HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Organised by RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), the RICS Awards, Hong Kong 2017 is now open for nominations.
The RICS Awards recognises achievements and contributions of professionals in the land, property, construction and built community. The programme offers 13 award categories covering a range of built industry professions, and nominations are open to all industry-related companies including development, contracting, surveying, banking, finance, insurance, property and facilities, schools, hospitals and government departments, and more.
In its sixth consecutive year, the RICS Awards will feature three new categories for nominations: Corporate Real Estate Team of the Year, Facilities Management Team of the Year, and Property Management Team of the Year. The nominations will be judged by a jury panel comprised of 12 industry leaders. The nomination period closes on 1 December 2016 and the awards will be presented at the 2017 RICS Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony on the 17 March 2017.
“The RICS Annual Awards have quickly become our industry’s most celebrated benchmarks of success,” said RICS Hong Kong Board Chair Mr Clement Lau FRICS. “An RICS award demonstrates a company’s proficiency and specialties to current and potential clients.
“It certainly carries immense value to be recognised by a global professional body; internally, the awards have become a great source of pride and can boost synergy among real estate teams.”
“We expect the upcoming awards to be the most impressive to date,” 2017 head juror Mr Alan Child FRICS, said. “We have seen the level of competition and the high quality of nominations increase annually at the RICS Awards. We see pride in being an award-winning firm and it creates value for our clients as well.”
In 2016, RICS received over 50 nominations and 29 awards were earned by 20 companies and individuals. RICS promotes the best industry practices and highest professional standards for the property and construction sectors; the awards are a platform to encourage professionals to strive for the same qualities and standards upheld by the institution. The RICS Annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony generates great public awareness for contributions of the built community to Hong Kong. Additional details are available online at rics.org/hkawards
RICS Awards, Hong Kong 2017 Award categories:
1) Construction Project Team of the Year
2) Corporate Real Estate Team of the Year
3) Facilities Management Team of the Year
4) Office Team of the Year
5) Professional Consultancy Services Team of the Year
6) Property Management Team of the Year
7) Residential Team of the Year
8) Retail Team of the Year
9) Sustainability Achievement of the Year
10) Best Deal of the Year
11) Corporate Social Responsibility Project of the Year
12) Young Surveyor of the Year
13) Lifetime Achiever
RICS Awards Hong Kong 2017 jury panel:
| Head Juror | |||
| Mr Alan Child FRICS | Chair, Knight Frank Hong Kong | ||
| Jurors | |||
| Mr Guy Bradley MRICS | Chief Executive, Swire Properties | ||
| Mrs Margaret Brooke FRICS | Chief Executive Officer, Professional Property Services Limited | ||
| Mr Alan Dalgleish FRICS | Chief Executive, ANREV | ||
| Mr David Michael Hand MRICS | Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific, Colliers | ||
| Dr Charles Lam | Managing Director - Real Estate, Baring Private Equity Asia | ||
| Mr Philip Kai Wah Lo FRICS | Chair, Rider Levett Bucknall Limited (China + Hong Kong) | ||
| Mr KK Ling JP | Director of Planning, Planning Department, Hong Kong SAR Government | ||
| Mr Duncan Pescod GBS, JP | Chief Executive Officer, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority | ||
| Mr Tang Chi Fai, David MRICS | Property Director, MTR Corporation Limited | ||
| Prof Chris Webster | Dean, Faculty of Architecture; Chair Professor in Urban Planning and Development Economics, The University of Hong Kong | ||
| Mr Marco Wu, Moon-hoi FRICS, GBS, SBS | Chair, Hong Kong Housing Society |
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.
About RICS Asia
RICS Asia supports a network of over 20,000 individual professionals across the Asia region with an objective to help develop the land, property and construction markets in these countries, by introducing professional standards, best practice education and training. We promote RICS and our members as the natural advisors on all property matters. We also ensure that services and career development opportunities are provided to members.
RICS Asia region serves local member associations locating in Brunei, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, The People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR, Taiwan and South Korea. It also has members working across the region such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kiribati, Laos PDR, Macao SAR, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, The Maldives, The Philippines, Timor East and Vietnam. For more information, please visit: rics.org.