At Hang Lung, innovation in construction is not just about using technology to improve efficiency and reduce costs, but also to enhance collaboration, quality control, and site safety, to achieve environmental sustainability with less wastage and improvement in the environmental quality of construction site — all for the good of a sustainable built environment in support of our vision to creating compelling spaces that enrich lives by embracing technology.

Since 2018, our BIM Taskforce was setup to standardize and enhance the adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in new projects under development with tangible results. To date, we have leveraged BIM in all projects under development and major renovation projects in Hong Kong and mainland China, with over 20,000 cases of design conflicts detected and resolved. We are also exploring further on extending the usage of BIM in construction premises. This BIM Taskforce is named to Construction Innovation Taskforce this year to increase the exposure of innovation in construction for implementation in our projects.

Given the mega scale of most of our projects and considering the risks associated with paper-based inspection records, Hang Lung has fully adopted Digital Quality Management System (DQMS), a multi-platform cloud solution for construction workflow inspection and quality management in projects under development in mainland China and Hong Kong since 2019, making us one of the early adopters of the solution in the local real estate sector. The platform is paperless, enabling real-time collaboration between different project stakeholders and traceability of workflow progress, defects logging, and submission of rectification records via mobile devices in site premises, thus speeding up efficiency as well as improving project quality and safety. No modification can be made once a record is submitted to the platform, therefore authenticity can be ensured.

Currently, DQMS has been adopted for a total of six projects under development – four in mainland China and two in Hong Kong. More than 20,700 inspections have been completed via DQMS to-date.

Ever mindful of the need to reduce the environmental impact of construction, at Westlake 66 in Hangzhou, which is a huge project currently under construction, our Project Management Department has implemented a tranche of tech-driven innovative measures to protect the surrounding environment. Among the initiatives are the installation of a 5,000-square-meter windproof and dustproof mesh with noise isolation capabilities, and a sprinkler system in Zone C of the construction site to reduce air and noise pollution. 5G technology is also deployed to monitor, among other things, construction safety and quality, energy consumption, and dust and noise levels, to ensure environmental indicators in the construction stage meet requirements.