{"id":17087,"date":"2021-08-23T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/23\/arup-celebrates-45-years-of-transforming-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2021-08-23T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:30:00","slug":"arup-celebrates-45-years-of-transforming-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/23\/arup-celebrates-45-years-of-transforming-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Arup celebrates 45 years of transforming Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 23 August 2021<b>\u00a0<\/b>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arup.com\/\">Arup<\/a>, a global built&#13;<br \/>\nenvironment consultant, celebrates its 45<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary in Hong Kong&#13;<br \/>\nwith a series of initiatives, including a city story video series and a&#13;<br \/>\ndedicated school programme, to envision a more sustainable Hong Kong with the&#13;<br \/>\nlocal community. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Today, Arup&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\ninfluence can be felt everywhere across the city, from its tallest building to&#13;<br \/>\nthe longest bridge and railway, from the largest revitalisation complex to the smartest&#13;<br \/>\ndigital platform, and from the first waste-to-energy facility to new towns of&#13;<br \/>\nthe future.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We are proud&#13;<br \/>\nto see that people use and enjoy our work every day and many of our projects&#13;<br \/>\nhere have contributed to making our city more liveable and resilient.<\/i><i> We will continue to shape a sustainable&#13;<br \/>\nfuture for Hong Kong with our creative and technical excellence \u2013 delivering&#13;<br \/>\nprojects that bring values to our clients and the community and help Hong Kong&#13;<br \/>\nachieve its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.&#8221; \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Michael&#13;<br \/>\nKwok, East Asia Region Chair<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the&#13;<br \/>\nmilestone, the firm has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/viu.tv\/encore\/re-envisioning-our-city\">a video series on ViuTV<\/a> (click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLCWGoFmkxMjpADAM_tDQHjKpW4tLnDL8f\">here<\/a> for English subtitle versions) looking at some of the&#13;<br \/>\nmost topical issues of Hong Kong&#8217;s built environment today: increasing&#13;<br \/>\nconnectivity with infrastructure, creating the new from the old, driving a&#13;<br \/>\nparadigm shift in waste management, designing smarter and healthier buildings&#13;<br \/>\nand planning for tom<a name=\"QuickMark\"\/>orrow. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>A video&#13;<br \/>\ncompetition will be organised among local secondary schools. It will allow students&#13;<br \/>\nto curate creative videos to envision Hong Kong&#8217;s future city design, learn the&#13;<br \/>\nUnited Nations&#8217; Sustainable Development Goals and explore their aspirations in&#13;<br \/>\nengineering and design related professions. Alongside this, there will also be&#13;<br \/>\npublic and school talks to share and gather ideas for designing a better Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;People are&#13;<br \/>\nalways at the heart of our work. The spaces we create and the city we design&#13;<br \/>\nshould ultimately help people live simpler, easier and better lives. That&#8217;s why&#13;<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve decided to co-envision the future of our city with the local community,&#13;<br \/>\nespecially the next generation, as we continue to develop with the city.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Andy&#13;<br \/>\nLee, Region Chief Operating Officer<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Over the past&#13;<br \/>\ndecades, Arup has grown and transformed with Hong Kong, delivering innovative&#13;<br \/>\nprojects of the highest quality and impact that contribute to the city&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment. Notable projects include the Hong Kong International Airport,&#13;<br \/>\nStonecutters Bridge, Two International Finance Centre, International Commerce&#13;<br \/>\nCentre, Express Rail Link, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, T\u00b7PARK, Harbour Area&#13;<br \/>\nTreatment Scheme Stage 2A, New Development Areas, Victoria Dockside, Tai Kwun &#8211; Centre for&#13;<br \/>\nHeritage and Arts, M+ and Kai Tak Sports Park.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-08-23\/90455\/arup-celebrates-45-years-of-transforming-hong-kong\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 23 August 2021\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Arup, a global built&#13; environment consultant, celebrates its 45th anniversary in Hong Kong&#13; with a series of initiatives, including a city story video series and a&#13; dedicated school programme, to envision a more sustainable Hong Kong with the&#13; local community. &#13; &#13; \u00a0 &#13; &#13; Today, Arup&#8217;s&#13; influence &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}