Ir Dr Vincent CHENG
Fellow and Director of Sustainability
Arup
Dr Vincent CHENG is a Fellow and Director of Sustainability of Arup in East Asia. He leads a group of engineers and specialists practicing primarily on sustainable developments and low carbon building design in the region. He has been involving in many pivotal green building projects including the K11 Atelier King’s Road, Victoria Dockside, CIC ZCB, Hysan Place, One Taikoo Place in Hong Kong; Chengdu Raffles City, Chongqing Raffles City, Palace 66, Riverside 66 and Parc 66 in China; South Beach in Singapore and Samsung Green Tomorrow in S. Korea. Besides, he leads the District Cooling System projects in many districts in Hong Kong (including Kai Tak Development, West Kowloon Cultural District and New Development Areas at Kwu Tung North, Tung Chung East, Hung Shui Kiu and Lok Ma Chau Loop). His team has developed the BEAM Plus NB V2 and Building Energy Codes (2012, 2015, 2018 and 2021) in Hong Kong. Under his leadership, Arup was awarded as “the BEAM Consultant with most BEAM Plus Final and Provisional Platinum Projects” by HKGBC in 2015.
Dr CHENG has served in various government and professional bodies on energy and sustainability of Hong Kong, currently as Board of Director of Hong Kong Green Building Council, Member of Energy Advisory Committee of Environment Bureau, Expanded Building Committee and Technical Committee on Design and Construction Requirements for Energy Efficiency of Buildings of Buildings Department to provide advice on sustainable building issues. DR CHENG sees the importance of educating young talents to service the industry and the community. He is the Chairman of Advisory Committee of the School of Energy and Environment of CityU and has been serving in the Committee since its inception in 2009.
He has written a book titled “Building Sustainability in East Asia”, published by Wiley in 2017, to promote the importance of sustainability to the industry and public. Recently, he has been awarded as the Sustainability Leader of the Year in the HKMA Hong Kong Sustainability Award 2018/19.