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Chao Zheng
Associate Director, Master Planning of Aecom ShanghaiAECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from planning, design and engineering to program and construction management.
On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.
Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical expertise and innovation, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.
AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $13.2 billion in fiscal year 2020.
Thomas Luo
Director, Strategic Consulting of JLL HubeiJones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL) (NYSE: JLL) is a leading professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management. JLL shapes the future of real estate for a better world by using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people and our communities. JLL is a Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of $16.6 billion in 2020, operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of more than 91,000 as of March 31, 2021.
Strategic Consulting team has provided services for Chinese market for 28 years. We offer customized solutions for regulatory bodies, research institutes, state-owned enterprises and private companies etc. In China, over 200 projects are advised by us on a yearly basis. In urban regeneration area alone, JLL Strategic Consulting team has accumulatively provided services for more than 100 projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu in the last decade.
Julian Wei
Senior Associate Director, Shanghai Office of Sasaki Associates, Inc.Sasaki is a global leader in creating authentic, poetic, and inspiring landscapes. Our rigorous design process draws upon our skills as systems thinkers, transcends scales, and leads to the implementation of functional, resilient solutions that foster healthy and equitable environments.
As the first interdisciplinary design firm founded by a landscape architect, we continue to evolve to remain curious, relevant, and unbound by tradition.
We undertake our work based on a careful and practical analysis of landform, natural systems, the existing built environment, maintenance practices, and human use of the landscape. From this realistic base, we seek to create landscapes that will inspire, endure, and enhance the lives of the people who live and work in them each day.
Since our firm’s inception in the 1950s, Sasaki planners and designers have been reinterpreting public space for ongoing economic contribution, civic amenity, ecological and environmental sustainability, and creative programming.
Today, our practice is an interdisciplinary collaborative of innovative minds, comprising planning, landscape architecture, ecology, urban design, architecture, graphic design, civil engineering, and software development. We are focused on improving the quality of life through the public realm, with particular expertise in the planning, design, and implementation of parks projects throughout the United States and abroad. The core tenets of our work are partnerships with our clients toward shared outcomes, meaningful and memorable community outreach, data-driven analysis, transformation through visionary planning and design, and well-defined implementation strategies to see projects realized.
Firm Background
Number of Staff: 300
Services: Landscape Architecture, Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Interior Design, Civil Engineering, Graphic Design, Place Branding, Community Engagement, and Data Science
Years in Business: 67 (founded in 1953)
Offices: Boston, MA, Shanghai, China, Denver, CO
Naifei Sun
Senior Associate Principal, Senior Urban Designer, LEED AP at SOMSkidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is one of the largest and most influential architecture, interior design, engineering, and urban planning firms in the world. Established in 1936, we have completed more than 10,000 projects across 50 countries, collaborating across studios in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., London, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Abu Dhabi and Mumbai.
Highly regarded for our iconic, timeless design principles and our steadfast commitment to technology, innovation, and sustainability, SOM’s unrivaled portfolio contains some of the greatest design achievements in the modern era. We have deep experience in a vast range of building types, including mixed-use and commercial office buildings; hotels and residences; education, healthcare and science; civic, cultural, and government works—as well as aviation, transportation, and public infrastructure projects.
SOM’s design services include architecture, urban master plan, structural, MEP, sustainable design, open space and landscape design, interior design, and branding. We have more than 1200 designers globally including architects, engineers, planners, and interior designers.
SOM’s planning and design services combine an award-winning capability in urban design and planning with strong, international experience implementing large-scale development. SOM’s master plans have received worldwide recognition for their vision, innovation, responsiveness to local cultural traditions, setting, and climate, and their inherent feasibility. Because of this, virtually all of SOM’s major development projects are being implemented or have been successfully completed. New community planning and design at SOM encompasses both greenfield and brownfield development -- everything from the establishment of new communities in suburban and peripheral areas to the redevelopment and extension of existing cities. We design communities at every scale.