Adrian Kwok Wai Meng

Structural engineer · Chartered, IEM & ICE

adrian@example.my
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Registered PE 2013 · CEng 2015

Twenty-one years on buildings that had to stand up in difficult ground. I specialise in retrofit and change of use — taking a structure someone else designed for one purpose and making it safe for another, usually with the tenants still in it.

Practice

2019 — present

Principal

Kwok Structural, Kuala Lumpur

Four engineers and a technician. We take work other practices turn down: heritage shophouses, post-fire assessments, and buildings with drawings that no longer match what is standing.

Led the structural case for 31 change-of-use approvals; none refused
Expert witness in four construction disputes, three settled before hearing

2011 — 2019

Associate, then Senior Associate

Harun Weiss & Partners

Ran the retrofit desk from 2014. Grew it from a two-person overflow team into a third of the practice's fee income by the time I left.

2005 — 2011

Structural engineer

Lembah Consulting

Site-heavy years on highway bridges and a hospital extension. Learned to write a method statement that a contractor will actually follow.

Selected projects

2025Jalan Sultan shophouse row — seven units, 1920sHeritage retrofit

2024Batu Mill — factory to 84 apartmentsChange of use

2022St. Barnabas roof — post-fire reconstructionAssessment & repair

2020Menara Ipoh — two floors added to a 1978 frameVertical extension

Education

MEng, Civil & Structural

University of Malaya · 2005 · First class

MSc, Conservation of Structures

Part time · 2017

Also

Teaching

Guest critic, final-year design studio, since 2016

Committee

IEM working group on existing-building assessment

Full project list and references on requestUpdated August 2026