From vision to operational reality
Strategic leadership, regulatory mastery, and technical oversight for healthcare and institutional developments.
JANAS Asia provides the independent advisory and project leadership required to navigate the high-stakes intersection of clinical need, statutory approval, and safe construction. We bridge the gap between ambitious service goals and the complex realities of Hong Kong’s regulatory and physical landscape.
Strategy & business case
Answering the first, hardest question: “Should we do this project, and how?”
Before committing major time and capital, boards and owners require a realistic, evidence-based view of what is possible. JANAS Asia provides the clarity needed to make informed decisions.
Strategic options: Translating clinical ideas into clear paths: expand, redevelop, relocate, or greenfield.
Feasibility & demand: Preparing high-level business cases including scope, phasing, costs, and benefits.
Site & asset potential: Assessing redevelopment and GFA potential, including Town Planning Board (TPB), lease constraints, and height relaxation opportunities.
Funding strategy: Outlining financing options, from internal grants and private funding to phased investment models.
Risk identification: Highlighting critical fire-safety, regulatory, and technical risks before they impact the budget.
Planning, licensing & compliance
Shaping a workable roadmap that aligns approvals, design, safety, and operations.
Once the decision is made to proceed, we ensure the project is approvable, safe, and practical to operate. We bridge the gap between architectural vision and clinical requirement.
Project roadmap: Turning chosen options into a formal brief with clear scope, timelines (programme with completion date), targets, and accountabilities.
Clinical functional planning: Designing layouts for clinics, imaging centres, and labs that prioritise infection control, patient flow, and maintainability.
Licensing & compliance (Cap. 633): Navigating the Private Healthcare Facilities Ordinance so projects are licensable, not just buildable.
Statutory integration: Integrating Building Authority and TPB requirements into the design from the outset to avoid costly delays.
Structured governance: Leading risk and value-management workshops to bring clinicians, FM, and management to well-documented decisions.
Project delivery
Accountable leadership to turn plans into safe, compliant, and working facilities.
We take the day-to-day burden of project management off your shoulders, allowing you to focus on your core clinical and community services.
Owner-side representation: Acting as your single point of contact for new builds and A&A works in "live" hospitals and institutional environments.
Consultant coordination: Leading the team of APs, RSEs, QS, designers, and contractors under one senior JANAS representative.
Construction logistics: Managing pre-construction planning and build sequencing to minimise operational disruption and control time/cost.
Rigorous oversight: Continuous monitoring of progress, expenditure/costs, risks, safety, and quality with transparent reporting to boards and funders.
Commissioning & handover: Overseeing testing and FM onboarding, ensuring asset registers and warranties are ready for Day 1 operation.
Our services
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Business case and options development (demand, scope, cost, phasing and high-level financing options)
Redevelopment and GFA potential studies, including review of OZP/TPB constraints, Section 12A and Section 16 applications, and height-relaxation or lease-modification opportunities with planning and legal advisers
Independent feasibility and constructability reviews for proposed sites or schemes
Programme and risk workshops for boards and senior management
Advisory on governance and FM control requirements for new or redeveloped facilities
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End-to-end project management
Oversight to ensure works are completed on time, within budget and deliver value and quality benefits
A&A and fit-out management in operating buildings, including phasing to maintain services
Coordination of architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, consultants, contractors, and facility management teams (AP, RSE, QS) and specialist consultants via trusted partners under a one-stop model
Integration of planning and lease-modification conditions, Section 12A/16 approvals and height-relaxation requirements into design and construction
Programme control, risk registers, reporting and escalation to owners and boards
Management of commissioning, testing and handover to FM and operations teams
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Contract review and strategy for distressed projects or disputes
Analysis of delay, disruption and variation claims
Project recovery planning and implementation
Support to law firms and expert witnesses with factual project context, documentation and programme analysis
Facilitation of negotiation and structured settlement discussions
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Translate service and clinical objectives into a realistic brief
Coordinate designs that will pass approvals/licensing requirements and can be maintained efficiently
From room layouts and work flows to statutory, TPB and FM considerations
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Procurement and contract strategy for selection of architect, consultants and FM service providers
Preparation of contractor works tender documentation with architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and legal advisers
Tender management, clarification, evaluation and recommendation
Contract negotiation and finalisation aligned with project risks and governance needs
Ongoing contract administration and change management support
Partners
JANAS Asia collaborates with a network of Architects (Authorised Persons), Registered Structural Engineers (RSE), Quantity Surveyors, planners and specialist consultants to provide a one-stop solution when required. These firms hold the necessary professional registrations and professional indemnity insurance. We coordinate their inputs, together with contractors and FM teams, as an integrated project and governance framework for your facility.
Turn your expansion or redevelopment ambitions into safe, compliant, and buildable projects.
