Elected Director - Mr Craig Ian DOUBLEDAY
Craig is a Landscape Architect with over 35 years experience working in Australia, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. He currently is working in Saudi Arabia on mega-scale projects on the coast of the Red Sea. As a Landscape Architect, Craig has been involved with over 150 projects in Hong Kong in the past 20 years of his career. These include residential, commercial, institutional, public domain spaces including public open space, infrastructure, and the urban design, master planning of large scale developments in Hong Kong. Some of the more notable projects include The Hong Kong Wetland Park; the IFC Development, Harbour Road Garden; Enhancing Walkability Study, Green Connection-Hong Ning Road Park; Hong Kong Institute of Construction - Development of a New Training Centre; Ap Lei Chau Wind Tower, Cherry Street Park; Greening Master Plan for TST; and The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.
Craig is a Registered Landscape Architect, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects, a founding member of the Hong Kong Urban Design Institute, and a member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. Recent projects that Craig has been the lead Landscape Architect that have been awarded Green Building and related awards include: AIRSIDE (Green Building Award 2019 - Grand Award); Cognitio College (Kowloon) (Green Building Award 2019 - Grand Award); University of Chicago Academic Complex (FuturArc Green Leadership Award 2019 - Merit Award); and The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (formerly known as Hang Seng Management College)(Green Building Award 2016 - Finalist).
Craig's principal interests lie in the role landscape architects play in developing sustainable landscape solutions to create quality landscapes that encourage people to use and visit whilst contributing to the environment generally. In Australia, Craig's early work involved developing sustainable urban water solutions and strategies to minimise water consumption and re-use drainage and urban run-off in multi-purpose landscape projects. This is now known as Water Sensitive Urban Design and forms part of the broader Ecological Urban Design Solutions or Green/Blue Infrastructure Strategies that forms the basis of Craig's' work in Hong Kong, PRC, the Middle East and SE Asia.