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Engineering a Better Tomorrow: Young Professionals Explore Sustainability and Innovation in Australia

In May 2025, a group of young engineering professionals from Hong Kong embarked on a purposeful journey to Australia, engaging in a week-long programme designed to inspire forward-thinking approaches to sustainability, innovation, and global collaboration. Organised by the Young Members Committee (YMC) of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), the delegation offered participants a unique opportunity to explore how engineering can drive positive change across communities, industries, and borders. ...

Shadow my leader

Classified Post’s Shadow a CEO Programme gave students an inside view of top-level business, writes John Brennan. ...

The demolition man

Thomas Wong, managing director of YSK2 Engineering, describes the demolition discipline as a "3D" job. "Dangerous, dirty and demanding - so as you can expect, it is not a popular career, especially among young people," he says. ...

What goes up ...

Demolition is highly skilled work learned mostly on the job, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Engineers urged to think globally

Thanks to a number of massive infrastructure projects instigated in Hong Kong over the last ten years, construction has become a spearhead of local economic development, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Preparing for adventure

Engineers willing to take career risks can go further and higher, writes John Brennan. ...

Ove Arup trainee builds future

Alice Luk Ping-wai has always been keen on maths and science, interests which have inspired her to follow a career in civil engineering, writes Wong Yat-hei. ...

Call to reinforce future of engineering

Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah said in the 2013-14 budget, unveiled in February, that to foster economic development, the government will continue to plan and develop infrastructure projects, writes Chiu Po-sze. ...

Structure of the future

The big volume of infrastructure work testifies to how vital engineers are to the city – and vice versa, writes Chris Davis. ...