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JOHN NELSON
CURRICULUM VITAE
Date of Update Oct 29, 2015
1. GENERAL INFORMATION:
Position Senior Project Director
Home office
Sex
Hoa Binh Construction Head Office, HCM City, Vietnam
Male
Nationality British
Date of Birth 22 April 1952
2. AREAS OF SPECIALITY:
Project Management and Construction Management to include Bidding Management, Cost
Management, Contracts Administration and Quality Control & Quality Assurance.
3. EDUCATION:
Fellow, the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (FHKIS)
Fellow, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS)
Honorary Fellow, the Philippine Institute of Architects (HFPIA)
Fellow, the Chartered Institute of Building (FCIOB)
Registered Professional Quantity Surveyor (RPS)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Accredited Consultant
Past Chairman, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Hong Kong
Adjudicator, Construction Manager of the Year for the Chartered Institute of Building,
Past Chairman, Chartered Institute of Building, Dubai Centre
International Ambassador Egypt, the Chartered Institute of Building
PADI Scuba Diver, Instructor, Master Scuba Diver Trainer, Staff IDC Instructor, Master Instructor
Emergency First Responder, Instructor, Instructor Trainer
4. LANGUAGES AND DEGREE OF PROFICIENCY:
Language English – Native
Arabic, Cantonese: Fluently
5. EMPLOYMENT RECORDS:
2015, Jan to present Employer: Hoa Binh Construction and Real Estate Corporation
HCMC Head Office
Position held: Project Development Director
Description of duties: Responsible for the development of Design and Build Department
Projects for Hoa Binh. Review construction procedures, protocols and
make recommendation to Chairman. Review, update and implement
project management systems.
2015, Apr to Nov Employer: Hoa Binh Construction and Real Estate Corporation
Deutsches Haus Substructure Contract
Position held: Senior Project Director
Description of duties: Assigned to Substructure Package including Ground level and 4
Basement levels, construction of Deutsches Haus Project, District 1,
HCMC
2014, Jul to 2015, Jan Employer: Hoa Binh Construction and Real Estate Corporation
Vietinbank Project, Hanoi, Vietnam
Position held: Senior Advisor
2012 to 2014
Description of duties: Review documentation (QA/QC/QS), Project Management
( implementation/ procedures)
Employer: Bureau Veritas Vietnam
Position held: Facilities Director

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Description of duties: Assigned to manage Construction Technical Control (CTC) Department
of all construction related projects and CTC business development for
Vietnam. Ensure that budget of CTC department will be achieved and
competence of staff in every project assignment meets Clients’
expectation.
2011 Employer: Bureau Veritas Vietnam
Position held: Construction Technical Control (CTC) Director
Splendora New City Project Director
Description of duties: Construction Technical Control Project Director responsible for the
Splendora Project, An Khanh, Hanoi approximately 600,000m2 mixed
use development comprising high 4 No. 23 Storey high rise apartments,
400 townhouses, 500 villas, schools and all related infrastructure works
including STP provision.
2009 to 2010 Employer: Amer Group, Egypt
Position held: Vice President Project Management, Red Sea Region
Description of duties: Porto Sokhna Porto Sokhna Development overall master plan land area
2,000,000m2 approximately mixed use development comprising 1,600
hotel and apartment units, hotel, golf course, villas, cinemas, shopping
malls, town centre, phased completion ongoing, project close out
December 2012, is currently in construction. Construction is undertaken
by the in-house construction unit of Amer Group which I was attached.
Overall projected build out cost of US$5billion.There are multi projects
ongoing in various stages of completion with a workforce of 3,000 living
on site. The project was over budget and in delay. I was brought in as VP
Projects my role was a 6 month review of construction scheduling
implementing an on-site audit on programme, cost, and sequence,
method of construction, reporting findings and recommendations to the
CEO Amer Group. The construction unit used the SAP system for tracking
the procurement of all construction materials.
Microsoft Project was the planning system adopted for all time lines and
cost reports. I introduced Primavera which complimented SAP, a sister
product. I also undertook a review of the master plan, implemented a
traffic study analysis, and re-sequenced the infrastructure construction.
I also introduced the Real Estate Progress Reporting system proformas
including a dashboard executive summary report. The reporting system
was in nine phases complementing the various stages of completion as
follows;
Programme, Pre Development, Design, Construction, QHSE,
Procurement, Risk, Cost and Handover. There were no systems in place
when I arrived on site.
Cancun Centara Grand Hotel comprising 100 beds Hotel, staff
accommodation, 100 villas, target date for completion December 2009.
Centara Grand was originally due for completion in June 2009. Centara
Grand is 25KM from Porto Sokhna and part of my Red Sea remit. All
construction activities were carried out by Amer Construction Group, my
role was to upgrade the facility; this was achieved by end of November
2009. My first task was to replace the existing on site construction team
and bring in better quality finishing groups, supervise their activities and
support them to completion. I introduced the handover procedures and
protocols which the Amer Operations Group used for completion.
2008 to 2009 Employer: Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE
Position held: Vice President Hotels & Hospitality Development
Description of duties: Dubai Trade Centre Development and Dubai Exhibition City overall gross
floor area 1,500,000m2 (DWTC), 7.2km2 approximate area, both sectors
with a portfolio of 18 Hotels brands comprising Accor, IHG, Langham,
Aman Resorts and GHM Hotels, product offerings economy, upper
upscale and luxury hotels.
My responsibility was the review of all technical aspects of the
construction portfolio of 18 hotels for DWTC, including design and
construct-ability and programming of the hotels. This was a continuation
of my role with Mace on DWTC. The product included five, 55 storey
towers of high quality luxury hotels built above four basements and a
podium, plus an Ibis and a Radisson Hotel all within an overall ground
floor footprint of 134,000m2. Construction was still in basement level
when the economic downturn hit Dubai. The balances of the hotels were
in Dubai Exhibition City near the proposed Jebel Ali Airport. My technical

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expertise also extended to the master plan of DEC with relation to the
hotels.
2007 Employer: Mace International Limited- Middle East
Position held: Senior Project Manager Sector Leader Hospitality
Description of duties:
Dubai Trade Centre Development Mixed Use Development overall gross
floor area 1,500,000m2, Sector Leader for Ibis Hotel (600 Keys),
Radisson Hotel (450 Keys), GHM Towers 1&2 (70 Storeys), Concierge
Apartments and Aman Towers 1&2 (60 Storeys).
Phase 1 Master Plan, Project Execution Plan, and Procedures Manual
and Dubai Municipality liaison for special studies Phase 1.
Phase 1 Environmental Impact Assessment, Aeronautical Survey and
Wind Study Analysis.
Mace were the construction managers for the Phase 1 development my
role began with implementing the project protocols and strategic
management of the hotel portion of the project and how to tackle the build
out of Phase 1. EIA, Aeronautical Study and Wind Study were required
because of the height of the proposed structures. My role was to review
the structural designs for build-ability relative to the Hotel Requirements;
we adopted a 9m2 grid throughout the site and programmed an
aggressive 5 day construction cycleper floor. Secant perimeter piles 20m
deep were required stretching 1.2km around the perimeter of the site due
to the high water table, prior to excavation and piling of the basements.
Planned manpower on site was to be 12,000 at peak of construction. I
managed the design teams through concept, schematic design, detailed,
tender and construction phases of the project prior to transfer to the
Client. The construction cost of Phase 1 was approximately AED 12
Billion.
2005-2007 Employer: Mace International Limited- Hong Kong & Philippines
Position held: Project Manager
Description of duties:
Seconded to Shangri-La Hotels Hong Kong for the Shangri-La Hotel
Project Boracay, Philippines, a 220 key resort and spa hotel, to manage
the construction of the $80 million hotel project, the staff quarters and
welcome Centre facilities.
Before joining Shangri-la I was appointed by Balfour Beatty as Project
Director for the Manansala Project in Manila a 50 Storeys Residential
project for the Lopez Group. The project was in delay by 134 days with
serious penalties for default and non-completion on time. I was brought
in to bring the project back on track. I implemented a change in the
formwork system to Mivan and increased the concrete strength bringing
the floor cycle down from 10 days to 5 days dramatically reducing the
delay and the project back on time.
Shangri-la was a project with major environmental issues both on the
island and offshore with the marine life adjacent to the beach. The project
was 12.8 hectares area from sea level up to +170m elevation comprising
80 villas, 20 tree houses and 120 bed room hotel. The build was on coral
requiring a short bored piling system to be adopted as recommended by
the design team, I disagreed we went with a flat slab system, the
opportunity to get piling rigs to the island was virtually impossible due to
the fragile sea ecosystem. I am a PADI Master Instructor and surveyed
the offshore coastline adjacent to the property; there was no possibility
of lay barges being able to reach the shore without causing serious
damage to the ecosystem. Compromise was reached and a suspended
ground floor flat slab solution was adopted.
1994-2005 Employer: JOHN NELSON & ASSOCIATES – Hong Kong & Philippines
Position held: Managing Partner and President, Project Management Consultancy
Description of duties: Appointed as Project Construction Director by the joint venture group of
Summa Kumagai Inc and First Balfour to direct the construction of the
US$40 million Manansala Residential Tower in Makati, Philippines.
Appointed as Project Director by the Board of Directors of Hong Kong and
Shanghai Hotels to direct a US$ 50 million redevelopment of the 5 Star

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Manila Peninsula Hotel, reporting directly to the Chairman, Sir Michael
Kadoorie.
Appointed as Project Construction Director by ABS CBN for the interior fit
out of the executive floors of the ELJ 111 Tower.
Appointed as Project Construction Director for the relocation and fitting
out of Standard Chartered Bank Philippine Headquarters, reporting
directly to the CEO, Eirvan Knox
Appointed as Project Construction Director by ABS CBN for the fitting out
of the retail development complex of the ELJ 111 Tower
Appointed as Project Construction Director by Robinson Land for the
retail development of the Novaliches development complex, reporting
directly to the chairman, James Go.
Appointed as Project(s) Construction Director and General Manager by
Primetown Property Group of their US$ 600 million property portfolio of
major construction developments in the Philippines and China including
setting up a computerized software procurement system and appointing
various international consultants and contractors to undertake some 20
world-class projects.
Appointed as Project Construction Director by Sunlife of Canada for the
relocation of their Philippine Headquarters.
Successfully completed major development projects, from concept
through to completion, for Cebu International School for the Aboitiz Group
and Pathfinder Holdings.
Assisted international clients such as Siemens, Hydro Quebec and
Cegelec on their hydro and medical projects.
MTRC Cost Consultant on the Kowloon Station US$ 2 billion, 1,200,000
sq. m. gross floor area mixed use residential, retail and office
development above the new Lantau Airport Line in Hong Kong.
1988-1994 Employer: LEVET & BAILEY CHARTERED SURVEYORS – Hong Kong
Position held: Partner
Description of duties: Leading Hong Kong based firm of chartered surveyors with 80 associated
offices throughout Asia, Europe and N. America.
Bank of China, Hong Kong, 72 Storeys, 315 meters tall
Central Plaza, Hong Kong, 78 Storeys, 374 meters tall
Pacific Place, Hong Kong, 35 Storeys
Administered 310 professionals in the Hong Kong office, responsible for
the successful implementation of 70 major international projects
including;
MTRC Underground Station Kowloon, Hong Kong: – US$ 340 million.
Nethersole Hospital, Hong Kong: – US$ 125 million.
Hang Seng Bank Development, Hong Kong: – US$ 110 million.
Harbour City Commercial and Residential Development: - US$ 130
million.
Peninsula Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand: - US$ 135 million.
Parc Marco Polo Residential Development, Singapore: – US$ 120 million.
Churchill Hotel, London, England: - US$ 88 million.
Managed the opening and operation of the London and Bangkok offices
1979-1988 Employer: FITZSIMON & PARTNERS – Glasgow, UK
Position held: Associate
Description of duties: Provided management, quantity surveying and direct control of several
major projects including;
Multiplex cinema projects – US$ 50 million.
Clydebank & Motherwell Town Centre Redevelopments - US$ 45
million
1978-1979 Employer: BOND FOSTER & PARTNERS – Dubai, U.A.E.
Position held: Contract Administrator
Description of duties: Seconded to McDermott Dubai to manage the contract administration for
the fabrication of a jacket and control tower, in Dubai, U.A.E., for the first
major liquefied petroleum gas terminal located in Saudi Arabia. Oversaw
transportation and installation in Saudi Arabia and liaised with the Client,
Aramco. The total value of the project is US$ 300 million.
1976-1977 Employer: MOTHERWELL DISTRICT COUNCIL – UK
Position held: Quantity Surveyor

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Description of duties: Provided management services for the District’s local authority housing
projects; the District’s industrial factory units, in addition, to the
environmental improvement schemes.
1974-1976 Employer: FYFFE, GERRARD & PATON – Greenock, UK
Position held: Project Surveyor
Description of duties:
1969-1973 Employer: ROBERT MACKINTOSH & PARTNERS – Glasgow, UK
Position held: Quantity Surveyor
Description of duties:
Bibliography
Quantity Surveying in Mechanical & Electrical Services Measurement: RICS Hong Kong, October 1, 1991
Construction Management: Balikasan, United Architects of the Philippines, Mahalrika Chapter February 23,
1995
Introduction to Quantity Surveying: Philippine Institute of Architects Convention February 24, 1995
Global Competitiveness: 22nd Annual Convention, United Architects of Philippines April 11, 1996
The undersigned certifies the above information is true and correct and will be responsible for any false statement
discovered.
March 25, 2015