Education: Presentations and Exhibition for The HKU Course

One of the student groups to which Barry facilitates

BWPI Director Barry Wilson attended the final Presentations and Exhibition for students of Surveying Studio 5 (Department of Real Estate and Construction at the The University of Hong Kong) on 26 November, 2014. Mr Wilson acted as facilitator to 4 student groups over the semester.

Students disscuss with Dr Roine Leiringer (one of the facilitators)

The assignment for the studio is to investigate how the real estate and construction sector can contribute to the development of a Smart Hong Kong. The brief is to develop creative, forward looking and socially inclusive solutions that address the Smart City from a built environment perspective.

The students are expected to integrate and apply knowledge from previous taught courses to tackle authentic and/or ill-defined problems in the land conversion process; develop self-directed, self-motivated learning capability and collaborative learning skills; develop problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, time management, communication, negotiation skills.