CTBUH Silver Member

VS-A Group

About

Member Since: 2019

Member Offices: Hong Kong

Website: http://www.vs-a.group

VS-A group has 4 companies specialized in building envelope design. It started 30 years ago in France, and created HK office in 2011, Korean office in 2013 and Shenzhen office in 2018. VS-A has worked on more than 700 projects all over the world, and collaborated with more than 200 Architects.

Their scope of work covers not only glazed curtain-walls, but includes also single windows, rain-screens, internal and external solar shadings, double-skin facades, building maintenance units… and finally all items that qualify architecturally and technically the complex relation between interior and exterior.

VS-A work as designers, able to interact with Architects, Developers and Contractors on all kinds of programs and building types: office buildings, luxury retail, residential, hotels, cultural centers, sport centers, car-parks and transport hubs, factories.

On any of these projects, which can be appointed by Architects and developers from competition stage till final completion of the work; VS-A is experts and also sometimes appointed as jury member, conference speaker, norm-writer, product-designer.

Their engineering consultancy works in the sphere of building and, more particularly, in that of the development of façades and lightweight coverings forming their outer structures. The point at which many architectural ambitions coalesce, the outer structure, is no less subject to regulatory and economic constraints and has to meet increasing demands in terms of performance. These generally relate to comfort, energy supplies and safety.

Bridging the gap between architectural and technical considerations enables the configuration of structural details consistent with architectural concepts and sometimes vice-versa. Such developments involve much to-ing and fro-ing and cooperation between all stakeholders, including the main contractor and the inspection bureau (where appropriate). This sometimes involves requirements for current products perhaps slightly diverted from their original function, or the development of specific customized products using appropriate digital modelling tools or scale models.

Although they know them well, they set requirements completely independently of any supplier or contractor. In particular they have developed a method of performance specification and graphic representation based on type, architectural constraints, limits of services and, if necessary, specify without ambiguity the opportunities for contractors to come with their own technology or expertise.

The projects in which they have been invited to participate share a common ambition of having an outer structure which, deliberately or due to circumstance, is out of the ordinary. The nature, size and location on the one hand, the personality of all the stakeholders on the other hand, render each project unique and each of their proposals special.

Fields of Expertise

Structural Engineering

Buildings

RANK
Name
Height
1 Fangda Building

264 m / 867 ft

2 The Link

229 m / 750 ft

3 Tour Odeon

170 m / 558 ft

4 Vanke Jierong Tower

161 m / 530 ft

5 Coeur Defense

161 m / 528 ft

6 Guoyin Minsheng Financial Building 1

160 m / 524 ft

7 Occitanie Tower

150 m / 492 ft

8 Xinhu Hangzhou Tower 3

143 m / 470 ft

9 Tour CMA-CGM

143 m / 469 ft

10 Casablanca Finance City Tower

136 m / 446 ft

RANK
Name
Height
1 Fangda Building

264 m / 867 ft

2 The Link

229 m / 750 ft

3 Tour Odeon

170 m / 558 ft

4 Vanke Jierong Tower

161 m / 530 ft

5 Coeur Defense

161 m / 528 ft

6 Guoyin Minsheng Financial Building 1

160 m / 524 ft

7 Occitanie Tower

150 m / 492 ft

8 Xinhu Hangzhou Tower 3

143 m / 470 ft

9 Tour CMA-CGM

143 m / 469 ft

10 Casablanca Finance City Tower

136 m / 446 ft

11 Dacheng Fund Headquarter Building

130 m / 427 ft

12 Gionee Group Headquarters

110 m / 361 ft

13 Guoyin Minsheng Financial Building 2

109 m / 359 ft

14 Xinhu Hangzhou Prism

106 m / 349 ft

15 39 King's Road

102 m / 333 ft

16 TID Tower

85 m / 279 ft

17 Higher Roch

57 m / 187 ft

18 Bao’an Art and Culture Centre

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19 Yuehai Community Sport and Cultural Center

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