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Sino-U.S. City Design Summit

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In July 2013, the American Architectural Foundation’s Center for Design & the City, the Chinese Society for Urban Studies, the China Green Building Council, and Otis convened the first Sino-U.S. City Design Summit.

An international panel of city design experts came together in Zhuhai, China, for a bilateral dialogue on the future of urbanization in China and the United States. The Summit was part of the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development’s Eighth Annual Conference on Urban Development and Planning. Over the course of two days, more than 400 conference delegates attended the Summit, including Chinese mayors, government officials, and city design professionals.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Qiu Baoxing, Vice Minister, Chinese Ministry of Housing and UrbanRural Development, President, Chinese Society for Urban Studies Li Xun, General Secretary, Chinese Society for Urban Studies Tony Black, President, Otis China Limited Ron Bogle, President & CEO, American Architectural Foundation Randy Bumps, Manager, Community Affairs, United Technologies Corporation Mark de Groh, Director of Knowledge Management and Innovation, American Architectural Foundation Ding Wen, Director, Corporate Communications, UTIO China Thomas Downie, Director, Worldwide Communications, Otis George Ko, Vice President, Greater China Distribution & Aftermarket, UTC CCS Benjamin Ou, Director, Chinese Government Affairs, UTIO China S.C. Xiao, President, UTIO China

PANELISTS, PRESENTERS, AND MODERATORS

Bill McGee, Design Principal, Jacobs/ KlingStubbins

Ron Bogle, President & CEO, American Architectural Foundation

Bernd Seegers, Chief Engineer, Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute

Chen Bingzhao, Professor and Doctoral Student Tutor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University Sandy Diehl, Chair, Board of Regents, American Architectural Foundation, CEO & Founder, SD Global Advisors, Inc. Dong Yanfang, Deputy Dean, Urban Plan and Design Institute of the China Architecture Design & Research Group Roger E. Frechette III, Principal, Interface Engineering Li Aimin, Project Leader, Eco-City Planning and Building Center, Chinese Society for Urban Studies Li Congxiao, Director, Green Building Studies Center, Chinese Society for Urban Studies Steve Ma, Senior Associate, Director of Marketing + Business Development, Asia Pacific, HOK

Su Daming, Chief Engineer, China Academy of Building Research, Shanghai Institute Sun Jiangning, Planner, Chinese Society for Urban Studies John Syvertsen, Vice Chair, Board of Regents, American Architectural Foundation, Senior Principal, Cannon Design Chris Twinn, Arup Fellow & Director, Arup

Benjamin Ward, Regional Design Director, Gensler Monte Wilson, Director of Advance Planning Group, Jacobs Frederick Wong, Associate Director, Arup (China) Sylvester Wong, Senior Urban Designer, Urban Design and Master Planning, Gensler Wu Zhiqiang, Vice President, Tongji University Yang Fuqiang, Senior Counsel, Natural Resources Defense Council Zhai Chaoqin, Asia Technical Director of Environmental Market Solutions Inc. (EMSI)

Bing Wang, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Wang Panyan, Deputy Dean, Urban Construction Institute Wang Tao, Lecturer, School of Management Science and Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics Wang Xianmin, General Secretary, International Rooftop Landscaping Association

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9 CITIES IN THE U.S. CURRENTLY HAVE A POPULATION OF

OVER ONE

MILLION 170 CITIES

IN CHINA

CURRENTLY HAVE A POPULATION OF

OVER ONE

MILLION

BY 2030 THIS NUMBER WILL EXCEED

220 CITIES

FIGURE 1 Infographic designed by Spoolia Design.

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IMAGE 1: Ron Bogle, AAF President & CEO. Courtesy of UTIO. IMAGE 2: Qiu Baoxing, Vice Minister of the Chinese Ministry of Housing

and Urban-Rural Development and President of the Chinese Society for Urban Studies, introduces the idea of symbiosis during his plenary remarks. Courtesy of UTIO. IMAGE 3: President of Otis China Limited, Tony Black, addresses more than 1,000 Chinese delegates during the plenary of MOHURD’s Conference on Urban Development and Planning, which served to kick off the Sino-U.S. City Design Summit.

Courtesy of UTIO.

Background Nine U.S. cities have a population of more than one million.

In China, that number has reached 170 cities, and it will exceed 220 within two decades (FIGURE 1). During that same period, more than 350 million people will migrate from rural to urban China. Such unprecedented urbanization charts the course for Asia as a whole, where the urban population—and with it, the need for urban infrastructure—will double within a single generation. During the next 40 years, China will build more urban capacity than it has built in the past 4,000.

In response, Chinese city design professionals are pursuing innovative urban solutions that not only address the challenges of this context but also leverage its opportunities. In so doing, they are reinventing the paradigm for cities. American urbanists are doing the same for their own context, having realized that the dominant urban forms and systems comprising twentieth-century American cities are ill equipped to meet the needs of this century. These Chinese and American efforts find a point of intersection in the ecocity, which served as the organizing concept for the Sino-U.S. City Design Summit.

Since urban theorist Richard Register first coined the term in his 1987 book Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future, its definition has taken countless forms. Among the most rigorously developed is that put forward in 2010 by Register and his colleagues at EcoCity Builders and the International Ecocity and Framework and Standards Initiative:

An ecocity is a human settlement modeled on the self-sustaining resilient structure and function of natural ecosystems. The ecocity provides healthy abundance to its inhabitants without consuming more (renewable) resources than it produces, without producing more waste than it can assimilate, and without being toxic to itself or neighboring ecosystems. Its inhabitants’ ecological impact reflects planetary supportive lifestyles; its social order reflects fundamental principles of fairness, justice and reasonable equity.

Converts to the ecocity movement believe that this ideal can serve as a guide to social, economic, cultural, and environmental vibrancy, and design experts at the Sino-U.S. City Design Summit made a compelling case for conversion.

Setting the stage was Vice Minister Qiu Baoxing of the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (IMAGE 2). During the Conference’s opening plenary, he challenged those in attendance to envision and achieve the symbiosis of human and natural systems in urban form.

With this construct, his ambition far exceeds the goals of any ecocity project to date—in China, the U.S., or elsewhere.

In effect, he has set a new bar for ecocity development, a next-generational approach to human and natural coexistence: the symbiotic city.

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A New Paradigm: The Symbiotic City What does the symbiotic city look like? According to Vice Minister Qiu, it is a dense, human-scale city of selfregenerating systems (energy, water, waste, etc.) where the built environment takes its cue from the natural world and exists in total harmony with it. Nature fuses with the man-made in such a fundamental and inseverable way that the delineation between the two becomes functionally indistinguishable. The city’s components are interdependent, smart, balanced, and constantly evolving toward greater efficiency. They promote human interaction, collaboration, inspiration, and creativity. In short, in the symbiotic city the man-made and natural worlds coexist in a balanced, wholly sustainable, and empowering fashion.

In advocating for the symbiotic city, Vice Minister Qiu and his colleagues in China are pursuing a new mode of urbanism— and at this moment, China and the U.S. have much to learn from each other. While our unique political, social, cultural, and economic circumstances will no doubt color the particular modes in which cities manifest in our two countries, the values underlying these efforts suggest new and rigorous standards for all cities, everywhere. In many ways, the growing urgency of ecological issues coupled with impending demographic trends has minimized the significance of our differences and brought the city design world to a unified position. We must now move forward, together.

Tenet 1: Prioritizing People in the Design of Cities With strong consensus, the U.S. and Chinese design experts advocated for a doctrine of human-oriented, humanscale design. In so doing, they showcased the legacy of monumentalism in both design cultures and suggested alternatives for moving forward. The U.S. experts stressed the dynamic tensions between monumental and human-scale design embedded in the historical fabric of American cities. To help illustrate this dynamic, they looked to the mid-twentieth-century struggles between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs in New York City.

Meanwhile, the Chinese experts shared their observations of monumental building in China and stressed the inherent efficiencies of human-scale design.

In Summit conversations, both during the official proceedings and in sidebars, the legacies of Robert Moses and

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IMAGE 4: Jane Jacobs. World Telegram & Sun photo by Phil

Stanziola. Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ-62-137838.

Jane Jacobs were key touchstones and points of reference for the U.S. experts (IMAGE 4). For the uninitiated, the conversations offered an excellent primer in U.S. urban history as well as invaluable insight into the mindset of the American design community.

With a regional outlook and an affinity for auto-centric, grand-scale solutions, Robert Moses personified master planning and Urban Renewal in New York City for nearly half a century. At the peak of his influence (1946–1953), public construction reached an all-time high in the City, and he seized the moment to realize such grand projects as United Nations Headquarters, the Belt Parkway, and the CrossBronx Expressway. Monumental recreational facilities were also well represented in his portfolio, including Shea Stadium in Queens and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. All told, he oversaw the design and construction of 13 bridges, 416 miles of parkways, and more than 150,000 housing units during his career. In the process, he did not hesitate to bulldoze existing neighborhoods, both figuratively and literally, in the name of the greater good.

His critics vilified his perceived disregard for existing neighborhoods and the individuals who lived in them. First among these critics was Jane Jacobs, who reveled in the messy vitality of cities and championed the street-level experience as the lifeblood of vibrant urbanism. In The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), Jacobs drew on her own nuanced observations of neighborhood dynamics to identify four essential conditions for livable communities: urban density, mixed-use zoning, a diversity of building types, and networks of frequent streets with short blocks. With these conditions met, she argued, a neighborhood would become a generator for human interaction, collaboration, and creativity. It would stage what she dubbed the “ballet of sidewalks,” an unchoreographed performance whose success hinged on everyone playing a role in what would become a dynamic and resilient system for living.

FIGURE 2: Among the reasons cited at the Summit in favor of human-scale design is its importance in achieving urban density. Benjamin

Ward of Gensler vividly illustrated how human-scale development contributes to density by encouraging more extensive site coverage. As you can see in the images above, Houston (lower left), with low site coverage and low verticality scored a paltry 1,335 people per square kilometer, while Hong Kong (upper right), with high site coverage and significant verticality scored a whopping 35,700. In this analysis, the case of Lujiazui-Shanghai (upper left) is particularly significant, as one may expect higher density given its substantial verticality. Paris (lower right), however, with few tall buildings, outpaces Lujiazui in terms of density because its human-scale design incorporates significantly greater site coverage. Courtesy of Benjamin Ward, Gensler.

The intellectual debt that the U.S. design experts at the Summit owed to Jacobs was evident and often explicit.

They credited her with fundamentally redirecting the course of American city design. Since 1893, when the father of American planning Daniel H. Burnham unveiled his famed White City at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the monumental form and master plan had become the standards (IMAGE 5). Jacobs articulated an alternative. Her place-based, community-focused brand of design signaled a pivot in the history of U.S. urbanism—and what was evident at the Summit from the contributions of Vice Minister Qiu and the Chinese design experts is that Chinese urbanism is making a comparable turn.

While several of the Chinese panelists were well versed in Jacobs’ ideas, their gravitation toward human-oriented design drew significantly on their own observations of the relative vitality (or more precisely, lack thereof) of monumental spaces and the greater efficiencies of human-scale design.

In their observations they demonstrated the type of detailed and self-critical analysis that will be required globally to reach sustainable design solutions.

IMAGE 5: Designed by Daniel H. Burnham and his team, the

White City at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago exemplified a monumental approach to architecture. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image 12156.

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IMAGE 6: Designed and built in 1651, the Chinese central government quadrupled Tiananmen Square’s size in 1958 to 440,000 sq. m (109 acres). Courtesy of Steve Mohundro. IMAGE 7: The landmark, Mannekin Pis, which stands only 60 cm tall, has proven to be a catalyst for

urban vibrancy in Brussels. Courtesy of Thomas.

The history of monumental architecture and city design in China is well known. Professor Chen Bingzhao of the College of Architecture and Planning at Tongji University offered a particularly poignant critique of this legacy of monumentalism: “In the past, we focused on being grand. We must switch to livable, human-oriented design. People are the owners of the city. If you make them feel small, you’ve failed.” (Perhaps these words resonated so well with the U.S. panelists because the United States too has a long way to go in the quest to achieve human-oriented design.)

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To illustrate his point, Professor Chen drew reference to the most iconic public space in China, Tiananmen Square (IMAGE 6) . Designed and built in 1651, the government quadrupled the square’s size in 1958 to a whopping 440,000 sq. m (109 acres). Why is it, he asked, that this exemplar of monumentalism is unable to generate the level of vibrancy catalyzed by a 60-cm statue tucked away on a street corner in Brussels (IMAGE 7)? What makes the difference? His answer was clear: scale.

IMAGE 8: PARKROYAL on Pickering, Singapore. At the Summit,

Wang Xianmin introduced a series of projects from forward-thinking designers that innovatively integrate the natural world and built environment. The benefits of this approach span a broad spectrum, from water and air purification, to energy management, to the catalyzation of creativity. Photograph taken by Patrick Bingham-Hall.

Image courtesy of WOHA Architects Pte Ltd.

While Professor Chen offered these qualitative observations on the shortcomings of monumentalism, which complemented Vice Minister Qiu’s plenary remarks particularly well, it became clear that the quantitative analysis of urban systems’ efficiencies is another essential factor driving the Chinese design community to embrace human-scale design.

Through actions such as decoupling urbanism from the automobile and promoting higher levels of urban density, human-scale design is quite simply proving to be more efficient. When it comes to innovations in data collection and analysis, the Chinese are leaders. In China, “smart” has become the new “green,” with more than 90 smart city projects currently underway. With each project, the value of the human-scale is reinforced.

Tenet 2: Harmonizing with Nature and Going Beyond Green: China’s embrace of human-scale design also marks a resurgence of traditional Chinese philosophies on the proper relationship between humans and the natural world. Using the metaphor of micro-circulation within cells, Vice Minister Qiu referenced a world in which cities and nature exist in perfect harmony, not side-by-side but rather fundamentally and inextricably linked…a world where the very distinction between cities and nature becomes an artifact of a less enlightened (and efficient) moment in the history of our civilization (IMAGE 8). Such symbiosis, built on a base of renewable resources and mixed land use, promotes more compact and livable urban forms. It strikes a balance between the natural and man-made worlds, where humanity coexists with and is fortified by the water, mountains, and

IMAGE 9: Through the conscious and creative emulation of nature’s

genius, we will be able to harvest the insight of 3.85 billion years of natural design adaptations. Courtesy of Kibuyu. IMAGE 10: Veta La Palma’s is a story of aquaponic ecology. The aquaculture farm is located on an island in the Guadalquivir River within Doñana National Park, depicted here, in the southern Spanish province of Seville. Courtesy Technische Fred / Wikimedia Commons.

trees around us. Such an approach offers an antidote to the concrete jungles that have overrun so much of our urban landscapes.

In this world, humanity will take its lead from nature—it will be our “model, measure, and mentor” (the words of Summit panelist Monte Wilson from Jacobs…the engineering firm, not the urbanist). Through the conscious and creative emulation of nature’s genius, we will be able to harvest the insight of 3.85 billion years of natural design adaptations (IMAGE 9).

In nature, we will also find design guidelines to help move us forward.

Exactly what this balanced coexistence of humanity and nature will look like remains to be determined. It will demand a constellation of new behaviors, technologies, and policies, all geared toward achieving transformative design solutions.

What we do know is that there are a slew of innovators in China, the U.S., and around the globe pushing in this direction. An example from Veta La Palma, Spain, presented by AAF Vice Chair John Syvertsen, a Senior Principal at Cannon Design, suggests the possibilities on a micro scale.

Veta La Palma’s is a story of aquaponic ecology (IMAGE 10).

In the 1970s, this drained coastal wetland served as a rather inefficient pasture for livestock, but in the 1980s its

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new owners saw the potential of allowing nature to guide their economic endeavors. After restoring the wetlands to their original state, they introduced a highly successful fish-farming business. This venture has simultaneously provided a vital habitat for more than 800,000 birds representing 250 different species. In turn, these birds help to maintain the health of the fish population. Thus, by carefully and respectfully integrating into the natural ecosystem, the owners found both economic success and environmental efficiency, while the ecosystem itself has holistically evolved to maximize benefit, restore balance, and establish a sustainable mode of existence.

This final aspect of coexistence transitions us to the ideal of restorative buildings and regenerative urban systems.

A restorative building or regenerative urban system is one in which its energy and materials exist in a balanced and consistent state of revitalization. What goes into the system (at a minimum) must come out of it. In other words, if a building uses X amount of energy, it should produce at least X amount—ideally it would produce X + Y. The resilience of natural ecosystems comes from their ability to adapt to changing circumstances within the limitations of existing resources. They evolve to balance input and output.

For a moment, take humanity out of the equation; nature has repeatedly demonstrated its great facility in bringing balance to disequilibrium. The problem is that we humans are already living well beyond sustainable levels in terms of available

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resources, and in the face of current demographic trends, we are at risk of consuming the earth’s finite resources in short order.

Consider water. According to the United Nations, 700 million people are currently facing water scarcity. By 2025, that number will reach 1.8 billion, with a full two-thirds of the world’s population feeling the pressure of shortages. This problem is fundamentally a design problem. If we can create and implement regenerative water systems in the world’s cities, we will be able to eliminate the uncertainty surrounding this vital resource. While finding such a solution is more easily said than done, as the design experts stressed repeatedly at the Summit, we don’t have a choice.

The same is true for energy management, and in this regard, Arup Fellow and Director Chris Twinn offered a sobering statistic at the Summit. In the building industries, rating systems including USGBC’s LEED and China’s Three-Star Rating System have exponentially raised the baseline for sustainability. The need for green has become a given. Now the question is how green is green enough. As Chris illustrated (FIGURE 3) , if we were to achieve LEED Platinum standards for all buildings in China and stop there, we will look back a decade from now and realize that what we had thought were demanding standards weren’t nearly demanding enough.

Where we are now is just a starting point. Our success will demand innovative, multi-disciplinary, and international collaboration. We need new ideas and the technology to implement them, and we have no time to lose.

Do LEED and 3-star set high enough standards?

LEED 和三星标准设得足够高吗?

If all buildings become LEED “Platinum.”

If all buildings LEED “Platinum” with reduced energy use by 30%. 如果所有建筑都成为LEED“白

金级”，将减少30%建筑能耗。

如果中国走美国的路： •

Comfort standards

提高舒适度标准

150 •

Floor area/person

增加人均居住面积 •

100

Appliances used

增加建筑设施 •

Technology energy

增加技术能源的使用 50

0

USA

美国

China

China’s energy use doubles.

中国耗能翻倍。

If China follows USA with increased:

National total final energy use x10 GJ/yr. 全国最终 总耗能 x10 GJ/年

Final energy use GJ/yr per capital 人均最终 耗能 GJ/年

200

60

如果所有建筑都成为 LEED“白金级”.

50

40

30

20

10

0

中国

USA

美国

China

中国

CO2 levels exceed 6˚C of climate change if LEED “Platinum” applied for 7–9 billion people worldwide. 如果全球范围内使用LEED“白金级”标准，全球70-90亿人口的二氧化碳排放可使气温升高6摄氏度。 Other

其他

Transport 交通

Service

服务

Households 家庭

Manufacturing

制造

Sources: IEA, 2007c, IEA, 2007d, IEA estimates. 数据来源：IEA, 2007c; IEA, 2007d; IEA 估算（estimates）.

Note: Other includes construction and agriculture/fishing. Also ref USGBC. 注：其他包括工程建造和农业/渔业 以及参照美国绿色建筑评委会（USGBC）有关内容 FIGURE 3: As the chart illustrates, if we were to achieve LEED Platinum standards for all buildings in China and stop there, we will look back a

decade from now and realize that what we had thought were demanding standards weren’t nearly demanding enough. Courtesy of Chris Twinn, Arup Fellow, Arup.

A Moment of Reflection The urgency of the design challenges that lie ahead was palpable at the Summit. So was the camaraderie of the participants, who not only understood that we must address those challenges together but also shared a vision of how to move forward. The need to pursue next-generation ecocities in the style of the symbiotic city was clear.

As this first Sino-U.S. City Design Summit demonstrated, the Chinese and U.S. design communities are aligned in their thinking about the solutions required to address the challenges and opportunities we face—if we can marshal the power of this synchronicity and work together, we are at a moment of incredible opportunity.

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About the Summit Partners

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About the Summit Partners

The Washington, DC-based American Architectural Foundation (AAF) was founded in 1943. AAF’s programs focus on solutions in sustainability and urbanization that promote economic, social, cultural, and environmental vibrancy. In the past 10 years alone, AAF has collaborated directly and intensively with more than 500 U.S. mayors and federal officials, including the mayors of every major U.S. city and many federal leaders at the White House, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, and Environmental Protection Agency. To bring the best solutions to civic and governmental leaders, AAF engages a network of more than 500 architects, city planners, and other design professionals who are recognized around the world for the depth and diversity of their expertise. The impact of AAF’s work is visible in the design of cities across the United States. www.archfoundation.org

The Chinese Society for Urban Studies (CSUS) is a national, non-profit, and academic organization formed freely by urban researchers, scholars, practitioners, and by a wide range of governmental agencies in social, economic, cultural, environmental, planning, construction, and management fields, as well as by research and educational institutions and enterprises. It plays an important role in facilitating and advancing China’s urban research programs.

CSUS is committed to comprehensive research on critical issues in social and economic development, culture, the environment, urban planning, construction, and management. It advances urban scientific theories; promotes their applications of city science; helps urban research professionals to grow; and drives coordinated development of the economy, society, and the environment. www.chinasus.org

The China Green Building Council of the Chinese Society for Urban Studies (China GBC) was founded in March 2008. It is an academic organization dedicated to researching theories and technology integration for green buildings and building energy efficiency that are best suited for Chinese realities, and to supporting the government in promoting green building development in China. Members of China GBC include experts, scholars, and professionals in the green building and building energy-efficiency areas in research institutes, universities, design, property development, construction, manufacturing, and industry administrations. China GBC’s scope of operation is to conduct research on theories relating to green building and building energy efficiency, enhance academic exchange and international cooperation, organize professional and technical training, compile and publish academic publications, organize public outreach and education programs to promote knowledge of green buildings, and provide consulting services to relevant government departments and business entities. www.gbmap.org

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About the Summit Partners

Founded 160 years ago, Otis Elevator Company is the world’s largest manufacturer and maintainer of peoplemoving products including elevators, escalators, and moving walkways.

With headquarters in Farmington, Connecticut, Otis employs more than 60,000 people, offers products and services in more than 200 countries and territories, and maintains over 1.8 million elevators and escalators worldwide. Otis’ energy efficient solutions are widely deployed to meet different needs: from shopping centers to metro stations to skyscrapers, with the aid of comprehensive service and modernization programs. The company’s products have been adopted in eight of ten of the buildings to hold the title “world’s tallest” in the past century. www.otis.com

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United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is a diversified company that provides a broad range of high-technology products and services to the global aerospace and building systems industries. Its commercial businesses are Otis elevators and escalators and UTC Climate, Controls & Security, which includes Carrier heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems; building controls and automation from brands such as Automated Logic and Lenel; as well as fire and security solutions from brands such as Kidde and Chubb. Its aerospace businesses are Sikorsky helicopters and support; Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines; and UTC Aerospace Systems advanced aerospace and defense products. www.utc.com

Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services.

Arup’s recent work for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing has reaffirmed its reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable designs that reinvent the built environment. Arup brings together broad-minded individuals from a wide range of disciplines and encourages them to look beyond the constraints of their own specialisms. This unconventional approach to design springs in part from Arup’s ownership structure.

The firm is owned in trust on behalf of its staff. The result is an independence of spirit that is reflected in the firm’s work, and in its dedicated pursuit of technical excellence for its clients. www.arup.com

About the Summit Partners

Gensler is a global design firm with 3,800 employees networked across 45 offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. As architects, planners, and consultants, Gensler helps clients succeed by delivering design innovation through its 20 specialized practice areas that span nearly every major industry, including aviation, technology, sports, hospitality, retail, professional services, education, and commercial office buildings.

Gensler was founded in 1965, and today, the firm partners with clients on more than 6,000 projects every year. These projects can be as small as a wine bottle label or as complex as a new urban district. www.gensler.com

HOK is a global design, architecture, engineering, and planning firm that provides planning and design solutions for high-performance, sustainable buildings and communities. Through its collaborative network of 24 offices and 1,600 people worldwide, the firm delivers design excellence and innovation to clients globally. Founded in 1955, HOK’s expertise includes architecture, interiors, planning and urban design, landscape architecture, engineering, strategic facility planning, consulting, lighting, graphics, and construction services. In 2012, DesignIntelligence ranked HOK as the #1 role model for sustainable and high-performance design for the third consecutive year. www.hok.com

Interface Engineering is a multidisciplinary mechanical and electrical engineering firm known for innovative resource use, visionary sustainable design, and breakthrough engineering solutions for new and existing buildings. Its work demonstrates how integrated design and creative collaboration can produce outstanding results—for its clients, its community, and our environment. www.interfaceengineering.com

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About the Summit Partners

Jacobs, with 2012 revenues of nearly $11 billion, is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of professional, technical, and construction services, including all aspects of planning, architecture, engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance as well as specialty consulting.

Founded in 1947, Jacobs serves a broad range of companies and organizations, including corporate, commercial, industrial, institutional, and government clients across multiple markets and geographies. With an integrated network of over 65,000 employees located in 200+ locations worldwide, the company prides itself on building long-term relationships with its clients. www.jacobs.com KlingStubbins is an internationally recognized design firm with over sixty years of experience on a wide range of projects. It is over 500 people strong, with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Philadelphia; Raleigh, North Carolina; San Francisco; Washington, DC; and Beijing.

KlingStubbins provides professional services in all major disciplines of architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and landscape architecture. Its areas of market focus and specialization include Corporate/Commercial, Government, Health Care, Higher Education, Hospitality/Entertainment, Institutional/ Civic, Mission Critical, and Research and Development. www.klingstubbins.com

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Founded in 1915, LEO A DALY has become a leader in the design of the built environment, and one of the largest planning, architecture, engineering, and interior design firms in the world.

Working continuously in China since 1967, the firm has offices in Hong Kong and Beijing with local staff to provide project management, code review, and coordination with local design institutes.

LEO A DALY’s design process includes working closely with clients and local partners to create timeless and practical designs that enhance and enrich the human experience. Landmark projects include Cheung Kong Center in Hong Kong, Haitong Securities Building in Shanghai, and Excellence Century Center in Shenzhen. www.leoadaly.com

IMAGE 11: A group of Summit participants gather for a photo. (From left, back row) John Syvertsen, Vice Chair, AAF Board of

Regents; Ron Bogle, AAF President & CEO; Sandy Diehl, Chair, AAF Board of Regents; Mark de Groh, Director of Knowledge Management and Innovation, AAF; Bill McGee, Design Principal, Jacobs/KlingStubbins; Sylvester Wong, Senior Urban Designer, Urban Design and Master Planning, Gensler; Monte Wilson, Director of Advance Planning Group, Jacobs; Roger E. Frechette III, Principal, Interface Engineering. (From left, front row) Wang Tao, Lecturer, School of Management Science and Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics; Steve Ma, Senior Associate, Director of Marketing + Business Development, Asia Pacific, HOK; Li Aimin, Project Leader, Eco-City Planning and Building Center, Chinese Society for Urban Studies; Benjamin Ward, Regional Design Director, Gensler; Chris Twinn, Arup Fellow & Director, Arup;Dong Yanfang, Deputy Dean, Urban Plan and Design, Institute of China Architecture Design & Research Group. Courtesy of UTIO.

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