Recipients of this year’s BCI Asia Top Ten Awards will enjoy an opportunity to learn more about sustainability from experts on green building at FuturArc Forum 2008, to be held in nine cities between 19 February and 11 April 2008. The BCI Asia awards are bestowed each year to the 10 most active architectural firms in China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. This year's recipients are listed on the following pages.
BCI Asia, the publisher of FuturArc, aims to improve built environment by assembling the principals of Top Ten firms with green building academics and practitioners from around the world as well as representatives of large property development companies, engineering firms and building technology providers. Besides participating in a discourse on green building, they will attend exclusive Top Ten Awards dinners during or immediately after each respective FuturArc Forum.
Several firms in this year's Top Ten list are already developing a competency in green building, such as Surbana International Consultants Pte Ltd of Singapore with its Green Mark Platinum rated Treelodge @ Punggol project as well as Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd with its design for University of Hong Kong Centennial Campus. Green building may still be in its infancy, but there has been a great leap in environmental awareness among local design professionals since early 2006 when BCI Asia Chairman Dr. Matthias Krups first called on architects tp play a leadership role in designing sustainable buildings.
"The only way for Asia-and the world-to survive urban development on such a scale is to focus on sustainability," Dr Krups said in his welcome address at the Top Ten Awards ceremonies in 2006. "Lets us celebrate the remarkable accomplishments and the great responsibilities of the leading ten architectural firms".
In collecting data on this year's Top Ten, BCI Asia conducted about 300,000 interviews with architects, developers, enginners and contractors. Its research staff also followed tenders, visited sites and reviewed municipal records to ensure accuracy. The Top Ten winners had the highest accumulated value of active projects in their portfolios reported in BCI Asia's e-bulletin/Leadmanager service in the year to September 2007. Active projects were either reported for the first time at design or documentation stages in the year to 30 September 2007; or updated to tender, post tender or construction stages during this annual period from design or documentation stages in the previous annual reporting period. Projects were excluded if they were abandoned or deferred.
The nominees in Malaysia are:
- Arkitek MAA Sdn Bhd
- Atelier ADT Akitek Sdn Bhd
- ATSA Architects Sdn Bhd
- BEP Akitek Sdn Bhd
- GDP Architects Sdn Bhd
- GRA Architects Sdn Bhd
- NRY Architects Sdn Bhd
- RSP Akitek
- SA Architects Sdn Bhd
- Veritas Architects Sdn Bhd Arkitek
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ATSA has been nominated among the leading ten architectural firms in Malaysia on 25th October 2004.
The BCI Asia TOP TEN 2005 ranking of architecture firms was conceived to provide an international overview of architecture firms designing the most significant body of structures in any eight regional markets across Asia. ATSA is among the top echelon in Malaysia achieving ranking according to BCI Asia.
The architecture firms and design institutes shown in the attachment will be listed in the TOP TEN 2005 ranking of architectural firms by BCI Asia. The rankings are derived from the aggregate value of floor space of the firm’s projects reported by BCI Asia as being under planning, design or under construction from 1 October 2003 to 30 September 2004.
Nominees will be announced in the December 2004 and January 2005 editions of Architecture Asia, the journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia and Famous Architecture, a leading Chinese-language architecture title with an expansive circulation in Mainland China.
The TOP TEN 2005 Awards will be bestowed on the nominated firms in award banquets across Southeast Asia and China. The awards ceremonies in Malaysia will be in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 23rd February 2005.
The nominees in Malaysia are:
- A & A Architects Sdn Bhd
- Akipraktis
- Akitek Jururancang (M) Sdn Bhd
- Arkitek MAA Sdn Bhd
- ATSA Architects Sdn Bhd
- BEP Akitek Sdn Bhd
- GDP Architects Sdn Bhd
- Hijjas Kasturi Associates Sdn Bhd
- Mas Othman Associates
- Regional Development Consortium Arkitek
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