Ir Prof Daniel Chan
Hon & Adjunct Professor
School of Architecture
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Daniel Chan has over 30 years of experience in design, construction and project management for government and private enterprises in the Asia Pacific region.

Major commercial projects in Mechanical & Electrical Services Consultancy include 11 Chater Road, Central (Former Swire House), Cheung Kong Centre, seawater pump system for Landmark and 440m Landmark Tower, Kowloon Station.

His experience also covers different topics related to the environmental issues such as district cooling, wind energy utilization, waste heat recovering from the incineration process, solar air-conditioning, etc.  The Shanghai Centre, 632M tall commercial tower comprises of a 600 room deluxe hotel with tri-generation, vertical wind turbine, geothermal system, triple façade atrium to reduce solar load, on site power generation by natural gas for this 650,000m² tallest building in China.

Prof. Chan was the principle   author for the major revision of the Hong Kong Building Environmental Assessment Method (BEAM Plus version 1.1) in 2009 on behalf of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Daniel teaches in the School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong as Honorary and Adjunct Professor.

Prof. Chan is also a frequent speaker on Green building, environmental protection, sustainable design and advance building services system. He was a HKGBC Founding Board member (2009-2010), Vice Chair of Green Labelling Committee and Public Education Committee of HKGBC,BEAM pro and GB faculty. He was the Vice Chair BEAM Society 2008-2011, Chairman of Institute of Acoustics (HK branch) 93-95, Founding President Engineering Australia (EA) HK chapter,  a Fellow HKIE, IEAust  CPEng, HKIEIA and HKIOA, accredited National Assessor EA , Outstanding Alumnus of the Year 2004 Australian Consulate General/FAAA, Engineers Australia Medal 2010.

He is the Project Director for the development of new Code of Practice for Public Lighting Design with particular emphasis on Energy Efficiency and subsequent implementation of pilot project in replacing existing sodium vapour street light with LED light for Macau SAR Government.