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Mark Van Beers Managing Director ( Hong Kong & Macau )
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Hong Kong ’ s one of our oldest offices in Asia and we ’ ve been here for just over 40 years with our track record in major and mega projects being significant . There ’ s currently a bid for a design , build and operate project , at the old airport , for a sports precinct of three stadiums and other ancillary facilities and we are in one of the three shortlisted bidding consortia . So , we ’ re currently working on that bid , six months in already and , if successful , we will then be providing services to that project for another four or five years .
Corporate fit-out is an important sector of our market in Hong Kong . We ’ re currently working on two substantial office fitout projects for Goldman Sachs including the restack of their headquarters . We ’ re doing another large scale fit out for J . P . Morgan to consolidate a lot of their space into one prime building .
Hong Kong Housing Authority is the public housing body and we currently have over 20 commissions with them that are a mixture of new builds and term maintenance work ; some of them very sizable .
There ’ s a lot of competition in Hong Kong in our market . There ’ d be anywhere between 15 and 20 firms that could undertake commercial quantity surveying work , maybe more , and there are probably six or eight who are of a similar size and scale as WTP .
Another principal market for us here is Macau where there are 500,000 residents , comprising the entire population from young to grandparents , yet they have 30mn visitors a year .
The whole infrastructure of Macau is still playing catch up with the boom in hospitality and tourism . The construction boom is primarily driven by the gaming operators who are developing mega-scale resorts .
In Macau , in terms of professional consultants and construction workers , there ’ s a minimal resident labour
AUGUST 2018