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	  1st International FIG Workshop on Monitoring
				High Rise and Tall Engineering 
	  Structures Development and Practices
				22-23 November 2012, Hong Kong
				Proceedings
		
			
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				Thursday 22 November 2012
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				| 09:00 – 09:30 | 
				Registration Session | 
			 
			
				| 09:30 – 10:00 | 
				Opening Session  
				MC: Miss Fiona Fong  
				Secretariat, Highrise2012  
				 
				Welcome Speeches by:  
				Prof. Xiaoli Ding,  
				Head of The Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics,
				 
				The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
				Prof. Gethin Wyn Roberts,  
				Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering,  
				The University of Nottingham, Ningbo China and  
				Chair of FIG Commission 6 – Engineering Surveys  
				[Handouts] 
				Mr. Joel Van Cranenbroeck,  
				Chair of Commission 6 WG 6.2, International Federation of 
				Surveyors (FIG) 
				[Handouts]  | 
			 
			
				| 10:00 – 10:30 | 
				Keynote Session Prof. Gethin Wyn Roberts, 
				Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering,  
				The University of Nottingham, Ningbo China and  
				Chair of FIG Commission 6 – Engineering Surveys  
				Topic : The Development of GNSS for High Rise Building 
				Surveying 
				[Handouts]  | 
			 
			
				| 10:30 – 11:00 | 
				Group Photo and Refreshment 
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				| 11:00 – 12:00 | 
				Presentation Session 1  
				Session Chair: Prof. Esmond Mok  
				Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics  
				The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
				Michele Crosetto, Guido Luzi, Oriol 
				Monserrat and María Cuevas (Castelldefels, Spain) 
				Vibration Monitoring of Buildings Using a Remote Sensing Radar 
				Sensor 
				[Handouts] 
				 
				Jicang Wu, Lizhi Lou, Congwei Hu, Weizhou Liu 
				and Zhipeng Lu (Shanghai, China)  
				Monitoring Dynamical Displacements of Tongji Mansion A Building 
				Using GNSS Technology   
				[Handouts] 
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				| 12:00 – 13:30 | 
				Lunch | 
			 
			
				| 14:00 – 15:30 | 
				Presentation Session 2  
				Session Chair: Prof. Jicang Wu  
				College of Surveying and Geo-informatics, Tongji University, 
				China  
				Gethin Wyn Roberts, Christopher John Brown and
				Oluropo Ogundipe (Ningbo, China)  
				The Use of GNSS to Measure the Synchronized Movements of the 
				Severn Suspension Bride’s 136m Tall Support Towers and 
				Suspension Cables 
				[Handouts] 
				Ian Sparks (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)  
				Survey Procedures for Tall Buildings 
				[Handouts] 
				Winnie Shiu and Ricky Cheung (Hong Kong, China)
				 
				Building Monitoring Survey of Public Housing Estates in Hong 
				Kong 
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				| 15: 30 – 16:00 | 
				Refreshment  
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				| 16:00 – 17:00 | 
				Presentation Session 3  
				Session Chair: Prof. Esmond Mok  
				Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics  
				The Hong Kong Polytechnic University  
				Soanghun Oh (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) 
				Control Survey on AL Hamra Tower First Worldwide Sculptural 
				Building  
				[Handouts] 
				 
				Kadmous el khatib (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) 
				Surveying Engineering Challenges in the Construction of 
				Skyscrapers 
				[Handouts]  
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				| 18:00 – 20:30 | 
				Dinner | 
			 
			
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				Friday23 November 2012
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				| 09:00 – 09:30 | 
				Registration Session 
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				Presentation Session 4  
				Session Chair: Mr. Vincent Lui  
				Leica Geosystems Ltd.  
				Feras Baykly (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) 
				Core Wall Control Survey Operations 
				[Handouts]  
				Joel Van Cranenbroeck (MONT, Belgium) 
				The GNSS Active Control Point Concept 
				[Handouts] 
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				| 10:30 – 11:00 | 
				Refreshment 
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				| 11:00 – 12:00 | 
				Presentation Session 5  
				Session Chair: Mr. Vincent Lui  
				Leica Geosystems Ltd.  
				Joel Van Cranenbroeck (MONT, Belgium) and Soanghun 
				Oh (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) 
				The Unconventional Use of an Automatic Total Station to Perform 
				Zenith Line Monitoring for High Rise Engineering Structures 
				[Handouts] 
				Andrey Yashenko (Moscow, Russia) 
				Engineering Solution ATE Pylons Inclinometer Monitoring System 
				(ATE PIMS) of Construction Phase Cable-Stayed Bridge Over Golden 
				Horn Bay at Vladivostok  
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				| 12:00 – 12:30 | 
				Closing Session Mr. Joel Van Cranenbroeck 
				Chair of Commission 6 WG 6.2, International Federation of 
				Surveyors (FIG)  
				[Handouts] 
				Mr. Vincent Lui,  
				Vice Chairman of Highrise 2012, Local Organizer  | 
			 
		 
				 
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