The WorldSkills Competition is the largest international technical skills event that promotes vocational and professional education. 12 EMSD technician trainees made excellent achievements in the selection competition in Hong Kong. This was the first time that we swept the board with all Hong Kong Team qualifications in the Electrical Installations trade and Refrigeration and Air Conditioning trade categories.
The submission we made to the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) in February 2021 on how our Solar Harvest project cultivated renewable energy awareness in the new generation won the AEE's Asia Pacific Rim Region Innovative Energy Project of the Year Award 2021. This is our third AEE award in recent years, a major recognition of our work on the international stage.
Under the 26th Considerate Contractors Site Award Scheme, a Silver Award, two Bronze Awards and three Merit Awards were presented to six contracts under the supervision of the EMSD. These awards testified that site safety and environmental management were well-maintained by contractors, and the EMSD spared no effort in enhancing occupational safety and health.
Our persistent effort in developing the Building Information Modelling-Asset Management (BIM-AM) technology was acknowledged by three awards at the Celebration of BIM Achievement 2020. In addition to becoming the "BIM Organisation 2020", our project "Construction of Building Information Model and Asset Information Inputting for EMSD Headquarters" was awarded "BIM Project 2020". Mr Chan Hor-yin, Steve (2nd left, front row in the photo), a senior engineer of the EMSD, was awarded "BIMer 2020" for his outstanding contribution in promoting and adopting digitalisation in the E&M industry.
In 2020, three EMSD colleagues were awarded the Secretary for the Civil Service's Commendation in recognition of their outstanding performance and professionalism in serving the public with dedication.
The Virtual Reality-based Lift Maintenance training programme which collaborated with the Vocational Training Council and the Lift and Escalator Contractors Association was awarded the Gold Award of the OSH Enhancement Program Award in the 19th Hong Kong Occupational Safety and Health Award, as well as the Smart Business (Solution for Business and Public Sector Enterprise) Certificate of Merit in the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2020.
Our I&T projects achieved excellent results at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva 2021, winning a total of eight medals, including four Gold Medals and four Silver Medals. The EMSD won four Gold Medals for the projects including a Cloud-based Predictive Maintenance System for Real-time Lift Monitoring; Artificial Intelligent Nylon Optical Fibre Sensing Escalator Combs; Building Semantic Artificial Intelligence; and an Internet of Things-enabled Smart Toilet Bowl Cleaning System. Our winning projects for the four Silver Medals were Air Filter 2.0 — Energy Saving Smart Air Filter Technology; Fibre Optic Temperature Sensing System for Predictive Monitoring of Electrical Distribution Network; Non-intrusive Data Analytics System for Adaptive Intelligent Condition Monitoring of Lifts; and Smart Prison — Video Analytic Monitoring System.
The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department Annual Report 2019/20 and the Electrical and Mechanical Services Trading Fund Report 2019/20 achieved excellent results in the following competitions:
League of American Communications Professionals LLC (LACP) 2020 Vision Awards:
