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The Lab (Asia) Limited

Professional Services | Infrastructure and Real Estate-Related Services

Company Profile

The Lab (Asia) Limited (The Lab) is a fully independent materials testing, inspection and consulting organization serving the construction, civil engineering, highways, airports and associated industries. Headquartered in Hong Kong with offices and laboratories in Macau and Zhuhai, The Lab has a comprehensive scope of laboratory and site testing operations, as well as materials inspection, investigation and consultancy services. In 2021, The Lab became a wholly owned subsidiary of SGS Group, the world’s leading Testing, Inspection, and Certification company, to support major infrastructure projects in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.

Building material testing
The Lab conducts testing services to most international test standards, such as accredited by the Hong Kong Accreditation Service under the HOKLAS scheme. We test:

Concrete
Asphalt
Cement
Aggregate
Admixture
PFA
Steel reinforcement
Soil and rock
Pipes and fittings

Airport Onsite Labs
The Lab has contributed to various infrastructure projects both in the public and private sectors including dedicated testing and inspection services for the Hong Kong Airport Authority. As one of the contracted licensees supporting the construction of the third runway, we established one of the largest onsite labs for the construction sector, employing over 300 experts. The project has created opportunities and competence for further expansion into the Mainland China infrastructure market and beyond.

Innovation
The Lab commits to innovation and adopting new processes with Robotic Arms deployed in our testing processes since 2023 to enhance process efficiency. In addition to automatic robotic processes, we now also include IoT monitoring services as part of our overall service to serve our clients’ dynamic needs. The Lab offers various IoT solutions for monitoring site environment, concrete conditions, and structural integrity that can be customized to clients’ specific alert levels. Our technical expertise and know-how enable our clients to remotely monitor onsite parameters in real-time in a safer, faster, and more reliable way.

P A L Design Consultants Limited

Infrastructure and Real Estate-Related Services

Company Profile

Project Experience

3 projects

Company Profile

Founded in 1994 by Dr. Patrick Leung, is an international interior design company providing design consultancy services in diverse scales including hospitality, corporate office, commercial, sales office, clubhouse, show flat, kid space, and residential sectors with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. P A L is dedicated to creating a unique, artistic perspective and timeless sensibility with value through design. For more than 27 years we collaborated with internationally renowned properties including Vanke, Sunac, Evergrande, Gemdale, Wanda, China Resources, China Overseas, Shimao, New World Development, CK Asset, Sun Hung Kai, Hang Lung, and K. Wah Group to create luxury projects in various series. Our design across South Asia, the U.S., Australia, and Mainland China. P A L has won over 200 international awards including FRAME Awards, Andrew Martin Interior Design Award, IFI Distinction Design Awards, Interior Design Best of Year Awards, IIDA Global Excellence Awards, and INSIDE Awards. Dr. Patrick Leung was honored DDF China Design Contribution Award, Design Honor Master of Shenzhen Engineering Design & Geo-technique Investigation, Hall of Fame by Interior Design Magazine, and he was named Top 50 Interior Designers of the World, Most Influential Designer in China, Leaders of Chinese Design Celebrity, Artist of Life by China Crystal Kylin Awards, can be said to be an influential figure in the Asian design industry.

Project Experience

Chinese Mainland

Interior Design

Southeast Asia

Interior Design

Australasia

Interior Design

Robert Bird Group Hong Kong Limited

Infrastructure and Real Estate-Related Services

Company Profile

Established in 1982, Robert Bird Group is a global consulting engineering firm with over 700 staff across ten offices. A member of the Surbana Jurong Group, we are committed to delivering each client’s vision through the relentless pursuit of engineering excellence across all projects. We offer consulting engineering services across five disciplines, drawing upon our international expertise:

Structural engineering
Civil engineering
Construction engineering
Geotechnical engineering (UK & MENA)
Virtual Design & Construction (VDC)

These services are offered either separately or combined to suit each client’s precise needs and for projects of all types and size within most building and infrastructure sectors. We seek to communicate early design thoughts that engage with the client design team and project priorities. At RBG we believe passionately in integrating engineering design excellence with construction and delivery expertise to achieve significant benefits for our client, notably those related to cost, programme and risk. Globally collaborating to address projects at a local level, we can quickly assemble teams of engineering and related professionals from our offices worldwide. Committed to continual improvement, we can be relied upon to suggest alternatives to commonly accepted practices. Our ability to fully understand the perspective of the client, the architect and all involved in the project team has resulted in award-winning designs and projects. To this end, we are early adopters of new technology, whether it be for engineering analysis, design, documentation, or communication. For the client, it is an inspiring combination of reliable experience and unexpected passion.

DYXnet

Telecommunications and ICT Services

Company Profile

We believe technology is the key to unlock new possibilities and opportunities for businesses. Since our founding in 1999, DYXnet has empowered enterprises to drive business growth with ICT innovations. We are committed to provide solutions for our customers through disruptive technologies and services including enterprise network solutions like MPLS and SD-WAN, cloud solutions and data centre services. We strive to strengthen our dominant position in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region. Among the first ICT service providers in the region to have obtained ISO certifications including ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 20000 1, and ISO 9001, we are also one of the first official members of the China Cross border Data Telecommunications Industry Alliance and one of the first SD WAN service standard drafting units. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of 21Vianet Group, (NASDAQ: VNET), a Greater China’s leading carrier- and cloud-neutral Internet data center services provider, we work towards a common goal of delivering innovative solutions with the foresight to identify the evolving needs of our customers and communities. The group went further by forming a new sub-brand “NEOLINK” in April 2021, which integrated its New Retailing Unit with DYXnet in providing a suite of diverse solutions for customers in achieving full-cycle digital transformation.

Hong Kong is home to a plethora of branding and design firms. Many offer their creative services not only to local companies but also overseas clients who appreciate Hong Kong designers’ international perspectives and distinct flair for the latest trends. And as Belt and Road development continues around the world, businesses in Belt and Road countries that want to spruce up their image are more motivated to seek help from branding and design experts in Hong Kong, a city that plays the role of a “facilitator” in the Initiative.

MAN GREY Branding and Design Consultancy is one beneficiary of this trend. Founded in Hong Kong, the company provides a broad range of creative services, including graphics and identity, digital experiences, photography, script writing and video production. It also specialises in the branding and design of tender submissions and business-to-business presentations. With more than 20 years’ industry experience, MAN GREY has a proven track record in project tenders in countries along the Belt and Road, from Singapore to Mongolia. With a solid reputation and broad international outlook, the firm has found itself in even greater demand in Asia in the last few years, as Belt and Road development gains momentum in the region.

MAN GREY recently completed a branding and design project in Singapore, a country that has been China’s largest foreign investment destination among Belt and Road economies since the Initiative was launched in 2013. The consultancy firm’s design team was able to make good use of their creativity, attention to detail and ability to deal with specific cultural aspects to the client’s satisfaction.

The client was Sembawang Engineers and Constructors, a subsidiary of Indian engineering and construction group Punj Lloyd. It was not the first time MAN GREY worked with a Singaporean company. A few years previously, for example, it took on a two-year-long project for the iconic colonial-style Raffles Hotel. In the process, it established a good reputation for itself and also a business network in the city state. That gave MAN GREY somewhat of a “first-mover advantage” in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative.

In the Sembawang project, the Hong Kong company, which has many years’ experience in large-scale construction and infrastructure projects, was tasked with developing corporate branding and defining Sembawang’s commitment to innovation and technology. The scope of work included a TV commercial aired on BBC World News and Bloomberg Asia Pacific, corporate videos, photography, brochures and online content development. The MAN GREY team drew on their broad perspectives and understanding of cultural nuances to effectively get Sembawang’s message across to audience at home and abroad.

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MAN GREY took on a branding and design project for Singapore’s Sembawang Engineers and Constructors

One task that demanded a particularly great deal of effort was to highlight Sembawang’s achievement of building a metro line in Singapore, known in the railway industry as one of the world’s most challenging projects of its kind. According to Tom Grey, Founder of MAN GREY, “these engineering achievements are often overlooked and unknown to the public”, and the challenge was to convey the subterranean complication of constructing the 3.4 kilometres of tunnels and architectural and building services for five metro stations. To tell the story effectively to the public, MAN GREY authored, designed and published a nifty special edition book that clearly laid out facts on and pictures of the metro line. On the whole, the branding and marketing materials of the project, according to Grey, won positive feedback from stakeholders, engineers, government departments and Singapore’s Land Transport Authority.

Closer to home, MAN GREY was behind a large-scale, multifaceted design project commissioned by Wynn Palace, a luxury hotel in Macao. The project, which was aimed at chronicling the building of the US$4.4 billion Wynn Palace, involved the design of three entities: an on-site visitor centre, an image library and a 180-page project book. The scope of work for MAN GREY was wide-ranging, from designing banners to creating time-lapse movies to interior design of the visitor centre. The project took 30 months to complete. Grey said the client was proud to be able to share with stakeholders the diverse construction activities, from the detailed fitting out of the hotel rooms to the complications of the performance lake and its gondolas.

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MAN GREY was commissioned by Macao’s Wynn Palace to create interior design for a visitor centre

“When we work with a client for the first time, they often comment at the end that we have made what set out to be a complicated process into a painless and enjoyable one for them, which is a great compliment,” Tom Grey said.

Working with clients from different industries and cultures can be challenging, not least because of the needs to navigate cross-cultural interactions and different mentalities. But Grey believes his team thrives in diversity and has the “agility to overcome challenges and grasp opportunities presented by different environments”. This stands the design firm in good stead in terms of landing jobs in Belt and Road countries, especially projects related to infrastructure.

“We have been involved in many engineering and construction projects in Hong Kong as a consequence of our modern city’s need for clean water, waste treatment, infrastructure and housing,” Tom Grey explained. “Developing countries are faced with similar challenges and we can help companies promote their presence in new markets brought about by the Belt and Road Initiative.”

Hong Kong’s advantages are also a boon for creative service providers, according to Grey. “Hong Kong is a vibrant international city with a strong work ethic and high-quality production facilities. And as a transport hub, it is well connected by air, sea and rail. These advantages complement our creatives services as we are able to respond efficiently to project requirements such as producing samples and prototypes.”

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Vellum Limited

Financial Services | Infrastructure and Real Estate-Related Services | Professional Services

Company Profile

Vellum Group is a boutique investment house which has obtained Financial Services License in Hong Kong and Australia respectively. Vellum is well-positioned to support global investors throughout one-stop and cross-border financial solutions starting from scratch endeavour the objective of capital maximisation, which gives more choice and opportunities to investors and industries among Mainland China, Hong Kong and Australia. Vellum focuses on direct real estate investments, cross-border capital management and bond issuance. Currently, Vellum is delivering a Residential Property Fund and a High Yield Fund. In partnership with industry leader and state-owned enterprise, Vellum provides tailor-made and innovative financial services to investors, accompanied by its strong project sourcing in scarce resources including finance, forestry, property and others to better assist investors in every step of the investment.

Commtech (Asia) Limited

Environmental Services | Professional Services

Company Profile

Project Experience

5 projects

Company Profile

Organization Profile Commtech Asia is a market-leading, independent building commissioning consultant. Established in 1999, we are a team of highly skilled commissioning specialists focused on delivering efficient, forward-thinking solutions for complex building systems across Asia Pacific. With more than two decades of experience, Commtech Asia is equipped to provide high-level technical resources for physical site testing, design review services, commissioning management, and verification services across a distinct range of sectors, including commercial offices, datacenters and mission-critical facilities, education and government, hospitality and integrated resorts, major developments, retail, recreational, and healthcare. Commtech Asia is a member of CSA, NEBB, CIBSE, and BSRIA and is devoted to ensuring that our services perform impeccably under our ISO 9001 HKAS / UKAS accredited standards on quality and in accordance with other international codes and standards. Environment and Sustainability Highlights Not only are we committed to providing professional advice regarding environment and sustainability, our holistic approach has helped businesses define and achieve industry-leading sustainability benchmarks and green-building credentials. One of our key project references was Hong Kong International School (Lower Primary), where we were appointed to provide Full and Hong Kong BEAM Plus commissioning management for their campus. Our team successfully delivered Independent Commissioning Authority (iCxA) services to ensure the design meeting the Green Building Requirements. In addition, we were also appointed by ACRADIS Hong Kong to provide LEED commissioning management for their commercial offices, achieving USGBC LEED Platinum certification. Commtech Asia is also a pioneer in Retro Commissioning (RcX), helping businesses to optimize their building’s energy performance and improve occupant comfort while saving energy and running costs.

Project Experience

Chinese Mainland