Australia’s outstanding developers will be honoured, together with the best in Asia, at the exclusive gala dinner of the PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards Grand Final to celebrate the best of the best in the Asian real estate sector in the past year. Presented by global brand Kohler, the 2019 PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards are the most respected and most sought-after real estate industry honours. The culminating event is part of the regional PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards programme established in 2005. With a professionally run judging system supervised by BDO, one of the world’s largest auditing and accountancy firms, the Asia Property Awards is the gold standard in real estate.
Over the past twenty plus years Luihas worked on a number of significantlandmark and award winning projects across Australia.During this time he has been responsible for the design, delivery and management of a number of building typologies including education, health, retail, commercial, and residential. In this capacity Lui has worked inall facets of the project development, from masterplanning, town planning, design to documentation and construction. This entails developinghand sketches and performance briefs at concept design, through to the management and delivery of production documentation, inclusive of performance specifications and glazing schedules to meet with the design intent, technical performance and budgetary constraints of the project.His experience has been at the forefront of glass, remedial, envelope development and sustainable solutions in the façade industry. With a background in Architecture, he has worked with façade fabricators, developing expertise in curtain wall design and façade structures. Tony has designed façades on prominent buildings in Australia,in collaboration with the world’s leading consultants. As Regional Manager for Western Australia has a key leadership role in interfacing with the design and construction teams, coordinating the requirements of the architectural, services, structural, acoustic and project brief requirements within the façade team. He also appreciates the project management systems and quality assurance system that are necessary for the delivery of large complex projects.A personal interest in creating sustainable outcomes for supporting the construction industry drives Lui, pushing the boundaries around how architects and builders deliver superior quality, buildability and efficiency of the architectural vision and design intent. Lui’s background as a Practice Director of an Architectural Practice, he also has a keen interest and appreciation of the architectural design, and enjoys working with designers to resolve complex geometries and developing systems that articulate design.Education and professional qualifications1991Registered Architect 1989Bachelor of Architecture, Curtin University, Perth1985Bachelor of Applied Science, Western Australian Institute of Technology, PerthProfessional History2013-PresentInhabit, Perth–Regional Manager Western Australian 2001-2013NHArchitecture, Melbourne - Practice Director1998-2001Daryl Jackson Architects, Melbourne – Project Architect1991-1998 Bollig Design Group, Perth – Architect1988 -1991Ministry of Housing and Construction, Melbourne – Graduate ArchitectSpecialist skills
Project Delivery and Administration of Large Complex Projects
Design Delivery / Lead Coordinator with Design Team
Project Management and QA Systems
Package Management between façade and other trades
Performance Specifications
Team Leader
Buildability and Onsite works
Nik Killis
Business Development, Property Digital Advisory Leader Australasia
With over 20 years in the built environment Australia, Asia and Middle East - spanning international aid, project management, architecture, engineering and advisory, Nik brings extensive experience across the built environment as well as a passion for office, apartments, precincts, mixed-use developments and workplace design. Nik has been committee member of the Property Council of Australia, helping to launch their renown industry mentoring program and future trends and innovations forum. Nik presently heads up new business development at global engineering and consulting firm Arup for the Building and Property sector in the Australasian region and leads Arup’s new digital advisory services – a rapidly growing area of the built environment encompassing user experience, technology and data driven design for clients and their developments.
Nickhas over ‘12 years’ experience in the Australian, European and Asia-pacific development and Investment property sector, with a strong background in institutional property including development management, valuations and the transaction management of large mix-use urban regeneration projects.Prior to joining Lendlease, Nick worked at DEXUS in Development and Investment role. Nick has been involved in large developments and transaction such as Euston Station, 20 Martin place, Melbourne Quarter, and Ryde Civic precinct, , RNA in Brisbane and Water Bank in Perth. More recently, leading a team to reimage the Strathfield Town Centre and transport interchange.
The 2019 PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards Grand Final gala dinner and awards presentation ceremony will be held at The Athenee Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Bangkok on Friday, 22 November 2019.
Tickets are made available on a first come, first served basis. Exclusive for finalists and event partners only.
More than 500 guests and VIPs from the most dynamic markets around Asia-Pacific attend the Grand Final ceremony, which is a collocated event of the two-day PropertyGuru Asia Real Estate Summit, both hosted in Bangkok, Thailand.
