Awards and Recognitions

The MIPIM Asia Awards celebrate excellence and innovation among the very best of the Asian real estate industry. The competition honours the industry's most useful, sustainable and visionary projects, completed or yet to be built, in Asia-Pacific.

The Central Market project aims to achieve urban regeneration and sustainable development through heritage revitalisation. URA and Chinachem Group (CCG) adopt a holistic approach that takes into consideration minimising environmental impacts, upholding innovation and creativity, empowering local communities, diversifying culture and economic activities, and promoting inclusiveness and exchange— the spirit of a traditional market and Central. This project has successfully created a popular heritage landmark that injects vibrancy into the district.

Urban Renewal Information System (URIS) is a state-of-the-art project of the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) applying Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to the urban renewal process. Within URIS environment, applications are designed for the business needs. URIS facilitates teamwork at divisional and corporate levels. With the use of GIS applications, calculation assumptions are more transparent and easy to comprehend. URIS proves the possibility of making a win-win-win situation where effective & efficient inter-divisional communication, trustworthy assessment and advanced spatial technology can be synergized for the greater good. URA team envisions that further advancement of URIS continues to empower surveyors, propelling new momentum and opportunities for a smarter city.

Carrying the mission of bringing new life into the historic buildings, surveyors of URA are determined to showcase a sustainable leasing project by incorporating conservation elements and social values into business. The legacy of 618 Shanghai Street is first introduced with illustrations of four core character defining elements including streetscape and architectural merits that make the shophouses the talk of the town. The conservation-cum-revitalisation project has given new life to the last remaining Cantonese verandah cluster in Hong Kong, allowing local residents, different generations of other districts and visitors to have their footprints and stories told at 618 Shanghai Street to which we all belong.

The Hong Kong Institute of Planners (HKIP) Awards are given to honour the outstanding achievements of our members and related professionals in town planning each year. Through the delivery of Awards, HKIP wish to raise public awareness in good planning principles and practice, and to encourage pursuit of excellence amongst planners in Hong Kong and mainland China.

URA believes that KCAA1 has showcased an innovative approach for urban regeneration, which sidestepped from the conventional building-by-building process towards a more holistic planning-led strategy, and beyond the statutory planning framework to multiply the planning merits at a district level, while striving a balance between maximizing land development potential and sustainable development.

The Structural Excellence Award aims to promote excellence in structural engineering demonstrated through the design and construction of buildings and structures.

A Grand Award winner in the Heritage category, the Central Market Revitalisation project targets to revive the pre-war building into a vibrant retail hub at the heart of the commercial district. Comprehensive structural assessments was carried out to understand the loading capacities and condition of the heritage building. Extensive repair works using various technologies and methods was adopted to reinstate the building with minimum alternations to its structure and appearance.