Ir C.W. LAW, BSc(Eng), MSc(Eng), MHKIE, MIStructE, RPE

Ir LAW is a retired Senior Structural Engineer from the Housing Department. Throughout his career, he has carried out various researches specialized in finite element analysis, foundation design, R.C. structural detailing etc. He has published over 20 papers in HKIE Transactions as well as other oversea journals.

He was the secretary of the Technical Committee for the Explanatory Handbook to Code of Practices for Foundations 2004 published by the HKIE and he has taken up the task of revising the Handbook to the 2017 Code under comments by local expertise. After his retirement, he has been a part-time design software developer in Victor Li & Associates. Currently he is under a part-time teaching employment with Chu Hai College of Higher Education. 

Programme Highlights

Published in April 2017, the new “Code of Practice for Foundations 2017” is an updated version to the code promulgated in 2004. The 2017 Code introduce new contents such as the use of limit state design for steel pile sections, the determination of bearing capacity by the bearing capacity equation, the use of shear piles and continuous flight auger piles. In addition, criteria such as quantified limits of settlements and lateral movements of foundations, the use of plate load tests, G.I., parameters in determination of resistance of uplift of piles have been added or revised.

Summing up, the additions and revisions clarify the acceptable practices by the Buildings Department and some of them are the current acceptable practices.  

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