Founded in 1980, hpa, officially known as Ho & Partners （China）Architects & Engineers Limited, is one of Hong Kong’s major architectural practices and a strategic partner of HKTDC’s Belt and Road-related initiatives. Since 1992, hpa has been listed on the “Band 1” List of Architectural Consultants kept by the Hong Kong SAR Government, and the List of Building Surveying Consultants kept by the HKSAR Government since 2013. hpa is also the first local architectural practice certified with ISO 9001 and pioneered the use of “Intra-net” as the practice’s information and working platform. In 2014, through CEPA (Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement between Mainland and Hong Kong), hpa was the “first” Hong Kong architectural practice to be awarded the Grade A Architectural Certification in China by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China. hpa was listed No. 47 in the “Top 200 Architectural Practices – Annual List 2004” by World Architecture Magazine. In 2008, 2012, 2017 and 2019, hpa was ranked one of the “Top 10” local architectural practices in the BCI Asia Top 10 Awards. Within this fruitful year, hpa won the prestigious Quality Award for Medium and Established Enterprises 2019 led by the Hong Kong Management Association (HKMA) and also the SME Award under the DHL/SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards 2019. For the last few years, hpa has been one of the pioneers in BIM-Revit design and has designed the first MIC (Modular Integrated Construction) high rise building in Hong Kong.