Curtin team bags honours at Fleetwood Challenge

MIRI: Three Curtin Malaysia civil engineering students partnered with a postgraduate architecture student from Curtin University in Perth to bag second prize and an industry award in the prestigious Fleetwood Challenge Cup in Australia.

They local students were Alan Poon Tik Loon, Tan Jia Qi and Forrest Tiong Ing Poh.

Fleetwood Challenge Cup is a team challenge designed to discover the next generation of young built environment design professionals who will help to propel the construction industry into an innovative future.

Each year, select universities are invited to participate in the competition and according to its Civil and Construction Engineering Department head, Associate Professor Wong Kwong Soon the students’ projects were entered for the competition.

The department, meanwhile,hosted the Sixth Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Conference (CEERC) here recently.

Geared for the department’s final-year students, the university said the event featured presentations of their final-year projects and discussions on civil engineering and environmental engineering fields.

Industry experts and professionals delivered impactful online lectures where they provided invaluable perspectives on the latest advancements, challenges, and innovations in civil engineering and environmental engineering.

Eric Tan

United Tec Construction Pte Ltd Senior Corporate and Business manager Eric Tan, a leading Singapore-based specialist Prefabricated Precast Volumetric Construction (PPVC) contractor, delivered a lecture on PPVC, a form of modular construction which is seeing increasing use in Singapore and Malaysia.

Ambun Dindang

Tan also spoke extensively about the challenges of constructing the landmark Avenue South Residence project in Singapore, the world’s tallest modular building.

Meanwhile, Deputy Director General (Strategic and Technical) of the Malaysian Meteorology Department (METMalaysia) Ambun Dindang, and a member of the Faculty of Engineering and Science’s industrial advisory panel for Environmental Engineering, was the second guest speaker.

He highlighted the issue of ozone depletion and the ozone monitoring activities carried out by the department in Malaysia, which are closely related to what the students are studying in their environmental engineering programme.