Rowsley has announced that Albert Hong, 81, will step down as executive chairman after helming Singapore’s leading architectural, engineering and master planning practice for more than five decades. Hong will take on the role of non-executive chairman of subsidiary RSP Architects Planners & Engineers from March 1.

RSP will continue to be led by managing directors Lee Kut Cheung and Lai Huen Poh. Lai is also an executive director of Rowsley.

Hong, one of Singapore’s most eminent architects and businessmen, has built RSP since 1964 into one of the largest Singapore-based integrated professional architectural and engineering consultancies, with offices in six countries.

RSP, which became part of Rowsley in 2013, offers a comprehensive range of professional services including town and master planning, urban design, architecture, interior design, civil and structural engineering as well as mechanical and electrical engineering.