The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 

adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and

the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and

developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education,

reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

ICE’s 157th President Ed McCann: Relentless focus on effectiveness and efficiency: the president set out the challenge: “civil engineers fundamentally need to improve the

productivity with which they design, build and operate infrastructure.” The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set a target to provide resilient infrastructure. Resilient

infrastructure also links with Goal 11: Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) on water and sanitation, adopted by United Nations Member States at the 2015 UN Summit as part of the 2030 Agenda for

Sustainable Development, provides the blueprint for ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable

Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.

At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. Goal

1.End poverty in all its forms everywhere: Poverty eradication: improving access to sustainable livelihoods, entrepreneurial opportunities and productive resources.

progressively developing social protection systems to support those who cannot support themselves Goal 2. Zero Hunger: achieve food security and improved nutrition and

promote sustainable agriculture, restoration of degraded lands, healthy soils, water and plant genetic resources are key inputs into food production, and their growing

scarcity in many parts of the world makes it imperative to use and manage them sustainably, eradicating poverty and hunger are integrally linked to boosting food

production, agricultural productivity and rural incomes Goal 3.Health and population: achieve universal health coverage; and reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from

hazardous chemicals and pollution. Goal 4.Quaity Education: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, Goal 5:

Gender Equality: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, Goal 6. Clean water and sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and

sanitation for all: The COVID-19 pandemic poses an additional impediment, impairing access for billions of people to safely managed drinking water, sanitation and hygiene

services – services desperately needed to prevent the virus from spreading. Goal 7. Affordable and clean energy: Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and

modern energy for all will open a new world of opportunities for billions of people through new economic opportunities and jobs, empowered women, children and youth,

better education and health, more sustainable, equitable and inclusive communities, and greater protections from, and resilience to, climate change. Goal 8. Decant work and

economic work Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. Goal 9. Industry, innovation, and

infrastructure: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation, transportation and mobility are central to sustainable

development. Sustainable transportation can enhance economic growth and improve accessibility. Sustainable transport achieves better integration of the economy while

respecting the environment. improving social equity, health, resilience of cities, urban-rural linkages and productivity of rural areas. Goal 10. Reduced Inequality Goal 11

Sustainable cities and communities, Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social, human and economic development. Urban planning, transport

systems, water, sanitation, waste management, disaster risk reduction, access to information, education and capacity-building are all relevant issues to sustainable urban

development. Goal 12. Responsible Consumption and Production: On that occasion, sustainable consumption and production was identified as one of the three overarching

objectives of, and essential requirements for, sustainable development, together with poverty eradication and the management of natural resources in order to foster

economic and social development. Goal 13 Climate Action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, “one of the greatest challenges of our time” and

worries about “its adverse impacts undermine the ability of all countries to achieve sustainable development. Increases in global temperature, sea level rise, ocean

acidification and other climate change impacts are seriously affecting coastal areas and low-lying coastal countries, including many least developed countries and Small Island

Developing States. The survival of many societies, and of the biological support systems of the planet, is at risk”. Through the document, Member States express their concern

about the continuous rising of emissions of greenhouse gases (carbon footprint) and the vulnerability of all countries, particularly developing countries, to the adverse

impacts of climate change. Given these concerns, Member States have called for the widest cooperation and participation of all countries in an effective and appropriate

international response to climate change. Goal 14 Life below water Goal 15 Life on Land Goal 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17 Partnership for the goals:

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development, multi-stakeholder partnerships as important vehicles for

mobilizing and sharing knowledge, expertise, technologies and financial resources to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries,

particularly developing countries. Goal 17 further seek to encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and

resourcing strategies of partnerships. Decarbonisation: Decarbonising transport: setting the challenge committed to bring together a

transport decarbonisation plan to deliver transport’s contribution to carbon budgets and net zero across all forms of transport. The Transport decarbonisation

plan that will be published today (14 July 2021), the first in the world, Transport is the largest contributor to UK greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), with road
transport alone accounting for almost a quarter of our total emissions in 2019. We must deliver a step change in the breadth and scale of our ambition to

reduce transport’s GHG emissions to reach net zero. Hong Kong: Transport Department: First Registration Tax Concessions For Electric Vehicles

To promote popularisation of electric vehicles, the HK Government launched the EV-charging at Home Subsidy Scheme (EHSS) in October 2020: The

Government has launched the $2 billion EV-charging at Home Subsidy Scheme (EHSS) on October 21, 2020, to subsidise installation of electric vehicle (EV)

charging-enabling infrastructure in car parks of existing private buildings.

Climate impacts: Climate-Resilient Infrastructure, There are three main aspects of climate resilience: preparation, adaptation, and recovery.
Preparation includes building structures to withstand significant stresses, like high winds and powerful tremors, while sustaining minimal damage. Some

buildings need only small changes to become climate-resilient, like applying storm shutters or fastening shelves. Others will need fundamental changes, like

elevating the structure off the ground, bracing structural elements, or switching to fireproof materials. And some communities will need new construction, like

concrete seawalls and levees to protect from stronger hurricanes. Preparation also means communicating hazard risks to residents, so they know how to

shelter or evacuate when disasters strike. Communications can include hazard maps, text alerts, or evacuation routes. In a diverse country like the United

States, these messages must be communicated in many languages. Adaptation recognizes that hazard risks change—especially on a warming planet—and that

we need flexible responses. For instance, zoning laws (the restrictions on where structures can be built) and building codes (the standards to which structures

are built) need to be continuously updated to reflect climate projections. Older homes must also be retrofitted to ensure they meet the highest construction

standards. Finally, communities must make plans and reserve resources for recovery. To be effective, recovery must be both complete and rapid.

Infrastructure resilience: Infrastructure Resiliency: A Risk-Based Framework, Climate change impacts. Manifested through rising sea-levels and water
temperatures and changing precipitation, climate patterns of the past century have been changing slowly but their impacts have become more severe,

Accelerating growth of the population, Planning, *Demand/Necessity/Assessment(up-to date demand, potential growth), desalinated plant, service

reservoirs(from Guangdong Province), treated sewage effluent. Transport and connectivity: Lantau Tomorrow: Land is the essential building block

for the challenges faced by Hong Kong. In the spatial context of Hong Kong, Lantau commands an un-paralleled strategic location with a comprehensive air,

road and rail transport network connected externally to other cities in the Greater Bay Area and the World as well as internally to the well-established core

business area at Central. Creation of land for meeting housing and economic needs in this area would also allow a more balanced spatial distribution of

population and jobs. The strategic transport facilities in support of the Lantau development could also help relieve the existing transport capacity constraint in

Northwest New Territories as well as enhancing connections between urban areas and the New Territories. To harness the strategic advantages and

opportunities of Lantau, the Chief Executive announced in her Policy Address 2018 the Lantau Tomorrow Vision with a view to building a solid foundation for a

sustainable future for Hong Kong. Asset Management, improve asset management (either in construction or operation), to save time and money and

increase the value of the asset. The asset management program can be assessed based on PAS 55 aspects and also on the implementation of the

best reliability engineering practice over the asset life cycle, which allows the achievement of asset high performance. PAS 55 is the British Standards

Institution's (BSI) Publicly Available Specification for the optimized management of physical assets - it provides clear definitions and a 28-point requirements

specification for establishing and verifying a joined-up, optimized and whole-life management system for all types of physical assets.

Water and sanitation: water supply and sanitary engineering, Provide technical engineering inputs to international water and sanitation projects in
developing countries, including: master planning, feasibility studies, design, procurement support, construction supervision and capacity building

Energy supply
Productivity challenge
Digital and data
Emerging technologies: BIM technology can present the works design and site environment in a three-dimensional (3-D) format, enabling the project

team to grasp the details accurately to identify and handle all sorts of potential problems more easily so as to facilitate amendments. Simulated exercises can

also be conducted to improve the construction programme Security of Assets: This new collaborative approach is based on shared information models,
which will be developed and maintained across the lifecycle of the building or infrastructure. A number of new risks are inherent in the adoption of BIM, in

particular the need to address cyber security in the implementation of the collaborative processes and systems. An internationally agreed definition of cyber

security is “the collection of tools, policies, security concepts, security safeguards, guidelines, risk management approaches, actions, training, best practices,
assurance and technologies that can be used to protect the cyber environment and organisation and users’ assets, Future of civil engineering
Education and skills (Careers and Skills shortages)