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Dear Station Members,
An ATV News Magazine program was shown last night at 7pm about Tree Risks in HK. Both the local Tree Experts & Tree Management Office (TMO) were present on show to talk about Hazard Trees & general Tree Planting. This program can be retrieved from Web TV at http://app2.hkatv.com/v3/webtv/webtv.php?program=3000011 when it is updated later in the week.
This particular show appeared to probe deeper into Tree Assessment than a similar TVB program on 5.8.2010, with the smell of a smoking gun, at least from the Tree Experts. It is also interesting to note that the Tree Experts were always talking in front of Hazard Trees on site, where the TMO was talking in front of beautiful graphics & drawings in office, instead of standing in front of the same trees for any debate. Then which one becomes more convincing?
Tree Experts were also demonstrating skills in proper Tree Assessment in front of real trees, & gave recommendations for further action. The audience would find it educational. It does not appear that the TMO has ever done the same on TV programs so far.
Interesting comment in the program includes consultant company was quoted to be able to give example of successful tree planting of Terminalia catappa in a 1m x 1m planter box from past experience. Terminalia can grow to 20+ m tall & 15+ m wide in the field. It would be quite an education to the Arborists to see it developing "successfully" in a 1m x 1m concrete box, without getting blown over in storm.
The program ended by querying the resulting effects of spending HK$360 million public fund for the Greening Master Plan in 18 Districts in HK, with special focus on Tree Planting.
ISA HK/China is not involved in the production of this program. We would also take a neutral stance in any of the comments.
Please browse through this interesting program at your leisure.
best regards,
Sammy Au
Station Manager
"If a tree is not designed, installed, maintained & inspected properly, it is likely to become a liability rather than an asset."
"Trees are good for the community. Trees need care like human beings. Arborists are the Tree Care Professionals."
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
ISA HK/China --- Employment Notice from Chun Wo Holdings
Dear Station Members,
Please study the Job Request for an Arborist at Chun Wo Development Holdings Ltd below, & apply at your pleasure.
best regards,
Sammy Au
Station Manager
----- Original Message -----
From: Lily Li Lee
To: Eurasian Garden Ltd / ISA HK/China
Cc: Wilfred Chau Chung Yau ; helen.wong@chunwo.com
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: Chun Wo --- 誠聘註冊樹藝師
Dear Sammy,
Thanks for your reply, here are the requirements and information of the 樹藝師:
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
入職條件：
- 持有樹藝學或相關範疇的學位，例如植物學、生物學、森林學、園藝學、園境建築、園境管理、園境科學學位，或同等學歷；
- 通過樹藝專業學會或業內機構主辦或認可的考試或評核，並取得相關資格或學歷證明，例如國際樹木學會註冊樹藝師(Certified Arborist of the International Society of Arboriculture)、英國樹木學會專業會員或院士(Professional Member or Fellow of the Arboricultural Association of the UK)、歐洲樹木栽培委員會樹木技術人員(European Tree Technician of the European Arboricultural Council)、澳洲國家樹木學會一般會員(General Member of the National Arborists Association of Australia)；或同等資歷；
- 最少2全職樹藝工作方面的實際經驗，例如樹木風險評估和管理、修剪、植物營養和施肥、種植和種植後的護理、樹木問題的診斷和治理、使用拉索，或其他與樹藝有關的服務
Chun Wo Development Holdings Limited (Stock code: 711)
Chun Wo was founded in 1968 and listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1993. It is a renowned construction company in Hong Kong in building construction, civil engineering, foundations, electrical and mechanical engineering, railway and transport engineering, maintenance engineering and interior design engineering. Apart from developing its core construction business, Chun Wo has been diversifying its business into property development, property investment, property management and security services in recent years. Construction and development projects of the Group are widely distributed in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau, Taiwan and Vietnam. Its signature projects included the Hong Kong International Airport Skyplaza, the KCR East Rail and West Rail and No. 8 Clear Water Bay Road.
We offer competitive remuneration package with comprehensive fringe benefits to the right candidate. Interested parties please send your resume to The Human Resources Manager, quoting the appropriate reference number via email to : hra@chunwo.com.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thanks again for your help. Please feel free to contact me if your members are interested in this post.
Best regards,李莉 (Lily Li)人力資源及行政經理俊和（中国）有限公司俊和发展集团附属公司 (香港上市公司股票代号: 711)直线电话: (020)8317 6098, (852)3758 8118 / 手机: (86)138 0250 1832, (852)9475 0218传真: (020)8331 0983, (852) 2744 6702网址: www.chunwo.com
Please study the Job Request for an Arborist at Chun Wo Development Holdings Ltd below, & apply at your pleasure.
best regards,
Sammy Au
Station Manager
----- Original Message -----
From: Lily Li Lee
To: Eurasian Garden Ltd / ISA HK/China
Cc: Wilfred Chau Chung Yau ; helen.wong@chunwo.com
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: Chun Wo --- 誠聘註冊樹藝師
Dear Sammy,
Thanks for your reply, here are the requirements and information of the 樹藝師:
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
入職條件：
- 持有樹藝學或相關範疇的學位，例如植物學、生物學、森林學、園藝學、園境建築、園境管理、園境科學學位，或同等學歷；
- 通過樹藝專業學會或業內機構主辦或認可的考試或評核，並取得相關資格或學歷證明，例如國際樹木學會註冊樹藝師(Certified Arborist of the International Society of Arboriculture)、英國樹木學會專業會員或院士(Professional Member or Fellow of the Arboricultural Association of the UK)、歐洲樹木栽培委員會樹木技術人員(European Tree Technician of the European Arboricultural Council)、澳洲國家樹木學會一般會員(General Member of the National Arborists Association of Australia)；或同等資歷；
- 最少2全職樹藝工作方面的實際經驗，例如樹木風險評估和管理、修剪、植物營養和施肥、種植和種植後的護理、樹木問題的診斷和治理、使用拉索，或其他與樹藝有關的服務
Chun Wo Development Holdings Limited (Stock code: 711)
Chun Wo was founded in 1968 and listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1993. It is a renowned construction company in Hong Kong in building construction, civil engineering, foundations, electrical and mechanical engineering, railway and transport engineering, maintenance engineering and interior design engineering. Apart from developing its core construction business, Chun Wo has been diversifying its business into property development, property investment, property management and security services in recent years. Construction and development projects of the Group are widely distributed in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau, Taiwan and Vietnam. Its signature projects included the Hong Kong International Airport Skyplaza, the KCR East Rail and West Rail and No. 8 Clear Water Bay Road.
We offer competitive remuneration package with comprehensive fringe benefits to the right candidate. Interested parties please send your resume to The Human Resources Manager, quoting the appropriate reference number via email to : hra@chunwo.com.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thanks again for your help. Please feel free to contact me if your members are interested in this post.
Best regards,李莉 (Lily Li)人力資源及行政經理俊和（中国）有限公司俊和发展集团附属公司 (香港上市公司股票代号: 711)直线电话: (020)8317 6098, (852)3758 8118 / 手机: (86)138 0250 1832, (852)9475 0218传真: (020)8331 0983, (852) 2744 6702网址: www.chunwo.com
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
ISA HK/China --- Certified Practicing Horticulturist (CPH)
国内朋友请使用翻译软件阅读本文 (http://translate.google.com.hk/?hl=en&tab=wT#enzh-CN)。
*** Our weekly Station Mail is for the information of Station Members only, but Station Mail has given up copyright & can be freely circulated. For administrative reasons, comments from outsiders are usually not entertained & may be circulated within our system locally & overseas. Please note Station Mail is sometimes given in Blog at http://isahkchina.blogspot.com , although images are usually not attached due to size. ***
Dear Station Members,
While in Singapore, the Station Manager was told by their Greenery Professionals that there are 5 Greenery Professions running parallel without preference to build their Garden City as follows:
1. Horticulture
2. Arboriculture
3. Landscape Architecture/Design
4. Turf Management
5. Irrigation Engineering
The 5 professions would work independently & none would override or instruct the other, because they respect each can not replace the other in knowledge or expertise in any job. The result is that Singapore is internationally famous for her greenery construction. Their "Garden City" or now called the "City in a Garden", has become a crown jewel in Asia. Our China brothers & sisters flock by the thousands every year to visit this remarkable land, to learn how to build a Dream City of their own.
Among the 5 professions, Horticulture is the one adding colour, texture & fragrance in a landscape. Imagine having a garden without shrubs, herbs & groundcovers. Would the sight & smell come from just trees & turf alone? Apparently not. Horticultural Design is an important element in softscape that without it, the outcome would be flat & tasteless. Horticulture is an indispensible part in Garden Design.
When compared with Arboriculture, Horticulture is a much broader subject. It engulfs practically any Plant Science from production of cut flowers to transplanting large palms, nursery management, tissue culture, garden maintenance, soil science, pest control, & greenhouse technology. Practically besides trees, the study on plants belongs to Horticulture. It is vast, scientific & profound. It is an integral part in any Garden Design. The Station Manager sometimes compares Horticulture as Veterinary Science with Arboriculture as Human Medicine, where the former deals with any animal except human. Both disciplines are constantly under active research, & new technology evolves all the time.
There appears to be more Horticulturists around the world than Arborists. In HK alone, one can regard all the staff working in Flower Market Road as Horticulturists. They specialize in their own species more than anybody who is not in their field. Credentials alone here may not apply. In the practical world, what's the point having piles of certificates & diplomas, if one can not do the work ?? That would only fool the ignorant. The same analogy would apply to the nursery growers & landscapers in China, & is also true for the Orchid & Fruit Producers in Taiwan.
In our territory of of HK, Macau, Taiwan & China, Arboriculture has become a hot spot in recent years. This is mainly because our society now understand Tree Planting invites risks. Tree Failure can kill & damage properties, which would lead to social uproar & law suits. Therefore, we need Arborists to look after our trees. Another contribution may be that ISA HK/China has successfully promoted ISA Arboriculture in our territory.
On the other hand, is it not true that the Horticulturists are equally working hard, to provide our society with beautiful greenery as we see everywhere? Somehow we do not hear much of them. They are sometimes downgraded as hobbyists providing only amateur past time, & are largely ignored for publicity. In actual fact, Horticulturists in our territory have many more societies than the Arborists, but they do not appear to have one strong group to unite their industry & to assert standards. Their social status is also blur without much professional recognition by anybody.
There is an organization called the International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS, http://www.ishs.org/) set up more than a hundred years ago, & is full of professors & researchers doing studies constantly in Horticulture. But this organization does not appear to offer international credentials like the ISA. And they do not have an equivalent body in our territory like ISA HK/China, which constructs Practicing Credentials like the IPA (http://isahkchina.blogspot.com/2010/04/isa-hkchina-hk-tree-news-14410-report.html) to serve our community. Only if the local Horticulturists can form their own strong group under an international backing to produce professional qualifications, that they can gain social recognition & professional status in our territory. Getting an international backing is very important, because anything local can not cross boundary, unless your boundary is so big like that of ISA HK/China.
ISA HK/China has learned that there is a Certified Practicing Horticulturist (CPH) credential training program (course code is CUGE-PCP-7002) offered by CUGE (www.cuge.com.sg) in Singapore. This may be what our local Horticulturists are looking for to upgrade their professional image. Further details can be obtained by contacting CUGE directly. It is possible that a special class can be formed for the HK Horticulturists if a certain number can be gathered, like the Certified Arborist class in Nparks in Dec 2006.
Australia & New Zealand also offer their own CPH, & there are a few of their CPH holders in HK at present.
Two persons in ISA HK/China are willing to help the local Horticulturists to form their group :
1. Mike Leung --- mike_leung@yahoo.com
2. Allen Lim, CPH --- allenlims@yahoo.com.hk
We have hundreds of Horticulturists in ISA HK/China. Those who wish to progress themselves can contact the above persons for further discussion. Arborists want to be friends of Horticulturists anytime, & we are glad to lend a helping hand to them. We can envisage the future Horticultural Group in our territory to be much bigger in size, due to a much wider diversity of membership in Horticulture. However, the future Horticultural Group would need strong leadership & positive strategies to succeed. ISA HK/China is willing to share some of our experience with them.
We look forward to a strong & united Horticultural Group to emerge in our territory, & may they not forget the Arborists are their friends always. By working together, we shall do good to our society to improve the quality of living for everyone.
best regards,
Sammy Au
Station Manager
"If a tree is not designed, installed, maintained & inspected properly, it is likely to become a liability rather than an asset."
"Trees are good for the community. Trees need care like human beings. Arborists are the Tree Care Professionals."
*** Our weekly Station Mail is for the information of Station Members only, but Station Mail has given up copyright & can be freely circulated. For administrative reasons, comments from outsiders are usually not entertained & may be circulated within our system locally & overseas. Please note Station Mail is sometimes given in Blog at http://isahkchina.blogspot.com , although images are usually not attached due to size. ***
Dear Station Members,
While in Singapore, the Station Manager was told by their Greenery Professionals that there are 5 Greenery Professions running parallel without preference to build their Garden City as follows:
1. Horticulture
2. Arboriculture
3. Landscape Architecture/Design
4. Turf Management
5. Irrigation Engineering
The 5 professions would work independently & none would override or instruct the other, because they respect each can not replace the other in knowledge or expertise in any job. The result is that Singapore is internationally famous for her greenery construction. Their "Garden City" or now called the "City in a Garden", has become a crown jewel in Asia. Our China brothers & sisters flock by the thousands every year to visit this remarkable land, to learn how to build a Dream City of their own.
Among the 5 professions, Horticulture is the one adding colour, texture & fragrance in a landscape. Imagine having a garden without shrubs, herbs & groundcovers. Would the sight & smell come from just trees & turf alone? Apparently not. Horticultural Design is an important element in softscape that without it, the outcome would be flat & tasteless. Horticulture is an indispensible part in Garden Design.
When compared with Arboriculture, Horticulture is a much broader subject. It engulfs practically any Plant Science from production of cut flowers to transplanting large palms, nursery management, tissue culture, garden maintenance, soil science, pest control, & greenhouse technology. Practically besides trees, the study on plants belongs to Horticulture. It is vast, scientific & profound. It is an integral part in any Garden Design. The Station Manager sometimes compares Horticulture as Veterinary Science with Arboriculture as Human Medicine, where the former deals with any animal except human. Both disciplines are constantly under active research, & new technology evolves all the time.
There appears to be more Horticulturists around the world than Arborists. In HK alone, one can regard all the staff working in Flower Market Road as Horticulturists. They specialize in their own species more than anybody who is not in their field. Credentials alone here may not apply. In the practical world, what's the point having piles of certificates & diplomas, if one can not do the work ?? That would only fool the ignorant. The same analogy would apply to the nursery growers & landscapers in China, & is also true for the Orchid & Fruit Producers in Taiwan.
In our territory of of HK, Macau, Taiwan & China, Arboriculture has become a hot spot in recent years. This is mainly because our society now understand Tree Planting invites risks. Tree Failure can kill & damage properties, which would lead to social uproar & law suits. Therefore, we need Arborists to look after our trees. Another contribution may be that ISA HK/China has successfully promoted ISA Arboriculture in our territory.
On the other hand, is it not true that the Horticulturists are equally working hard, to provide our society with beautiful greenery as we see everywhere? Somehow we do not hear much of them. They are sometimes downgraded as hobbyists providing only amateur past time, & are largely ignored for publicity. In actual fact, Horticulturists in our territory have many more societies than the Arborists, but they do not appear to have one strong group to unite their industry & to assert standards. Their social status is also blur without much professional recognition by anybody.
There is an organization called the International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS, http://www.ishs.org/) set up more than a hundred years ago, & is full of professors & researchers doing studies constantly in Horticulture. But this organization does not appear to offer international credentials like the ISA. And they do not have an equivalent body in our territory like ISA HK/China, which constructs Practicing Credentials like the IPA (http://isahkchina.blogspot.com/2010/04/isa-hkchina-hk-tree-news-14410-report.html) to serve our community. Only if the local Horticulturists can form their own strong group under an international backing to produce professional qualifications, that they can gain social recognition & professional status in our territory. Getting an international backing is very important, because anything local can not cross boundary, unless your boundary is so big like that of ISA HK/China.
ISA HK/China has learned that there is a Certified Practicing Horticulturist (CPH) credential training program (course code is CUGE-PCP-7002) offered by CUGE (www.cuge.com.sg) in Singapore. This may be what our local Horticulturists are looking for to upgrade their professional image. Further details can be obtained by contacting CUGE directly. It is possible that a special class can be formed for the HK Horticulturists if a certain number can be gathered, like the Certified Arborist class in Nparks in Dec 2006.
Australia & New Zealand also offer their own CPH, & there are a few of their CPH holders in HK at present.
Two persons in ISA HK/China are willing to help the local Horticulturists to form their group :
1. Mike Leung --- mike_leung@yahoo.com
2. Allen Lim, CPH --- allenlims@yahoo.com.hk
We have hundreds of Horticulturists in ISA HK/China. Those who wish to progress themselves can contact the above persons for further discussion. Arborists want to be friends of Horticulturists anytime, & we are glad to lend a helping hand to them. We can envisage the future Horticultural Group in our territory to be much bigger in size, due to a much wider diversity of membership in Horticulture. However, the future Horticultural Group would need strong leadership & positive strategies to succeed. ISA HK/China is willing to share some of our experience with them.
We look forward to a strong & united Horticultural Group to emerge in our territory, & may they not forget the Arborists are their friends always. By working together, we shall do good to our society to improve the quality of living for everyone.
best regards,
Sammy Au
Station Manager
"If a tree is not designed, installed, maintained & inspected properly, it is likely to become a liability rather than an asset."
"Trees are good for the community. Trees need care like human beings. Arborists are the Tree Care Professionals."
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