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Dr Raymond Yau is the General Manager of Technical Services & Sustainable Development at Swire Properties Limited. Under his leadership since 2016, he leads a number of new initiatives that are pivotal to the long-term sustainable development of the company. These include formulation of company-wide SD 2030 Vision and strategies, digital transformation of technical services and establishment of cloud-based energy management platform across global operations, implementation of monitoring-based commissioning of all existing portfolios for deep energy savings, ESG framework of the company’s first green bond of US$500m in 2018 and the Climate Risk Assessment of its global assets. Dr Yau has led to set the Science-based Targets of Swire Properties for long-term decarbonization in accordance with The Paris Agreement.
Dr Yau had been practicing as a professional consulting engineer for over 28 years in the field of designing sustainable buildings and sustainability consulting across the Globe. Before joining Swire, Dr Yau was Fellow and Director of Arup at Hong Kong, an international engineering consultant engineering firm. He was awarded HKIE - Innovation Award for the Engineering Industry 2013 – Principal Innovator - Construction Category Champion CIC Zero Carbon Building.
Dr Yau is currently an Executive Committee Member & Board of Director of Business Environment Council (BEC) and Chairman of BEC Sustainable Living Environment Advisory Group (2020 - 2021). He is Board of Director of Hong Kong Green Building Council and Founding Member of International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) Governance Council (2020- present) and Member of GRESB Standard Review Committee (2019 - present).
Dr Yau is member of Advisory Council on the Environment, Environmental Impact Assessment Subcommittee and Waste Management Subcommittee. He is also Committee Member of the China Green Building Council and Deputy Officer of China Association of Building Energy Efficiency – Technical Committee on Building Commissioning and Operation.
Dr Yau is Guest Professor at Chongqing University, China and LEED AP, WELL AP, Green Building Faculty, BEAM Pro, Registered Energy Assessor, Chartered Engineer and Fellow Member of HKIE, CIBSE and IBPSA

Dr Raymond Yau is the General Manager of Technical Services & Sustainable Development at Swire Properties Limited. Under his leadership since 2016, he leads a number of new initiatives that are pivotal to the long-term sustainable development of the company. These include formulation of company-wide SD 2030 Vision and strategies, digital transformation of technical services and establishment of cloud-based energy management platform across global operations, implementation of monitoring-based commissioning of all existing portfolios for deep energy savings, ESG framework of the company’s first green bond of US$500m in 2018 and the Climate Risk Assessment of its global assets. Dr Yau has led to set the Science-based Targets of Swire Properties for long-term decarbonization in accordance with The Paris Agreement.
Dr Yau had been practicing as a professional consulting engineer for over 28 years…

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