This is a story of perseverance and legacy

I first noticed Empire Centre while walking down the streets of Hong Kong from our Singapore office.. on Google Earth..

I was struck immediately by the extreme pollution of the reflective glass facade. They turned yellow with tones of purple and brown on the edges. I knew we could bring it back to their brand new condition..

I was so excited for this opportunity that I reached out to everyone I could find within the building management. I believed they would be relieved to know there was a solution to their problem but it turned out no one answered, no one seemed interested to hear me out.

One Sunday afternoon, from my sofa in Singapore, I looked for some new contacts within the landlord organization (Sino Group) that I still hadn't reached out to. I found David Ng. David is the son of Robert Ng, President of Sino Group. The Ng family owns Sino Group in Hong Kong and Far East Organisation in Singapore. They are like royalties in the Asian mega landlord world.

I decided to roll the dice and send him a one liner on LinkedIn that said, in a nutshell: you have a problem, I have the solution.

2h later I received an answer: Sounds interesting, tell me more.

2 days later I was in HK for a mock up (you are looking at the result below). It was ironic to finally meet most of the management that I reached out to before.

It was a very hot HK summer day, I lost a few litres of sweat doing the mock up, but the success was total and I will always remember hearing the claps from David followed by the claps of the whole team when they noticed the result.

2 months later we started the project and, after a week of work, I sent a picture of the progress to David and I got one of the most beautiful messages I will ever read from a client that said: "I'm crying with joy. Thank you". I then understood how important it was for the owner's family as this building was not only their headquarters but it was built by Sino Group and Far East Organization founder Mr. Ng Teng Fong, David's grandfather. We were not just restoring the facade, we were bringing the building back to its glorious days when Mr Ng built it in 1980. Our work did not only embellish the building but it carried an emotional value.

I will be forever thankful to David and Sino Group for putting their trust into RENUGLASS hands and giving so much meaning to our works.

Building Name: Empire Centre & TST Centre

Owner: Sino Group

Location: Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui

The Calvary Convention Centre

The Calvary Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur was designed by architect Dato’ Dr. Ken Yeang in 2012 is a 600,000 sqf built area that unique architecture positioned as a landmark building in Malaysia.

The Problem:

The Calvary Convention Centre facade is made of white alucarbon panels that suffered very fast repeat staining due, in part, to the proximity of 2 highways.

Despite regular cleaning the building always looked dirty and client was looking for a solution.

The Solution:

RENUGLASS was called in to attend to this issue in 2018 and we did a mock up on 1 panel. Half the panel was coated with our RENU-PROTEC and the other half was left bear.

After a month we already started to notice staining on the bear half.

After 6 months it was clear that the coating worked as the coated half was still perfectly clean while the bear half was all black from pollution.

The Project:

On the back of the mock up the client decided to award RENUGLASS the cleaning and protection of the whole facade.

We are still today the contractor in charge of the Calvary convention Centre facade with a range of services ranging from cleaning to silicone replacement.

Removal of concrete stains on glass panels

RENUGLASS was called on this job in Singapore in 2019 to assess the feasibility

of concrete stains removal on glass panels

Robinson 77 is a 35-storey building located in Singapore CBD (Central Business District). During the construction of neighbour building at 79 Robinson Road there was an accidental pour

of fresh concrete over 2,000+ pieces of glass on Robinson 77.

Mock Up and Proposal:

After surveying the site RENUGLASS did a mock up on 1 panel using

a scrapper-free restoration method.

We managed to bring to remove all concrete and bring back the panel to its original condition without a scratch

Cheaper is not always the cheapest:

The insurance company that oversaw the tendering decided to award to another company that uses conventional scrapper method for price consideration.

After half day of work on the very first day Robinson 77 property management had to halt the works as contractor scratched over 30 pieces of glass. Their method using scrapper was leaving deep scratches that couldn't be repaired.

The cost of changing the 30 pieces of glass was higher than RENUGLASS cost

for restoration of 2,000 pieces of glass.

A safe method and a happy client:

RENUGLASS was called back and eventually awarded the job.

We used Guard Industry's GTR® Premium, a safe stripper than slowly soften up the concrete until it become sand-like and can be removed with a sponge.

We then polished the glass to remove cement residue and micro damaged caused by the alkaline nature of concrete.