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BIAD stands for the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd. BIAD is a large-scale state-owned architectural design and consulting institute established in 1949, the same year the PRC founded. Beijing Municipal People’s government funded and established this wholly state-owned company in accordance with Company Law and it is a first grade enterprise under the supervision and management of the Beijing Municipal People's Government State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

BIAD is a national high-tech enterprise, national residential industrialisation base, a design innovation centre in Beijing, an engineering and technological research centre of energy-efficient construction and renewable energy in Beijing, an engineering and technological research centre of architecture design and construction in Beijing, and a national engineering practice education centre approved by the Ministry of National Education, which is co-operated by Tsinghua University.

BIAD’s business scope:

• Urban Planning

• Investment Planning

• Large-scale Public Building Design

• Civil Architecture Design

• Interior Decoration Design

• Landscape Design

• Intelligent System Engineering Design for buildings

• Project Budget Establishment

• Weak Current Engineering

• Decoration engineering

• Project General Contracting

Currently, the Company has the following qualifications: Certified grade A of engineering design, urban planning and design, engineering consulting, engineering cost consulting, tourism planning and design, landscape engineering design, and environmental engineering (physics pollution control engineering).

Over the 65 years since its establishment, BIAD has devoted itself to architectural design services, and maintained good cooperative relationships with various countries’ distinguished design companies; the Company has committed itself to providing high quality design and gradually developed its key corporate concept –Architecture Serves Society, Design Creates Value, thus enjoying a good reputation in the industry, building up the design brand image of BIAD.

BIAD enjoys a broad client group, including national and local government agencies and public institutions at all levels, national and local state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises and joint ventures, etc.. The value of our designs is reflected in the success of the clients’ projects, and the Comapny’s designs extends all over the China and around the world, many of them became the landmarks in the countries and cities.

Over the years, BIAD has built up an outstanding design team with a large number of excellent architects and engineers specialized in various fields, including a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 9 national masters of Engineering Survey and Design, 73 experts who enjoy State Council special allowance,12 experts with outstanding contributions in Beijing, and 3 from Beijing Talents Project. Among the staff of more than 4,000, 620 possess senior professional certificates, 836 have registered certificates with the relevant qualifications, 36 are doctors, 995 masters, and 86 overseas returnees.

Up to now, BIAD has established 13 domestic branches and 14 wholly-owned or holding companies, 9 joint-stock companies nationwide, in addition, Tsinghua University, Central Academy of Fine Arts and other domestic renowned universities have joined hands with BIAD to develop their cooperative education.