Feasibility Assessment

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.

CTP is the largest listed industrial parks developer in Europe. Our parks bring people together to get business done. Working with us makes you part of the vibrant and diverse network of business parks that we build and support across Europe—from the North Sea to the Black Sea. 

We have over 250 industrial parks across 10 countries, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe. 13.4+ million square metres GLA (Gross Lettable Area) and 26.4+ million square metres landbank offering a broad range of industrial and commercial space to match any business need to lease, regardless of your size and industry requirements. As an experienced commercial property developer, owner, and operator—and trusted partner to over 1,500 diverse companies—from global market leaders to local SMEs—we have the know-how you need to maximise the value of your investment. 

The state-of-the-art buildings that we develop and operate support diverse activities—from high-tech manufacturing, R&D and IT to logistics, e-commerce and professional services. Our in-house teams provide the full spectrum of property development and management solutions so that you can set up operations quickly and stay focused on your core activities. We are expert at delivering customised, above-standard solutions for even the most demanding, industry-specific requirements.

Your benefits include the flexibility to customise your space and the freedom to expand and re-locate rapidly as your business grows. You also get the peace-of-mind and quality assurance that comes from partnering with us—Europe’s largest publicly traded industrial and logistics property developer and the long-term market leader in business-smart Central and Eastern Europe.

CTP’s corporate operations are headquartered in Amsterdam, with full-service teams on the ground in all 10 countries of operations. CTP’s shares are traded on Euronext Amsterdam, and the company is included in the Euronext AMX Index and AEX® ESG Index.

TOWNLAND is an award winning international, multi-disciplinary planning and design consultancy providing professional services in the areas of Master Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Development Consultancy, Expert Witness, Social Development and Project Management to Governments, the Private Sector, Institutions and Development Agencies. TOWNLAND was founded in Hong Kong in 1985 and is recognised as one of the leading planning and design consultancies in the region. We have successfully managed and delivered projects throughout Asia, the South Pacific, Africa and Europe. Headquarters was established in Hong Kong in 1985. In 1996 TOWNLAND opened its second office in Jakarta in recognition of our long term commitment to our Client base in Indonesia. In 2002 TOWNLAND opened an office in Shenzhen and in 2008 in Mumbai to service a growing workload in P.R. China and India, respectively. Over TOWNLAND’s 38+ year working history, the Company has successfully managed and delivered over 4,000 projects throughout Asia, the South Pacific and Atlantic Regions, Africa and Europe across a diversity of Project types from Site specific to Region wide.

Andrew has been Lead Arranging and advising on infrastructure finance for 30+ years.

In 2003, he set up in business as Logie Group to provide specialist advice on infrastructure finance in Asia across the whole investment cycle namely:

• governments and public sector on policy including in Indonesia the MOF on its $15 billion of support for PLN in the power sector and Bappenas on a $235 million water supply project; and how to finance a $7 billion new state capital city in India.
• institutional investors on strategy across the region.
• transaction preparation and M & A advisory, e.g. hydro in Sri Lanka.
• acting as an expert witness in arbitrations such as for Fraport re the $600 million Manila airport terminal 3; for a US developer in a $125 million power plant in Cambodia where he was cross examined in person and sat in a “hot tub” exchange of views with the other side’s expert (both rare experiences); and for a Canadian investor in a gold mine in a ’Stan country.
• Capacity building / training.
• Acting as a Non – Executive Director of e.g. an aircraft lessor.

Andrew is a member of the UNECE roster of PPP experts; acts as a peer reviewer for them; and is on IFC’s Nominee Directors database. He is a Fellow of the HKICPA, ICAEW and HKIoD; and a member of the HKSI, HKIB and APIEx.

Andrew worked originally with KPMG then PWC in London, Hong Kong and Sydney; then in tax driven financing at Westpac’s investment bank in Australia; Lead Arranging project finance at Mizuho then UBS in London; before he returned to Asia in 1998 as Head of Global Structured Finance, Asia Pacific for WestLB when it was a top five Lead Arranger of project finance globally.

ARK Associates is an award winning office established by William Liu in 2002 to provide innovative architecture and interior design services to clients who desire to differentiate their projects from homogeneous solutions in the market while at the same time meeting the project’s practical and market needs. In the practice of design for the 21st century, we believe that design should be experience and lifestyle oriented and able to evoke the senses and emotion. In providing architecture as well as interior design services, ARK aims to provide an integrated design experience to a project to enhance branding and customer experience, marketing quality and enhance value. With our experiences as lead consultant and expertise in design management, we are able to provide comprehensive architecture and interior services to projects of all scales and complexities. ARK has developed into an award-winning office of over 40 people with professional architects and interior designers that provides full architectural consultancy, design and façade architectural consultancy to interior design. The office is directed by William Liu, Lavinia Lau and Jimmy Luk. With over 25 years of experiences in the field of design and architecture they lead together with a number of experienced associates, architect and designers. The office has completed a prolific body of creative works from residential, commercial, hospitality to large mix used projects that has been recognized both internationally and locally. In 2010 ARK obtained the ISO 9001 accreditation for our Quality Management systems.

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.