2 colleagues in the Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) have been supported by the Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF) in 2018/19.

A new assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Dr Chao Zhou, was allocated $500,000 in start-up funding from CEE, the Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE), and the University Matching Fund for a project entitled “Sustainable soil treatment using biopolymer.”

PolyU was awarded 29 HK PhD Fellowships for 2019/20. The Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) is pleased to have the following 7 winners (24% of total) for 2019/20.

6 academics in the Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) have recently been approved for funding from the PolyU Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme 2018 to engage a postdoc fellow in their research for 2 years.

On 28 March 2019, 2 representatives of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, John Feudo, Vice Chancellor of University Advancement, and Prof. Joseph Hartman, Dean of the James B. Francis College of Engineering, visited the Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE).

A delegation from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, Thailand, visited PolyU on 18 March 2019 to explore opportunities for academic collaboration.

4 delegates from the University of Waterloo in Canada visited the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) on 13 March 2019.

A 6-member delegation from Hunan Province, China, paid a courtesy visit to the Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE) on 13 March 2019.

53 counsellors from secondary schools in over 20 countries visited PolyU on 22 March 2019 to learn more about the various undergraduate programmes offered by its Faculties and Schools.

On 19 March 2019, a distinguished lecture entitled "Effects of configuration of tall and super-tall buildings on building aerodynamics and pedestrian-level wind characteristics" was delivered by Prof. Yukio Tamura of the School of Civil Engineering at Chongqing University in China and Professor Emeritus/ Honorary Director/ Program Coordinator of the Wind Engineering Joint Usage/Research Center of Tokyo Polytechnic University in Japan.