Chan Siu-Lai

A recipient of the Overseas High-Level Talent program, he served as a Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2013 to 2022. He is the Founder and President of the Hong Kong Institute of Steel Construction and serves as a Legal Advisor to the Hong Kong Government in the field of structural engineering.

His research interests encompass the stability design of steel, composite, and concrete structures; non-linear finite element analysis; glass and slender structures; rock and flood barriers; bamboo and aluminum scaffolding; and prestressed steel structures. He pioneered a novel design methodology—the Second-order Direct Analysis Method—which has been incorporated into the Chinese National Standard GB50017-2017 and the Hong Kong Code of Practice for the Structural Use of Steel, and has been successfully applied in numerous landmark steel projects.

He serves as a consultant for multiple major construction industry design codes in Hong Kong and is a member of expert committees for steel structure design codes in various countries and regions, including China, Europe, and the United States. In addition to his role as a Legal Advisor to the Hong Kong Government, he has served as Chairman of the Structural Division, Structural Discipline, and Fire Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). Consistently ranked among the top 2% of scientists globally in civil engineering, he founded several international SCI journals, including Advanced Steel Construction and Steel and Composite Structures, and serves on the editorial boards of seven prestigious international SCI journals, such as Engineering Structures and the Journal of Constructional Steel Research.