Ir. Adjunct Prof. MC Hee is a practicing Structural Consulting Engineer and Principal of M C Hee & Associates. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and Master of Engineering Science (M.Eng.Sc.) from The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His expertise is in the design and construction of high-rise buildings particularly in value engineering and alternative design. His philosophy is "design for simplicity" & "buildability with a total concept approach".
He has over 40 years' of experience in this field. His major overseas projects include the 68-storey MLC tower, 40-storey CML building in Sydney and 42-storey at 530, Collins St in Melbourne. In Malaysia, the number of high rise buildings he has embarked on is numerous, some of which are the 39-storey Core Project & 25-storey Plaza Perangsang in Shah Alam, 43-storey Mount Kiara Condominium, 28-storey Desa Parker Condominium, 25-storey Arab Malaysian Bank in Kuala Lumpur and the 4 high tower blocks of condominium ranging from 20 to 28 story in Sentul.
In addition he is well versed in computer modeling of high-rise buildings and his current interest is in strut and tie applications in the field of structural engineering particularly transfer girders and deep beams. He is a strong advocate of manual check methods such as 2-cycle moment distribution and qualitative analysis on load response by sketching the deflected shapes and drawing the bending moment diagrams.
Ir. Adjunct Prof. MC Hee is active in contributing to the engineering society. He is a registered accredited structural checker in BEM and highly regarded in the investigation committee. Some of his other activities include being the Vice President of IEM from 2009 to 2011, Chairman for drafting the Malaysian National Annex of EC0, EC1, EC2 and active member of Technical Committee drafting the Malaysian National Annex of EC8.
Ir. Adjunct Prof. MC Hee has also conducted other intensive courses such as Design to BS8110, Eurocodes EC0, EC1 & EC2, Finite Element Modelling of Deep Beams and Raft Foundation and Analysis and Design to EC8.