Chris Wan

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.