SYNOPSIS

This talk is held in conjunction with the National Preparedness Month. The month of October has been officially designated by the government of Malaysia as ‘Bulan Kesiapsiagaan Nasional (BKN)’. October 13 had been declared as the International Day for Disaster Reduction, by the UN General Assembly in 1989. This is time to increase risk-awareness and disaster reduction, which includes disaster prevention, mitigation and preparedness.  IEM is proud to present this talk as contribution to these causes.

The talk would focus on some of the efforts that IEM DDRAB had done for the 2017 coastal flooding, in particular for the Selangor state. As new information and resources for engineers and the community, this talk will also cover some of the latest development in the flood forecasting, the draft Malaysian standards on earthquake and the hillslope risk mapping.


SPEAKER BIODATA

Ir. Loo Chee Kin is an active member in the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM). He is one of the founding members of IEM Disaster Risk Reduction Advisory Board (DDRAB) under the Standing Committee on Professional Practice (PPC), IEM.  He is currently the Chairman of DDRAB. He is also committee member also serving as the Chairman of the IEM Mechanical Engineering Technical Division (METD), Committee Member of the Fire Advisory Board (FAB) as well as serving in various Sub-Committees and Boards in IEM.  

He is a Senior Consultant with Global Risk Consultants (GRC) and before that he was a Senior Engineering Specialist with FM Global. He has more than 20 years engineering experience, from design to field work, as well as natural hazard assessments.

He graduated from UMIST, Manchester, UK with a B.Eng in Electromechanical Systems Engineering and prior to that a Diploma in Electromechanical Systems Engineering from Kota Bharu Polytechnic in Kota Bharu, Malaysia. He is a P.Eng in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and a Member of IEM. He is a Member of IMechE and IEE, and registered C.Eng.

In the natural hazards field, Ir. Loo had done consultancy for flood, earthquake, windstorm, freeze and snow in various countries. In the area of flood, he advice project teams on site selection, building flood protection barriers, devise flood emergency response plan, compile rainfall and flood data, and review flood studies.