Zuellig Building wins best project award

Engineering News-Record, a leading U.S. industry publication, selected the Zuellig Building in Makati as the winner of the Green Project category of its 2013 Global Best Projects competition.

 

The competition honors construction and design excellence across the globe. The Zuellig Building is one of the 66 projects that vied to be recognized in one of 20 different categories, from airports, bridges, roads and highways to retail developments, healthcare centers and office buildings.

Among the 21 winning projects, which include 11 Best Projects and 10 Awards of Merit, are The Shard in London (Best Retail/Mixed-Use Development); The China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing (Best Office); BC Place Revitalization in Vancouver (Best Sports/Entertainment); and the National September 11th Memorial in New York (Award of Merit in the Cultural category).

 

The 2013 Global Best Projects winners were chosen by an independent, seven-member jury of industry professionals with extensive global experience. The criteria included safety, innovation, contribution to the global community, aesthetic quality and workmanship, with special emphasis on the project team’s global diversity.

 

The 33-storey Zuellig Building is located at the corner of Paseo de Roxas and Makati Avenue in the Makati Central Business District. It is a product of a collaboration of world-class engineers, architects and project consultants, including its developer Bridgebury Realty Corporation (BRC), a subsidiary of the Zuellig Group.

 

Its quantity surveyor and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) consultant Langdon & Seah (ARCADIS Group) has helped the project obtain a Gold pre-certification under the LEED Core and Shell (LEED-CS) program of the U.S. Green Building Council. Under the company’s guidance, the BRC offices on the building’s 32nd floor have been awarded a Platinum LEED certification for Commercial Interiors, the highest benchmark and a first in the Philippines.

 

The building’s project manager Design Coordinates, Inc. (DCI) ensured that all project team members complied with international standards of green construction methodologies and resource-efficient operations to offer tenants a prime-grade workplace of a quality unmatched in the office market of Metro Manila.

 

Engineering News-Record (ENR) is a weekly magazine with an international audience of contractors, project owners, engineers, architects, government regulators and industry suppliers. The publication is considered by many industry insiders as their bible for news and information on property and construction.

 

ENR is published by McGraw Hill, which also publishes Architectural Record and Aviation Week and is the parent company of Standard & Poor’s, Platts, and J.D. Power and Associates. In addition to the weekly magazine, ENR runs a website (ENR.com), conducts a series of in-person events, and recognizes masters in the industry. The ENR Award of Excellence is the construction industry’s most prestigious and coveted honor, granted to one accomplished individual annually. 25 ENR Newsmakers are also recognized “for their innovations and achievements, for giving back to the industry and the public and for going beyond their day-to-day jobs.”

 

The Zuellig Building was acknowledged at an awards dinner in New York on June 6 during the ENR 2013 Global Construction Summit. The building will be featured in the June edition of ENR.

 

The Zuellig Building was the recipient of the 2012 “People’s Choice” Award at the international property conference MIPIM Asia in Hong Kong. The project also won an award in MIPIM’s “Best Office and Business Development” category. In April 2012, the Zuellig Building was granted the Father Neri Satur Award for Environmental Heroism in recognition of the project’s contribution towards “reducing carbon footprints through green building and energy conservation in the business sector.”

Press release from Zuellig