About us
We are at the forefront of urban change, development and design,
anticipating tomorrow’s needs in today’s strategies - worldwide.
We provide strategic services in urban design and development,
climate change and sustainability. It gives advanced
architectural advice.
We focus on urban renewable energy and water sensitive design. It
works for design sustainability in ways that meet all community
needs.
We have three decades of experience in urban design. We provide
advice to national, state and local governments, companies and
individuals.
Peter Droege, Director
Senior Advisor, Beijing Municipal Institute for City Planning and
Design
Steering Committee member, Urban Climate Change Research Network
(UCCRN)
Conjoint Professor, School of Architecture and Built Environment,
University of Newcastle
Chair, World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) Asia Pacific
CV Summary
Professor Peter Droege has twenty-five years of experience in the
practice, teaching and research of urban planning and design,
working with government, industry and universities. He is also an
author and public speaker on urban design, sustainable development
and urban environment policies. Over the past two decades, he has
developed a special focus on the urban design and planning aspects
of major infrastructure changes, in energy and information
technology. He is the author of the recent book on transforming
the urban energy system from fossil to renewable, The Renewable
City.
Academic career. Peter Droege's academic experience stretches from
the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1976 and 1990, to his 1992/3
position at the University of Tokyo as Urban Development
Engineering Endowed Chair holder, and his appointment as Lend
Lease Chair and Professor of Urban Design at the University of
Sydney in March 1993. He now holds a Conjoint Professorship with
the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University
of Newcastle.
Australian activities. Peter Droege's main professional and
academic focus is the design, advice on and assessment of major
architectural, civic and urban design and development policies,
programs and projects. He has inaugurated and chaired the Urban
Design Chapters of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) at
both the national and New South Wales state levels. He worked for
the national as well as New South Wales and Victorian state
governments on the policy and assessment of development, and has
reviewed, evaluated and advised on a large number of staged bids,
development proposals and urban design projects, along with
academically based efforts. Australian public entities served
include a number of local governments, Melbourne Docklands
Authority and VicUrban, City West Development Corporation and
Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, the Australian Technology
Park, Landcom, PlanningNSW/Department of Infrastructure, Planning
and Natural Resources (DIPNR) and others. He frequently serves as
expert witness in the Land and Environment Court of New South
Wales.
Peter Droege was a key member of former Prime Minister Paul
Keating's Urban Design Task Force and served as an adviser to the
National Urban and Regional Development Review. Prior to this he
was urban form and concept design adviser to the initial studies
for the eco-industrial Japan-Australia joint new city development
initiative Multifunction Polis (MFP) planned at national level.
Internationally, Peter Droege's professional work is focused on
comprehensive and integrated approaches to urban design and
development on local, state and national government levels, with a
special emphasis on sustainable development, water and energy
aspects.
International public-sector work ranges from municipal-government
assignments such as his posting as senior resident urban design
advisor to the City of Amsterdam (1991-92), to advisory services
to Singapore's National Computer Board and urban development
aspects of its IT 2000 Plan, his prior public facility
programming, planning and design position with the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, to his role as leader of several United Nations
Development Programme missions, in Africa and the Middle East. He
also has held both managerial, executive and partner positions in
private design firms.
Peter Droege has been active in China for since 1985. In 2003 he
completed a media industry geared planning and design study for a
720 hectare site in inner Beijing, led international teams that
won first prizes for two development projects in Chongqing (2004),
first prize and the main commission in Ningbo's Cicheng new town
development (2003, 120,000 inhabitants) as well as the second
prize in the 1.200 hectare Beijing 2008 Olympic Master Plan
Competition (2002). He has recently completed two major new town
and foreshore planning schemes, one for a large inner city
riverfront area in Zhejiang Province's capital, and one for a
twelve-kilometre stretch of harbour area, for the fishing port of
Shipu (2004), and currently directs an international consortium
developing a broad regeneration plan of the ancient town of
Cicheng, Zhejiang Province.
Professor Droege is appointed as Advisor to the Beijing Municipal
Institute for City Planning and Design, since 2002. In 2005 he has
been invited to serve as Visiting Professor and Director, Centre
for Sustainable Urbanism, School of Landscape Architecture and
Planning, Beijing University.
From 1999 until 2002 he directed the research development program
'Solar City' under the auspices of the International Energy
Agency's Committee on Energy Research and Technology (CERT)
efforts. Since 2001 he serves as Chair of the World Council for
Renewable Energy, Asia Pacific.
Peter Droege has won several other urban design awards, including
Grand Prizes in international concept design competitions staged
in Japan: on information technology and urban change (1987), and
on ecologically sustainable design strategies for Sagami Bay, a
coastal region occupied by twelve cities and towns (1990). He was
the editor and leading author of a seminal book on IT,
telecommunications and urban form (Intelligent Environments ,
Elsevier 1997), and wrote the Renewable City (Wiley, 2006).
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