Company Profile


Our Group was founded in 1994. We are engaged in a wide range of foundation works including (i) piling construction (such as bored piling, percussive H-piling, socketed H-piling, mini-piling and sheet piling) and other ancillary services (such as ELS works, site formation and pile cap construction); and (ii) drilling and site investigation. According to the Ipsos Report, our Group contributed about 4.6%, 5.7% and 6.3% of the market share for the year ended 31 December 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively, and ranked the fourth in terms of revenue generated in the piling construction industry in Hong Kong throughout such period.

 

We are registered as specialist contractor in the categories of foundation works, ground investigation field works and site formation works with the Buildings Department and are registered on the Approved Specialist List in the categories of land piling (Group II) and ground investigation field work (Group II) maintained by WBDB. We are also approved by the Housing Authority and registered on its list of piling contractors in the categories of "large diameter bored piling", "percussive piling" and "ground investigation works".

 In 2017, we were awarded prizes in recognition of our outstanding safety and working performance. 
  1. In June, our Project "Foundation Works for LOHAS Park Package Five Site G Property Development" won the Safety Contractor Award 2016 organized by MTR Property Project Department.
 
  1. On 26/9, our Project "Foundation Works for West Rail Long Ping Station (South) Property Development at YLTL No. 512" won the 'GOLD' Award in the Non-Public Works – New Works – Group B of the 23rd Considerate Contractors Site Award Scheme co-organized by The Development Bureau and the Construction Industry Council.
 
  1. On 25/11, we were awarded the Winner of the "New Works Projects - Outstanding Contractors (Piling)" for the “Quality Public Housing Construction and Maintenance Awards” co-organized by the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) and industry associations.

Company Organization

KIN WING CHINNEY KIN WING DRiLTECH EVEREST

Our Major Subsidiaries

Kin Wing Engineering Company LimitedFounded in 1994, Kin Wing Engineering is principally engaged in design and construction of foundation projects in the public sector in Hong Kong. Kin Wing Foundations LimitedFound in 1995, principal business of Kin Wing Foundations design and construction of foundation projects in the private sector in Hong Kong. DrilTech Ground Engineering LimitedFounded in 1996, DrilTech Ground is principally engaged in drilling, site investigation and related ground engineering for the public sector in Hong Kong. DrilTech Geotechnical Engineering LimitedFounded in 1998, principal business of DrilTech Geotechnical is drilling, site investigation and related ground engineering for the private sector in Hong Kong. Kinwing Engineering Macau Company LimitedFound in 2005, Kinwing Macau is principally engaged in foundation projects in Macau. DrilTech Ground Engineering (Macau) LimitedFound in 2005, DrilTech Macau is principally engaged in drilling and site investigation works in Macau.


Board of Directors

Mr. Yuen-Keung Chan

Chairman

Mr. Chan joined our Group in September 1994. He was appointed as our executive Director on 9 July 2015 and serves as the chairman of our Board from 1 April 2018. Mr. Chan is responsible for strategic planning, overall corporate and business development of our Group. He also serves as a director of all major subsidiaries of our Group.

Mr. Chan has over thirty years of experience in the construction industry. He was admitted as a member of the Chartered lnstitute of Building in March 1984.

Currently, Mr. Chan is an executive director, the vice chairman and the managing director of CAGL and an executive director of Hon Kwok. CAGL and Hon Kwok are both listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange.

Mr. James Sing-Wai Wong

Executive Director

Mr. Wong was appointed as our executive Director on 2 September 2016. He graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor’s Degree with honors in Economics. He also holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California Hastings College of Law, and a Master Degree in Systems Engineering and Information Systems from the Florida Institute of Technology. He is licensed to practice law in the United States of America and the State of California, where he also holds a Real Estate Broker’s License. He has accumulated over twenty-eight years of experience in economics, law, management, and information systems in Hong Kong, United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Mainland China.

Mr. Wong is currently the director of all major subsidiaries of the Company.He is an executive director of CAGL (stock code: 385) being a substantial shareholder of the Company, and is a director of Chinney Investments (stock code: 216), both CAGL and Chinney Investments are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange. He is the son of Dr. James Sai-Wing Wong, the Chairman and substantial shareholder of CAGL and Chinney Investments and a substantial shareholder of the Company.

Mr. Wing-Sang Yu

Managing Director

Mr. Yu was appointed as our executive Director on 9 July 2015 and concurrently serves as the managing director of our Company. Mr. Yu is responsible for formulating corporate and business strategies and leading and training our core management team. Mr. Yu is a founder of our Group and established Kin Wing Engineering Company Limited (“Kin Wing Engineering”) in 1994. In February 2003, he left our Group to pursue his personal interest and re-joined as the managing director in May 2011. Mr. Yu currently also serves as a director of all subsidiaries of our Group.

Mr. Yu has over twenty years of experience in the foundation industry. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from The University of Hong Kong in 1983 and a Master’s degree in Arts (Christian Studies) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009. He has been a member of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers since May 1992.

Mr. Philip Bing-Lun Lam

Executive Director

Mr. Lam was appointed as our executive Director on 2 September 2016. Mr. Lam began his career in 1963 with Hang Seng Bank Limited for eleven years, and then joined the University of Hong Kong (“HKU”) in 1975 as an Assistant Finance Director. He then worked as the Chief Accountant and Comptroller in Overseas Bank (Canada) in Vancouver for three years from 1982 to 1985. In 1985, Mr. Lam re-joined HKU and had served as the Director of Finance from 1990 until his retirement on 30 June 2012. He was then asked by the Vice-Chancellor of HKU to be his Senior Advisor for financial, investment and fund-raising matters until June 2014, and since then, he has been the Honorary Advisor to the Chairman of The University of Hong Kong Foundation for Educational Development and Research.

Mr. Lam obtained a diploma in management studies from the Hong Kong Polytechnic (now known as the Hong Kong Polytechnic University) in July 1974. He is a fellow of The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK), the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and an associate of The Certified Management Accountants (Canada), The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (UK) and The Chartered Institute of Bankers (UK).

Mr. Lam is active in community affairs and had served as a member on the Board of Review (Inland Revenue Ordinance) Hong Kong for three years from 1995 to 1998. He had been a member of the Establishment and Finance Committee of the Prince Philip Dental Hospital from early 1990s until his retirement in June 2012. Currently he is a member of the Finance and Administration Committee, the Board of Governors of the Canadian International School of Hong Kong, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Centennial College, a subsidiary of HKU.

Mr. Lam is an executive director of CAGL (stock code: 385, the shares of which have been listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange) and also an independent non-executive director of Oriental University City Holdings (H.K.) Limited (stock code: 8067, the shares of which have been listed on the GEM Board of the Stock Exchange). He had been an independent non-executive director of China New Town Development Company Limited, a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange (stock code: 1278) from November 2006 to June 2013.

Mr. Hin-Kwong So

Executive Director

Mr. So was appointed as our executive Director on 11 August 2015 and concurrently serves as the general manager of our Company. He is responsible for the overall management and supervision of operations of our Group, including but not limited to, tendering, project planning, project management, quality assurance and general corporate administration. He is currently a director of Kin Wing Engineering and Kin Wing Foundations Limited (“Kin Wing Foundations”).

Mr. So has over thirty years of experience in site supervision, project management and tendering in various types of foundation, substructure and site formation projects. He worked as a joint general manager of Kin Wing Engineering and Kin Wing Foundations since April 2009 and the general manager since January 2012. Mr. So obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in June 1982.

Mr. Siu-Chee Kong

Independent non-executive Director

Mr. KONG was appointed as our independent non-executive Director on 20 October 2015. He is also the chairman of the audit committee of the Company.

He received his Bachelor’s degree in Arts from The University of Hong Kong in November 1969 and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 1980. He was admitted as an associate of The Institute of Bankers in the United Kingdom in 1973.

Mr. Kong began his career in 1969 with Standard Chartered Bank, where he served in various managerial positions for twenty-four years. He was a director of Champion Technology Holdings Limited (stock code: 0092) from 1993 to 1994 and a director of Kantone (UK) Limited from 1994 to 1996. From 1999 to 2005, he served as an executive vice-president, director, and alternate chief executive officer of CITIC Ka Wah Bank Limited, and was an executive director of CITIC International Financial Holdings Limited (formerly known as CITIC Ka Wah Bank Limited). He has been an independent non-executive director of China New Town Development Company Limited (stock code: 1278) since November 2006 and an independent non-executive director of Harbin Bank Co., Ltd. (stock code: 6138) since October 2013. He is also currently a member of the audit committee of Harbin Bank Co., Ltd. (stock code: 6138). He has been an independent non-executive director of DIGITALHONGKONG.COM (stock code: 8007, now known as Global Strategic Group Limited) from 28 March 2014 to 26 October 2014.

Mr. Ivan Ti-Fan Pong

Independent non-executive Director

Mr. Pong was appointed as our independent non-executive Director on 20 October 2015. He is also the chairman of the nomination committee of the Company. Mr. Pong obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Economics (with Honours) from the University of Essex, U.K. in July 1983 and obtained his Master’s degree in Business Administration from the EMBA Program of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 1999.

Mr. Pong has over thirty years of experience in the real estate investment market in Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Pong worked for Hon Kwok and its affiliated companies from January 1984 to October 1988 and was responsible for property development, property investments and project acquisitions for the Hon Kwok group. Mr. Pong worked at Chesterton Petty Ltd. as a senior agency manager in 1988. He joined Richard Ellis Ltd. as a senior manager in 1989 and promoted as an associate director in 1991. During the periods from 1993 to 1994 and from 1994 to 2000, Mr. Pong was a director of Metrobase Surveyors Limited and Cosmo Surveyors Limited respectively and completed a number of property investment and acquisition projects. He is currently a director of Metroland Property Consultants Limited.

Mr. Robert Che-Kwong Tsui

Independent non-executive Director

Mr. Tsui was appointed as our independent non-executive Director on 20 October 2015. He is also the chairman of the remuneration committee of the Company. He graduated from the University of Buckingham with a Bachelor’s degree of Laws in February 1981. Mr. Tsui was admitted to the Law Society of Hong Kong in 1985 and qualified to practice law in Singapore in 1994 and in Anguilla, Caribbean in 2005.

Mr. Tsui has over thirty years of experience as practicing solicitor in Hong Kong. He is the founder and owner of Robert C.K. Tsui & Co., Solicitors, a law firm established in 1990. He is currently an independent non-executive director and a member of the audit committee and nomination committee of Eagle Legend Asia Limited (stock code: 0936), a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange. Mr. Tsui was an executive director of Landing International Development Limited (stock code: 0582, formerly known as “Greenfield Chemical Holdings Limited”, a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange) from November 2007 to November 2009. He was also an independent non-executive director of APAC Resources Limited (stock code: 1104, formerly known as “Shanghai Merchants Holdings Limited”, a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange) from July 2004 to November 2007 and Sino Credit Holdings Limited (stock code: 0628, formerly known as “Dore Holdings Limited”, a company listed on the Main Board of Stock Exchange) from August 2004 to July 2009.