SustainabilityHACK 2024 Program Highlight

SustainabilityHACK 2024 kicked off at MIT HK Node on May 31, where CIC Chairman, Thomas Ho, warmly welcomed a full house of participants. He called for urgent solutions to improve construction safety, reiterating that “safety is a culture, a mindset and a mentality.”
To promote sustainability, Chairman Ho urged the innovators to leverage technology, highlighting examples in waste management, digital project delivery and robotic construction.
The two-day hackathon concluded with pitches from 19 teams proposing solutions tackling a range of sustainability challenges in the construction sector. In total, nine distinguished judges from industry selected the top prize winners and innovation award recipients, which included:
(Winner) Eternals Innovation - cultivating algae on construction wood waste for eco-shoreline implementation.
(Winner) InsectX - a greener way to power construction sites using novel production technology with insect and food waste as biofuel.
(Innovation Award) EC Inno - urban roof farming that converts wastewater to reusable nutrients and clean water through the process of electrocatalysis.
(Innovation Award) Power Step - sustainable kinetic energy generation using triboelectric sensors.
The event closed with remarks from Marina Chan, Executive Director of MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node, who commended the teams for their energy and dedication, encouraging them to “keep the positive momentum going” to further their ideas as a community.