Hong Kong Cyberport has just received the internationally acclaimed Intelligent Building of theYear Awanetrd 2004 from the Intelligent Community Forum.

Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited, the managementcompany of Hong Kong Cyberport, announced Saturday that the project won the "Intelligent Building of the Year" award at the Intelligent Communities Conference and Awards 2004 held in New York City, United States, on Friday.

The award is given to commercial buildings that have used broadband and information systems technology to add demonstrable value in the form of advanced services and merits to its tenants.

"I am extremely pleased to see Cyberport winning this prestigious award," said Nicholas Yang, chief executive officer of the company. "New technologies are vital tools in our society today to improve our productivity and quality of life. We must notforget, however, that technologies only facilitate the value creation and acceleration process," Yang said.

He believed that cyberport is a platform which focuses on creating value out of technologies. Its ideal tenants are in the content creation and management business that would use Cyberport as the delivery platform to grow their business.

Cyberport -- Hong Kong's IT flagship, is a 2 billion US dollar landmark project managed by Hong Kong Cyberport Management CompanyLimited and wholly owned by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government.

The project is being developed on a 24-hectare site at Telegraph Bay in the southern district of Hong Kong Island. It comprises four office buildings, a five-star hotel, a retail entertainment complex and a deluxe residential development, aimingat attracting more than 100 IT companies and over 10,000 IT professionals.

The project is being completed in phases from mid-2002 to 2007.

Source: Xinhua