The construction industry is striving to promote sustainable materials and practices worldwide. Green buildings provide commercial and social benefits, creating business opportunities in sustainable development, while nurturing environmentally friendly communities.

Company eyes international expansion after ESG support from HKTDC’s T-box programme

Hong Kong glassmaker Rahmen uses ESG to pursue more business overseas

Creativity focused SMEs often find customer outreach difficult, since they focus on making beautiful designs and have few resources to devote to customer relationship management (CRM).

Building services firm uses T-box tools to expand business.

Digital transformation boosts designer

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has announced that it will implement the Industrial Labour Importation Scheme for the construction and transport industries, with a quota of 20,000. The government will launch the scheme this month, and be reviewed within six months after its launch.

Hong Kong Government opens the gates to workers, especially those from Mainland China, to alleviate firms’ staffing crisis.

Green light for labour imports

The sixth edition of Start-up Express, an entrepreneurship development programme organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), wound up this week as the finalists made their live, in-person pitches.

Innovative solutions in art, education, healthtech, green tech and more win favour from judging panel.

Start-up Express winners form diverse pool

Hong Kong start-up RaSpect specialises in remote building inspections using drones to gather the data and artificial intelligence technology to process it – faster, more accurate, more comprehensive and safer method than traditional manual building inspections.

A Start-up Express laureate speeds up building inspection.

AI spots flaws in floors

Worries over tactile transmission amid the COVID-19 pandemic has driven many innovative cleaning and sterilising solutions for heavily used surfaces such as lift buttons.

A Hong Kong project removes one potential source of COVID-19 infection – putting your finger on lift buttons.

Don’t push my buttons

Acciona’s corporate slogan – “business as unusual” – could have been designed for times like these, as economies across the globe reel from the global COVID‑19 pandemic.

A Spanish firm seeks to tap southern China’s infrastructure market by showcasing its Hong Kong desalination plant project.

Quenching Greater Bay Area’s thirst

To date, it is fair to say Sri Lanka has weathered the global coronavirus outbreak better than most countries. As of 20 August, it had recorded some 2,902 cases and just 11 deaths.

Following a brief COVID-19 hiatus, development in the pivotal Indian Ocean country returns to full speed.

Sri Lanka maintains Belt and Road momentum

The annual International Construction Cost Index (ICC) by global design and consultancy organisation Arcadis indicated that social unrest in the second half of 2019 and COVID-19 this year have hit the construction industry hard, while environmentally friendly practices need to be more widely integrated to ensure a carbon-neutral future.

A commentator in the construction industry plots the road to recovery following setbacks.

Rebuilding after outbreak

The past few months have seen significant developments at Oman's Duqm Special Economic Zone, a venture backed by Mainland China within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative.

European and Middle Eastern businesses pledge substantial support for mainland-backed Duqm Special Economic Zone.

Belt and Road-backed Oman economic zone attracts raft of global investors

Recent mission discussed sustainable urban development, smart cities and more

Mega-projects offer plentiful IRES opportunities in Thailand

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