ASHRAE LINK

Vol. 01

DEC 2020

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ASHRAE LINK THE NEWSLETTER OF HONG KONG CHAPTER

Email: [email protected] P.O

Box 35612, King’s Road Post

Office, North Point, Hong Kong

Editor: Mr. Mike Chan [Chair of

Publications & Newsletter] and

Ms. Daphne Chan [Co-Chair of

Publications & Newsletter]

ASHRAE Link is published by the

ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter.

Statements made in the publication

are not expressions of the Society

or the Chapter, and may not be

reproduced without special

permission of the Chapter. The

newsletter is accepting letters to the

editor and article submission on

topics of interest to the members of

the Chapter. Materials should be

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

ASHARE Retreat Cum 36th Anniversary on 20 Jun 2020

PRESIDENT MESSAGE Page 2 SEMINAR BY SUSTAINABILITY

COMMITTEE Page 9

CRC Page 3 TWG- REFRIGERANT UPDATE Page 10

MEMBERSHIP PROMOTION Page 4

RESEARCH PROMOTION

Page 11-12

STUDENT & YEA ACTIVITIES Page 5

BROAD OF GOVERNORS AND

COMMITTEES 2020 / 2021

Page 13 - 14

STUDENT BRANCH Page 6

JOINT SYMPOSIUM 19/20 Page 7

VIRUAL DIALOGUE WITH SOCIETY

PRESIDENT Page 8

DATE OF ISSUE: 31 DEC 2020 ASHRAE LINK

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

It is my honor to be elected as the President of ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter

in 2020-21. It is also a tough year that we all need to face. The COVID-19

pandemic has been widely spreading all over the world. The business behavior

is changing in a way that we are not easy to see each other in person. The global

economy is in a nosedive. Everyone is waiting for the vaccine to be developed.

In the first half of my presidential year, we still held several seminars and BoG

meetings. Some of those gatherings went on-line. Definitely, we could not

arrange any site visits and workshops. But we tried our best to keep in contact

with all members and committee representatives, update the latest information

and technology to the industry. During this difficult situation, I have to say thank

you to all of my committee members for their altruistic supports and efforts.

The theme of this year is “The ASHRAE Digital Lighthouse & Industry 4.0”.

We are encouraged to focus on the digital evolution of the engineering and

construction ecosystem. Our society president described the engineering and

construction is like farming. It is because farming is a process of plowing,

planting, maintaining, and harvesting. In our engineering and construction

ecosystem, we also need to acquire the correct team (plow), find the right path

(plant), drive our value in continuous improvement (maintain) and build up

solution to exceed expectations (harvest). Throughout this process, we can

identify ourselves as the innovators, differentiate ourselves from the

competition and improve our profit. And go digitization can enlarge our harvest

as well.

Digitization is a new trend, and it will be running popularly in this challenging

moment. We need to work together and get through this hard year.

Hope all of you can stay healthy!

Tenny Tam

President (2020-21)

ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter


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23RD REGION XIII VIRTUAL CHAPTERS REGIONAL CONFERENCE (CRC) WORKSHOP 2020

The 23rd Region XIII CRC-2020, which

was originally to be held on 21st to 23rd

August 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia. It has to

be postponed by another year to 2021 due to

the pandemic situation of COVID-19. In

order to maintain the operation of the RXIII,

CRC-2020 continued to held on August

2020 via a Virtual Platform (Zoom /

Gotoeeting). The Regional Historian (2019-

2021) Mr. KC Ng, took up the role of CRC-

2020 General Chair.

The Chapters Regional Conference (CRC)

consist of Chapters Regional Committee

Meetings (Orientation Session, Business

Session, Executive Caucus and Regional

Planning Meeting(RPM) - 1) and Training

Workshops. Society Director of Member

Services - Joyce Abrams, Treasurer - Farooq

Mehboob, Vice President - William Dean

and committee officer - Chandra Sekhar

were also participated in the virtual CRC

online. All the RXIII ASHRAE member and

friends are free to join the online meetings

and workshop.

The virtual Orientation section and

Executive Caucus were held on 1st August

2020 while the Business Session and RPM-

1 were held on 22nd and 23rd August 2020

respectively.

The virtual Workshop for Membership

Promotion (MP), Research Promotion (RP),

Student Activities (SA), Young Engineers in

ASHRAE(YEA), Electronic

Communication (EC), Chapter Technology

Transfer (CTT), Refrigeration, Government

Affairs (GA) were held on 8th August 2020

and 15th August 2020 respectively.

Although we cannot meet and greet face to

face and we missed the exciting function

such as annual dinners and visits in ordinary

CRC, everyone was still in good spirit and

we looking forward to meeting again in

CRC 2021 Jakarta, Indonesia.


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MEMBERSHIP PROMOTION

Membership promotion talk to

Far East Engineering Co. Ltd was

conducted on 25 Sept 2020. Thanks

for support from the President, past

Presidents and other ASHRAE

colleagues.

There are two membership

promotion talks scheduled as

follows: -

9 Nov – AIBE (Virtual

Talk)

16 Dec -WSP (Physical

Talk)

ASHRAE Night, a physical

ASHRAE Night is preferred

with aiming to attract more new

members and sponsorship. In

view of current pandemic

situation, the ASHRAE night is

proposed to be postponed to

April 2021 with no time conflict

with other planned activities.

Membership Status (Up to 6th November 2020)

MP Dashboard

Aggregate

Summary Report

Qty Remark

Member and Associate Grade

Cumulative Addition 46

Cumulative

Cancellation 22

Affiliate& Student Member Grade

Cumulative Addition 52

Cumulative

Cancellation 28 Student

member

s

According to HQ quarterly report regarding Growth Goals – End

of Q1, the net growth goal and first quarter totals are 772 and 768

respectively.

The Chair and Co-Chairs has been following up to the individual

lapsed and members in “Grace” membership status for

encouraging renewal of their membership.


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YEA SA CAREER TALK

ASHRAE HKC YEA and SA held the online Career Talk on 7 November 2020 at The University

of Hong Kong and via Microsoft Team. There were more than 50 students applied and attended

this event. Our YEA & SA committee chair, Mr. Paul Tsang & Ms. Moka Lai introduced

ASHRAE YEA & SA, promoted the membership during the event. Speakers from different

sectors including contractor, consulting firm, government department and client have shared their

working experience and respective job nature with the participants and provide guidance on their

doubts on career development. The event started from 10:00 am and ended at 12:00nn. After all,

the event was successfully completed. ASHRAE YEA and SA promoted our organization to the

young engineers and students. The event provided a platform for the participants to get familiar

with the engineering industry as well as share their ideas with each other.


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JOINT STUDENT BRANCHES

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2020

Under the impact of Covid-19, joint student

branches annual general meeting (SB AGM)

was first time conducted through the internet.

Still luckily, while the pandemic was relatively

stable, limited HKC officers, SB Presidents

and advisors gathered for the meeting with

society distance. For the other student

committees and immediate past presidents,

they joined through the internet.

In this AGM, we did the similar rundown with

last year. However, the largest challenge had

happened on the broadcast control technology.

We hoped that even the SB committees cannot

reach venue, they still can introduce

themselves one by one. It may be caused

inconvenient but it was really valuable for all

of them. All immediate past presidents (IPP)

presented their own student branch annual

report of last year and the new president

proposed the upcoming year plan. The SB cert

and flag also transferred from IPP to the

current president.

After the handover ceremony, Justin from

HKU presented the design project which won

the 3rd place of HVAC design calculation and

2nd place of HVAC system selection in a

series of ASHRAE global competition. He

shared the skills and experience to encourage

students to join in next year too. I also want to

take this opportunity to thanks for our HKC

president – Mr. Tenny Lam and Heidi from

YEA provided speech and sharing in this

meaning event.


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HONG KONG JOINT SYMPOSIUM 2019/20

The Joint Symposium 2019/20 jointly

organized by The Chartered Institution

of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)

Hong Kong Region, The Hong Kong

Institution of Engineers – Building

Services Division, ASHRAE Hong

Kong Chapter and the Department of

Building Services Engineering of the

Hong Kong Polytechnic University was

successfully held on 28th October 2020

in webinar basis. The main theme is

“Innovation for Smart Performance

Buildings in Hong Kong & Great Bay

Area”. This was a remarkable year as the joint symposium had been hindered by the social event in

2019 and pandemic issue in 2020, leading to the first year of bringing a webinar platform to gather

internal and local speakers to foster the advances in building design and building services

engineering. After the Welcome Address delivered by the Chairman, Mr Walter Au, the guest of

honour, Ir. S.H. Lam, JP, Permanent Secretary for Development (Works) of the HKSAR

Government, officiated the Opening Address to the participants. Different topics of session themes

had been delivered, including sustainable building designs, innovative approaches for building

services installations, advanced monitoring based commissioning and Internet of Things (IoT).


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VIRTUAL DIALOGUE WITH SOCIETY PRESIDENT

A virtual dialogue with the new Society President, Mr. Charles Gulledge III was held on 7 October

2020. It was also in discussion with the Region XIII DRC Mr. Apichit Lumlertpongpana, Chapter

Presidents from Macau and Taiwan, and all of our officers.

We understood that our Society President was born in a farm. And he described that the engineering

and construction is like farming. It is because farming is a process of plowing, planting, maintaining,

and harvesting. In our engineering and construction ecosystem, we also need to acquire the correct

team (plow), find the right path (plant), drive our value in continuous improvement (maintain) and

build up solution to exceed expectations (harvest). Throughout this process, we can identify

ourselves as the innovators, differentiate ourselves from the competition and improve our profit.

The theme in this year is “The ASHRAE Digital Lighthouse & Industry 4.0”. It encourages us to

focus on the digital evolution of the engineering and construction ecosystem. It is true, especially

under this pandemic situation as we are all suggested to stay home and use technology to

communicate and work for business.

Hope all of you can get through this difficult situation quickly!

Tenny Tam

President (2020-21)

ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter


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SEMINAR BY SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE

ASHRAE Sustainability

Committee held three webinars.

1. “Central - Wan Chai Bypass

& the first road tunnel air

purification system” on 27-Nov-

2020 by AECOM Ms. Lydia Lee

and Mr. Eric Cheung.

2. “Control Intelligence for

HVAC System” on 3-Dec-2020 by

Schneider Electric Mr. Ian Lee.

3. “District Cooling Design

accomplishing Sustainable

Development Goal” on 8-Dec-2020

by CLPe Solutions Limited Mr.

Alvin Lo.

All three events were successfully

completed.

Although all events have different

topics, sustainable development

goals can be found everywhere.

According to Alvin, a district

cooling system can achieve at least 4

goals including “Good Health and

Well-Being”, “Industry, Innovation

and Infrastructure”, “Sustainable

Cities and Communities” and

“Climate Action”.

.

AECOM Ms Lydia Lee and Mr Eric Cheung shared their

experience and over 50 attendees attended this webinar.

Thei Dr. Roger Ng presented the certificate to the speaker Mr.

Ian Lee from Schneider Electric. Over 60 attendees attended this

nearly 2 hours webinar as Ian shared his nearly 30 years

experiences about control, BMS, IoT and Intelligent building.

Mr. Tenny Tam presented the certificate to the speaker Mr. Alvin

Lo from CLPe Solutions Limited. Over 160 attendees attended

this 1 1/2 hours webinar as Alvin shared his experiences about

district cooling systems in Hong Kong and overseas.


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TWG- REFRIGERANT UPDATE

In 2020, HCFC refrigerants such as R-22 have been phased

out in new equipment importing to Hong Kong. Some of the

alternatives like R-401A are also scheduled to phase down

under the Kigali Amendment to Montreal Protocol due to high

global warming potential (GWP). ASHRAE Hong Kong

Chapter has launched a new technical working group (TWG-

Refrigerants) in August 2020 to observe/study the emerging

refrigerants to replace those with high GWP in use, and to

research the best practice or guidelines from ASHRAE (e.g.

Standard 15,34) to accomplish safe application in HVAC&R

industry since some of these emerging refrigerants are

flammable such as R-32, R-290, R-1234yf, R-1234ze(E), R-

452B and R-454B while others are of high pressure like CO2.

TWG-Refrigerants consists of ASHRAE members with

relevant experience in refrigerant bearing products/systems for

HVAC&R applications. They are working in their own

personal capacity as volunteers to accomplish specific

objectives and tasks endorsed by the Board of Governors,

ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter. Current membership included

Dr. Philip Yu (Chair), Prof. W K Chow, Mr. Joe Chow, Miss

Jessie Hu and Mr. Tenny Tam.


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RESEARCH PROMOTION

In 2019 - 2020, Hong Kong Chapter has contributed US$11,750 in the Research Promotion Campaign. We would

like to thank our donors generous supporting AHSRAE Research Promotion Campaign in 2019 – 2020. Donor

Recognition list as below:

Individual Donor

Mr Hei Kin CHAN Ms Chiu Wah LEE

Dr. Ka-Lung Raymond CHAN Mr Cheng Wee LEONG

Miss Wai Man CHAN Mr Simon LEUNG

Dr. Benny KM CHOW Mr Han Guan Den Low

Mr Chi Fung Taylor CHOW Ms. Cheung Ying MO

Mr Ho Fai Harvey GO Mr Tin Kuen NG

Mr Hung Man HUANG Ms Ching Man Tracy PANG

Mr Yat Sing KWOK Mr Wai Keung PAU

Miss Sheung Yu LAI Mr Ka Leung SUNG

Prof Peter Y H LAM Ms. Kok Fong Daisy WAH

Mr Ying Wai LAM Mr Michael Kai Ming WU

Mr Chun Leung LAU

Ms Chiu Wah LEE

Individual Donor (Antique)

Mr Joe CHOW

Dr Sam C M HUI

Mr Eric Kim Wai LAU

Mr Siu On LO

Mr Chun Kei NG

Mr Tsz Lung TAM

Mr Pok TSANG

Mr Edward Ka Cheung TSUI

Dr Chun-Sing WONG

Mr Shu Hung WONG

Dr Chi Man YIU


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Company Donor (Antique)

Aircon & Mechanical Supply

CJ wishing international ltd

Leblanc water treatment & chemicals Ltd.

Netsphere Solution Limited

Company Donor (Bronze)

FSE Engineering Group Ltd.

Major Donor (Silver)

Belimo Actuators Ltd

Ever Cool Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Co. Ltd.

Netsphere Solution Limited


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BROAD OF GOVERNORS AND COMMITTEES 2020 / 2021

Officers and Board of Governors

Posts Name President (CRC Delegate) Mr. TAM, Tsz Lung Tenny

President-Elect (CRC Alternate) Mr. HUANG, Hung Man Patrick

Secretary Mr. CHOW, Wai Hung Joe

Treasurer Mr. LAM, Yu Hung Peter

Immediate Past President Mr. NG, Chun Kei Jacky

Member, Board of Governors Ms. PANG, Ching Man Tracy

Member, Board of Governors Mr. CHAN, Hei Kin Thomas

Member, Board of Governors Dr. WONG, Chun Sing

Member, Board of Governors Mr. TSE, Kam Chuen Vincent

Working Committee

Committee Member (s)

Chapter Technology Transfer Mr. CHOW, Chi Fung Taylor (Chair)

Ms. LAW, Ting Fung Michelle (Co-Chair)

Mr. CHENG Twinsen (Co-Chair)

Membership Promotion Mr. LAU, K.W. Eric (Chair)

Mr. LEE, Siu Lim Anson (Co-Chair)

Mr. LO, Siu On Andy (Co-Chair)

Mr. YIP, Wai Tong Wallace (Co-Chair)

Research Promotion Mr. LAU, Chun Leung Tom (Chair)

Ms. HU, Jing Xia Jessie (Co-Chair)

Ms. LAI, Sheung Yu Moka (Co-Chair)

Mr. CHAN, Ying Kit Edwin (Co-Chair)

Student Activities Ms. LAI, Sheung Yu Moka (Chair)

Ms. LAW, Tsz Yan Samantha (Co-Chair)

Mr. LAM, Cheuk Fung Wilson (Co-Chair)

Attendance Mr. CHAN, Ho Hang Ivan (Chair)

Chapter Programs Mr. KWAN, Ho Sum Chris (Chair)

Mr. GO, Ho Fai Harvey (Co-Chair)

Ms. PUN, Mun Wai Cindy (Co-chair)

CRC Action Mr. NG, Chun Kei Jacky (Chair)

Electronic Communication Mr. LAU, Chun Leung Tom (Chair)

Government Advocacy Mr. SUNG, Ka Leung Michael (Chair)

Historical Mr. PAU, Wai Keung (Chair)

Honors & Awards Dr. YU, Philip (Chair)

Ms. WONG, Mandy (Co-Chair)

Dr. CHOW, Ka Ming Benny (Co-Chair)

Ms. PANG, Ching Man Tracy (Member)

Information Technology (IT) Mr. LAU, Chun Leung Tom (Chair)

Mr. LAU, Chun Leung Tom (Webmaster)

Institutions (HK) Liaison Mr. WONG, Shu Hung (Chair)

Mainland Relations Mr. KWOK, Yat Sing Jason (Chair)

Mr. TANG, Chi Hang Calvin (Co-Chair)

Public Sector Liaison Mr. CHAN, Ming Yee (Chair)

Mr. LEUNG, Wallace (Co-chair)

Publications & Newsletter Mr. CHAN, Yu Ho Mike (Chair)

Ms. CHAN, Wai Man Daphne (Co-Chair)

Publicity Dr. HUI, Chun Man Sam (Chair)

Reception Mr. WONG, Man Ki (Chair)

Refrigeration Ms. WONG, Mandy (Chair)


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Mr. WONG, Kwok Hung Eric (Co-Chair)

Sustainability Mr. LEE, Yiu Lun James (Chair)

Ms. WONG, Kitie (Co-Chair)

Young Engineers in ASHRAE Committee Mr. TSANG, Pok Paul (Chair)

Mr. WONG, Wang Tat Taylor (Co-Chair)

Ms. WONG, Heidi (Co-chair)

Mr. WAN, Victor (Co-Chair)

Technical Working Group

Energy Group TBA

Ventilation & Health Working Group Dr. CHOW, Ka Ming Benny (Leader)

O&M Group TBA

Humidity Working Group TBA

Refrigerant Group Dr. YU, Philip (Leader)

Documents

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