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MIPIM Asia 2024 Gala Dinner Revealed Award Winners across Asia Pacific
The prestigious awards garnered numerous nominations from various countries, showcasing the remarkable diversity and growth within the sector. This wide array of nominations reflects the innovation and creativity emerging from the region and underscores the increasing resilience and global recognition of these projects.
Led by Mr. Donald CHOI, President of the Hong Kong Institute of Real Estate Administrators, a distinguished jury panel of 16 industry leaders from across Asia Pacific meticulously evaluated all entries before selecting the top contenders.
Members of the jury panel are:
- Donald CHOI, President, Hong Kong Institute of Real Estate Administrators
(Hong Kong) (President of the Jury) - George AGETHEN. CDPQ, Managing Director, Real Estate of Asia Pacific and Latin America, Singapore
- Henry CHENG, CEO & Executive Director, Chongbang Group (China)
- Stanley CHING, Senior Managing Director, Managing Partner & Head of Real Estate, CITIC Capital Holdings (Hong Kong)
- Chris CHOW, Senior Managing Director, LaSalle Investment Management (Hong Kong)
- Harvey COE, Senior Advisor, Ernst & Young (Hong Kong)
- Alison COOKE, Managing Director – Real Estate, Starr International Investment Advisors (Asia) Limited (Hong Kong)
- Christina HAU, Chief Executive Officer, Champion REIT (Hong Kong)
- Alexandre HERIARD-DUBREUIL, Chief Investment Officer, LCatterton Real Estate Partner (Hong Kong & London)
- George HONGCHOY, Executive Director & CEO, Link Asset Management Limited (Hong Kong)
- Nicholas J. LOUP, Group Vice Chairman, CEO Asia, Chelsfield (Hong Kong)
- Laurent JACQUEMIN, Head of Asia-Pacific, Real Assets, AXA IM Alts (Japan)
- Joseph TANG, Partner, Townsend Group (Hong Kong)
- Shuji TOMIKAWA, President, Mitsui Fudosan Investment Advisors, Inc. (MFIA) (Japan)
- Richard YUE, CEO & CIO, ARCH Capital Management Company Limited (Hong Kong)
- Jing ZHOU, Senior Director Alternatives and Strategic Transactions, Nuveen (Hong Kong)
The winners of MIPIM Asia 2024 Awards are:
BEST CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL AND URBAN REGENERATION PROJECT
GOLD
Hong Shou Fang, Shanghai, China
Developer: Shui On Land
Other: Plus 8 Consulting Limited / Shanghai TIANHUA Architecture Planning & Engineering Ltd.
SILVER
Link Sustainability Lab, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: Link Asset Management Limited
Other: Kingsmen Hong Kong Limited (Main Contractor)
BRONZE
GEOMETRIC WONDERZOO, Sau Mau Ping Shopping Centre, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: Link Asset Management Limited
Architect: Groundwork Architects & Associates Ltd
Other: Link Asset Management Limited (Client & Project Management); Groundwork Architects & Associates Ltd. (Designer); New House Construction Company Limited (Main Contractor); Play Concept Limited (Play equipment supplier); Elite Building Consultancy Co. Limited (Project Manager)
BEST HOSPITALITY, TOURISM AND LEISURE PROJECT
GOLD
TOWNPLACE West Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited
Architect: Aedas (Design Architect)
Others: Executive Architect: P&T Architects Limited
M&E Engineer, Structural Engineer: Sun Hung Kai Architects & Engineers Limited; Main Contractor: Chun Fai Construction Company Limited; Branding & Leasing: TOWNPLACE
Landscape Architect: Sun Hung Kai Architects & Engineers Limited, New Office Works Limited; Lighting Consultant: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Limited; Beam Plus Consultant: Allied Environmental Consultants Limited; Interior Design; Consultant: LAAB, Conran and Partners
SILVER
Bauhinia Hotel & Apartments – BIPV Building in Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: Hon Kwok Land Investment Co., Ltd.
Architect: AGC
Others: APT Engineering Consultant Ltd. (Civil & Structural Engineer), Egis M&E Limited (Building Services Engineer), Rider Levett Bucknall Limited (Quantity Surveyor), AGC Design Ltd. (Project Designer), The Bauhinia Hotel Management Limited (Management Company), Reithub Consulting Limited (Sustainable Design Consultant)
BRONZE
Radisson RED Guang Zhou South Railway Station, Guangzhou, China
Developer: Guangzhou Lu Fu Real Estate Development Co.
Architect: Ben yeung & associates ltd.
BEST MIXED-USE PROJECT
GOLD
Two Taikoo Place, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: Swire Properties Limited
Architect: NBBJ, Wong & Ouyang (HK) Limited
Others: Eckersley O’Callaghan (Specialist Facade Design Engineer); Hugh Dutton Associes (Elevated Walkway Designer); Gustafson Porter + Bowman (External Landscape Designer); Urbis Ltd (External Landscape Architect); Adrien L. Norman (Internal Landscape Architect)
Stanley KC Ltd (Executive Interior Designer); Speirs + Major (Lighting Designer)
SILVER
One Dojima Project, Osaka, Japan
Developer: Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd. Hotel Properties Limited Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts
Architect: Nikken Sekkei Ltd, Nikken Housing System Ltd
Others: Interior Designer for Residential Common Area: Studio Piet Boon
Hotel interior designer: CURIOSITY, SIMPLICITY, DESIGN STUDIO SPIN
BRONZE
The Ring, Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Developer: Hongkong Land
Architect: Benoy
BEST OFFICE & BUSINESS PROJECT
GOLD
The Henderson, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd.
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects (London) in collaboration with Ronald Lu & Partners (Hong Kong)
Others: Interior Design by Zaha Hadid Architects, Landscape Design by PWP Landscape Architecture, Main Contractor by Hip Hing Construction
SILVER
KTR350, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: LAWSGROUP
Architect: MLA Architects (HK) Ltd; Planning Consultant: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd; E&M consultant: WSP Hong Kong Ltd; Structure consultant: WSP Hong Kong Ltd.
BRONZE
TP Link Headquarters, Shenzhen, China
Developer: TP Link
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)
BRONZE
83 KING LAM STREET, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: New World Development Company Limited
Architects: Tower Design Architect: Rocco Design Architects Associates Ltd; Podium Design Architect: COLLECTIVE (Collective Studio Limited); Executive Architect: Rocco Design Architects Associates Ltd
Others: Structural, Civil and Facade Engineer; AECOM Asia Ltd.; Mechanical & Electrical Engineer: J. Roger Preston Limited; Sustainability Consultant: ARUP; Interior and Signage Designer: Collective Studio Limited; Podium landscape designer: Collective Studio Limited; Landscape Architect: Axxa Group Limited; Main Contractor: Hip Seng Construction Company Limited
BEST REFURBISHED BUILDING
GOLD
Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 2 Expansion, Singapore
Developer: Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Architect: RSP Architects Planners & Engineers (Pte) Ltd
Others: Boiffils Architectures (Interior Designer); PhA Concepteurs Lumiere (Lighting Consultant); Patrick Blanc (Landscape Consultant); J Roger Preston (S) Pte Ltd (M&E Engineering Consultant); Rider Levett Bucknall Consultancy Pte Ltd (Quantity Surveyor); Takenaka Corporation (Main Contractor); Moment Factory (Multimedia Design and Production)
SILVER
Kai Tin Shopping Centre Refurbishment, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: Link Asset Management Limited
Architect: Aedas / Ronald Lu & Partner
BRONZE
The Refurbished Nostalgia: Kin Sang Shopping Centre, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: Link Asset Management Limited
Architect: Prime Up Consultants Limited (Uni-China Group)
Others: Contractor: Lemon Design & Build Limited (Uni-China Group) ; E&M Consultant : Prime Up Consultants Limited (Uni-China Group) ; Interior Designer : Prime Up Consultants Limited (Uni-China Group)
BEST RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
GOLD
Oukas Setagaya Sengawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Developer: Nomura Real Estate Development Co.,Ltd
Architect: NIKKEN HOUSING SYSTEM LTD + Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd.
SILVER
Riverville, Shanghai, China
Developer: Shui On Land
Architect: Lacime Architects
Others: Shanghai ZF Architectural Design Co.LTD; Z+T CO,LTD ; Project Design Collective by studio MH A.RK Interior Design Pte Ltd ; TS lighting ; Corlette design Inhablt (Beijing) Ltd Shanghai Branch Office
BRONZE
Laurel at Navapark, BSD City, Indonesia
Developer: Hongkong Land and Sinar Mas Land (JV)
Architect: Nataneka (architect for Laurel)
BEST RETAIL PROJECT
GOLD
Nanjing ifc, Nanjing, China
Developer: Sun Hung Kai Properties
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)
SILVER
Suzhou Yanlord Cangjie, Suzhou, China
Developer: Yanlord Land Group
Architect: Woods Bagot
BRONZE
Lovi Center, Xi’an, China
Developer: Xi’an Yan Cheng Investment Company Limited
Architect: Aedas
BEST SHOPPING EXPERIENCE
GOLD
AIRSIDE, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: Nan Fung Development Limited
SILVER
Shoppes at Londoner – The Londoner Macao, Macao SAR, China
Developer: Sands China Ltd
BRONZE
#URBANHOOD at Hysan Place, Hong Kong SAR, China
Developer: Hysan Development Company Limited
Other: Woods Bagot (Interior Design)
BEST NEW DEVELOPMENT
GOLD
Suzhou Central, Suzhou, China
Developer: Hongkong Land & Sungent Holding Group
Architect: Benoy
Others: Artsgroup (LDI); RFR (Facade Consultant); JATO (Interior); SWA (Landscape); Change (Landscape); WSP (MEP Consultant); Tungsten (Lighting consultant)
SILVER
Keppel South Central, Singapore
Developer: Keppel Land
Architect: NBBJ
Others: Architects 61 (Executive Architect)
Woods Bagot (Interior Design); EcoPlan (Landscape Architect) Meinhardt (Structural Consultant); Alpha Consulting Engineers (MEP); Arup (Enclosure Consultant); G-Energy (Sustainability Consultant); Lightbox (Lighting Consultant) THERE (Signage Consultant); Obayashi Corporation (Main Contractor); LHL (Façade Contractor); Fastflow (Rainwater Management Consultant)
BRONZE
Atrium Place, Gurugram, India
Developer: Atrium Place Developers Private Limited
Architect: Pelli Clarke & Partners
Others: Main Contractor: Shapoorji Pallonji; Design Architect: Pelli Clarke & Partners; Executive Architect: DesignPlus Architecture; Landscape Architect: SWA Group / Integral Designs International Studio; MEP Consultant: ME Engineers / ME Engineers Design India; Structural Design: Colaco Engineers / Optimal Consultancy Services
Vertical Transportation: Van Deusen & Associates
Façade: BES Consultants
BEST NEW MEGA DEVELOPMENT
GOLD
West Bund Central, Shanghai, China
Developer: Hongkong Land
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)
Others: KPF (Masterplan Design Architects), Heatherwick Studio Ltd. (Lot C Design Architects), HKS ARCHITECTS (CHINA) LTD. (Lot C Design Architects), KPF (Lot D Design Architects), Benoy Limited (Lot D Retail Design Architects), Zhejiang Greentown Architectural Design Co. (Lot D Architectural Design), The SWA Group Inc (Lots D/F Landscape Design), Shanghai Daoyue architectural design office (Lot E Landscape Design), RONALD LU & PARTNERS (Lots E/F Office Design Architects), TEN DESIGN GROUP LIMITED (Lots E/F Commercial Building Design), Goettsch Partners (Lot F Office Design Zhejiang Greentown Architectural Design Co. (LotF Residential and Commercial Design), Elephant Architectural Design Ltd. (Lot G Residential and Commercial Design), 10 Design (Planetarium Design)
SILVER
Huafa Snow World, Shenzhen, China
Developer: Huafa Group
Architect: 10 Design
Others: Beijing Victory Star Architectural & Civil Engineering Design CO., LTD. (Local Architect, Construction Drawing Designer); DPH (Retail Interior Designer); CCD (Hotel Interior Designer); Lab D+H (Landscape Designer); CAUPD (SHENZHEN) PLANNING & Design Consultants (Detailed Blueprint Design Consultant); TEDA (Fire Consultant);Qingdao Tengyuan Design (BIM Consultant); MVA (Traffic Consultant); CABR Construction Research Institute (Façade Consultant); J+B Studios Architecture Lighting (Façade Lighting Consultant); EternalStar Ice & Snow (Snowmaking Consultant)
BRONZE
Shanghai Duolun Road Urban Regeneration, Shanghai, China
Developer: CSCEC Dongfu
Architect: Woods Bagot
Others: Shanghai TIANHUA Architecture Planning & Engineering Ltd., Shanghai Zhang Ming Architectural Design Firm
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Suzhou Yanlord Cangjie, Suzhou, China
Developer: Yanlord Land Group
Architect: Woods Bagot
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MIPIM Asia Summit 2024
This year’s MIPIM Asia Summit will gather C-suite executives and top leaders from over 20 countries, alongside renowned global investors. Key participants include prominent names such as APG, BEI Group, Champion REIT, Chinachem Group, PAG, Townsend Group, GIC Real Estate, and PIMCO PRIME Real Estate GMBH. The event will also feature a variety of end-user and retail representatives from global brands such as Victorinox, TUMI, Apple, Furla, Ralph Lauren, and Pfizer, making the Summit a premier platform for high-level networking and investment opportunities.
The two-day Summit will also feature engaging discussions and keynote speeches on diverse industry topics, with Wei Yao, Chief Economist for Asia-Pacific at Société Générale, delivering the opening address.
As a cornerstone of the Asia Pacific real estate calendar, the MIPIM Asia Summit continues to attract influential decision-makers and showcase the region’s most cutting-edge projects, solidifying its position as a leading platform for the property industry.
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Voicecomm Technology (02495.HK) Announces 2025 Annual Results
High-Quality Growth with Improved Gross Profit Margin, increasing R&D Investment and Strategic Focus on Trustworthy Agents Ecosystem
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 27 March 2026 – Voicecomm Technology Co., Ltd. (“Voicecomm Technology” or the “Company“, Stock Code: 2495.HK), a core technology provider and ecosystem operator of trustworthy conversational AI in China, announced its annual results for the year ended December 31, 2025. Leveraging its deep technological expertise and forward-looking strategic initiatives in trustworthy conversational AI, the Company achieved steady revenue growth, continuous improvement in profitability, and a significant enhancement in operating cash flow, further strengthening its competitive edge in the enterprise-level trustworthy Agent sector.
Gross Profit Margin Steadily Improves, Operating Cash Flow Turns Strongly Positive
In 2025, the Company’s total revenue successfully exceeded the RMB1 billion mark, reaching RMB1,006.9 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 7.0%. Gross profit amounted to RMB551.2 million, increased by 8.0% from the previous year, while the gross profit margin increased by 0.5 percentage point to 54.7% from 54.2% in the same period last year, reflecting the high-value-added products and technical services of the Company, as well as effective cost control.
Notably, the Company’s net cash generated from operating activities turned strongly positive, reaching a net inflow of RMB212.5 million, compared to a net outflow of RMB129.2 million in the same period last year. This improvement underscores enhanced operational efficiency and reflects strengthened receivables management, which accelerated cash collection.
Profit for the year amounted to RMB140.2 million. The significant increase in net profit compared to the same period last year was mainly attributable to eliminating the impacts of changes in carrying amount of redeemable capital contributions, an accounting adjustment arising from financing agreements entered into with shareholders prior to the Listing and completion of the Global Offering.
Increasing R&D Investment to Strengthen the Trustworthy Agent Technology Foundations
As a technology-centric product company, Voicecomm Technology remains committed to the independent R&D and innovation of underlying technologies. In 2025, the Company’s research and development expenses reached RMB224.3 million, representing a substantial year-on-year increase of 67.7%. The investment was primarily directed towards developing Agents with continuous learning capabilities and a technical framework for Multi-agent collaboration, aiming to enhance technological capabilities and elevate the level of product innovation. This reinforces our trustworthy Agent technical architecture composed of three layers: “Multimodal Perception + Multi-model Thinking + Multi-agent Collaboration”.
This architecture takes the “meta-model” as the core to effectively alleviate the common pain points of in enterprise-level implementation, such as hallucinations, controllability and data security, by integrating the generalization capabilities of large language models with the precision of vertical domain knowledge. On this basis, the Company have formed a deliverable and operable trustworthy Agent product system, to ensure that the Agents are usable, manageable, and controllable in enterprise environments, thereby powering the intelligent upgrade of six core application scenarios: City management and administration, Automotive and transportation, Telecommunications, Finance, Healthcare, and Energy management.
Productization Strategy Drives Deep Application across Six Core Scenarios
Voicecomm Technology focuses on empowering various industries through superior products and technologies. In 2025, leveraging its mature product matrix, the Company successfully established replicable benchmark standards across multiple application scenarios.
City Management and Administration: As a leading solution provider in the smart government sector in China, the Company’s business has covered more than 130 prefecture-level cities. The “Smart Government Agent” deeply integrates the capacities of large language models, enabling more intelligent and automated government services with standardized and intelligent applications in scenarios such as government hotlines and city governance.
Automotive and Transportation: The Company successfully established benchmark autonomous driving projects in cities such as Mianyang, Zibo, and Ezhou, building a successful and replicable “Smart Transportation Agent” solution. For the Mianyang Science and Technology New City project, a total of 96 autonomous vehicles have been deployed, and the project was successfully selected as a National AI Application Pilot Testing Base in the transportation sector. In January 2026, the Company newly won the bid for the “Ezhou Huahu Airport Smart Port” autonomous driving bus procurement and operation project, further expanding its application boundaries.
Healthcare: In January 2026, the Company successfully won the bid for the “Chuannan Smart Valley AI Vertical Large Model Innovation Platform – Silver Economy Construction and Operation Project” in Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, with a total contract value of nearly RMB300 million. This project represents the Company’s first “AI + Elderly Care” city-level benchmark demonstration project. It adopts a closed-loop collaborative model of “online platform + offline service network + home terminals,” integrating Agents capabilities with the Company’s “vertical small model microservices” system in areas such as Health Early Warning, Cognitive Ability Assessment, and emotional companionship into a productized solution, thereby establishing rapidly replicable city-level smart elderly care operational benchmark.
Telecommunications, Finance, and Energy Management: The Company continues to deepen collaborations with leading enterprises in the telecommunications and finance sectors, leveraging the “Telecommunication Service Agent” and “Financial Service Agent” to enhance service efficiency and user service value. Meanwhile, its AI-powered smart charging solution has been progressively integrating charging pile networks in China and across several Southeast Asian countries.
Benefiting from the successful implementation of the Company’s productization strategy and the high level of market recognition for its trustworthy Agent solutions, as of December 31, 2025, the Group’s project pipeline and orders in hand saw significant growth. The number of ongoing projects at year-end increased to 320, representing a year-on-year increase of 41.6%, while the outstanding contract sum at year-end rose to RMB1,048.9 million, a year-on-year increase of 57.4%, reflecting the continued expansion of the Company’s business.
Future Outlook: Focusing on the Trustworthy Agents Ecosystem with Four Strategic Priorities
Looking ahead, the Company will firmly focus on its goal of “building a trustworthy conversational AI ecosystem” and will advance the following strategic priorities:
Overall and Technology Strategy: Continue to focus on R&D and innovation in frontier technologies such as multi-modal fusion and trustworthy intelligence, promoting the deployment of trustworthy agents across more application scenarios. By creating open technology platforms and standards, the Company will attract more developers and partners to jointly build a prosperous and win-win industrial ecosystem.
Market Strategy: Establish benchmarks for quality and innovation within the industry and deepening partnerships with various service channels. At the same time, the Company will actively expand into the C-end market, extending cutting-edge technologies to a wider user base, thereby expanding the influence and commercial value of the ecosystem.
Regional Strategy: Domestically, the Company will continue to deepen its partnerships with major cooperating cities to create smart city benchmark cases. Internationally, the Company will actively respond to the “Belt and Road” initiative, grasp the tremendous potential of emerging markets, and promote the Company’s trustworthy Agent products and services globally to enhance its international brand image.
Investment Strategy: Through prudent strategic investments and M&A, the Company will optimize the layout of the upstream and downstream industry chains and consolidate the stability and competitiveness of the ecosystem.
DR.Tang Jinghua, Chairman ofVoicecomm Technology Co., Ltd., said: ” 2025 was a landmark year for Voicecomm Technology. We not only achieved a strong turnaround in operating cash flow and a steady increase in gross profit margin financially, but we also completed a strategic leap at the technological and business level towards becoming a ‘a core technology provider and ecosystem operator of trustworthy conversational AI.’ We deeply understand that the essence of enterprise-grade AI lies in creating replicable and reliable products and technology foundations. During the year, we significantly increased R&D investment and successfully applied our trustworthy Agents across six core scenarios, particularly in city-level benchmark projects in emerging fields like smart elderly care, showing the strong competitiveness of our productization strategy. Looking to the future, we will continue to pursue the goal of ‘building a trustworthy conversational AI ecosystem,’ leveraging an open platform to gather ecosystem partners and empowering diverse industries with innovative technology, thereby creating long-term sustainable value for our shareholders and society. ”
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Voicecomm Technology Co., Ltd.
Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Wuhan, Voicecomm Technology is one of the leading core technology providers and ecosystem operators of trustworthy conversational AI listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and obtained the qualification as National-level SRDI, Technology Little Giant and High-Tech Enterprise. Leveraging its proprietary trustworthy Agent,the Company overcomes pain points in the commercialization of large language models, such as hallucinations and compliance issues, ensuring AI is usable, manageable, and controllable in enterprise environments. For enterprise-level customers, the Company provides AI services covering the entire process of “communication –decision – execution”. Its trustworthy Agent solutions have been widely deployed across multiple scenarios, including City management and administration, Automotive and transportation, Telecommunications, Finance, Healthcare, and Energy management, and it is dedicated to empowering the intelligent transformation of diverse industries.
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Bassoon & Baton — French May Arts Festival 2026
City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 27 March 2026 – On 21 April 2026 at Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, 8:00pm, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong (CCOHK) presents Bassoon & Baton, a rare showcase of the bassoon’s lyrical voice and virtuosic brilliance. Held as part of the French May Arts Festival 2026, the programme features the Hong Kong debut of Sophie Dervaux, the internationally acclaimed French bassoonist and principal bassoonist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. She performs bassoon concertos by Vivaldi, Mozart and Hummel and takes up the baton to conduct orchestral works by French composers Lully, Guy Ropartz and Gossec, thereby highlighting her dual artistry as both soloist and conductor.
City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
Bassoon & Baton — French May Arts Festival 2026
Sophie Dervaux bassoon/guest conductor
21 APR 2026 (Tue)
Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, 8:00pm
PROGRAMME
Lully I Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turcs, LWV43
VivaldiI Concerto for Bassoon in G major, RV493
Guy Ropartz I Serenade for Strings
Mozart I Concerto for Bassoon in B-flat major, K.191
GossecI Symphony in C minor Op. 6 No. 3, RH24
Hummel I Grand Concerto in F major, S.63, WoO.23
Sophie Dervaux will also contribute to community activities in Hong Kong by holding two Bassoon masterclasses open to the public. On 18 April 2026, 10:30am–1:00pm, at Sing Music Academy, Room 901, On Lok Yuen Building 25-27A Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong, and on 19 April 2026, 2:30pm–5:00pm, at CR2, 7/F Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall Backstage.
Sophie Dervaux’s outstanding career as a solo bassoonist, orchestral musician, conductor and recording artist includes her engagements with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (since 2015), the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a prize-winner of the prestigious ARD International Music Competition Munich (2013) and the Beethoven Ring Bonn (2014). Born in France, Sophie Dervaux studied at the Music Conservatory of Versailles, the Conservatoire de Paris in Lyon, the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and at the Karajan Academy. She has performed at the Philharmonie de Paris, Berlin Philharmonie, Suntory Hall Tokyo, New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall in London. Her solo engagements include the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. On CD she has collaborated with Daniel Barenboim and Emmanuel Pahud. In 2021 she received the German Record Critics’ Award for her debut solo album on the Berlin Classics label. She is currently working on a project to record all 39 of Vivaldi’s bassoon concertos with La Folia Barockorchester. In addition to performing, Sophie Dervaux works internationally as a guest conductor and has appeared with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Ensemble Kanazawa, the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul. She teaches bassoon at the Music and Arts University of The City of Vienna and plays on a Püchner bassoon.
Tickets priced at $450, $300 and $220 (with50% off for full-time students, senior citizens, Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients, people with disabilities and their accompanying minder), are available from all URBTIX outlets. For internet booking, visit www.urbtix.hk; for programme or other enquiries, call 2864 2156 or email in**@***hk.com.
BASSOON MASTERCLASS by SOPHIE DERVAUX
18 Apr (Sat) 10:30am-1:00pm, Sing Music Academy, Room 901, On Lok Yuen Building, 25-27A Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong
19 Apr (Sun) 2:30pm-5:00pm, CR2, 7/F Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall Backstage
The masterclasses are open to observers at $100 per person.
Register Now (in**@***hk.com/2864 2156)
PHOTOS Link to: Sophie Dervaux
MEDIA ENQUIRIES (including artist interviews/photos): in**@***hk.com/2864 2154
WEBSITE:www.ccohk.com
Hashtag: #CityChamberOrchestraofHongKong #Bassoon&Baton
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City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong (CCOHK) holds a unique position as one of Asia’s leading chamber orchestras. Founded by oboist Leanne Nicholls in 1999, CCOHK has performed with many of the world’s most celebrated artists and composers including Sir James Galway, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Dame Emma Kirkby, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Neville Marriner, Michala Petri, Christian Lindberg, Sarah Chang, Julian Lloyd Webber, Barry Douglas, Edgar Meyer, Branford Marsalis, Sir Karl Jenkins, Ney Rosauro, Richard Galliano and Alma Deutscher. The orchestra has also collaborated with celebrities including Dame Edna Everage, Hayley Westenra, Richard Clayderman, Robin Gibb and Canto-pop stars Sandy Lam, Hacken Lee, Hins Cheung, Ivana Wong and Jacky Cheung. Additional highlights include concerts with the Vienna Boys’ Choir, the Warsaw Boys’ Choir, The American Boychoir, the Swedish Voices Chamber Choir, the King’s Singers and The Swingle Singers. CCOHK’s progressive programming has been internationally recognized with tour invitations to festivals in London, L’Aquila, Taipei, Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai. At home CCOHK has performed for French May Arts Festival, Hong Kong Ballet, RTHK’s televised Christmas Concerts in the Park, the 2017 World Harp Congress, The Hong Kong Composers’ Guild and The Hong Kong International Piano Competition. Cinema and anime performances include Howard Blake’s The Snowman & The Bear, the Harry Potter series, Final Fantasy, Attack on Titan and One Piece Music Symphony. CCOHK is also a keen supporter of contemporary music and has commissioned works by Mao Yuan, Samson Young, Joyce Tang, Dobrinka Tabakova and Richard Harvey. The orchestra’s CDs include world premiere recordings on the NAXOS, Orchid Classics and OUR Recordings labels with Michala Petri, Dame Evelyn Glennie and bandoneón/piano duo Binelli-Ferman. CCOHK’s passion for building young audiences for music has inspired the creation of several award-winning productions and musicals. Credits include Magnificent Mozart, The Star Bach, The Bonn Man, Haydn & The Prince, Bug Symphony (winner of the Public Choice Award at the YAMawards in Portugal 2017), WILD (The Musical) (winner of the Public Choice Award at the YAMawards in Belgium 2022) and Shark Symphony. In 2023 CCOHK garnered five-star reviews for the London premiere of WILD (The Musical), and in the same year was voted into RTHK Radio 4’s Top Ten Music Headlines. Armenian French piano virtuoso Vahan Mardirossian serves as chief conductor (since 2019), succeeding French conductor Jean Thorel (2008 to 2016). CCOHK is currently a Venue Partner of Tsuen Wan Town Hall (since 2026) and the recipient of HKADC’s Eminent Arts Group Scheme (since 2024).
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Innomotics is market leader for turbine replacement technology
- Innomotics wins several orders to provide motor and drive technology for turbine replacement projects, totaling a volume in the higher double-digit million EUR range
- Environmental, operational and financial benefits for many industries and industrial applications
- Geographic diversity underlines market potential
NUREMBERG, GERMANY – Newsaktuell – 26 March 2026 – Innomotics, a globally leading supplier of electric motor and large drive systems, has won several major orders for turbine replacement projects on nearly every continent. The total volume for all orders is in the higher double-digit million EUR range.
With increased electrification of industrial applications, significant operational cost efficiency and CO₂ reduction can be gained by changing existing turbines with an electric drive system, the so-called Turbine Replacement Technology. This can be used for high-speed pump applications (centrifugal pumps) as well as for high-power compressor systems in refineries, petrochemicals, or oil and gas.
Especially the need for supplying large-scale turbine driven boiler feed pump applications in power plants with high voltage motors becomes increasingly important, as it significantly saves energy consumption, CO₂ and operational costs.
The transition to electric drive technology for rotating equipment is an important part of the overall plant electrification and decarbonization pathway, reducing the use of costly and environmentally harmful carbon fuels.
By sourcing the power from a renewable source such as wind, solar or hydro, CO₂ emissions can be practically eliminated. This is especially relevant for energy-intensive industries and industrial applications. Beyond ecological aspects, the use of high-speed motor systems offers significant benefits to customers, such as increasing efficiency, reducing operational costs and maintenance requirements as well as easy construction and start-up.
“Replacing existing gas and steam turbines with electrical motor and drive systems is a complex task. Thanks to our highly motivated and skilled team, Innomotics is thought leader and pace setter for turbine replacement technology for more than 25 years now and with more than 70 Turbine Replacement projects globally realized. Our outstanding portfolio sets standards: The reliability and availability of our advanced High-speed High Voltage Motor system technology is unrivaled in the field, due to our unique rotor design. Additionally, our Medium Voltage Drive technology includes extended redundancy measures such as cell by-pass systems for maximum uptime”, says Michael Reichle, CEO of Innomotics.
Operators of turbine-driven systems currently face high operational costs, which can be significantly reduced or even eliminated through turbine replacement technology. For example, in a project with Repsol in Spain, Innomotics helped avoid 68,000 tons of CO₂ emissions per year and reduce energy consumption by around 25 percent.
Recently awarded Turbine Replacement Projects
Electric Drive Upgrade for INA Refinery in Croatia:
INA is modernizing its refinery in Rijeka to improve efficiency and reduce emissions. As part of this transformation, steam turbines used to operate compressors are being replaced with electric drive systems. This reduces reliance on fossil fuels, lowers maintenance requirements, and increases overall energy efficiency.
To implement this upgrade within an operating refinery, INA partnered with Innomotics and Siemens Energy. The project includes four electric drive train systems, combining HV and HS-Modyn motors ranging from 1.8 MW to 6 MW with Innomotics Perfect Harmony GH180 variable frequency drives.
The solution ensures high reliability through redundant system design and enables fast installation on existing foundations with minimal construction effort. As a result, INA reduced significantly CO₂ emissions by 96,000 tons, reduced operating costs, total high-pressure steam production reduced by around 25%, and improved availability.
Turbine Replacement Technology for Repsol Industrial Complex in Spain:
Repsol has electrified a gas compressor at its Puertollano Industrial Complex by replacing a steam turbine with an electric motor solution from Innomotics. This upgrade improves energy efficiency by 25 percent and reduces CO₂ emissions by approximately 68,000 tons per year. The solution includes a High Voltage Motor combined with a Perfect Harmony GH180 Medium Voltage Drive, delivering 8.25 MW at 5,800 rpm. Designed for high reliability and continuous operation, the system enables maintenance intervals of up to five years. With this electrification project, Repsol strengthens its commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 while significantly improving operational efficiency and system availability.
Turbine Replacement Technology for Chemicals Park in the Netherlands:
The owner and operator of a chemicals park in the Netherlands aims to accelerate the energy transition of the Dutch chemical industry. One of their three major goals is to achieve net zero emissions within ten years. Therefore, Innomotics was awarded for a turbine replacement project in a propylene plant. The order amounts a considerable value for Innomotics and includes a 25MW as well as an 8.6MW high-speed induction motor together with two Innomotics Medium Voltage GH150 drives. The order also includes comprehensive services.
Turbine Replacement Technology for Power Plants in Republic of Korea:
A Korean energy producer and provider awarded Innomotics an order to replace the previous turbine technology with a 12.5MW electric Innomotics High-speed High Voltage Motor and Medium Voltage Drives. With that replacement the company benefits from higher energy efficiency of at least 20 percent and the associated energy savings as well as reduced CO₂ emissions. The Innomotics solution therefore contributes directly to the customer’s net zero carbon strategy. The parallel operation of three Medium Voltage Drives ensures a particularly uninterrupted and stable power supply.
Turbine Replacement for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Spain:
At the top of its agenda, a German chemicals and plastics giant, has placed the motto: “Net Zero Emissions by 2050”. One measure the company takes accordingly is replacing steam production at co-generation plants with heat pumps and e-driven compressors. Therefore, the Spanish site, has started a turbine replacement project in their propylene production at a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant. The order for Innomotics amounts to a double digit million Euros and includes a 23.3MW High-speed High Voltage induction motor, together with a Medium Voltage Drives and a converter transformer.
Turbine Replacement for Indian natural gas company:
Furthermore, Innomotics has won a pilot order to replace one out of eight installed gas turbines for a state-owned energy corporation in the state of Madhya Pradesh (India). This order creates a new benchmark in the gas turbine replacement market to the extent that the proposed solution will consist of an Innomotics High Voltage HV-M Motor, together with a gearbox and an Innomotics Medium Voltage Drive instead of a High-speed High Voltage Motor system.
Additional Turbine Replacement materials:
Whitepaper on Turbine Replacement
Expert Video concerning Turbine Replacement
Operational savings calculator, reference projects and success stories
Podcast episode on Spotify
Explore the 3D visualization in our virtual world: Innomotics Electrosphere
For more information, visit https://www.innomotics.com/hub/en/applications/turbine-replacement
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