Title: Building Resilience: Strategies Beyond Increasing Safety Factors

Bio:

Dr Goman Ho is an Arup Fellow with expertise skills in Tall Buildings. The accumulate height for his tall buildings projects is more than 9km including 597m TJ117 in China. He joined Arup in 1992 and served the firm as the first global leader for Arup Tall Buildings Skills Network. He is now serving as the regional leader of Structural Skills Network. He was involved as PD/PM/PE for projects with an accumulated height more than 9 km. Some of his award-winning projects are 300m tall Cheung Kong Center in HK, 330m China World Trade Center, CCTV HQs in Beijing, 3km long Beijing Capital Airport Terminal, 461m tall Vincom Landmark 81 Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, the 528m tall China Zun in Beijing.

At least 10 of his projects received International Structural Awards and two personal awards including the Outstanding Research Alumni Award by the Graduate School of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He had published more 30 technical papers and 3 books. One of his book – Outrigger Design for High-Rise Buildings (CTBUH) received 600 cited and one of his webinar had around 30,000 audiences. He is now an adjunct Professor of HK Polytechnic University.