China Newswire » Real Estate & Construction http://www.chinanewswire.com Social Media Press Release Distribution Service for China Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:13:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Architecture & Design Conference 2.0 To Rock Shanghai In 2010 http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/201002120950381781 http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/201002120950381781#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:50:38 +0000 Facility Media http://www.chinanewswire.com/?p=1781 Star Architects Fumihiko Maki, Paul Katz And Rocco Yim Relocate To Shanghai For Top-tier Conference.

Hong Kong (February 12, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — The groundbreaking conference that brought the world's leading architects, designers and developers together is back with a bang for 2010. Relocating from Hong Kong to Shanghai's New Int'l Expo Centre, this year the conference will be held in conjunction with the 18th Annual Expo Build China.

The concept behind the event is "Building Cities for a Better Life", complementing the theme of the Shanghai Expo which will open in May this year. The initial speaker line-up is headed by opening keynote and Japanese architecture legend Fumihiko Maki. Joining him on a wide ranging programme that spans design and business issues are Paul Katz, president of Kohn Pedersen Fox – the firm behind Hong Kong and Shanghai's tallest buildings and green building expert Roger Frechette. Representing Hong Kong will be the city's most renowned home-grown architect, Rocco Yim.

Ashford Pritchard, Associate Director of organiser Facility Media and the producer of the event, says: "The Architecture & Design Conference is the ideal platform for the building industry to engage with the artistic minds that create our cities. This year we will be focusing on how architects can work with developers to build urban environments that enhance their inhabitants lives." An business conference that will bring industry leaders from China and abroad together to discuss the future of design, The Architecture & Design conference 2.0 is expected to educate and inspire in equal measure.

In brief:
What-The Architecture & Design Conference 2.0; A unique business conference for industry leaders.

When-31 March – 1 April 2010

Where-Shanghai New Int'l Expo Centre; In conjunction with the 18th Annual Expo Build China.

Who-Speaking: Fumihiko Maki, Principal, Maki and Associates; Paul Katz, President, Kohn Pedersen Fox; Rocco Yim, Executive Director, Rocco Design Architects; Stefan Krummeck. Principal Director, TFP Farrells; Roger Frechette, AS+GG Architects.

Attending-1-200 architects, developers, industry leaders, consultants, government officials, academics, media.

How Much: Delegate passes range from US$788 to US$1,088.

Read More: At the official website: www.thearchitectureconference.com.

Program and registration forms are available at http://www.thearchitectureconference.com/TADC-Programme-February1.pdf.

About Facility Media
Facility Media is the leading bespoke publication, events and communications organisation engaging with the industries of the built environment in Asia. Facility Media is the publisher of RFP Magazine, Asia's leading publication for the built environment covering the whole life cycle from real estate investment, development, design, construction, project and facilities management. Since its inception in 2004 RFP Magazine has become a must read for industry professionals within Asia, and the rest of the world with a print and digital distribution which reaches over 40,000 people. Facility Media has also conceived and launched a range of knowledge based events for the built environment covering green buildings, retail, commercial and hospitality space, architecture, design and building technology.

CONTACT INFORMATION
  • For supporting organisations, media partnership, and general press enquiries
    Ali Kan
    ak@facilitymedia.com
    +852-2851-3140 (Hong Kong)
    +86-21-6149-8582 (Shanghai)

    For programme related enquiries
    Ashford Pritchard
    ap@facilitymedia.com
    +852 2851 9923 (Hong Kong)

]]> http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/201002120950381781/feed 0 Asia Eco Green Building Congress 2010 To Be Held In Shanghai http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/201002051026351716 http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/201002051026351716#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:26:35 +0000 PTP International http://www.chinanewswire.com/?p=1716 Shanghai, China (February 05, 2010) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Asia Eco Green Building Congress 2010 will be held on May 12th-14th at Renaissance Hotel Shanghai, China.

This is one of the most high-level summits concerning green building communities across Asia. Inspired by the great success of inaugural Asia Eco Green Building Congress 2009, It will be held for the second time in Shanghai. This congress includes one day pre-conference workshop and two full day conference. This event is endorsed by Building & Construction Authority, HK Green Building Council, HK-BEAM, Hong Kong Association of Energy Service Companies (HAESCO), World Association of Chinese Architects (WACA), India Green Building Council, China Green Building Council, as well as great support from Dongtan Consulting, and Econet.

Asia Eco Green Building Congress 2010 will focus on the sustainable strategy and practice of global buildings' construction and maintenance, including government's latest legislation on green buildings, various rating systems of green building around the world and their standards, real case study sharing on LEED Platinum projects, finding the green value-the green innovation road to environmental sustainability, the ROI of green building investment, design for the climate-how to engineer buildings respond to their environment, green community and eco-cities (Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city and Dongtan Eco-city), sustainable building technologies and green building materials.etc

Asia Eco Green Building Congress 2010 has confirmed eminent speakers from government officials, industry association and leading industry experts internationally, such as WGCB,ChinaGBC, Building & Construction Authority Singapore, China Green Building Design Label Management Office, Arup UK, HOK, Hyder Consulting, ACLA, DNA Green Design, Dubosc & Associés Atelier, Gammon Construction, China Academy of Building Research, Sun Hung Kai Properties, Capital Land, Keppel Land, Shui On Group, UL Environment.etc

Asia Eco Green Building Congress 2010 will bring together Architects, Engineers, Designer, Planner, Investors, Property owners and developers, as well as green technology and energy efficiency solution providers, advisors and consultants to explore & identify the green building requirement of the Asia market, learning innovative green design trends and discussing investment opportunities. Asia Eco Green Building Congress 2010 will provide you with critical industry information and insights to answer all your questions on how to overcome the challenges in green building issues and how to seize the opportunities in it. This is a high-level business networking platform featuring speakers and delegates from industry leading companies and experts from both overseas and locally with plenty of potential business opportunities.

CONTACT INFORMATION
  • For further information, please contact
    Robert Young, Event Manager
    Organizing Committee of 2nd Asia Eco Green Building Congress
    Tel: 86-21-58215880; 86-21-68535603(Direct)
    Email: robert.young@ptp-international.com
    Web:http://www.asiagbc.com
]]> http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/201002051026351716/feed 0 New Highlight of environment conservation: Green Building China 2009 http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/20090611150916991 http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/20090611150916991#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:09:16 +0000 Business Innovation Partners http://www.chinanewswire.com/?p=991 Beijing, China (June 11, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — In the continuously evolving global contraction market, Asia has been proved to be the hot area with the most rapid development. In a year, it is expected that China, with an annual increase of over 9%, will come to the leadership in the construction industry. On the other hand, on the basis of energy-saving building, as the upgrade and development, green building seems to fit much more into the economic and social progress and to meet the demands of livelihood better. Developing green building is an extremely important measurement of adapting China's strategy to the global economic transformation and a curtail composition of the strategy to establish an innovative country, which makes green building an outstanding strategic position. China's per capita natural resources seems at out elbows. Many existing buildings have a serious problem of resource and energy waste in the process of construction and use. At present, China has buildings in service of 40 billion square meters in total, above 95% of which are high energy-consumption buildings. The energy consumption of unit area reaches as many as 2 or 3 times of that in the developed countries with the similar climate environment. Thus, the National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC), Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MHRUD), Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), and relevant government bodies, after careful research, have published several standards to regulate and lead the healthy and rapid development of green buildings.

To carry out the strategy deployment of the State Council and Party Central Committee about energy saving & emission reduction, construct resource conservation & environment friendly society and promote intelligence & green building, the Green Building China 2009 will be held in November 3rd-4th, 2009. This outlook will be on the basis of the combination of technology, policies and market. Government officials will arrive at the conference to present the green building industry trend and policy guide. Professional R&D elites will publish and communicate technical solutions; meanwhile, business leaders will provide talented insights about marketing feasibility.

Congress Name: Green Building China
Entrepreneur: Architectural Society of China
Organizer: Business Innovation Partner
Congress Time: 3rd-4th November, 2009
Congress Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel, BEIJING SUN PALACE, Beijing, CHINA

CONGRESS TOPICS
Section One: Industry Related Policies and Rating System
Section Two: Financing & Marketing of Green Building Projects
Section Three: Evolving Green-Tech Making Sustainability Possible
Section Four: Future Outlooks

WHO ATTENDEES
- Government Policy Makers
- International Authority of Green Building Rating System
- Chief Executive Officer, Head of R & D Department and Marketing Directors of International industry related manufacturing companies
- Representatives from green building projects developers
- Representatives from Financing institutions offering financial supports to green building constructions
- Developers of new environment-friendly energy technology
- Suppliers of Building Automation System and Building Energy-saving solution scheme and so on

CONTACT INFORMATION
  • Austin XU
    Project Manager of Business Innovation Partner
    Tel: 021 6167 0500*812
    Fax: 021 6167 0511
    E-mail: austin.xu@bipartners.com
    Internet address: www.greenbuildingchina.com
]]> http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/20090611150916991/feed 0 Are You Green Enough for the China Sustainable Building Summit 2009? http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/20090421095136945 http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/20090421095136945#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:51:36 +0000 IGVision http://www.chinanewswire.com/?p=945 Shanghai, China (April 21, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — With support from World Green Building Council, UNEP SBCI and Purdue University, IGVision will hold the China Sustainable Building Summit 2009 on June 29 to July 1, 2009, in Shanghai, China, together with the Sustainable Building Expo during the same period.

Overall we expect more than 300 high profile participants from property developers financiers, architects, designers, contractors, engineers, as well as building sustainability solution providers including technology and products vendors.

China Sustainable Building Summit 2009 is one unparalleled gathering platform of:
- 30+ industry gurus and business leaders in building market
- 6+ specialized workshop sessions
- 10+ compelling projects showcases of urban and commercial building projects
- 4+ China urban management agencies
- Special focus on 2010 Shanghai EXPO

During the 3 days time, it will feature the massive hot issues and trends in the most potential China sustainable and green buildings market, such as:
- Green and Sustainable Building Market Potential and Perspectives in China
- Speical Focus on 2010 Shanghai Expo and its Impact on Urban Building Development
- 10+ compelling cases study on the most sustainable and greenest building projects
- Landscape on future China sustainable building planning and construction
- Leading-edge technical and products innovations and the impact on building

The China Sustainable Building Summit 2009 dedicates itself to provide an industry platform for international exchange, study and trade for building industry. Under the topic of sustainable development, most advanced sustainable design concept, green projects showcases, sustainable building market potential and the emerging evolutions in building technologies and materials etc, will be fully displayed. It is aiming to promote the development of China sustainable building market.

For more details, please review the official conference website: www.csbsummit.com

CONTACT INFORMATION
  • Ms.Rachel Yang
    Email: rachel.yang@igvision.com
    Tel: +8621-5161 5339
]]> http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/20090421095136945/feed 0 2nd Annual Ultra High-rise Building Summit Arrives In March 2009 http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/20090106120904671 http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/20090106120904671#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:09:04 +0000 JFPS Group China http://www.chinanewswire.com/?p=671 To be Held Mar 26th and 27th 2009 at the Shanghai World Financial Center, China

Shanghai, China (January 06, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — China has recently the site of rapid construction of many skyscrapers necessitated by increasingly high population densities and fuelled by economic growth. The land shortage in golden zone accelerates the growing up of the ultra high-rise buildings mainly in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

Ultra high-rise building have now become the epitome of city life with important sociocultural implications. It is the symbol of a city's modernization and it brings more opportunities to the related industries.

The 2nd Annual Ultra High-rise Buildings Summit is organized by JF Pearson China and East China Architectural Design & Research Institute(ECADI). It gains great support from the World Association of Chinese Architects.

2nd Annual Ultra High-rise Buildings Summit will gather the forefront industrial experts from America, Europe, and Asia including China. More than 30 honorable speakers from local and overseas will come to share their experience and over 200 guests will get networking opportunities through this platform. After the earthquake and terrorist attacks issues, the safety problems are being more concerned. So the experts from Fire Administration, Earthquake Research Institute and Expert Group on Exceeding Code Limits will be invited to give us the current criteria and standards for ultra high-rises' construction and design.

CONTACT INFORMATION
]]> http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/20090106120904671/feed 0 Haitang Bay To Soon Have New Development http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/2007062213544863 http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/2007062213544863#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:54:48 +0000 ChinaNewswire.com http://www.chinanewswire.com/pr/2007062213544863 Haitang Bay, China (June 22, 2007) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Beijing based Antaeus Group, with solid financial strengths and a major player in the hospitality development of Yalong Bay and owner of the award winning Yalong Bay Mangrove Tree Resort and known for his unique design features, commented on the successful bidding on June 22, 2007 of the new prime development area in Haitang Bay on Hainan Island, PR China.

The Antaeus Group was among 21 companies who attended the bidding process; the prestigious land was divided among 7 parties-Antaeus Group was one of them. The size of the new project has a value of around 0.4 billion Chinese Yuan. With this successful bidding, Antaeus Group will be a main contender for new and upcoming projects within the Peoples Republic of China.

The proposed 7 star deluxe hotel project will be build on a ground with a size of total 86.2 thousand square meter and consist of 380 deluxe suites. The new project will have a harmony between shapes, spaces, colors, textures and architectural elements-which combined gives the result of a new defined balance between comfort and vanguard design, between technology and personal touch. The building is composed of separate towers and buildings. The hotel will be supposed to be open by the year 2011. An estimated investment of 1.68 Billion Yuan is projected for finalizing the project.

Hainan Island, China’s second largest island is 30 kilometer of its southern coast. It has due to his location almost the same latitude as the southern end of Hawaii. Being located at the center of south east Asia and on the west Pacific Rim, Hainan Island is the most convenient gate from China to his southern neighbors.

Haitang Bay is located north-east from Sanya and is the key project of the Hainan Provincial government in their eleventh 5th year plan. The government and the developer will make careful use of this green islet.

The size of Haitang Bay is estimated 98.7 square kilometer. 

INTERNET LINKS

http://www.mangrovetreeresort.com

CONTACT INFORMATION

 

  • Joy Xu / Assistant PR Manager
    Tel：（86-898）8855 8888-6020
    Fax：（86-898）8856 8993
    Email：prm@mangrovetreeresort.com  

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