Edward Ng

Professor Edward Ng (Ng Yan Yung) is Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the first holder of its Yao Ling Sun Endowed Chair in Architecture. He worked as an architect before becoming a professor, and specialises in green building, environmental and sustainable design, and urban climatology for city planning. As an environmental consultant to the Hong Kong SAR Government he developed the performance-based daylight design practice note, the Air Ventilation Assessment Technical Guidelines and the Urban Climatic Maps for City Planning, and he now works with public health colleagues on the impact of city design and climate change on urban living.

In 2005 he pioneered Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China), building the first bridge in Gansu with students and professionals, and in 2007 founded the Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Charitable Foundation, which he chaired until 2013. In 2006 he started the A School To Learn campaign, leading architecture students to build school facilities in Guangxi, and in 2014 he established the One University One Village Project Initiative to continue this work with remote villages in South West China.

He has published over 500 papers and three books, has twice received the RIBA International Award and twice the UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Jury Commendation for Innovation, received the 2010 Red Cross Humanitarian Award, and was named an Asian of the Year by Reader's Digest in 2011. His design won World Building of the Year at the 2017 World Architecture Festival, and the University of Cambridge has awarded him a Doctor of Science.