TRANSCEND Monthly Partner’s Online Meeting in August 2020
Posted On August 4, 2020
Date
4th August 2020
Place/Venue:
Online Microsoft Teams
Participants:
UK Team (Prof. Terrence Fernando, Prof Kaushal, Prof Bingu, Simon, Hisham, Devindi, Pavithra, Henneke), Pakistan Team (Mr Mushtaq, Irfan, Danish), Dr Shafqat Munir, SDPI, Pakistan, Umber Nazir, Siti Kursiah Kamalia Abdul Latib, Ahmad Farhan Roslan and Syamimi Shahlal from KANZU Research: Resilient Built Environment, UTHM and UTM Team in Malaysia Team.
Description:
The routine project meeting was to update the TRANSCEND team on project recent progress. There were a few things that have been discussed in the meeting are:
- Prof Terrence presented about the overall progress in TRANSCEND so far along with the update of the latest steering committee meeting.
- Status of TRANSCEND Collaboration Agreement (CA) from all partners and those who wanted an extension due to any legitimate delay.
- Prof. Terrence mentioned to all Co-Is to start planning about the remote workshop for building a local steering committee to create local momentum.
- Prof Terrence also asked all countries’ Co-Is to start working on the living lab concept.
- Prof. Bingu presented his work package progress on “Climate change adaptation and impacts on Policy Initiative”.
- Prof. Kaushal presented his work package progress on “Community Participation in Practice for Risk Sensitive Urban Development: Mainstream and Out-of-the-box thinking”.
- In the end, Dr Sara Biscaya updated about her status of paper writing progress on policy planning in urban development.