Patrick
Fong is an associate professor in the
Department of Building and Real Estate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University. He received both his BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying and
Construction Economics and Masters degree by research in the area of value
engineering from the University of Salford, UK. He obtained his PhD degree
from the Warwick Business School, UK in the discipline of Industrial
Relations and Organisational Behaviour.
Patrick
speaks fluent Cantonese and English. He is a registered
Value Management Facilitator in Hong Kong and has conducted many VM and
partnering studies and training sessions for property developers, government
departments, consulting firms and contracting companies.
He has worked extensively in
consulting, contracting and property development companies in the UK and HK
prior to joining academia. Specialism: team building, partnering and value
management facilitation for capital projects and knowledge management.
He was recognised when he
received the Thomas D. Snodgrass Value Teaching Award from SAVE
International in June 2000. He was the first recipient of the award since it
was introduced in 1998. In addition, he was cited in “Value Engineering” (Jiazhi Gongcheng) in 1999 as outstanding individual
in Value Engineering in Hong Kong selected by the Preparing Committee for
Society of Chinese Value Engineering.
