MiC Based Unconventional Approach for Land Reclamation in Hong Kong

Abstract

Land reclamation over the sea in Hong Kong has been carried for many years. Various approaches and methods have been developed and adopted for better and environmental-friendly land reclamation in Hong Kong. Due to the shortage and/or increasing cost of sand fills, however, the conventional approaches have encountered challenges. In this seminar, Professor Yue will first review the past or current reclamation approaches in Hong Kong and their issues. He will then present a modular integrated construction (MiC) based unconventional approach for land reclamation and urban development over sea in Hong Kong. This MiC based approach will have no dredging, no deep cement mixing of marine muds under seawater and no filling of sands and/or public fills in seawater. He will further introduce four specific new technologies to better, cost-effectively and rapidly realize the MiC based unconventional approach in Hong Kong with controllable quality.