IEM Flood Charity Relief Fund - Half Day Short Course on Flood Emergency Response Planning
Date : 26 January 2015
Venue : Auditorium Prof Tan Sri Chin Fung Kee, 3rd Floor, Wisma
IEM, Petaling Jaya.
Time : 1.00pm – 5.30pm Speaker : Ir. Loo Chee Kin
Synopsis The
recent 2014/2015 flooding would be one of the most devastating in Malaysia’s
history. More than 250,000 people were displaced by the floods. The flood waters
stayed for days in many areas. The states of Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang
were the worst affected and the states of Perlis, Perak, Johor and Sabah were not
spared.
This
short course introduces some fundamentals of floods and explains the various types
of floods. Floods can be made worst by the combination of these factors.
Flooding can be prevented by understanding the flood exposure, and then
engineering can be applied to mitigate the flood or build defenses to protect
against the flood. For flood exposed locations, a flood emergency response plan
could be implemented to limit or reduce the flood damage. The workshop would
help participants have a better understanding on drawing up a flood emergency
response plan. And after the flood water is good, taking the right salvage
steps can bring back recovery sooner. This course will focus on things that an
individual or a company can do to lessen the possibility of flood.
Target
audience: Anyone interested in the flood issue. This talk would be on basic knowledge
about floods and no prior knowledge required.
Biodata of Speaker
Ir.
Loo Chee Kin is a Senior Consultant with Global Risk Consultants (GRC) and
before that he was a Senior Engineering Specialist with FM Global for some 12
years. He has more than 20 year engineering experience, from design to field
work. 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. He is an active committee member in the
IEM’s Mechanical Engineering Technical Division as well as various
Sub-Committees and Boards. He had written few articles in the IEM monthly
bulletin, Jurutera.
His
areas of risk evaluation are both for existing sites as well as engineering
services for new projects of clients. He has visited and provided loss
prevention engineering services for various plants, which includes
semiconductor wafer fabs, offices, machine shops, rubber processing facilities,
paper working, food, healthcare products, electrical apparatus assembly,
foundry, molten glass, mines, mills, warehousing facilities, etc.
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.
Note: This is a charity event initiated and organized by IEM METD. All proceeds from this course will be distributed as flood aid. The contribution will be for the flood victims to rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
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