Delegates from Fujian Province Visit ima

Newport Beach, CA, June 15, 2013 --(PR.com)-- As a part of ima’s Development Services, ima hosted an educational seminar for 23 Chinese Delegates at the request of Orange County’s Chief of Protocol Joanne Sokolski. The presentation introduced the Delegates to the current trends in principals of planning, (a) project vision, project best practices and approaches to development. It also included targeted market identification, the importance of sustainability, and concluded with ima’s experience on how foreign firms best collaborate with Chinese Design Institutions.

Senior Associate Glenn Ho led most of the presentation in Mandarin communicating principles that have helped ima be successful in China, specifically in Nansha, Shanghai, Shenyang, Hong Kong, Qionghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, and Pinggu. The Delegates came to ima from the Fujian Provincial and Municipal Governments and their Orange County stop included an opportunity to learn from ima’s Directors of International Development, Glenn Ho and Rob Moffat.ima creates exceptional spaces that give form and character to the landscape, providing distinctive artistry and economic value for their clients with Master Planning, Development Services and Landscape Architecture. They consult, collaborate, imagine and define a project’s scope and character – from retail and mixed-use destination to office developments and large scale master planning – to create exciting people-oriented environments. They have built their business on pushing the boundaries to create the right solution. They thrive in collaboration and believe that the right design is a balance between vision and reality. They strive to find this balance in a design that can transcend the value for their client to enrich the community experience.

To learn more, please visit the ima’s website at http://www.imadesign.com or contact Jason Gladding, Marketing Manager at jgladding@imadesign.com.