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Co-working with NAREE, Urbanlogic have won the ADB’s Result-Based Loan – Shaanxi Low-Carbon and Integrated Urban-Rural Sustainable Development Program in China, which will enhance low-carbon, climate resilient, and environmentally sustainable urban–rural public services and build institutional capacity during the implementation period 2023-2028. Urbanlogic provides senior professional expertise in developing green, net-zero buildings, zero-carbon urban blocks as well as GHG emission monitoring platforms and energy performance contracts in a geographical field of 21 districts and counties of urban and semi-urban areas in the Yellow River Basin.

The alliance will strengthen their expertise in working extensively with the international funding agencies, governments, and local communities in developing countries. Collectively the companies have more than 25 years of high-profile consulting project work across China and Southeast Asia, and now entering into the Central Asian East African and South Pacific markets. Together we have completed over 40 high profile IFA projects across the urban development and environment sectors since both companies started in 2012.

The alliance is a powerful combination with a shared vision to make climate change issues central to our business philosophy. We believe together, working as one team, we will unlock the full potential of growing further and delivering strategic smart solutions for our clients, a step change in the way both businesses address the needs of the market.

We welcome Mr. Raphael Chan on board as a director of Urbanlogic and are looking forward to an increasingly successful strategic alliance.

In late 2020, URBANLOGIC was commissioned by Architecture Commons to support with a public space research assessment for the District Council in Wan Chai district, an area globally synonymous with the urban vibrancy that epitomises Hong Kong. The project objective was to assess the overall quantity and quality of the public space of Wan Chai based on the premise that good quality public spaces are a vital ingredient of successful cities. URBANLOGIC carried out multidimensional spatial analysis related to various key indicators across identified dimensions such as accessibility, environment, amenities, functionality and inclusivity. This aimed to provide the baseline metrics to provide a common understanding of the public space environment in the district for further consideration and proposal making to improve the public realm of Wan Chai District.

Urbanlogic is providing the critical spatial planning advice and socio-economic assessments supporting a Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment of Cambodian Secondary Cities for a project in collaboration with Niras (Denmark) and directed by Agencie Francaise de Development. Our work is focused on an assessment of deteriorating climate hazards, vulnerabilities and risks in Cambodian cities, including Battambang, Kampot and Kratie. The overriding objective of this challenging project for Urbanlogic is to provide implementable policies, plans and projects, ensuring better resilience for the cities’ generally and adaptation measures which lead to the protection of vulnerable urban/urban fringe areas, the urban poor and heritage conservation areas.

Today, the roof-topping of the Aumuehle Residences housing project near Frankfurt took place. Following a century-old German tradition, the ceremony values the hard work of all craftsmen who contributed to the project, and brings good fortune to the building. The project was designed by Urbanlogic with Thomas Kupke architect, and is likely to be completed at the end of 2019.

Urbanlogic have played a key role in the preparation of the Provincial Urban-Rural Integration Development Strategy (PURIDS) for Jiangxi Province which provides a policy context for inclusive planning and investment in urban-rural areas and in optimizing the potential for rural equalization. PURIDS will significantly support the preparation of Jiangxi’s Rural Revitalization Strategy- an important component of the 13th Five Year Plan implementation.

Today, Keith Perry addressed the Asian Development Bank’s Greater Mekong Subregion Development Group which includes delegates from Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam. He reviewed findings of the ADB’s GMS Border Economic Zones project on the development benefits of inter-country collaboration in planning and investment in Cross Border Economic Zones. In particular, he focused on Viet Nam-China Border Economic Zones for which he presented broad investment strategies and potential investment programs optimizing their development potential.

Urbanlogic are providing specialist advice in urban planning and strategy development in support of an Asian Development Bank consultancy study into the better development of Border Economic Zones in the Greater Mekong Subregion, identifying opportunities for exploiting their economic potential.

Urbanlogic in association with the PM Group from Ireland have recently commenced a project feasibility study for the Asian Development Bank, which will develop economic development strategies and promote infrastructure investment for corridor towns in Cambodia and Lao PDR. We will provide senior professional expertise in urban planning, urban renewal, urban conservation and social development. The study will be part of the ADB’s 4th Corridor Towns Development Project.

We were very excited that our Sichuan Art Factory today won the World Architecture News Future Projects Commercial Award 2016. After making it onto the long list in November 2016, our design was chosen from a very competitive shortlist of six that included world-class architecture firms such as Pritzker-Prize winners Morphosis and Gensler. To read the announcement and the jury’s assessment of the project, please see here:

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/project/2017/27663/wan-awards/wan-future-projects-commercial-award-2016-winner-announced.html