Hap Seng Land Sdn Bhd recently held the topping out ceremony of Menara Hap Seng 3 to celebrate the construction’s milestone achieved in reaching the tower’s rooftop.
he project will be expected to complete on time, by end of this year, and is expected to operate by the first quarter of 2020. The site of Menara Hap Seng 3 was previously occupied by Hap Seng Group’s first built-to-suit Hap Seng Star Mercedes-Benz Showroom in Peninsular Malaysia, which has become a landmark at the intersection of Jalan Sultan Ismail and Jalan P. Ramlee. Menara Hap Seng 3 is a 26-storey office building comprising 5 levels of retail and F&B podium, 20 floors of office spaces as well as 1 level of roof F&B, sitting on top of 6 levels of basement parking.
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Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), a world-renowned American architecture firm, Menara Hap Seng 3 will be an aesthetical and functional commercial building that meets top-notch industry standards with compliance of Grade-A office building, GBI certification, LEED Gold Certification and MSC zone. As part of the consistent efforts of Hap Seng Group in promoting green initiatives in all its projects, Menara Hap Seng 3 will have a 90-metre high indoor vertical green wall within the internal atriums of the building. This to help draw in indirect natural daylight to illuminate the internal spaces of the
offices and also to provide good visual comfort for all the occupants on every floor. One of the challenges of the project is the tight site and heavy traffic during the day. In order to ensure timely completion with high quality of work, a full top-down construction method has been adopted to speed up the construction work. The tower would also complete the series of Menara Hap Seng’s commercial buildings, stretching from Jalan Sultan Ismail right up to Jalan Tengah along Jalan P. Ramlee. Link bridges will connect the Group’s three buildings under the proposed Plaza Hap Seng.
From left: Cheah Ham Cheia, Managing Director, Grand Dynamic Builders Sdn Bhd, Christopher Chua Zhen Hon, Managing Director, Lei Shing Hong Properties (China) Limited, Dato’ Jorgen Bornhoft, Chairman, Hap Seng Consolidated Bhd, Datuk Edward Lee Ming Foo, Group Managing Director, Hap Seng Consolidated Bhd, David Khor Soo Beng, Chief Operating Officer, Property Division (West Malaysia), Hap Seng Land Sdn Bhd and Alexander Lo Tzone Leong, Executive Director, Grand Dynamic Builders Sdn Bhd.
Malaysia Retailer Vol 7 No 4
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Topping-Out Ceremony
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