
About the Award

Organising Committee

Nomination Details

Nomination Form

Jury Panel

Key Dates

Award Booklet

Award Presentation
Ceremony

Gallery

Information of
EBA 2023
About the Award
Organising Committee
Nomination Details
Nomination Form
Jury Panel
Key Dates
Award Booklet
Award Presentation
Ceremony
Gallery
Information of
EBA 2023
Please click HERE to download the nomination form.
May 2025 | Open for Nomination |
June 2025 | Application Briefing Session |
October 2025 | Deadline for Nomination and Documents Submission |
November 2025 | Short-listed Finalists Announcement |
January 2026 | Finalists Presentation and Assessment |
*Award Presentation Ceremony to be held after Assessment Result
Ir Dr Charles CHENG
Jury Panel Chairman,
The Excellent Building Award 2026
Sr Prof CHEUNG Tin Cheung, SBS, JP
Chairman,
Hong Kong Green Building Council
Mr Michael LI Kiu Yin, JP
Director,
Architectural Services Department
Ir Raymond POON Kwok Ying, JP
Director,
Electrical & Mechanical Services Department
Ir Prof Richard YUEN
Chair Professor , Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering,
City University of Hong Kong
Ir Prof Horace MUI
Interim Dean of Students and Professor,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ir Thomas CHAN
Past President,
The HKIE
Ir Dr Anthony LO
Past Chairman,
The HKIE Building Services Division
Ir Raymond TAM
Past Chairman,
The HKIE Building Services Division
1. ELIGIBILITY
*Those Projects had obtained their Special Awards (SA) or Design Framework Award (DF) in the pervious Award are not eligible to apply the same SA or DF with respectively in this Award
2. CATEGORIES
The Award welcomes the applications by residential, commercial, industrial and other types of building, construction, A&A and renovation projects which contribute ESG excellencies to our building society. The candidates will play apart in two major categories separately:
3. AWARDS
** Organizing Committee reserves the right not to bestow an award if the Assessment Panel deems that no nomination is worth receiving that particular award. The decision of the Assessment Panel shall be final.
*** Finalist qualification will be usurped if the project team is unable to present at the Finalist Presentation to Assessment Panel.
4. Excellent Design Framework
Excellent Design Framework Award is a new separate extension in New Build Category which developed in 2026 Session. This Award aims to explore more creative and excellent design practices applied to a project. The design nominated to this Award shall be mature enough to demonstrate its buildability but not necessary must be a fully completed by full project sense, otherwise if the project had reached the substantial completion stage, then it is recommended to take part in the SA or Year of Excellent Award nomination, such that the design nominated should have reached a detailed design approval stage. This Award will be evaluated separately as according to their achievements in Environment enhancement, Social Contribution and Governance Advancement, Building Envelop Design, Interior Space Design and application of advanced technology / innovations for their projects.
**** Organizing Committee reserves the right not to bestow an award if the Assessment Panel deems that no nomination is worth receiving that particular award. The decision of the Assessment Panel shall be final.
***** Finalist qualification will be usurped if the project team is unable to present at the Finalist Presentation to Assessment Panel.
5. Assessment Criteria and Marking Scheme for Excellent Design Framework
The evaluation of the design framework nominated will be based on the following foci and each is equally weighted for the contribution to the final score.
Item | Assessment Criteria |
1.0 | Environment Concerns Achievements |
2.0 | Social Contribution Achievements |
3.0 | Governance Leadership Achievements |
4.0 | Building Envelop Design |
5.0 | Interior Space Utilisation |
6.0 | Technological Advancement and Innovation |
6. NOMINATION
NOMINATION FEE
Nomination Fee of HK$6,000 is required for all entries. (Nomination fee will be refunded to nomination that is not eligible for entry).
PROMOTION FEE+
Promotion fee will be collected on top of the nomination fee for media promotion, exhibition and trophy production for all winners.
• Year of the Excellent Building Award | HK$30,000 |
• Grand Award | HK$20,000 |
• Excellent Design Framework Award | HK$20,000 |
• Finalist | HK$10,000 |
NOMINATION DOCUMENTS
Guidelines on competition materials are:
****** Please mark which paragraph/section on your synopsis has covered our focus categories
NOMINATION DEADLINE AND ENTRY DETAILS
Please submit your filled and signed nomination form by email to hkiebsd-eba@mingfocus.com on or before 5:00pm on 31 October 2025 (Friday).
Please download nomination form from below link:
Terms and Conditions:
The organizing committee (OC) for the award programme is established from Chairman and committee members of the Building Services Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.
The organizing committee (OC) is composed of:
OC Chairman
Ir Kelvin WONG
Jury Panel Chairman
Ir Dr Charles CHENG
Sponsorship Chairman
Ir Keith YUE
OC Secretary
Ir Steven POON
OC Members
Ms Ingrid CHENG
Mr Derek CHOI
Mr Reeve HO
Mr Joseph KWAN
Ir Eric LEE
Ms Katerina LEUNG
Mr Billy MAK
Ir Chris NG
Ir SC NGAI
Ms Roxy PENG
Ms Carmen YU
The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers – Building Services Division is serving the building society up to our 40th anniversary upon 2026. We are committed to promote the advancement and exchange of technical information and ideas among members and other related societies. The Hong Kong Institution of Hong Kong Engineers – Building Services Division Excellent Building Award (Award) is also a succession of our 1st of this Award launched at 2023. We wish this Award will continually stimulate the passion and desire of our Hong Kong building society to achieve Excellences in the future. The Award is a platform to show off the building projects and their building services adopted to achieve their outstanding performance in the last THREE YEARS. Those are believed our milestones and lights up the direction to reach out another horizon of extraordinary achievements in the next future.