• Demonstrate current strategies employed in Hong Kong to exploit commercial and development opportunities in stations;
• Government’s policies with regard to the future roles for rail;
• vision to guide future railway developments as one process

To examine, using Hong Kong as an example, the pre-requisites of sustainability, and demonstrate how the status quo should be adapted so that investments made to bring rail and property can be harnessed to build diversity and vibrancy in the communities created by railway.

• Senior Executives: Heads of Investment, Heads of Infrastructure, Estate Management , Planners, Architects, Town planners, Engineers, Heads of Real Estate, Heads of Station Development, Strategy and development managers 
• From: Rail Operators, Infrastructure Authorities, Property Developers, Investment Banks, Chartered Surveyors, Consultants, Investors, Engineering & Construction, Government & Regulators

About your workshop leader
Led by Mr. Daniel C. Lam, Director of Property, Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation, Hong Kong

Mr. Lam is the Director-Property of Hong Kong’s Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation since year 2000. His role covers planning and directing all property development projects, as well as operating a sizeable leasing, licensing, advertising and property management portfolio. 

Mr. Lam first qualified as a Chartered Building Surveyor and registered as an Authorized Person under the Buildings Ordinance of Hong Kong.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors.  He has been elected as a Chartered Arbitrator and listed on the London Panel of Arbitrators of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.  He is also listed on similar panels in Hong Kong and Vancouver, and is appointed as Arbitrator to the China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission and the Beijing Arbitration Commission.  In 1995 Mr. Lam was appointed as Non-official Justice of Peace and in 2001 awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star.

Mr. Lam was the President of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. Because of Mr. Lam’s professional knowledge and interest in arbitration, he has been appointed as arbitrator in a number of cases.  He is a council member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and Fellow and Past Chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators.

Mr. Lam has held a number of professional and public service positions in Hong Kong, such as member of the Land & Building Advisory Committee (1986-1990), Hong Kong Housing Authority (1993-2001) and Chairman of its Building Committee (1996-2001), and member of the Construction Industry Review Committee.  During 1991-1993, Mr. Lam was appointed as a consultant to the World Bank, Washington DC, and published a report on China’s urban land policy.

Mr. Lam’s experience in property development extends beyond Hong Kong.  For a considerable period of time he had also been responsible for project developments in major overseas cities and countries including London, Tokyo, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and other places in Middle East, North and South America.  Mr. Lam worked for the Hongkong Land Group, Hong Kong Government, the Hongkong Bank (HSBC) Group, the Sime Darby Group and China Light & Power Group, before starting his own practice in 1993.  Owing to Mr. Lam’s involvement with the World Bank and as the Executive Director of Tian An China Investment Company Limited, he is very familiar with project development issues in Mainland China.

Mr. Lam was Chairman of the Surveying Department’s Advisory Committee of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) from 1986 to 1991, and External Examiner of Real Estate & Construction Department from 1995 to 1998. In July 2003, the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education appointed Mr Lam as Adjunct Professor.  Mr Lam was appointed as member of the Department of Building and Construction Advisory Committee, City University of Hong Kong, in 1994 and as the Chairman during 1997-1998.

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