UN Sustainable Development Goal 11
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Professor Edwin Tso’s electricity-free cooling paint on Sham Shui Po rooftops
7,000kWh projected annual saving from residential rooftops serving 48 households
Applying the cooling paint · Sham Shui Po, 48 households
The same saving, restated
Urban renewal · 2025
Planned off-campus space in Kwun Tong Town Centre 2.0, integrating multiple functions to empower boundless knowledge-based innovations
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Publications
2.22
Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)
915
Publications with International Collaborations
73
SDG 11 Related Courses
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The Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering runs a broad spectrum of degree programmes on BEng Architectural Engineering, BEng Civil Engineering and BSc Architecture and Surveying. Accredited by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), the civil engineering programme offers a stream of Infrastructure and Smart City to equip students with knowledge in smart digital infrastructure system, sustainable green construction, strategic BIM management and other newly-emerged topics.
At the Global Sustainable Development Congress in Istanbul, CityUHK speakers — Professor Shauhrat Chopra, Dean Professor Benjamin Horton and Vice-President Professor Anderson Shum — presented on urban decarbonization, sustainable infrastructure, nature-based solutions and passive cooling, citing Hong Kong’s multi-modal transport as a model. Panelists also came from the World Bank.
A six-day exhibition (21–26 Nov 2024) celebrating CityUHK’s long-standing bond with the Sham Shui Po District across education, community, technology, arts and culture — including the district’s textile, design and craftsmanship heritage.
An Artist-in-Residence exhibition (10–20 Oct 2024) co-hosted with Shuanglin officials and silk manufacturers to safeguard and transmit a national intangible cultural heritage silk-weaving craft, supported by lectures, workshops and cultural products.
A free public exhibition (20 Sep – 17 Oct 2024, UG2 Atrium, Lok Fu Place) co-organised by the Department of Chinese and History with the Guangdong Museum of Revolutionary History and Link Asset Management. Three zones of historical photographs, audio-visual experiences and workshops traced early-twentieth-century ties between Guangzhou’s Bund and Hong Kong. Curated by Professor Ching May-bo.
The community deployment behind the cooling-paint figures. CityUHK joined community, business and resident partners — Sanskrit, i2Cool and the Shero Initiative — to apply electricity-free cooling paint to Sham Shui Po rooftops and distribute cooling souvenirs to 48 households, improving comfort for residents living in a dense, high-temperature urban environment.
