Woh Hup
Woh Hup has been building Singapore since 1927 (Gardens by the Bay, Jewel Changi Airport, Reflections at Keppel Bay). We built the WordPress platform that carries all 164 of those projects, and when the family's charitable trust needed a site of its own, they came back.
A custom WordPress platform that presents Woh Hup's 164-project portfolio the way it deserves, still live and current today, with a second build for the Woh Hup Trust delivered in 2025.
The Challenge
What we were solving
Woh Hup is one of Singapore's largest privately-owned construction and civil engineering firms, and one of its oldest. Founded in 1927, the company has spent almost a century building the developments Singapore is known for: Gardens by the Bay, Jewel Changi Airport (with what is possibly the deepest basement in the country), Daniel Libeskind's Reflections at Keppel Bay, MRT infrastructure, and current work including an ultra-luxury development for Las Vegas Sands.
A company like that does not win work through its website. But it does get judged by it. Developers, government agencies, joint-venture partners and the engineers Woh Hup wants to hire all look, and a track record spanning ten decades is worthless online if nobody can find the project that matters to them. Woh Hup engaged Chillybin to build a site that showcased that portfolio, and what the firm can do for future clients, in a strikingly visual way.
Success meant a platform that could carry 164 projects across nine decades without feeling like a filing cabinet, and that Woh Hup's own team could keep current as new towers top out.
Our Approach
How we tackled it
A portfolio engine, not a brochure
The heart of the build is the projects section. Every project carries its client, commencement date, location and imagery, and the archive filters by sector (civil engineering, commercial, hotel, institution, mixed development, residential) and by status, with featured and ongoing work separated from the completed record. A buyer evaluating Woh Hup for a hospital job can pull up institutional work in two clicks; a graduate engineer can browse the landmarks. The full sweep from the 1930s to today stays visible without burying anyone.
We built it on WordPress with a custom theme (the Woh Hup Theme, developed by Chillybin on the Beaver Builder framework), so the structure is Woh Hup's own rather than a template with the logo swapped. Around the portfolio sit the sections a firm of this standing needs: group and corporate structure, awards, ESG, media, COVID-19 responses, careers, and the ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certifications that procurement teams check for.
Built to be kept alive
Construction companies outlast websites, so the platform was set up for Woh Hup's team to run. As of September 2026 the site remains live on the Chillybin build, current, and still growing its project list, which is the quietest but most honest measure of a build done right.
The second build: Woh Hup Trust
In 2025 the relationship produced a new project. The Woh Hup Trust, the group's charitable arm (established 2011, an Institution of a Public Character supporting the elderly and underprivileged children in Singapore), was still running on a static site of hand-coded .htm pages. Regulated charities have obligations a 2000s-era site cannot meet gracefully: annual reports and audited financial statements going back to 2012, published clearly, updated every year.
We designed and built wohhuptrust.sg on the same Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer foundation as the main site, with branding matched to wohhup.com so the trust reads as part of the family. Custom post types for the board, reports and downloads, plus a document upload feature with dynamic, filterable report listings, mean the trust's small team can publish each year's accounts without a developer. The site went from kickoff in February 2025 to launch preparation and CMS training by August 2025.
The Solution
What we delivered
Woh Hup's public face now matches its standing: a fast, visual, filterable record of 164 projects since 1927 that the company maintains itself, still live and current more than a version-and-a-half of theme updates later. And the strongest proof is the repeat business. When the group needed a second website for its charitable trust, it did not run a tender; it came back to the team that built the first one.
The trust, for its part, moved from static .htm pages to a modern WordPress platform with fourteen years of financial reports organised, filterable and easy to extend, meeting the transparency expectations that come with IPC status.
What we learned
Institutions that measure their history in decades need websites structured the same way. A 164-project archive only works if the taxonomy is right from the start; sector and status filters are what stop a century of work becoming a wall of thumbnails. Getting that structure right mattered more than any visual flourish.
The second lesson is that maintenance is the real relationship. Nothing in this engagement is flashier than a site that is still live, current and in the client's own hands years after launch, and that quiet reliability is exactly what turned one build into two.
