Past Projects

Library of Trung Dung Primary School, Vietnam

In the summer of 2017, 7 Civil Engineering students, 10 Social Sciences students and 2 Comparative Literature students participated in a construction project in Vietnam for 7 weeks. They supervised and helped the local contractor to build a national standard library for Trung Dung Primary School. The library is a typical Vietnamese-style one-storey building, which consists of a library room (for about 45m2), and a computer room (for about 20m2). Other than the library construction, the students shared core living values with the local school children and conducted surveys about their reading habits, living environment, and potential hazards in households, etc. In this cross-disciplinary experiential learning programme, the students exchanged their skills and talents among themselves from different disciplines. They learnt the specific engineering knowledge as well as the social aspects of the construction work.

bannerStudents were building the brick walls of the library

  

bannerThe local structural engineer explained the design concept to the students

  

  

Summary of the project:

  • Sponsor
    (for travelling and lodging expenses
    of the project team)

:

Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre

Chun Wo Charitable Fund

  • Building

:

A one-storey library (Site area: 85m2 )
  • Start date of construction

:

June 2017
  • End date of construction

:

July 2017
  • Total number of students involved

:

19 students

 

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