PolyU Faculty of Construction and Environment

The PolyU Faculty of Construction and Environment is one of the faculty at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.^[2][3] The faculty consists of the Department of Building and Real Estate, Department of Building Services Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics. In 2021, the faculty has around 115 full-time academic staff.^[4]

The main entrance of the faculty.

Faculty of Construction and Environment, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

香港理工大學建設及環境學院
Motto	Be a leading academic entity on the international scene in the construction, environment, and sustainable urban development fields.[1]
Type	Public
Established	1937
Dean	Prof. Xiangdong Li
Academic staff	115
Location	Hung Hom , Kowloon , Hong Kong 22°18′24″N 114°10′45″E
Website	www.polyu.edu.hk/fce/

Overview

The history of the Faculty can be date back to 1937. Today's Department of Building and Real Estate within the Faculty is established in 1937 as the Building Department of Government Trade School, Hong Kong.^[5]: 3 The Faculty has a long history of offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the fields of building engineering, civil engineering, fire engineering, occupational safety and health, structural engineering and surveying.^[6]

The Faculty also offers professional training on Surveying and Geo-Information Technology to different government agencies, including Macau Cartography and Cadastre Bureau.^[7]

Research

The Faculty involves in research of combining smart city technology to optimise trip planning.^[8] Moreover, the Faculty's Ng Wing Hong Laboratory for Sustainable City contributes in research of high-level information technology infrastructure for examining the sustainable development of Hong Kong at the building and city level.^[9][10]