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HONG KONG, Jan. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) announced the finalists of the RICS Awards, Hong Kong 2016 today, following stringent adjudication by a jury panel of 9 property industry leaders led by Mr Marco WU Moon-hoi, FRICS, GBS, Chairman of the Hong Kong Housing Society.
This year's Awards saw fierce competition with a number of new contestants from a wide spectrum of industry professions.
All RICS members in Hong Kong will vote for the winner of the "Corporate Social Responsibility Project of the Year" award by logging onto the RICS Awards, Hong Kong 2016 website (ricshkawards.com) between 26 Jan 2016 and 19 February 2016 at 18:00 (HKT). The results will be announced at the RICS Annual Dinner cum Awards Hong Kong Presentation Ceremony 2016 on 11 March at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong.
Finalists of the RICS Awards, Hong Kong 2016
Jury panel (in alphabetical order of surname)
| Chair of jury panel |
Marco WU Moon-hoi FRICS, GBS Chairman, Hong Kong Housing Society |
| Jurors |
Guy BRADLEY MRICS Chief Executive, Swire Properties |
| May LAM Senior Vice President, Corporate Services, Li & Fung (Trading) Limited |
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| LING Kar-kan, JP Director of Planning, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region |
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| Philip LO FRICS Chairman, Rider Levett Bucknall Limited |
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| Kevin POOLE Acting Executive Director, Third Runway, Airport Authority Hong Kong |
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| David TANG MRICS Property Director, MTR Corporation Limited |
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| Prof Chris WEBSTER Dean and Chair Professor, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong |
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| Andrew WEIR Regional Senior Partner, Hong Kong & Global Chair, Real Estate and Construction, KPMG China |
For the fifth year running, the RICS Awards Hong Kong recognises achievements and contribution of professionals in land, property, construction and the environment in the city. For information about the RICS Awards, Hong Kong 2016, please visit: http://ricshkawards.com
A list of last year's winners is available at: http://www.ricshkawards.com/about_rics_hk_awards.html
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 118,000 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: www.rics.org.
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