Dare to Find New Ways - A Building Materials Symposium on Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials

Aug. 11, 2009 - PRLog -- As buildings are going green, building materials are advancing in terms of strength, durability, longevity and environmental friendliness. With scientists and engineers improving the properties and applying "high performance" materials to enhance architectural structures, how will the building industry progress in the 21st century?

Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Ltd. (NAMI), co-organizing with Hong Kong Trade Development Council, will conduct a symposium titled "Dare to Find New Ways - Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials for Buildings and Infrastructures in the 21st century" on August 21, 2009 (Friday) at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The forum provides participants a platform where academics, business professionals, and end users from building industry can exchange their views on the latest material development and their applications. Towards more sustainable structural designs, the emerging challenges and need for new materials will also be discussed.

Speakers include Professor Zongjin Li, a Professor from Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the chief scientist appointed by China's Ministry of Science and Technology on Concrete Development; Professor Jinguang Teng, the Associate Vice President, Dean of Faculty of Construction and Land Use at Hong Kong Polytechnic University; and Ir. Alan HN Yau, the Divisional Director, Hong Kong at Mott MacDonald.

Along with presentations, technology showcase and focus groups are arranged to provide our participants the knowledge and resources that a growing number of industry professionals have only recently begun manifesting.

For details and registration of the program, please visit www.nami.org.hk.

For enquiries, please call 2358 5076 or email bizdev@nami.org.hk.

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About NAMI

The Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited (NAMI) was incorporated in 2006 by the Innovation and Technology Commission of HKSAR Government as a not-for-profit company to undertake and fund industry-oriented research in nanotechnology and advanced materials. NAMI focuses on market-driven applications and draws on the leading researchers from the academic community (both locally and internationally) to serve the needs of a variety of markets ranging from consumer lifestyle products, new materials for the construction industry to technologies for solid state lighting and sustainable energy.

Through its consortium membership programme, its affiliate network and its year-round activities such as symposiums and market focus groups, NAMI maintains a platform to facilitate business networking, technology updates, incubation of new ideas and projects as well as to make available technology to meet the evolving needs of industry.

The aim of NAMI is through this dynamic interactive process of academic-industry collaboration, the local companies will be able to enhance their competitiveness in the market and the local research community will continue to be kept at the forefront of technological innovations. NAMI will continue to strive as a catalyst for equipping the local industry with new capabilities and to fulfill its mission to help amplify the recognition of Hong Kong as centre of excellence with a sustainable knowledge-based and technology-led economy.

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NAMI is a not-for-profit company to undertake and fund industry-oriented research in nanotechnology and advanced materials, focusing on market-driven applications by drawing on the leading researchers from academia to serve needs from a variety of market.