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HKU Urban Studies and Planning team offers solution to a GPS blind spot in multilevel road networks

Present vehicle navigation system that uses GPS has a long existing problem in determining which road level a vehicle has entered, especially for flyovers parallel to the ground level. Professor Anthony Yeh Gar-On’s research team at the Department of Urban Planning and Design solved the problem with their Angle Difference Method which can instantly identify whether a vehicle has entered a flyover or is still on the ground level. It works with an ordinary smartphone that can be put anywhere at any angle in the vehicle with a plugged in or installed onboard diagnostic (OBD) device. The invention won a gold medal award at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. The team is in talks with major digital map providers to apply the patented method into their navigation systems.

Making Our City More Walkable for All

The HKUrbanLab, the research and knowledge exchange arm of the Faculty of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong, is working with Civic Exchange and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service on a project called ‘Walking with Wheels’, aimed at finding the best barrier-free routes for people in wheelchairs and those with prams and trolleys. Watch the full video.

HKU holds First International Lighthouse Symposium: Saving Our Maritime Icons – A Regional Overview of Historic Lighthouses

The HKU Department of Real Estate and Construction holds a symposium "Saving Our Maritime Icons - A Regional Overview of Historic Lighthouses" today (October 20) on the development of modern lighthouses in the region in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Dr Poon Sun-wah, adjunct professor in the department, and his research team spent three years studying the history of modern lighthouse development in Hong Kong and the region, including Taiwan and Singapore. Mrs Felicity Somers Eve, the great-granddaughter of engineer David Marr Henderson who had designed and supervised more than 30 lighthouses along the region’s coast, will talk about her great grandfather’s life and work. Pictures of the diary of Charles Edwin Nicholas, the first senior keeper at Gap Rock Lighthouse, will be made public for the first time. Heritage lighthouses in Hong Kong include Cape D'Aguilar Lighthouse, the oldest surviving one in the territory - completed in 1875 - and five others including two at Green Island, Cape Collinson, Waglan Island and Tang Lung Chau. All are more than 100 years ago old.

Knowledge Exchange Awards 2017

The annual Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards recognise each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organisations. Results of the 2017 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

Music and Architecture Listen to the Echoes

The Departments of Music and Architecture have entered into an unusual collaboration to explore their mutual interest in sound and space, through a two-year project called Sounding Architecture.

Two HKU architects receive RIBA Award for International Excellence and International Emerging Architect

Mr Joshua Bolchover and Mr John Lin, Associate Professors in the HKU Faculty of Architecture, earlier received the prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award for International Excellence as well as the RIBA International Emerging Architect prize for their Andong Hospital project in Baojing County, Hunan in Mainland China. The project team aimed at developing a publicly-friendly model rural health care building capable of supporting the many progressive reforms on rural hospital management and care giving.

Knowledge Exchange Awards 2016

The annual Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards recognize each Faculty's outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organizations. The KE Award (Non-Faculty Unit) was introduced with the same objective for the independent centres, institutes and units of the University. Results of the 2016 KE Awards are now available.