hpa (previous known as Ho & Partners Architects Engineers & Development Consultants Limited) was founded in 1980. In 1992, hpa became one of the Band 1 architectural consultants in the Hong Kong SAR government’s list of consultants and was also the 1st local architectural practice in Hong Kong to receive ISO 9001 certification from the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Association. In 2004, hpa was placed 47 in UK published “World Architecture” magazine’s list of the world’s top 200 architectural practices. Many projects have received various design awards along the way, which including one of the top 10 Asian architectural practices in the BCI Asia Top 10 Awards in 2012. hpa has completed projects in more than 40 cities across six countries (including China, Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia, North Korea, India and the Middle East), with a combined floor area of over 70,000,000 square meters. Projects include large-scale townships, public housing, hillside buildings, luxury residential, office buildings, corporate headquarters, 5 star hotels, shopping malls, hospitals, airports and railway station-related projects, universities, libraries, cultural centres, museums, sports centres, entertainment centres and industrial undertakings. These also include large-scale city planning projects ranging from 5 to 500 square kilometres in Mainland China and India.