Chris Wan is the Head of Design Management at Masdar City, where
he adopts a holistic approach to guiding the direction of the building
designs. Through briefing, goal setting, budgeting, team building and
integrated processes, he directs the creation of blueprints of
buildings, ensuring that these buildings are developed to achieve the
best balance between environmental, commercial and social
requirements.
Among his many contributions to Masdar City, Mr. Wan was
instrumental in setting the vision and design parameters that led to
the construction of the Siemens Building, IRENA HQ, and Etihad EcoResidence in Masdar City. These buildings meet some of the highest
levels of energy and water efficiencies as measured against
international sustainability standards.
Mr. Wan brings over 30 years of international and local architectural
design experience to Masdar City. He has worked on numerous
environmentally driven projects for Richard Rogers Partnership in
London and for Rocco Design Ltd in Hong Kong. More recently, he
moved into building development, working for Sorouh Real Estate in
Abu Dhabi before joining Masdar in 2008.
Mr. Wan graduated from the University of Bath in the UK and is
currently a registered architect in the UK and Hong Kong. He has
participated in conferences and roundtables sharing his knowledge
on sustainable development. He has also given lectures on this
subject at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Paris-Sorbonne
University Abu Dhabi, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of
Catalonia and Khalifa University of Science and Technology.