Zhang Qingyu
Director, DP Urban
EVERY URBAN PLANNING PROJECT HAS ITS OWN UNIQUENESS. SUCCESSFUL PLANNING OF EACH PROJECT REQUIRES MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION AND INTEGRATION TO DELIVER CREATIVE, CONTEXT-SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS.
Qingyu has over 35 years of cross-disciplinary professional experience, from urban master planning, research to engineering design. He has led projects of various scales across multiple sectors locally and internationally. These countries include China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the UAE and Cameroon. Over the years, he has developed expertise in areas such as regional strategic and industry positioning studies, integrated park and township master planning and infrastructure engineering, port planning and design. His approach is one of multidisciplinary collaboration and integration, ensuring that the solutions formulated are both creative and context-specific.
Qingyu has overseen over 100 master planning projects, the most notable being the transport and logistics master plan for the China–Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity, one of the three flagship projects under the Singapore–China Government-to-Government initiative.
A registered Professional Engineer with Singapore’s Professional Engineers Board, Qingyu currently serves as an Expert Member of the China Guangdong–Guangxi Interprovincial Pilot Cooperation Zone Development Committee, the China Guangxi Qinzhou Port Logistics Development Strategy Committee, and a Principal Planning Consultant to the Ordos City People’s Government. Beyond his professional practice, he also actively contributes to the urban planning sector within the built environment industry and academia, through guest lectures, training programmes, seminars for urban planners and government agencies, and has published more than 20 journal papers on planning, infrastructure and development.
In recognition of his contributions, Qingyu has received various awards, such as the second prize for the Excellent Urban and Rural Planning Award organised by the Urban and Rural Planning Academy of Hunan Province in 2011, and the first prize for the Science and Technology Progress Award organised by the Ministry of Water Resources of China in 1997.