If success is built on a solid foundation, then an award-winning university student need not worry. Winnie Chin Oi-yee, a final-year student at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), has won this year's Franklin and Andrews Measurement Prize.
Ms Chin is studying quantity surveying, a key profession in the construction industry. She is one of the few women taking the course in what was once a male preserve. Accurate measurement is a crucial skill in construction.
Ms Chin is well placed to land a full-time job at Franklin and Andrews, a leading quantity surveying and cost consultant, when she graduates in June.
Professor David Scott, head of the Department of Building and Real Estate at PolyU, said the prize 'gives Winnie a chance to be recognised and meet people she might be working with in the future. It also looks good on her CV because it gives prospective employers something else to judge her by apart from examination results'.
