Visit The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
On 28 March 2011, our Vice Chairman Dick Kwok and Council Member Tim Law visited the Hong Kong Polytechnic University meeting final year students of the Property Management Degree and Surveying Degree. Dick and Tim shared their invaluable knowledge and experience of the PFM field covering Property Management, Facility Management, Asset Management, Corporate Real Estate, Green Management and so on in front of around twenty students. The potential of this emerging PFM industry has drawn keen interest from the audiences. In particular, Dick pointed out the leading role of the PFM Surveyors attribute to the sustainable development of property / facility life cycle. Tim on the other hand shared his personal experience on how to achieve his various remarkable professional qualifications during his course of career development. Special thanks to Professor Barnabas Chung and Professor Eddie Hui who helped to make this visit happened. For sure, our Council will continue to reach out young students – our potential surveyors in the future.

Property and Facility Management Conference
The Council in its meeting of 16 May 2011 decided to hold the Division’s biennial conference in the coming November. The date of the event is tentatively scheduled on either 12 or 19 November 2011 subject to availability of venue. A preliminary thought of the theme this year is Corporate Real Estate. The Organizing Committee is chaired by Mr Daniel Hui and members include Mr Gary Yeung, Mr Raymond W K Chan, Ms Hannah Tse, Ms Rebecca Mau, Mr Alan Wong and Ms Elaine Chow. The Committee is now considering the sub-topics for the plenary sessions prior to sourcing of suitable speakers. More details will be announced in due course, but members are reminded to pencil-mark on your diary the tentative schedule of this event.

Annual General Meeting
The Council planned to hold its Annual General Meeting on 17 November 2011 in the Surveyors Learning Centre. The incumbent council members has already served the Division for about two years, hence re-election of new Council will be required in the upcoming AGM. Any PFMD member who wishes to contribute your time serving the incoming Council may now show your hand to either of the current council members. Please also make a remark in your diary the date of this important event. As decided in the council meeting of 16 May 2011, there will be light refreshment provided immediately after the AGM so that PFMD members attending the event may network and chat with your old friends there.

Standard Property Management Agreement
The working group which was led by Chris Cheung and Ray Ng had finalized the English version of the standard agreement. In its recent meeting, it was decided to translate he English version into Chinese by working group members considering the unsatisfactory experience while translating the HKIS Guide to Good Property Management Practice by external consultant. I must take this opportunity to thank for the hard work of the WG members. Once translation is finished, both English and Chinese versions will be published at the same time, hopefully by later this year.