公屋政策，公屋设计及居住实态。     

Third Natures: Incubators of Public Space

Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda , founders of the Madrid-based office AMID.cero9, shift the notion of the urban from the classic idea of the complete or ideal city, to one which engages with essential urban phenomena: the dynamics of confrontation, dispute and agreement between individuals, social groups and subcultures. In this way, public spaces are transformed from empty spaces into a real context for social interaction; and active involvement with social exchange becomes the main purpose of a project for a new architecture of the city.     

Dragons Adrift: The New Chinese Landscape

The work of New York-based artist Nancy Wolf is preoccupied with the relationship between people and the contemporary city. Here she explains how a meeting with scholar and poet Lap Lam in Hong Kong provided much of the inspiration for her work in China, which she describes as ‘a commentary on the enormous changes in today's Chinese landscape created by Modernist architecture and urban planning’.     

粤港国际物流研究:广东省国际物流业集装箱化率和集装箱生成系数分析

在经济一体化理论指导下,基于详实的统计数据并运用统计分析的方法对广东省国际集装箱运输业的两个最基本的指标（国际集装箱化率和国际集装箱生成系数）进行了定量分析。考虑到经由香港运输的国际货物与经由广东省沿海主要港口运输的国际货物的同构性,得出广东省国际集装箱化率与香港集装箱化率基本持平的结论。经统计分析并综合考虑粤港两地对国际货物的分流情形,计算出广东省制造业生成的国际集装箱总量,与外贸进出口额相除后得到广东省国际集装箱生成系数。     

如何创建世界一流大学——香港科技大学的探索

香港科技大学虽然建校仅十五年，然而它却产生了许多令人瞩目的学术成果。本文从办学理念、师资建设、研究与开发等方面对该校进行分析后认为，立足本地、着眼世界且小而精的办学理念，高标准、人性化的师资建设，及有选择、合作性的研发活动是香港科技大学办学特色之所在，也是其在短时间内迅速崛起的重要因素，这些经验值得内地高校创建世界一流大学过程中思索与借鉴。     

Evaluations of existing waste recycling methods: A Hong Kong study

Environmental problems have been considered as a serious situation in Hong Kong construction. Waste management is pressing harder with the alarming signal warning the industry. Reuse, recycling and reducing the wastes are considered as the only methods to recover the wastes generated; however, the implementations still have much room for improvement. In order to ameliorate the existing situations, evaluations of the existing waste recycling methods are studied in this research. A telephone interviewing to the recyclers, site visits to the construction and demolition sites (including the Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate Phase 1) and the centralized recycling plant in Tuen Mun Area 38 are under investigation. Difficulties encountered for various recycling parties are investigated. Rather than the poor quality found from the recyclable materials, they found the high investment cost, lengthy demolition period and limited space caused the major barriers for them. Therefore, some recommendations are suggested: (i) proposing a higher landfill charging scheme; (ii) setting up a centralized centre for recycling the materials; (iii) examining the Hong Kong government should be supported in the provision of land for recycling plants; (iv) implementing innovative demolition methods; (v) allowing some locations in town for residents’ easy access to drop-off recyclable materials; (vi) allowing flexible demolition periods; (vii) setting up recycling plant in town or in the form of mobile installations; (viii) reusing the reusable components as donations to the charity organization; (ix) providing higher flexibility in receiving concrete waste in Tuen Mun Area 38 recycling plant; and (x) balancing the supply and demand of recycled materials through legislations or incentive schemes.     

中国牛形古村落--安徽黟县宏村

安徽省黟县东北部的宏村，融自然景观和人文景观为一体，恰似山水长卷，被誉为“中国画里的乡村”。其将整个村子构建成“牛”型结构布局的理水艺术，更是被誉为当今世界历史文化遗产的一大奇迹。2000年11月30日被联合国教科文组织世界遗产委员会列入世界文化遗产名录。     

合乎公众利益?——行政主导下专业规划师的重新定位

尝试剖析政府的专业规划师如何理解“公众利益”和如何以公众利益之名行事 ,从而探讨在重建市区的需要越来越迫切的情况下 ,香港整体社会可能面对的挑战和问题。笔者首先剖析香港的规划环境 ,然后讨论笔者对政府规划师的调查研究结果 ,最后以香港不断转变的社会经济和政治发展作结。笔者认为 ,更敢于提出诉求的民间社会已逐渐形成 ,民间社会要求参予界定何谓公众利益。因此 ,政府规划师需要反思他们对公众利益的理解。