Swire and Wheelock among top winners at RICS Awards, Hong Kong 2019

Gordon Wu receives RICS Lifetime Achiever accolade from leading land, property and construction honours

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HONG KONG – Media
OutReach – 17 March 2019 – Homegrown real estate giants Swire and
Wheelock are among the biggest winners at this year’s RICS Awards, Hong Kong
2019 — a prestigious annual event celebrating outstanding contributions to Hong
Kong’s built environment, which took place at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong on
Friday 15 March 2019.

 

Meanwhile
Hopewell Holdings Chair Sir Gordon Wu claimed the greatest individual
honour, crowned with the respected RICS Lifetime Achiever award in recognition
of his five-decade career developing pivotal property, infrastructure and
business projects across Hong Kong, China and Asia.

 

Sir
Gordon was among the first Hong Kong entrepreneurs to invest in mainland China
during the economic reforms of the 1980s. He has played a pioneering role in developing
pivotal transport links across the Pearl River Delta, and Sir Gordon has been
visionary in driving the construction of recently realised Hong
Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge which is an integral part of the Greater Bay Area
development.

 

A
total of 12 team awards (as well as two individual awards) were given out recognising
noteworthy developments and professional achievements in Hong Kong’s land,
property and construction industries — with two homegrown firms coming up
trumps with multiple awards. Hong Kong-based Wheelock Properties scored
a double, winning both Residential Team of the Year and Corporate Social
Responsibility Project of the Year.

 

Meanwhile
Hong Kong-born multinational brand Swire Properties scored a
hat-trick, winning three different categories: Swire Properties Limited was
victorious in both Construction Project Construction Team of the Year and
Sustainability Achievement of the Year, while Office Team of the Year was
claimed by Swire Properties Management Limited.

 

Alan Dalgleish
FRICS, Head Juror, said: “With such high standards across the
industry in Hong Kong, the competition this year was incredibly fierce — and
our job as jurors was incredibly difficult. We are proud to recognise some
truly outstanding progress.”

 

The
2019 RICS Awards, Hong Kong introduced two brand new awards, Construction
Project Management Team of the Year and Research Team of the Year, recognising new
skills, specialities and areas of expertise within the ever-evolving build environment
industry,

 

Clare
Chiu, Chief Operating Officer, Greater China of RICS, added: “The RICS
Awards Hong Kong is the highest honour bestowed by a global professional body
in the built environment.

 

“This
year’s awards serve as a fitting celebration of the depth and breadth of talent
working today to craft the iconic skyline of Asia’s World City.”

Results of RICS Awards Hong Kong 2019:

1. Office Team of the Year
   Winner: Swire
   Properties
   Excellence: CBRE,
   JLL
2. Residential Team of the Year
   

   Winner: Wheelock Properties Limited

   Excellence: Savills (Hong Kong) Limited
3. Retail Team of the Year
   Winner: Knight Frank

   Excellence: Cushman & Wakefield,
   Champion REIT— Langham Place Mall,
   Wheelock Properties Limited and Cushman & Wakefield

4. Facilities Management Team of the Year
   Winner: JLL – Hang Seng Bank
   Excellence: Architectural Services
   Department, HKSAR Government – Installation of Leakage Detection System in North
   District Government Offices, CBRE, Guardian Property Management Limited — Facilities
   Management One-Stop Service
5. Property Management Team of the Year
   Winner: Savills Services Group — People’s Place

   Excellence: Harriman Property Management
   Limited, JLL
6. Professional Consultancy Services Team of the
   Year
   Winner: Arcadis

   Excellence: Cushman
   & Wakefield, Knight Frank

   
   
7. Construction Project Management Team of the Year
   Winner: Swire Properties – One Taikoo Place
   

   Excellence: Architectural
   Services Department, HKSAR Government - 
   Hong Kong Children’s Hospital, Architectural Services Department, HKSARG –
   Fitting-out of the Smart Identity Card Replacement Centres, Gammon Engineering
   & Construction Company Limited with Wheelock Properties Limited

8. Refurbishment / Revitalisation Team of the Year
   

   Winner: Nan Fung Development Limited – The Mills

   
   Excellence: New World Development Company
   Limited, Wharf Real Estate Investment Company Limited and Harbour City Estates
   Limited

9. Research Team of the Year

   Winner: CBRE
   

   Excellence: Our Hong Kong Foundation,
   Wheelock Properties Limited

   
   

10. Sustainability Achievement of the Year
    Winner: Swire Properties – One Taikoo Place
    

    Excellence: Arcadis
11. Best Deal of the Year
    Winner: Cushman & Wakefield and Link
    Excellence: Colliers International Pacific Limited, Savills (Hong Kong)
    Limited

12. Corporate
    Social Responsibility Project of the Year
    Winner: Wheelock
    Properties Limited
    Excellence: JLL

13. Young Surveyor of the Year

    Winner: Mr Alvin
    Leung MRICS
    

    Excellence: Mr Raphael
    Hui MRICS, Mr Kwok Pui Sum MRICS 

14. Lifetime Achiever: Sir Gordon Wu

About RICS Awards Hong Kong

The RICS Awards Hong Kong showcases outstanding
achievements and developments in Hong Kong’s land, property and construction
industries and across the built environment. The awards are open to everyone
working within the property profession. The jury panel of the RICS Awards 2019
Hong Kong is formed by twelfth outstanding local property key players.
Nominated projects have all displayed outstanding performance in
professionalism, outcome and achievement, teamwork and innovation.

About RICS

Confidence through Professional Standards

 

RICS promotes and enforces the highest professional
qualifications and standards in the development and management of land, real
estate, construction and infrastructure.
Our name promises the consistent delivery of standards — bringing confidence to
the markets we serve.

 

We accredit 125,000 professionals and any individual or firm registered
with RICS is subject to our quality assurance. Their expertise covers property,
asset valuation, real estate management; the development of infrastructure; and
the management of natural resources, such as mining, farms and woodland. From
environmental assessments and building controls to negotiating land rights in
an emerging economy; if our members are involved the same professional
standards and ethics apply.

 

We believe that standards underpin effective markets. With up to seventy
per cent of the world’s wealth bound up in land and real estate, our sector is
vital to economic development, helping to support stable, sustainable
investment and growth around the globe.

 

With offices covering the major political and financial centres of the
world, our market presence means we are ideally placed to influence policy and
embed professional standards. We work at a cross-governmental level, delivering
international standards that will support a safe and vibrant marketplace in
land, real estate, construction and infrastructure, for the benefit of all.

 

We are proud of our reputation and work hard to protect it, so clients
who work with an RICS professional can have confidence in the quality and
ethics of the services they receive.