Embodied Carbon – Partnerships to Decarbonize Hong Kong’s Construction Industry

Liam is Founder and CEO at RESET Carbon Ltd. RESET’s work focuses on developing and implementing commercially driven low carbon and other environmental management programs for Asian and international corporate clients.

Previously Liam was the Director of WWF’s International’s Asia-Pacific Climate Programme, where he built and managed a pan-Asian team. At WWF Liam also co-led the design and set-up of the Gold Standard Foundation, which is now a leading certification system for project level carbon offsets and other environmental and social attributes.

Liam holds a Master of Science in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London.

Ar. Clarence LEUNG is General Manager (Project Management) of Wheelock Properties. He possesses over 30 years of professional experience in real estate development and related fields in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Ar. Leung has been a Director of the HKGBC and a Council Member of the Construction Industry Council (CIC) since 2022. He is currently Chairperson of the Management Committee on Technically Competent Persons Registration Scheme and Chairperson of the Committee on Environment and Sustainability under CIC. Mr. Leung is also a member of the Appeal Tribunal under the Buildings Ordinance and a member of Building Sub-committee, Real Estate Developers’ Association.

Ar. Leung is a fellow member of the HKIA, an Authorized Person and a Registered Architect in Hong Kong. He is currently Deputy Chair of Paper 7, Professional Accreditation Panel of the HKIA. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong with B.A.(A.S.) and B.Arch Degrees.

My Sustainability Goals for 2025:

1. Electrification and clean energy adoption for Construction Sites
2. Circularity for construction industry
3. High productivity construction, e.g. MiC and MiMEP

Meiling Ng is the Assistant General Manager, Projects of Hongkong Land Limited. She has over 25 years’ working experience in the property development and management industry. She is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors.

Eddie has more than 28 years experience in construction and environmental field and specializes in sediment and land contamination assessment and remediation, carbon/energy management, renewable energy projects and waste/asbestos management. He has been involved in a number of infrastructure and building projects such as road and drainage, site formation and land decontamination, railway, power plant emission control facility, tunnel and rock cavern and Central Government Complex.

Eddie is the vice chairman of Environment Committee, Hong Kong Construction Association and member of Climate Change Business Forum of the Business Environment Council. He was appointed as a construction advisor in development of Construction Industry Council Carbon Assessment Tool and Sustainable Finance Certification scheme. Eddie is a co-opted member of the Sustainable Development Committee, Climate Change Framework for Built Environment Embodied Carbon Expert Group member and Green Product Market Taskforce member of the Hong Kong Green Building Council. He was also appointed by BEAM Society to be member of Materials Aspects and Construction Environmental Management Expert Panels. He is a member of Environmental Protection Department Asbestos Administration Committee and CARES Assured Steel Certification Sustainability Technical Committee.

Eddie graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Canada, and has a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Eddie is a Fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Qualified Environmental Professionals, Certified Carbon Auditor under the CIC Green Product Certification Scheme, Certified Energy Manager/Carbon Audit Professional of US Association of Energy Engineer and a Qualified Project Assessor of UK BREEAM Infrastructure. He is a Certified ESG Analyst CESGA® of The European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies.