Design and Construction

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.

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.

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 1989, Ivanho Architect Limited (IAL) provides full range of professional services in Architectural Design, Interior Design, Project Management, Urban Planning, Corporate Image and Licensing Consultancy. We provide effective and reliable professional services to satisfy the expectations and needs of our Clients. Over the past 30 years, we have been commissioned with projects including hotels, prestige houses, residential development, commercial centres / malls, comprehensive development, urban space design, alterations & additions, renovation and refurbishment projects, interior design, project management and licensing consultancy and received the following awards :- - (Happy Valley Recreation Ground) The Dancing Keys – Finalist of Green Building Award 2016 - Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme for Drainage Services Department, (HKSAR Government) - The Architectural and Interior Design of C.C. Wu Hall at Kunming Polytechnic University - C.C. Wu Hall at Kunming Polytechnic University - Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme, Drainage Services Department - The Revitalization of Old Clubhouse, Beas River Country Club, Sheung Shui for the Hong Kong Jockey Club - New Extension Construction & Fitting Out Work & Landscape Work at Tsuen Wan Assessment Centre for the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority - The Reconstruction of Wong Shek Public Pier, commissioned by Civil Engineering and Development Department - Lin-An, Hangzhou, China - The Hainan Haikou Asia Garden“海口 亞洲豪苑”at Hainan Island, China Ivanho Design Consultants (Macao) Limited is established in 2005 to serve our oversea Clients.

HOK is a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm. Through a network of 23 offices worldwide, HOK provides design excellence and innovation to create places that enrich people’s lives and help clients succeed. DesignIntelligence consistently ranks HOK as a leader in sustainable, high-performance design and technology innovation.

Farrells is an international firm of architects, urban planners and designers, founded by Sir Terry Farrell in 1965. With headquarters in London, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, the firm is a group of diverse talent that has delivered a broad range of projects worldwide. We work at all scales and sectors; including urban masterplans, cultural, civic, transport-related infrastructure, residential and mixed-use commercial complexes. We are committed to creating innovative, social, and transformative architecture that sustainably connects people, community and the environment.

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.

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.