Hong Kong Institute of Planners
Housewarming Seminar Series
Seminar on Sichuan Earthquake Restoration Planning
- with a Case Study of Dujiangyan
Speakers
Mr. Stanley Yip, Immediate Past President, HKIP； Director- Planning
and Development，Arup China
Mr. David Tam, Honorary Secretary, HKIP, HKIP Sichuan Earthquake
Concern Group
Mr. Derek Cheung, MHKIP, HKIP Sichuan Earthquake Concern Group
Mr. Lawrence Chau, , HKIP Sichuan Earthquake Concern Group
(Co-convenor)
Date: 2 August 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 10:00 am – Noon
Place: HKIP New Premises: Room 804, 8/F, Stanhope House, 734
King’s Road, Quarry Bay.
Introduction
The seminar is the 4th and last of the series of house-warming seminars
for our new office at Quarry Bay. The topic is really a timely and
important one.
The Wenchuan 5.12 Earthquake is a massive catastrophe which left about
70,000 thousand dead and 20,000 missing. There are several millions of
victims who lost their homes, workplaces, schools, villages and
townships. The victims need to rebuild their family, home, settlement.
More important, they have to regain their livelihood, schooling, social
network and renew their heart and spirit. It is a common understanding
that comprehensive planning must take the lead before restoration and
redevelopment proceed.
Of the devastated areas, Dujiangyan is the most important city. It is both a
world cultural and natural heritage site. The Institute is honoured to have
many members having involved in the restorative planning exercise for
Dujiangyan, which has been given an early start and world-wide
attention.
From the beginning, we had prepared summaries of important planning
documents of Tai Wan 921 Earthquake and the Kobe Earthquake and sent
the summaries to our counterparts in Mainland for their information.
Subsequently, at the request of the Chengdu Planning Bureau and
Planning Design Institute, Mr Derek Cheung, Miss Erin Young, Mr
Edward Li, Mr David Tam and Ms Teresa Chu had gone to Chengdu and
Dujiangyan to help with the restorative planning exercise. Our present
and former president, KK Ling and Andrew Lam, represented HKIP in
the experts’ conference to review the study findings submitted by the 10
consultancies voluntarily participating in the restoration planning study of
Dujiangyan.
Mr. David Tam, Honorary Secretary, HKIP, who was a volunteer to help
Dujiangyan Planning Authority, actively researches into the mainland
restoration planning policies for the earthquake devastated areas, will
introduce to us the general conditions of devastated areas and the policy
and planning framework and procedures for restorating the devastated
areas.
Mr Stanley Yip, Immediate Past President of HKIP, has led the global
multi-disciplinary team of Ove Arup & Partners to participate, on a
voluntary basis, in the post-earthquake restoration planning exercise for
Dujiangyan. He will share the challenges confronted in post-earthquake
planning and the different planning approaches adopted by the Arup team
during the preparation of the planning proposals. Issues such as property
rights, geo-hazard risk assessment and land use planning, earthquake
mitigation planning, and redevelopment institutional mechanisms will be
covered.
Mr. Derek Cheung, who stayed 2 weeks in Chengdu/Dujiang as a
volunteer from late May to mid-June, will share with us important
messages from his personal experience. Derek has felt the shaking of
ground.
Mr. Lawrence Chau, as the co-convenor, will give a brief report on the
work of the HKIP Sichuan Concern Group.
About the Speakers
Mr. Stanley Yip is a town planner, land economist and landscape
architect by training. He is currently the Director, Planning &
Development responsible for the development and management of the
planning practices of Ove Arup & Partners in Asia and China, with a
focus on sustainable development planning. He served as the Advisor to
the Department of Construction of Jiangsu Province, Senior Advisor to
the Planning Committee of the City of Harbin, Senior Advisor to the City
of Zhuzhou, and also Special Honorary Professor of the Zhejiang Tourism
College. Stanley receives interviews by press and regular invitations to
speak at major conferences on sustainable development, climate change,
sustainable design, ecological planning and land development issues in
China.
Mr. David Tam, the Honorary Secretary of HKIP, a town planner with
the Cross Boundary Infrastructure & Development Studies Unit of the
Planning Department. He is committed to research into restorative
planning policies and practices of the devastated areas and he is the main
major information source for the HKIP Sichuan Earthquake Concern
Group.
Mr. Derek Cheung, a senior town planner with the Cross Boundary
Infrastructure & Development Studies Unit of the Planning Department.
He attended an exchange programme in Shanghai in 2007 for two months
and is familiar with the Mainland planning system.
Mr. Lawrence Chau, a senior town planner with the Planning
Department. He is a council member of HKIP and the co-convenor of
the Mainland Liaison Committee. He is also the co-convenor of the
HKIP Sichuan Concern Group.
HKIP Continuing Professional Development (CPD) equivalent hours :
2 hours
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