Society of Fire Protection Engineers 2007
7th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science & Technology
September 20 - 22, 2007, Hong Kong
Professor W.K. Chow
President of SFPE-HKC
Principal Investigator
Area of Strength : Fire Safety Engineering
Director, Research Centre for Fire Engineering
SFPEHongKong2007-WKC.ppt

 Hong Kong Chapter of the Society of Fire
Protection Engineers opened officially in October
2002.
 An Inaugural SFPE Hong Kong Chapter Meeting was held on 3 October 2002, 6:45 pm to 9:30 pm, at
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
 Wide range of participants, about 100, from the building industry, academies and government officials attended.
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 The meeting comprised welcoming note to the establishment of the Hong Kong Chapter and three technical talks on:
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“Birth of the fire safety engineering” by Prof.
Chow,
“Practical examples using fire engineering” by
Dr. L. Zhao and
“Heat release rate and flame spreading” by Miss
C.W. Leung.
 Ms K.H. Almand from the Headquarter gave a halfan-hour talk on the History of SFPE.
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The Inaugural Meeting
3 October, 2002
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 Fire Discipline of HKIE has been launched since
January 2006.
 Two of the Chapter officers (Prof. Chow and Dr.
Yuen) are members of HKIE Task Force for the establishment of Fire Discipline.
 The Chapter is going to liaise with HKIE Fire
Discipline to have representatives under SFPE-
HKC.
 In complementary.
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 The Officers serving the Hong Kong Chapter
Committee in year 2006 to the present are as follows:
 Academics : 3
 Consulting engineers : 6
 Government officers : 1
 Retired fire officer : 1
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President
Vice President
& Treasurer
Secretary
Prof. Wan-ki CHOW (FSFPE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Longde ZHAO (MSFPE), Warrington Fire Research (Asia-Pacific)
Limited
Miss Fiona Suk-chong TSUI (MSFPE), Maunsell AECOM
Officer
Officer
Officer
Officer
Officer
Officer
Officer
Officer
Mr Chi-man CHIANG (MSFPE), Buildings Department Hong Kong
Mr. Man-cheung HUI (MSFPE), Ove Arup & Partners HK limited
Mr. Robin Wei-kau LI (MSFPE), Colin Chan Consulting Engineers Ltd.
Dr. Gigi Che-heng LUI (MSFPE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mr. Derek Siu-shing TSOI (MSFPE), Parsons Brinckerhoff (Asia) Ltd.
Dr. Rumin YIN (MSFPE), Ove Arup & Partners HK limited
Dr. Richard Kwok-kit YUEN (MSFPE), City University of Hong Kong
Mr. Kwai-wing LAU, City University of Hong Kong
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The Chapter Meeting
28 November, 2006
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 Since opening of the Hong Kong Chapter, numerous Chapter meetings were held. Aimed to be held on a quarterly basis.
 A series of CPD lectures and seminars were held.
 In 2003, from April to September, Hong Kong was suffering from the SARS. Most public gathering events including seminars and talks, if were scheduled during that period had been postponed to other dates.
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Date Place of meeting
20 Dec 2002 FJ704, PolyU
30 Dec 2002 FJ704, PolyU
25 Jun 2003 AG713, PolyU
22 Jul 2003 FJ714, PolyU
29 Apr 2004 FJ704 , PolyU
12 Jun 2004
28 Nov 2006
FJ704 , PolyU
FJ714 , PolyU
Number of officers present
10
10
6
8
9
7
9
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Date Title Speakers
3 Oct 2002
7 Nov 2002
Birth of the FSE: Importance of performance based fire codes
Advanced topics on Fire Safety
Engineering
3 Dec 2002 Thermal radiation and flashover in room fires
30 Dec 2002 Risk Assessment and Management of Fire Safety
13 Jun 2003 Importance of Fire Research in
Dense Urban Areas and National
973 Project in China
25 Jun 2003 Fire Safety (Commercial Premises)
Ordinance and Fire Safety
(Buildings) Ordinance
W.K. Chow, K.H. Almand,
L.D. Zhao & C.W. Leung
L.P. Custer & J. Quiter
K.T. Yang
W.W. Yuen
W.C. Fan
K.S. Wong, C.M. Chiang,
C.H. Chung & S.H. Lo
No. of attendants
74
30
96
43
116
147
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Date Title Speakers
20 Aug 2003 Installation Issues with ESFR
Sprinkler Systems
30 Mar 2004 New Fire Safety Designs for a Large
Atrium
3 Apr 2004 Fire Risk Analysis: Probability and
Bayes Theorem
29 Apr 2004 Recent train fires and fire safety desired
13 Jul 2004 Advanced Measurement of Chemical
Species in Fires
6-7 Dec 2004 Fire Conference 2004 - Total fire safety
23 Feb 2005 Fire load and design fires studies in
Canada
K.F. Chan
Y.C. Chan, L.D. Zhao,
S. Pearce & W.K. Chow
W.W. Yuen
W.K. Chow
Professor J.M. Dyke
Professor J. Quintiere
Professor G.
Hadjisophocleous
No. of attendants
146
369
126
143
83
160
90
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Date
20 April 2006
Title
Recent developments in foam system
Speakers
Martin Workman
28 Nov 2006 Technical issues of fire engineering approach and application of fire modelling
W.K. Chow & N.K.
Fong
No. of attendants
109
BD-13,
FSD-29
43
FSD-8
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 Up to March, 2004, there are total 192 Members
(Member, Affiliate, Student) under the Hong Kong
Chapter,
 110 distributed as :
Members: 33
Associates: 0
Affiliates: 48
Students: 29
Unsorted: 82
 2007 Estimate :
Fellow: 1
Members:
Associates:
> 90
Affiliates:
Students: > 60
 In 2006, the Chapter submitted 2 fellows

 A numbers of Chinese translations of SFPE, which will be used as official title in Chinese have been proposed and discussed.
 It has been agreed that the official Chinese name is:
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 Criteria for good chapter practices
 Attending SFPE meetings
 Nominating fellows in local chapter
 Offering CPD and visits
 Frequency of meetings
 The Chapter has submitted the Self Evaluation
Form for SFPE Chapter Recognition Award for the period July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007.
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 Chapter President had attended the SFPE
Chapters Presidents Meeting held in Ellicot City,
Baltimore, US on Oct 15, 2006.
 Setting up a regional SFPE office for better serving the members in the Far East is under consideration.
 Hong Kong Chapter has expressed support to set up the office in Hong Kong and detailed office arrangement could be sorted out at later time upon confirmation of the location of regional office.
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 The Chapter wrote two letters, one to Buildings
Department and one to Fire Services Department, on January 2007 which is to seek participation and/or representation for any task group/ committee in relation to fire safety.
 We are waiting for reply.
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 At present, clerical work (e.g. preparing and mailing of leaflet for the CPD courses) for running the Hong Kong
Chapter is supported by Research Centre for Fire
Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, earnt from consultancy.
 Considered to be shared by PolyU and SFPE-HKC by buying clerical man-hour from PolyU, once there are some funding generated.
 In the Pacific SFPE Chapters meeting at Daegu, Korea,
March 2004, there were suggestions to get some small funding from local members on sponsoring administrative fee.
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 It has been agreed within the Chapter, that the general rules for any collaborated activities with other professional organizations (e.g. HKIE, IFE,
CIBSE, ASHRAE, etc.) in future would be as follows:
(a) Speakers’ profile and topic were needed to be reviewed by the counterpart before committing the collaboration
(b) Discount for admission ticket would be the same for the collaborated organizations
(c) The hosted organization would bear all cost/profit for the collaborated activity provided that counterpart(s) won’t involve in general organization work (e.g.
registration, venue, speakers, etc.)
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 Fire Guangdong 2003, 4-7 August 2003
 A book “Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Industrial
Fire Protection” was kindly donated by the Author, Mr.
T.F. Barry to the SFPE Hong Kong Chapter.
 SFPE members can borrow the book from the Chapter
Committee up to a period of two weeks.
 The following activities are planned for the Hong Kong
Chapter:
(a) Continuously organize CPD courses to promote fire safety engineering
(b) Explore the possibility in organizing visits to fire laboratory for full-scale burning facilities.
(c) Seek funding for running the Chapter activities
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