Shanghai, May 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, one of the leading architectural design institutes—— China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd. officially signed on to become the Diamond Sponsor of the "2015 World Route Development Forum (Asia-Pacific) (Airport Cities Asia Pacific)" to be held from May 13-15, 2015, at the Chengdu Century City International Convention and Exhibition Center.
Founded in 1950, China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd. is one of the earliest large-scale Grade-A architectural design institutes in China’s industry and is affiliated with China State Construction Engineering Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. Over the past 60-plus years since its establishment,the Southwest Institutehas designed and completed nearly 10,000 engineering projects, covering all provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across China as well as more than 10 countries and regions worldwide. It is one of China’s large-scale architectural design institutes with independent rights to conduct foreign-related business and has participated in numerous overseas design projects. Since 2004, it has been continuously rated as one of China's "Top Ten Architectural Design Companies" by the Architectural Society of Asia,and has also been awarded the title of "Top 100 National Engineering Survey and Design Enterprises."
Currently, the institute and its wholly-owned and holding subsidiaries have a total of 3,000 employees, including over 2,100 in design-related roles, 65 professors-level senior architects and professors-level senior engineers, over 450 senior architects and senior engineers, and more than 360 national first-class registered architects, first-class registered structural engineers, registered cost engineers, registered equipment engineers, and registered electrical engineers. Over the years, the Southwest Institute has trained four China Engineering Survey and Design Masters, one national expert with outstanding contributions among middle-aged and young professionals, two experts with outstanding contributions among middle-aged and young professionals from the Ministry of Construction, four academic and technical leaders of Sichuan Province, three experts with outstanding contributions in Sichuan Province, 24 individuals enjoying special government allowances, and 20 Sichuan design masters. As the largest architectural design institute in central and western China and an important state-owned backbone enterprise in national infrastructure construction,the SouthwestInstitute takes "exquisite design and service to society" as its mission, adheres to the purpose of prospering architectural creation, continuously improves innovative design concepts, strives to create high-quality architectural designs, and has won nearly 600 national, ministerial, and provincial-level awards for excellence in engineering design and scientific research. It has also achieved five National Excellent Design Gold Awards, four Silver Awards, and five Bronze Awards. Over 60 years of design work,the SouthwestInstitute has unique design advantages in fields such as convention and culture buildings, sports architecture, medical architecture, educational architecture, tourism architecture, residential architecture, and spatial structures. The strict and standardized ISO9001 quality system certification management has further earnedthe SouthwestInstitute widespread recognition for its design quality. In addition to strengthening production, operation, technological innovation, and internal management,the SouthwestInstitute has also earnestly carried out Party building and corporate culture initiatives. Over the years,the SouthwestInstitute has successively received honors such as "National Advanced Unit in Engineering Construction Management," "National Outstanding Survey and Design Institute," "Sichuan Provincial Advanced Unit," "2008 Advanced Collective in Earthquake Relief," "China’s Most Valuable Brand Design Organization," "Top 100 Contemporary Chinese Architectural Design Institutes," "National Advanced Engineering Survey and Design Enterprise" from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, "Central Enterprise Advanced Collective," and "Central Enterprise Ideological and Political Work Advanced Unit."
During the 12th Five-Year Plan period,the SouthwestInstitute, under the leadership of China State Construction Engineering Corporation, will closely focus on the strategic goal of "One Best, Two Crossings, Scientific Development" and the corporate mission of "Expanding the Space of Happiness." It adheres to the core value of "Quality Assurance, Value Creation," follows the development strategy of "Specialization, Regionalization, Standardization, Informatization, and Internationalization," implements the development objective of "Scientific Development, Top-Quality Standards," upholds the corporate responsibility of "Designing Excellence, Achieving Staff, Serving Society," promotes the spirit of "Humanistic Culture" and the corporate ethos of "Integrity, Innovation, Transcendence, and Win-Win," and continuously advances toward the development goal of becoming "a domestically leading, top-quality, and most competitive architectural design enterprise."
The SouthwestInstitute’s business scope includes: architectural engineering design and civil air defense design for the construction industry, along with corresponding consulting and technical services; municipal public works design for water supply, drainage, thermal power, bridges, tunnels, landscape gardening, etc., along with corresponding consulting and technical services; intelligent building system design and corresponding consulting and technical services; commercial, material, grain industry, and communication tower design, along with corresponding consulting and technical services; urban planning and design; urban design; interior and exterior decoration design; scientific research and experimental projects for buildings and public works; engineering general contracting and project management; engineering supervision; survey, consulting, design, and supervision projects for overseas construction projects, as well as the export of equipment and materials required for these projects, and the dispatch of labor personnel for survey, consulting, design, and supervision for the aforementioned projects.
The SouthwestInstitute’s recent major airport projects include: Terminal 1 of Chengdu Shuangliu Airport (120,000square meters), Terminal 2 of Chengdu Shuangliu Airport (290,000square meters), Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport East Terminal Area T3A Terminal (537,000square meters), Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport newly built T1 Terminal (450,000square meters). The aforementioned large airport terminal projects were all original design schemes from our institute and were also completed by our institute-led design consortium. Meanwhilethe Southwest Institutehas undertaken and completed the design of numerous branch airports and aircraft hangars.
The 2015 World Airport Cities Conference (Asia-Pacific) (Airport Cities Asia Pacific) is now in its final preparation stage and will be held at the Chengdu Century City International Convention Center from May 13–15, eagerly awaiting the arrival of professionals in the airport city field.
For details about this conference, please visit http://www.airportcities.cn to obtain more event information.