NEC Asia Pacific Conference 2025

Registration and Networking

Welcome Remarks

Opening Remarks from the Development Bureau

Strategic Collaboration: Chinese Version Launch and Letter of Intent Signing

Collaborative Construction – From Principles to Practice

This session explores how collaborative procurement is transforming infrastructure delivery across the UK and APAC. It highlights the impact of strategic frameworks, shared goals and integrated teams in reducing disputes, accelerating delivery and improving long-term value. The session also examines how FAC-1 and TAC-1 are being adapted to support NEC integration and regional infrastructure programmes.

• Insights from the UK Government’s Construction Playbook and global alliance models
• Real-world examples of reducing disputes, improving value and accelerating delivery
• Adaptation of FAC-1 and TAC-1 to support NEC integration and regional infrastructure programmes

Building Resilience – Sustainability and Social Value in Action

This keynote highlights how Singapore’s Smart Nation vision and NEC’s collaborative framework are driving climate resilience, inclusive growth and digital transformation. It explores leadership, trust and system-wide strategies that shape long-term social impact, spotlighting infrastructure as a platform for sustainability across Asia-Pacific. 

• Strategic insights from Singapore’s water security and digital governance models shaping infrastructure resilience.
• Infrastructure as a platform for inclusive growth, climate adaptation and collaborative innovation.
• NEC contracts as enablers of long-term resilience through trust-based delivery and system-wide alignment.

Resilient Infrastructure in a Changing Climate: WSD’s Strategic Approach

This keynote explores how WSD is advancing climate-resilient infrastructure through strategic delivery, digital innovation and NEC-aligned practices. It highlights the department's leadership in securing Hong Kong’s water future and presents key principles supporting long-term durability, system-wide adaptation and future-ready development in response to global climate volatility.

• Contractual resilience is achieved by integrating climate adaptation, risk mitigation and supplier collaboration to strengthen project durability and long-term value
• Innovation in water infrastructure is driven by digital tools and aligned delivery models that enhance resilience and social impact
• NEC clauses showcase how agility, accountability and risk management are embedded across complex infrastructure landscapes

Refreshments and Networking

Strategic Engineering in Action: CEDD Playbook and Mission Room Integration

This session explores how CEDD’s Playbook and Mission Room frameworks are transforming infrastructure delivery across Hong Kong. It emphasises risk mitigation, collaboration, problem-solving, and fostering ownership to achieve better project outcomes. This session highlights the role of active client involvement, structured planning and NEC-aligned practices in driving excellence across housing, public works and cross-agency coordination, supporting resilience, transparency and delivery certainty.

• CEDD’s Playbook embeds strategic foresight, operational discipline and multi-team alignment to support resilient infrastructure outcomes
• Mission Room methodologies enhance scenario planning, stakeholder engagement and decision-making agility within complex delivery environments
• NEC contracts underpin performance benchmarking and collaborative integration, enabling adaptive planning and accountability across housing and public works initiatives

Safety First – Digital Transformation in Site Safety

This session explores how digital transformation is redefining safety culture in infrastructure delivery. It highlights Hong Kong’s 4S system and the role of mobile platforms, predictive analytics and NEC-aligned frameworks in driving smarter oversight, frontline protection and performance transparency across project environments.

• Digital tools such as mobile apps, wearables and predictive analytics enable real-time safety monitoring, compliance and proactive workforce protection
• Leadership and cultural shifts are essential to embed safety-first practices within data-driven delivery environments
• NEC contracts serve as a foundation for transparent protocols, digital oversight and accountable risk management in complex infrastructure projects

Smart Supervision in Action: Co-Supervision Platform and SmartEye – From Site to Screen

This interactive session explores how digital platforms like SmartEYE are transforming infrastructure supervision across Asia-Pacific. It highlights the use of AI-powered alerts, sensor networks and cloud-based dashboards to enable remote inspection, improve collaboration and enhance decision-making. NEC contracts underpin these advancements by supporting integrated oversight and performance transparency throughout the delivery lifecycle.

• Smart supervision tools integrate AI, 360° video and cloud dashboards to replace manual workflows and elevate site safety
• Scalable digital oversight models are reshaping construction delivery through remote access, real-time monitoring and collaborative protocols
• NEC contracts enable performance-driven supervision through adaptable frameworks that promote transparency, agility and stakeholder alignment

Enhancing Supervision Through Innovation and Technology in Infrastructure Delivery

This panel brings together sector leaders to explore how integrated approaches are shaping the future of infrastructure delivery. Through diverse perspectives and practical insights, the session will examine how technology, strategy and collaboration are influencing outcomes across safety, supervision and programme performance.

Lunch and Networking

Infrastructure Intelligence – AI, IoT and Predictive Delivery

This panel brings together global experts to examine how emerging technologies are reshaping infrastructure planning and delivery. From smart cities to energy and transport systems, the discussion highlights real-world innovations, and the governance strategies required to scale impact across APAC. It also explores how NEC contracts support digital integration and performance-focused delivery models.

• Real-world applications of AI and IoT in smart cities, energy grids and transport infrastructure
• Predictive delivery models that reduce downtime, optimise asset performance and enhance resilience
• Insights into data governance, cybersecurity and scaling digital innovation across APAC
• NEC contracts as digital-ready frameworks supporting intelligent planning, data integration and transparent delivery outcomes

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Comfort Break

Strategic Contracting in Energy Infrastructure – CLP’s Approach to Frameworks and TSC Delivery

This session highlights how China Light and Power (CLP) is applying NEC Framework and Term Service Contracts across energy infrastructure projects to strengthen supplier relationships, drive service consistency and enable long-term value creation. It explores contracting strategies, digital integration and lessons learned from NEC implementation across Hong Kong’s energy assets.

• CLP’s use of NEC Framework and TSC contracts supports planned maintenance, operational continuity and collaborative supplier partnerships across energy infrastructure
• Strategic contracting innovations enable digitalisation, sustainability alignment and risk-managed delivery, reinforcing NEC’s value in long-term resilience

Transforming Connectivity: Strategic Insights from the Hung Shui Kiu MTR Station Project

This session explores the strategic delivery of Hung Shui Kiu Station as part of Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis development. It highlights how phased construction, stakeholder integration and NEC-aligned planning are enabling future-ready rail connectivity with minimal disruption, supporting regional growth and transport resilience.

• Phased delivery on a live viaduct integrates digital tools and collaborative planning to achieve transparency, safety and minimal service interruption
• NEC contracts enable adaptive infrastructure development through shared risk management, performance benchmarking and stakeholder alignment

Engineering the Impossible: Bridge Rotation and Strategic Delivery in Fanling Bypass

This session showcases Hong Kong’s first horizontal bridge rotation, a transformative example of engineering resilience and strategic coordination. It explores how precision planning, advanced digital tools and NEC-aligned practices enabled the successful rotation of a 7,000-tonne bridge over live rail infrastructure, setting new standards in innovation and performance across the region.

• Collaborative delivery integrated rotational engineering, digital supervision and multi-stakeholder coordination to overcome complex urban constraints with safety and precision
• NEC contracts enabled risk-sharing, agile planning and performance benchmarking throughout high-stakes construction phases in a live railway environment

Infrastructure Futures: Strategic Delivery Across Transport, Energy and Engineering Innovation

This forward-looking panel brings together infrastructure leaders to share insights on the evolving landscape of transport, energy and civil engineering delivery. Through diverse perspectives and strategic examples, the discussion highlights how collaboration, innovation and adaptable frameworks are enabling resilient, future-ready infrastructure across sectors.

Development Bureau: Outstanding NEC Team Performance

Closing Remarks

Drinks Reception

End of Conference