Haskoning Vietnam opens second
branch office in Hanoi
Royal Haskoning has opened a second fully fledged Vietnamese branch office in Hanoi. This is because of an expanding market and the healthy growth of the activities in the successful office in Ho Chi Minh City. Royal Haskoning has been active in Vietnam for many years and has also been involved in the construction and industrial sector since 1993. Royal Haskoning executes multidisciplinary projects for industrial and commercial facilities using a completely integrated approach.
The office in Hanoi was opened in 2007 as a representative office, but now it is a full Haskoning Vietnam branch office with its own design department in order to service clients from close by. Services such as project management, design and construction management are delivered from start to finish. There is now a staff of 20 in Hanoi. Between them the two offices have 100 employees, of whom 90% are Vietnamese and only 10% come from other countries. New orders, construction management and now also design are coordinated from Hanoi for a growing number of projects in the north of Vietnam. Haskoning Hanoi Branch Manager Tjerk van der Meer explains. “Our two offices have the same approach and can jointly provide the complete package of services.”
UNIS
A recent high profile project is the expansion of the United Nations International School on the UNIS campus in Hanoi, in which there is close collaboration with Haskoning Architecture & Building in Amsterdam. This Royal Haskoning branch specializes in designing schools. Royal Haskoning is supplying the architectural concepts, design and construction management for this vanguard project.
Prominent projects
Another interesting project in the northern part of the country in which Haskoning Vietnam is involved in the construction of a new factory for the international dairy cooperative Friesland Foods. Royal Haskoning was responsible for the structural design and building supervision of this factory for dairy products. It officially started operation in April of this year. Royal Haskoning’s branch office in Hanoi is now working on an expansion of the complex, which will be designed to produce powdered milk for babies. Other projects being worked on in Vietnam that appeal to the imagination are a new factory for Colgate Palmolive, a high-rise building near Ho Chi Minh City, three resorts and the construction of a brewery with a capacity of two hundred million litres for an Asian brewer. Previously Haskoning Vietnam was also involved Heineken’s Vietnamese breweries.
Contact: René de Roos (Ho Chi Minh City)
+84 8 899 2505
r.deroos@royalhaskoning.com
Contact: Tjerk van der Meer (Hanoi)
+84 4 772 4774
t.vandermeer@royalhaskoning.com
