CMP Story

Mr. Chan Yew Liang (Founder of CMP Consultants Pte Ltd, Singapore) reviewed the first fifty-five years of our Company’s history in January 2016. Back in 1954, after the World War II, Frank Michell, amalgamated with Robert Crooks but only 18 months later Frank bought out Robert’s share and become the sole owner for the next five years. With the increase in work, Frank brought in Ted Peacock and J R (Ian) Stewart (the chief architect of the Malaysian Public Works Department) as partners so the name was changed to Crooks Michell Peacock and Stewart (CMPS) and went out to become one of the largest consulting engineering firms in Australia.

In the late1961, Frank was looking ahead and saw a market opportunity in South-East Asia, he begun to secure work and set up branches in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. This led to CMPS winning the Singapore Re-development Programme against world competition. Mr. Chan Yew Liang joined the R Crooks, Michell & Peacock, Kuala Lumpur in 1962 after he obtained a Bachelor in Civil Engineering from University of Malaya, Malaysia. After 11 years of consulting practice, at the age of 36, he was appointed as a Managing Director of CMP Consultants Pte Ltd of Singapore from 2 June 1973 until 30 June 2017.