DPA Spotlighted as BCA Company of the Year, Takes Home Project of the Year

Presented on 4^th September in conjunction with the International Built Environment Week (IBEW) 2026, DP Architects (DPA) has been recognised as Company of the Year, with Outram Secondary School Sengkang Campus winning Project of the Year. Awarded by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), these achievements are testament to the practice’s continuous pursuit of purposeful design and architectural excellence.

Accorded Company of the Year, DPA’s multipronged approach to build a future-ready workforce is anchored by its people-first ethos and driven by a focused organisational vision that positions the practice in alignment with – and ahead of – broader shifts in the industry. With a forward-looking outlook on talent management, development and succession, DPA has put forth a suite of initiatives and schemes that prioritise the continued growth of its people, equipping employees to shape the future with purpose, innovation and collaboration. Continuously adapting to changes in the evolving Built Environment (BE) sector, DPA has also harnessed technology and AI as enablers of human judgement and creativity. Wielded as sector-specific tools to benefit and empower BE professionals, technology is thus framed as ‘augmenters’ for authentic and empathic designs. Committed to design for people and the planet, DP Architects is driven to shape a resilient, human-centred practice where purpose, talent and technology come together to create better-than-sustainable outcomes.

Attesting to this collective aspiration, Outram Secondary School Sengkang Campus has been awarded Project of the Year in the Institutional category as the first zero-energy government school in Singapore. Foregrounding architectural porosity for broader student and community engagement while providing flexible settings for learning, the design scheme is underpinned by a consciousness for the environment through the pivotal incorporation of landscape and sustainable systems. The environment is thus positioned as the ‘third teacher’, with landscape serving as a multifunctional system for eco-resilience and biodiversity. Actualised through a Common Data Environment on an analytics-driven platform with federated BIM, along with IoT-enabled environmental monitoring and real-time site analytics, the architectural scheme combines construction technology with a driven design intent to create a sustainable, holistic environment for teaching and learning.