Simon Treacy, the Group CEO of MGPA, has twenty one years’ industry experience across Asia-pacific. Recently, he has been selected as the incoming chairman of ULI for South Asia, a region which includes the Indian sub-continent, Australia and New Zealand, and all of South East Asia. By Arnold Liu
RFP has established a student writers’ program where upcoming professionals who are currently studying in a field relating to the built environment to interview senior industry professionals. This article is one of those commissioned as part of the programme. For students it offers not only the opportunity to be published prior to graduation but it also offers the chance to meet and get insight into the profession they will join. Apart from publicity for their work and their firm, for interviewees, it provides the opportunity to influence and give back to the development of the profession. To participate in the program please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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If you have not yet spoken to one of the 3,000 EC Harris employees about their work, you are highly recommended to do so. Team EC Harris is known to be professional, but also incredibly friendly and easy going,just like their recently opened new Hong Kong Island office in Wanchai, an open-planned space designed with sophistication with a colour-coded twist – "Plug & Play" is one of their workplace ethoses after all. The positively welcoming nature of the firm seems to be heavily influenced by the leader of passion Philip Youell, Chief Executive Officer.
Opportunities in the commercial property sector in mainland China has long been overshadowed by the furore over price bubbles in the residential sector. But commercial property is set to become increasingly lucrative for investors and developers, especially in certain key second and third tier cities, says Dr. Tang Daizhong, deputy dean of the Jingwei Real Estate Research Institute in Shanghai. The institute is affiliated with Tongji University, one of the top research centres for urban planning and architecture in mainland China.
A straight talking maverick, and a globally reknowned economist, Professor Joseph Stiglitz tells Paul Strohm how Asia got crisis management right. 
Claire Saeki chats with Danny Forster face of the Discovery Channel’s Build it Bigger about buildings that change cities.
