Founded in 1950, China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute Corp. Ltd (abbreviated as CSWADI officially) is one of China’s largest state-owned Class A architectural design corporations with longest history and fullest design disciplines. We are subordinate to China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC)-the No.9 on 2022 Fortune Global 500 list.
Grown more than 70 years since the incorporation, CSWADI has completed more than 10,000 engineering design works for projects covering all provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions in China and more than 20 countries and regions around the world. We are one of the independent concessionaires for international business and large-scale architectural design institutes engaged in abundant international design works. In recent years, CSWADI is leading China’s design enterprises in the business transformation, which converts separate and monotonous business operations into integrated brand operations serving complete development phases and whole-industry-chain, by adopting the strategy of benchmarking world-class enterprises & enhancing five specializations, upholding ‘professionality + management + investment’ development model, improving brand awareness by design, expanding business size by EPC contracting, increasing profits by investments.
As one of China’s top design & consultancy corporations, CSWADI’s board business scope covers both design & consultancy and building products industry chains, encompasses planning, architecture, municipal, urban, landscape, railway transportation, façade, interior, complex structure, urban-rural infrastructure with other disciplines, along with complete development phase consultancy, EPC contracting, investment, operation, building industrialization and other services. In recent years, CSWADI has been awarded numerous honorary titles including ‘Outstanding Organization of Central State-owned Enterprises’, ‘National Excellent Enterprise of Engineering Quality Management’, ‘China’s Top Ten Architectural Design Company’, ‘China’s Most Valuable Brand of Design Organization’, ‘National May 1 Labor Certificate of Merit’, ‘China’s Top One Hundred Survey and Design Enterprise’.
CSWADI is committed to implement national strategy of regional development and advancing its regional distribution in recent years. At present, 22 branches have been incorporated in Chongqing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Xizang, Guangdong, Henan, Anhui, Hunan, Yunnan, Fujian, Guizhou, Xiongan, Beijing, Shandong, Hainan, Suzhou and other regions.
Carrying ‘extend the space of happiness’ as its corporate mission, CSWADI stays committed to the purpose of boosting architectural creation, updates design concepts constantly, makes an all-out effort to create architectural design masterpieces, and has been awarded more than 1,900 national, ministerial, provincial awards for engineering design and scientific research, 5 Gold / 4 Silver / 5 Bronze National Excellent Design Awards, along with 1 Gold Key/ 1 Silver Key/ 5 Bronze Keys Awards for Excellent EPC Contracting. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, CSWADI has won 2 First Class / 1 Second Class State Science and Technology Progress Awards, more than 60 provincial, ministerial awards and awards from prominent associations and academic societies for the achievement of science and technology progress. (Data as of February 2023)