The theme of the 40th HKIE GD Annual Seminar is “Geotechnical Engineering Excellence and Essentials – Quality Assurance for Design and Construction”. For the past decades, our geotechnical professionals have played an important role in building Hong Kong as one of the best world cities. Apart from our success, the construction industry is still facing a lot of challenges and public pressures on various aspects such as high construction cost, declining productivity level and recent alleged issues related to the quality of construction delivery. In this seminar, we would like to provide a platform for our practitioners to share their ideas and experiences, with the aim of generating useful insights from the geotechnical profession to pursue higher goals and overcome new challenges. We are particularly grateful to our Keynote Speakers, Ir Dr Raymond Cheung (Deputy Head of GEO (Mainland), CEDD) and Ir Wes Jones (Managing Director of Dragages Hong Kong) for sharing with us their experiences and ideas on innovation as well as the latest development of technology in relation to geotechnical works.
