I’m a civil engineer and a construction planner from Hong Kong. Coming to the UK via the Bridges programme, I experienced how a massive project in other region operates. I also got chances to travel to different countries with my camera. This is awesome!
In HK the planning department size for a project is usually around 2-3 people and we used stand-alone software for the programme input. Transferring to HS2, I work in a planning department made up of 10 people. Each of the planners looks after our scope and updates a single massive programme synchronized on a cloud platform. I’ve learned quite a few tricks this year on programme integrity checks to avoid messing other people’s programme by mistake as nobody wants to be called out on Teams chat for messing up the programme.
I’ve had the opportunity to work in various satellite shaft offices close to beautiful farms and barns. A farm horse greeted us on our first walk up the access road to the shaft! Also, this is the first time that I have worked in a project that is using NEC ECS contract, where I need to be in a closer relationship with the subcontractors compared to my experience in HK, it’s a whole new experience to me that I need to review and accept the programmes submitted by subcontractors just like what the client did with us in HK.
We were also given a chance to have a site visit on Hinkley Point C and the viaduct segment precasting yard in our own site. As I’m working for the shaft teams in HS2, precasting yards is somewhere i dont usually go. It is refreshing to see some other scopes in your workplace.
In summer, I joined a charity walk of Chiltern challenge with some HS2 colleagues that I hadn’t met before, It was fun that we just identified other colleagues just by our green T-shirt on the tracks and we’d just started talking randomly.
Taking advantage of staying in London, I have took the chance to travel around the UK and Europe. I travelled to Scotland & Norway and made the hardest climb of my life to Kjeragbolten! I fell 3 times in the rain even wen I was holding on the chain!! But when I reached the top, the views were magnificent. I’m looking forward to travelling to Iceland and Germany end of the year.
I also did some hiking within the UK by joining some online groups. I went for walks to the famous Seven Sisters cliff and the Jurassic Coast. I’ve met people from different countries during the hikes and we shared the cultural differences / everyday life in our countries.
I’ve also had catch ups with a lot of my friends and colleagues who have migrated to the UK, it’s so great to see them again and we visited a lot of places filled with UK vibes like museums, castles, palaces & theatres!
And of course, all of the bridges in London hang out together from time to time and share our experience! It’s nice to have a group of people being reachable and have a similar background as you.
I’m a civil engineer and a construction planner from Hong Kong. Coming to the UK via Bridges programme, I experienced how a massive project in other region operates. I also got chances to travel to in different countries with my camera. This is awesome!
One step • Candy Wong
In HK, the planning department size for a project is usually around 2-3 people and we used stand-alone software for the programme input. Transferring to HS2, I work in a planning department made up of 10 people. Each of the planners looks after our scope and update a single massive programme syncronized on a cloud platform. I’ve learned quite a few tricks this year for programme integrity checks and avoid messing other people’s programme by mistake as nobody wants to be called out on Teams chat for messing up the programme.
I’ve had the opportunity to work in various satellite shaft offices close to beautiful farms and barns. A farm horse greeted us on our first walk up the access road to the shaft! Also, this is the first time that I have worked in a project that is using NEC ECS contract, where I need to be in a closer relationship with the subcontractors compared to my experience in HK, it’s a whole new experience to me that I need to review and accept the programme submitted by subcontractors just like what the client did with us in HK.
We were also given a chance to have site visit on Hinkley Point C and the viaduct segment precasting yard in our own site. As I’m working for the shaft teams in HS2, precasting yards is somewhere i dont usually go. It is refreshing to see some other scopes in your workplace.
In summer, I joined a charity walk of Chiltern challenge with some HS2 colleagues that i hadn’t met before, it was fun that we just identified other colleagues just by our green T-shirt on the tracks and we will just start talking randomly.
Taking advantage of staying in London, I have took the chance to travel around UK and Europe. I travelled to Scotland & Norway and made the hardest climb of my life to Kjeragbolten! I fell 3 times in the rain even when I was holding on the chain!! But when I reached the top, the views were magnificent. I’m looking forward to travelling to Iceland and Germany end of the year.
I’ve also did some hiking within UK by joining some online groups. I went for walks to the famous seven sister cliff and the Jurassic Coast. I’ve met people from different countries during the hikes and we shared the cultural difference / everyday life in our countries.
I’ve also had catch ups with a lot of my friends and colleagues who have migrated to UK, it’s so great to see them again and we visited a lot of places filled with UK vibes like museums, castles, palaces & theaters!
And of course, all of the bridges in London hang out together from time to time and share our experience! It’s nice to have a group of people being reachable and have a similar background as you.
