Name Card
Professor Li, Yuguo 李玉國
Title:
Professor, Chair of Building Environment
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Knowledge Exchange Activities
| Activity Title | Activity Type | Start Date | End Date | Member(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2023 (Faculty of Architecture) for 'Urban Ventilation Assessment and Wind Corridor Plan for Chinese Cities' | KE Award/Prize on KE Achievement | 2023-07-01 | 2024-06-30 | ||
| Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2012 (Faculty of Engineering) for “Ventilation for Better Infection Control in Hospitals” | KE Award/Prize on KE Achievement | 2012-07-01 | 2013-06-30 | ||
| KE Newsletter story: "A Breath of Fresh Air" | Books and Other Media (Newspaper, Radio/TV, etc.) for Non-academic Audiences | 2012-09-21 | 2012-11-07 | ||
| Special Funding for Impact Evidence Collection: KE-SR-2017/18-14: Impact Evidence Collection for Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering (HK$200,000) | KE Project Grant | 2018-02-01 | 2019-06-30 |
Invited Lectures & Keynote Speeches
| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| [1] Keynote speaker, ”Simulation of winds and thermal environment at city scale”, | 16th bi-annual Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), Rome, 2-4 September 2019 | 2019-09-01 |
| Plenary speech, “How do close contact transmit respiratory infection?” | 第九届中国环境科学学会室内环境与健康分会学术年会暨第四届生物气溶胶国际研讨会.中国,南京, 2019年5月10-12日. | 2019-05-01 |
| Heat dome and urban warming | International workshop on “Wind Effects on Buildings and Urban Environment”, 10-12 March, 2019, Tokyo. | 2019-03-01 |
| Keynote speaker, ” Wind weakening, heat dome and urban warming” | The 2nd International Conference of IASUR “Green Building and Smart City”, Xi-An, China, March 29-31, 2019 | 2019-03-01 |
| Exploring physics of city ventilation and thermal climate by simulation | The 4th Asia Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association - ASim2018, 3-5 December, 2018, Hong Kong | 2018-12-01 |
| Weak winds in buildings and cities | The Asian Built-Environment Leaders Envision (ALBE) Forum 2018, Oct 14-15 2018, Yonsei University, Seoul | 2018-10-01 |
| The physics in natural ventilation of cities and buildings | The 7th Conference of the International Association of Building Physics, 23-26 September 2018, Syracuse, USA | 2018-09-01 |
| [10] Invited speaker, A mechanism-based modelling study of probable transmission routes of MERS-CoV in a hospital outbreak | Centennial reospect: 3rd International Forum on Influenza Virus & Other Respiratory Viruses, Guangzhou, September 7-9, 2018, Guangzhou, China | 2018-09-01 |
| Transmission routes of microbes in built environment | In workshop on “Urbanization and Slums: New Transmission Pathways of Infectious Diseases in the Built Environment,” National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Forum on Microbial Threats in Washington, December 12-13 2017 | 2017-12-01 |
| Indoor surface environment and the fomite transmission of infection | Healthy Building 2017 Asia, 2-5 September 2017, Tainan | 2017-09-01 |
| How building environment impacts on urban haze | The 2017 Annual Congress of Chinese Society of Environment Science, Thematic symposium “haze and indoor environment and health”, 10-11 August, Xiamen, China | 2017-08-01 |
| Spread of bio-aerosols in buildings and cities | Xiangshan Meeting (香山会议)- Biaoerosol and human health, national bio-security as well as air pollution, June 2017, China | 2017-06-01 |
| Environment modelling studies of respiratory infection | Transmission of respiratory viruses, 19-21 June 2017, Hong Kong | 2017-06-01 |
| How microbes move between us, on surfaces and in the air | Urban meteorology and climate conference, 25-26 May 2017, Hong Kong. | 2017-05-01 |
| City winds at calm conditions | The 3rd Hong Kong Wind Engineering Society Workshop, 15-16 December, 2016, Hong Kong. | 2016-12-01 |
| City climate and haze – exploring the urban thermal noon delay and heat dome phenomena | The 9th Jiangsu International Green Architecture Congress, 3-5 November, 2016, Nanjing. | 2016-11-01 |
| Possible roles of urban heat island circulation on rapid air pollutant accumulation in megacities | NSFC NRF joint seminar, IAQVEC 2016, the 9th international conference on indoor air quality, ventilation & energy conservation in buildings, 23-26 October 2016, Seoul, Korea. | 2016-10-01 |
| Plenary speaker. “Wind in cities and its roles in urban warming and air pollution”. | Wind in cities and its roles in urban warming and air pollution, The 9th National Symposium on New Advances in Refrigeration and Air-conditioning, 3-6 August, 2016, Luoyang, China. | 2016-08-01 |
| Wind in cities and its roles in urban warming and air pollution | The 9th National Symposium on new advances in refrigeration and air-conditioning, 3-6 August, 2016, Luoyang, China. | 2016-08-01 |
| Spread of infectious agents in the indoor environment | ASTM – E35.15 Workshop on the role of indoor air as a vehicle for human pathogens, 13 April, 2016, San Antonio, US. | 2016-04-01 |
| Invited speaker, Spread of infectious agents in the indoor environment | ASTM – E35.15 Workshop on the Role of Indoor Air as a Vehicle for Human Pathogens | 2016-04-01 |
| Plenary speaker, “Environment modelling investigations of infectious diseases” | ISHVAC+COBEE, 12-15 July, 2015, Tianjin, China | 2015-07-01 |
| [5] Keynote speaker, “Fluid dynamics problems in building physics”, | The 6th Conference of the International Association of Building Physics, 15-18 June, 2015, Torino, Italy | 2015-06-01 |
| [3] Plenary speaker, “Wind in cities and its roles in urban warming and air pollution”, | the 7th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics, 24-27 May, 2015, Qingdao, China | 2015-05-01 |
| Changes of thermal environment in hot and humid climate cities | National Symposium of Building Energy Technologies in Hot Summer and Cold Winter Regions, Nanjing, August 25-26, 2014. | 2014-08-01 |
| Engineering climate and environment – from buildings to cities | The 9th PhD supervisor Conference in or related to National Built Environment Discipline, Nanjing, August 24-25, 2014. | 2014-08-01 |
| Indoor surface environment | 2014 Conference on Indoor Environmental Quality and Health in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong and East Asia, Taipei, July 14-15, 2014. | 2014-07-01 |
| City ventilation | 2013 National Conference of Building Ventilation, August 16-18, 2013, Baotou, China | 2013-08-01 |
| Air ventilation design in hospitals | The 6th International Congress of the Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control, April 10-13, 2013, Shanghai, China. | 2013-04-01 |
| City ventilation and urban warming | SinBerBest (Singapore Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics) Annual Meeting 2013 - building efficiency and sustainability in the tropics, January9-10, 2013, University Town, Singapore | 2013-01-01 |
| High-rise Compact City: Urban Warming, City Ventilation and Energy Efficiency | APEC Workshop on Paths toward Sustainable Low Carbon Economies Based on Rational Use of Renewable Energies on 14 - 15 November 2012, Tianjin, China | 2012-11-01 |
| Urban warming | the 5th National Indoor Environment and Health Conference (IEHB 2011), 16-18, November, 2012, Changsha, China | 2012-11-01 |
| City ventilation, urban warming and energy efficiency | the 18th National Congress of HVAC and Refrigeration – The Symposium of Building Ventilation, 23-27 October, 2012, Yantai, China | 2012-10-01 |
| The use of natural ventilation for isolation of tuberculosis – a WHO recommendation | the 13th Asia-Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, October 25-28, 2012, Beijing, China | 2012-10-01 |
| Understanding and design of air environment from the human scale to regional scale | The 2011 International Symposium on Water Resource and Environmental Protection, May 20-22, 2011, Xi An, China | 2011-05-01 |
| Technical plenary speaker: H1N1 – What can ventilation do | ASHRAE Winter Conference, Orlando, USA, January, 2010. | 2011-01-01 |
| Plenary speaker. Infection and hospital ventilation. | ASHRAE IAQ 2010, Airborne Infection Control – Ventilation, IAQ & Energy, November 10-12, 2010, Malaysia | 2010-11-01 |
| Invited speaker. How to improve the CDC recommended ventilation design in isolation rooms? | 2010 IFHE Congress in Tokyo, 21st Congress of International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE), Tokyo Japan, November 17 to 19, 2010. | 2010-11-01 |
| Invited speaker. Modelling infectious diseases from an engineering perspective. | Health Research Symposium 2010:“Improving Health and Recognising Excellence” 11 September 2010, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, Food and Health Bureau. | 2010-09-01 |
| Plenary speaker. H1N1 and SARS– What Can Ventilation Do? | 2010 Asian Workshop on Indoor Environment And Health and ISIAQ Asian Regional Conference 2010 22 August 2010, Tainan. | 2010-08-01 |
| Plenary speaker. City ventilation for better urban and indoor environment. | 2010 Cross-Strait Conference on Indoor Environment and Health 20-21 August, 2010, Tainan. | 2010-08-01 |
| Invited speaker. Future aspects of IAQ control of Bio-aerosols and infectious agents in Buildings. | ACIEH seminar: Health Impacts and IAQ Control of Bioaerosols and Biological Agents, 21 Jan 2010, Singapore. | 2010-01-01 |
| Plenary speaker. Ventilation and Airborne Infections | Healthy Buildings 2009 Conference and Exhibition in Syracuse, NY, September 13-17, 2009. | 2009-09-01 |
| Invited talk: Natural Ventilation for Infection Control Health Care Facilities | The 3rd international workshop on natural ventilation. March 15-16, Tokyo, Japan | 2009-03-01 |
| Keynote: City Ventilation of Hong Kong -Preliminary Studies | China-Hong Kong Symposium on Green Buildings, 22-23 December 2008, Hong Kong. | 2008-12-01 |
| Invited talk: Design of Ventilation in Buildings and Cities | International Symposium on Integrated Approach for Sustainable Housing, Nov 27, 2008, Yonsei University, Korea. | 2008-11-01 |
| Invited talk: SARS and Ventilation | Samsung Electronics and Hanyang University Joint International Symposium on Application and Evaluation of SPi System, 25 Nov 2008, Korea.. | 2008-11-01 |
| Plenary speech: Ventilation and Health in Built Environment | COBEE 2008 The First International Conference on Building Energy and Environment, 13-16 July 2008. | 2008-07-01 |
| Droplets, ventilation and computer fluid simulations | HIMSS AsiaPac08 Conference & Exhibition, Hong Kong, 20-23 May 2008 | 2008-05-01 |
| Keynote speech: Developing the New WHO Guidelines on Natural Ventilation for Infection | The 3rd Annual National Conference of Chinese Society of Indoor Environment and Health. 中国环境科学学会室内环境与健康分会第三届学术年会, 2-3 Dec 2008 | 2008-05-01 |
| IAQ studies in the Mainland China and Hong Kong | IOHA 2008, the International Occupational Hygiene Association 7th International Scientific Conference, Taipei on 17-19 Feb 2008. | 2008-02-01 |
| Ventilation and Infection | 25th Annual Conference of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists, 1-5 December 2007, Melbourne 3-5, December 2007. | 2007-12-01 |
| Building Ventilation Rates and Health | International Conference on Environment and Health Conference, Hong Kong, 6 - 8 December 2007. | 2007-12-01 |
| Natural Ventilation for Prevention of Airborne Transmission | International Conference on Environment and Health Conference, Hong Kong, 6 - 8 December 2007. | 2007-12-01 |
| Current R&D and Policy of Indoor Environments in Hong Kong | 1st Asian Forum “Current R&D and Policy in Indoor Environments in Asian Countries”, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, Sep. 13, 2007 | 2007-09-01 |
| Towards an understanding of expiratory droplets and SARS ward ventilation | Health Research Symposium 2007, HK Academy of Medicine, Aberdeen, Hong Kong, 29 September 2007. | 2007-09-01 |
| Plenary Speech, Ventilation for Control of Infectious Disease in Built Environment. | The 9th International Conference on Air Distribution in Rooms, Roomvent 2007, Helsinki, Finland, 13-15 June 2007. | 2007-06-01 |
| Indoor Air and Infection | IAQChina 2007: International Workshop of Indoor Air Quality Research in China — the Next 20 Years, Changsha, April 23-24 2007 | 2007-04-01 |
| Invited speaker: Chinese Kangs – Today’s Rural Essential Home Heating System and Tomorrow’s Sustainable Energy Technologies. | The 37th Congress on Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning, Belgrade, December 6-8 2006. | 2006-12-01 |
| Invited speaker: Airborne Transmission of Infectious Diseases and Effectiveness of Isolation Room Ventilation. | The 3rd Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Indoor Environment (KOSIE), Seoul, Korea, 15 September 2006. | 2006-09-01 |
| Invited speaker: On isolation rooms - negative pressure and open window. | Hong Kong Infection Control Nurses’ Association 2nd International Conference, Hong Kong, 17-18 June, 2006. | 2006-06-01 |
| Invited speaker: Airborne Transmission of Infectious Diseases and Effectiveness of Isolation Room Ventilation. | Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Controlling Transmission of Infectious Diseases in Hospitals, 2006 ASHRAE Annual Meeting, Quebec City, June 24-28, 2006. | 2006-06-01 |
| Invited speaker: The 2003 SARS Outbreak at Amoy Gardens Housing Estate (Hong Kong) – What Have We Learned? | The 6th International Indoor Quality Symposium: Infectious Disease and the Role of the IH in Preventing and Managing the Coming Epidemic, Sunday, May 14, 2006, Chicago, Illinois. | 2006-05-01 |
| Invited speaker: (2 talks) The three elements of building ventilation and SARS. Will Chinese kangs stay or go – the future of IAQ in rural homes in northern China? | First Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Society of Indoor Environment and the Joint Conference of the Taiwan Occupational Health Association, and Taiwan Environmental and Occupational Medicine Association, First Regional Conference for the Southeastern Chapter of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology April 27-29, 2006. | 2006-04-01 |
| Invited Speaker: Design for Thermal Mass and Night Ventilation in Buildings – Heavy or Light? | The Second International Workshop on Natural Ventilation, Tokyo, Japan, December, 2005 | 2005-12-01 |
| Invited speaker: Back-calculation and Environmental Modelling for the 2003 SARS Epidemic and Developing Effective Engineering Control Methods. | International Workshop on Clinical and public health applications of mathematical modelling, September 26-30, 2005, Singapore. | 2005-09-01 |
| Keynote Speech: Indoor air transmission of infectious diseases – droplet dispersion and ventilation control (in Chinese) | The Third National Symposium on New Advances in Refrigeration and Air-conditioning, Hangzhou, China, April, 2005. | 2005-04-01 |
Editorship
| Period | Position | Journal / Conference |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Editorial Board Member | Building and Environment |
| 2008 | Editorial Board Member | Building Simulation |
| 2007 | Associate Editor | Indoor Air - International Journal of Indoor Environment and Health |
| 2006 | Guest Editor | International Journal of Ventilation |
| 2006 | Editorial Board Member | Applied Energy |
| 2006 | Journal Editor Of Indoor And Built Environment | Indoor and Built Environment |
| 2005 | Guest editor | HKIE Transactions, Special Section - Engineering Control of Respiratory Infectious Diseases |
Community Service
| Start Date | End Date | Position | Type | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-01-01 | 2008-06-01 | Jury | O | Stockholm Challenge |
| 2006-01-01 | Member | O | Appeal Board Panel Under Builder?s Lifts and Tower Working Platforms (Safety) Ordinance (Cap. 470), Department of Electrical and Mechanical Services, Hong Kong Government | |
| 2007-01-01 | Associate Editor | J | Indoor Air | |
| 2005-01-01 | 2006-12-01 | Member | J | Indoor Air |
| 2006-01-01 | 2009-12-01 | Member | J | Energy and Buildings |
| 2002-01-01 | Member | J | International Journal of Ventilation | |
| 2005-01-01 | Member | J | Indoor and Built Environment | |
| 2005-01-01 | Member | O | Working Group on Promoting the Use of Disease Modelling, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health | |
| 2003-01-01 | 2007-01-01 | Member | J | Journal of the IEST |