Dr. Brain Dawson

Australia

Dr. Brian Dawson is amongst the most experienced facilitators in the Australian / Asian region. He has facilitated over 600 workshops including over 40 in Hong Kong.

Although primarily involved in the construction industry for most of his working life, he has degrees in Psychology and Social Sciences and spent 10 years teaching building professionals at graduate and post garduate levels.

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Mr. David Yau

Hong Kong

David graduated with degrees in Engineering from the Universities of Leicester and Leeds respectively. He is a chartered civil engineer with extensive experience in the civil engineering field having worked for a civil engineering consultant in UK for 7 years after graduation on several major highway schemes and as a Project Manager for the Black Country Development Corporation before returning to Hong Kong in 1993.

In HK, he worked for Maunsell on several highway and railway schemes before moving on to Hong Kong Ferry as their Civil Engineering Manager. At HKF, he managed their Civil Engineering Department to provide maintenance services to the pier facilities, consultancy services to subsidiaries and outside bodies, as well as project management services for property development. Currently, he is also a Director at The Hong Kong Shipyard Limited. He joined Henderson in 1999 as an Assistant General Manager in the Project Management Department.

His training in Value Management started with SAVE Module I Workshop in 1994. Since 1998, he has facilitated over 15 workshops for the Henderson Group.

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Mr. Davender Jain

Australia

Mr. Davender Jain has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in Management (majoring in Economics) from Columbia University, New York, USA. In his year he was awarded a citation for being an outstanding graduate student at Columbia. He also has a part Ph.D in Operations Research and Systems Analysis. His past experience includes working for the World Bank assisted projects in Nigeria as the Chief Monitoring Coordinator and as an UNDP Advisor in Ghana. He is currently the Head of Investment Appraisal Centre of Excellence at Rail Infrastructure Corporation, Sydney, Australia. In his current role he conducts and guides studies in investment appraisal area (value management, risk management, economic and financial evaluation, post completion reviews) for capital works and major periodic maintenance projects, primarily in the railway sector of Australia.

He is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

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Ms. Lindsay Pickles

Hong Kong

Lindsay Pickles is a professionally qualified civil engineer with twenty years experience. She has been working in Hong Kong for the past seven years, primarily in the management of multi-disciplinary projects.

Lindsay Pickles is the Vice-President of the Hong Kong Institute of Value Management and is on the Government List of Trained and Experienced Facilitators. She has successfully organised and facilitated a number of group decision-making workshops bringing participants together to resolve a range of issues from strategic and specific points of view. She gained her Graduate Certificate in Value Management Facilitation from the University of Canberra in April 1997.

She is a chartered civil engineer and, as a member of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management, has a strong interest in the environment and in sustainable development. Currently working as an independent consultant, she promotes the use of value management to improve business applications and create competitive advantage. She especially views the use of value management techniques as part of the quality assurance approach to work practices.

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Mr. Ping-wah Chang

Hong Kong

Mr. Victor K.Y. Lo

Hong Kong

PW Chang - Senior Engineer of Atkins China Ltd.

PW is a Civil Engineer with significant experience on drainage, sewerage and water supply projects in Hong Kong. His primary experience has been gained as consulting engineer but also included a period working for the Government of Hong Kong. He rejoined Atkins in 1998 and has worked on a wide range of projects including West Rail Tsuen Wan Station, Watermains Replacement and Rehabilitation projects for WSD, implementation of the Sewerage projects for DSD. This previous experience has given him a good understanding of Government procedures and the challenge of obtaining the various approvals necessary for the design and construction of new works.

He was the Project Engineer for the Uprating of the Saltwater Supply in Tuen Mun and played a key role in the successful implementation of the value management within the project. These included both obtaining the most cost effective scheme and facilitating the subsequent approval.

After graduating from University of Dundee in the United Kingdom with first class honors and the Institution of Civil Engineers Award, Mr. Victor K.Y. Lo joined the Hong Kong Government as a graduate engineer to receive undertaking training. Since Mr. Lo acquired his professional qualifications, he has been working in the Water Supplies Department for 15 years, involving in surveillance of reservoirs, leakage detection and design, operation and maintenance of waterworks systems. In 1993, he was sent to the United Kingdom for receiving attachment and training in Reservoir Safety. In 1998, he was the first engineer under the "Hong Kong - Singapore Government Officials Exchange Programme" attached to the Public Utility Board of Singapore. In promoting value management, he had organised workshops for his projects and seminars for his colleagues. He also delivered the first in-house seminar of "Value Management" as experience sharing in his department. Mr. Lo is now a senior engineer responsible for the planning of water supply and distribution systems. He is also a Civil Division Committee member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.

Value Management Study on The Uprating of The Tuen Mun Salt Water Supply System

Mr. Jacky K. H. Chung

Hong Kong

Mr. Jacky K.H. Chung is a Research Student in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU). Mr. Chung obtained his degree of BSc. (First class honours) in Construction Economies and Management from the HKPU in 1998, and he worked for a famous quantity surveyor constancy in Hong Kong. Awarded a scholarship from university, Mr. Chung started a research entitled "An Investigation of the Feasibility of Using Group Decision Support System to Improve Value Management Studies" in 1999. His principal research interests are including information technology applications in project management, value management and building economics.

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Dr. Benjamin Wu

U.S.A.

Benjamin C. Wu is a Senior Engineering Staff at the Boeing Company in Southern California. He is a mechanical engineer by training and has over thirty years diversified experience in the industries of paper pulping, automotive and aerospace. In 1990, after twenty years in mechanical design and structural analyses, he moved on to systems engineering and project management. He is at present a team lead in systems engineering and has special interests in strategic management, system optimization, trade study and decision-making, risk management, and information technology. He received BSME from Washington State University, MSME from the Ohio State University, Ph.D. from Michigan State University, and MBA from California State University Dominguez Hills. He is a member of Sigma-Tau, Tau-Beta-Pi, and Delta-Mu-Delta Honor Societies and a member of INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering).

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Dr. Geoffrey Q.P. Shen

Hong Kong

Dr. Geoffrey Shen is an Associate Professor of the Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As an active researcher in value management and related fields, he has managed a large number of research projects with total funding over HK$9 million, and has published widely in books, journals and conferences. He also teaches extensively in this field at postgraduate and undergraduate levels, and holds several Advisory Professor and Adjunct Professor posts in renowned universities in mainland China. Professionally, he is a member of the Institute of Value Management in the UK and a founding member of the Hong Kong Institute of Value Management. He has served both institutions as Editor and/or Secretary for many years. He was elected Vice-Chairman of China Value Engineering Association and Council Member of the Value Engineering Institute of China Association for Higher Education. As a certified Value Management Facilitator (VMF), he has facilitated a number of value management and partnering workshops for large client organisations in Hong Kong.

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Dr. Mei-yung Leung

Hong Kong

Mei-yung Leung has been teaching at City University of Hong Kong since January 1999, involving broad quantity surveying subjects such as construction economic, quantity surveying practices, value management, etc. Before joining the University, she has worked for 7 years in the consultant quantity surveying firms undertaking a variety of construction projects. She received a BSc (Hons) with first class in Quantity Surveying at the University of Wolverhampton in 1994 and a PhD at the University of Hong Kong in 2001. Dr. Leung's current research covers the broad subject of project management in the construction industry, focusing on the value management area.  It does not only concern about the technical aspects of the VM process but also considers the behavioral characteristics inherent to VM.

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Mr. Peter Yeomans

Australia

Peter Yeomans draws on 25 years' experience as a project manager, academic and group facilitator, and has undertaken considerable formal facilitation research and training.  He has a Masters degree by research investigating facilitation attributes and techniques and has authored and presented papers on facilitation, value management and teamwork in Perth, Sydney, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, Seattle and London.  As a full-time practising facilitator, he has conducted many VM and other participatory management workshops throughout Australia and Asia on a broad range of projects and processes.

Peter is a Fellow of and Registered Facilitator with the Institute of Value Management Australia, a registered facilitator with the Hong Kong Institute of Value Management, and presently sits on the Education Committee of the Institute of Value Management Australia. He is also a Member of the Australian Institute of Project Management and the Australian Institute of Management.

Peter is also a Director of Pro-Value Management Sdn Bhd Malaysia and is co-founder and Director of Applied Facilitation & Training (AFT), a company delivering formal accredited VM training.

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