Mass Timber Contractor for Resorts

01 — RECORDS & RECOGNITION

Built by Venturer: the firsts and the records.

World’s tallest timber canopy

Geneo, Singapore Science Park — design, supply and build, 2024. 1,150 m³ PEFC glulam, first carbon-storage data set.

Largest MET resort adoption, Maldives

Ritz-Carlton Fari Islands, 2020 — 3,000 m³ mass engineered timber, all villas and front of house, 14-month install.

First mass timber resort, Maldives

St Regis Vommuli, 2016 — the adoption that opened the atolls to engineered timber.

First pressure-treated GLT in KSA

Shura Island, Red Sea Global, 2025 — CE-rated GL28H, durability service class 4, adopted over costly Accoya.

First PT glulam for the US Army

US JOC Somalia, 2025 — EU pressure-treated GLT replacing traditional solid US pine and fir.

Hurricane-proven

Villa Marie, St Barts — first CLT on the island; hit by the 2019 hurricane, sustained minimal damage.

Awards on Venturer-built work

World Architecture Festival — Best Use of Colour: Turrell Pavilion, Patina Maldives (Studio mk27)
AHEAD Asia Best Resort 2022 — Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands
Prix Versailles 2020 — Special Prize, Exterior: Amanpuri Retail Pavilion, Phuket (Kengo Kuma)
Prix Versailles 2017 — Special Prize, Exterior: St Regis Vommuli (WOW Architects)

In the press: Wood Central — “Singapore’s 27-metre mass timber canopy could be largest ever built” · Global Construction Review — “Defying gravity in the Maldives”

02 — BUILT WORK

Firsts, records and hurricane-proven structures.

Every project delivered with our own engineering, our own crews, and manufacturers we answer for.

Maldives · 2020

Ritz-Carlton, Fari Islands

Largest mass timber adoption at a Maldives resort — 3,000 m³ MET, envelopes to all villas and front of house, 14-month install.

Largest MET project in the Maldives

Maldives · 2015

St Regis Vommuli

Numerous structures including the signature Nature & Wellness public building.

First mass timber in the Maldives

St Barts · 2017

Villa Marie — Sibuet Hotels

First CLT structures on the island; hit by the 2019 hurricane that devastated neighbouring islands — minimal damage.

Hurricane proven

Singapore · 2024

Geneo Canopy — CapitaLand

Design, supply and build of the world’s tallest timber canopy, with the first carbon-storage data set.

Largest MET canopy

Bahamas · 2019

Ocean Cay Marine Reserve — MSC

100 public-area structures across 23 typologies.

First MET structures in the Caribbean

Red Sea · 2025

Shura Island Arrival Hub — Red Sea Global

CE-rated pressure-treated GL28H glulam, durability service class 4 — adopted in KSA as the alternative to costly Accoya.

First pressure-treated GLT in KSA

Phuket · 2019

Amanpuri Boutique — Kengo Kuma

Award-winning design: CLT braced with GLT on steel moment frames.

First MET in Phuket

Maldives · 2020

Amarta Skyspace — James Turrell, Patina

Spruce GLT braced with regional hardwood; featured in Global Construction Review.

East meets West

Qatar · 2022

Katara Hills — FIFA 2022

14 VIP villas in 16 weeks: steel moment frames with prefabricated Indian plantation-hardwood LVL panels, Thermowood cladding.

Hybrid steel + Indian LVL

Langkawi · 2025

Marriott Langkawi

Keruing GL44 hardwood glulam speciality restaurant — Woodsfield Glulam, Malaysia.

Regional CE-rated hardwood GLT

Singapore · 2022

Kong Meng San Monastery

Glulam with ETFE cushions.

Red Sea · 2025

Shura Island Trellis Pavilions — Red Sea Global

240 guest-room trellis canopies and retail pavilions in CNC-cut FSC hardwood glulam Sapele — free-form geometry resolved in the factory.

CNC-cut hardwood glulam

Venturer Projects since 1996 — the showreel

More on YouTube — Ministry of Tropical Construction

03 — NEW & CURRENT WORKS

On the boards and on site now.

Imagery to follow as these packages progress.

Belize · Under Construction

Six Senses Belize — Complete Resort Infrastructure

Shell & core for villas, 2-bed residences, public areas, walkways and jetties — including PM services and installation crews.

Maldives · Under Construction

Rosewood Maldives (UCC)

Public programme packages — marketplace supply with Venturer Modular engineering and installation.

Somalia · 2025

US JOC Somalia — US Army

Operations building — EU pressure-treated GLT replacing traditional solid US pine and fir.

First pressure-treated glulam adopted by the US Army

Somalia · 2025

Guard Towers — US Army, Somalia

Prefabricated pressure-treated glulam guard towers — engineered, packed and erected on a secure remote site.

India · Current

India Glulam — Venturer Modular

Curved glulam pavilion structures — engineering, fabrication coordination and delivery from Venturer Modular Chennai.

Bhutan · Phase 2 — On Site

AmanKora — Aman Resorts

Phase 2 — on site now. Roof package for Aman’s Bhutan lodges, delivered through the Venturer group.

04 — WHAT WE DELIVER

Full shell & core, mass timber centric — with the builder’s disciplines behind it.

Design & Engineering

Three decades of judgement in selecting the right product and hybrid configuration. Engineering, BIM and QS from Venturer Modular Chennai. Preconstruction studies via Nautilus Innovation.

Cost Control & Quantity Surveying

Dedicated QS discipline from Venturer Modular Chennai — bills of quantities, package cost control and progress claims run against the model, so owners see cost certainty from first estimate to final account.

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Compliance & QC

Certification managed across the chain — Eurocode CE, GLTAA, JAS — with factory inspection before shipment and site QC to acceptance criteria.

Prefabricated Manufacturing

Large-format component manufacture in CLT and GLT — CNC machining and robot-arm cutting for complex geometry, connections and services penetrations resolved off-site. Decking panelised in purpose-built jigs, and joinery pre-assembled with glazing and rebated parts fitted before shipment. Produced direct from due-diligenced factories, sequenced for install.

Comprehensive Build

Mass timber centric with hybrid solutions in treated softwood, hardwood and steel. Installation crews, logistics and site management included.

Architectural Freedom

A vast array of cladding, joinery, interior and roofing products — architectural features without supply-chain compromise.

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Maintenance & A&A

Additions and alterations with specialised coatings, timber care and treatments — keeping delivered assets performing.

VIII

Factory-to-Site QA

Product inspected in the factory before shipment; predictable installation rates feed a firm programme on remote and island sites.

3D Design & Engineering — Chennai

Every package is modelled before it is manufactured. Venturer Modular Chennai runs full 3D engineering, BIM coordination and QS — connection design, CNC fabrication data and panelisation resolved digitally, so what arrives on the barge fits first time.

Our Site Installation Crews

The structures are only as good as the people who stand them up. Venturer’s own installation crews travel with the packages — trained on our systems, led by our supervisors, delivering predictable installation rates on remote and island sites.

Factory QC before shipment

Shura Island Canopies, Red Sea Global — 2025

Via Nautilus Innovation
Design & Preconstruction

Feasibility studies, value engineering, BIM coordination and manufacturer-direct procurement strategy — the front end of every Venturer build. nautilus-innovation.com →

Via Nautilus Innovation
Innovation Product Range

VENGUARD fire coating, Patina Plus, Dekloc^™ decking systems, VIKING fixings & waterproofing, Venturer Epoxy Paste — specified on Venturer projects, supplied through Nautilus. nautilus-innovation.com →

05 — HOW VENTURER WORKS

One optimised solution from three disciplines.

Every package sits at the centre of the local engineer, the installer and the manufacturer — Venturer holds the three together so certification, speciality connections, packing and logistics are resolved as one solution, not three arguments.

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Installer
Manufacturer
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Connections
Certification
Packing
Logistics
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Local Engineer

Code compliance and design adequacy in the project jurisdiction — backed by speciality connection design and engineer’s indemnity.

Installer

Venturer-trained crews with the packing and logistics discipline that remote and island sites demand.

Manufacturer

Due-diligenced factories with certification — Eurocode CE, GLTAA, JAS — inspected before shipment.

06 — MALDIVES LEGACY

Twenty-six years in the atolls.

2000–12

Delivery partner of Borneo Benar — Reethi Rah and Villingili adopting Venturer-designed prefab stick-frame.

2015

Returned with Venturer timber systems — pioneering mass timber at St Regis Vommuli.

2020

Fari Islands Ritz-Carlton and Patina, and the Amarta Skyspace — then strategic expansion of products and delivery methods.

2022

Opened Venturer Modular Chennai — with innovation arm Nautilus, creating solutions tailored to markets like the Maldives.

2023

Additional works at Patina and Ritz-Carlton; Teppanyaki restaurant at St Regis.

2025

St Regis residences adjacent Vommuli — mock-up villa.

2026 —

Rosewood Maldives (UCC) public programme; Patina gazebos phase 2.

07 — DEKLOC · DECKING SINCE THE EARLY 2000s

Elevate your outdoor spaces with Dekloc^™.

Before mass timber, Venturer built its name on large-scale hardwood decking — and was among the first, back in the early 2000s, to move commercial decking from loose boards to factory-built interlocking panels. Twenty-five years of decking projects for some of the biggest brands in property development — Marina Bay Sands among them — became Dekloc^™ — prefabricated modular decking systems crafted from certified tropical hardwoods.

Single-board approaches are slow, wasteful and hard to quality-control on site. Dekloc^™ panels mean you buy only what you need; installation is fast and quality is controlled at the factory.

The problem Dekloc^™ solves.

Commercial decking is still bought the old way — loose boards through fragmented supply chains, and certified tropical decking that is inconsistent in both quality and supply. The result is predictable on every large project: costs inflated by middlemen; quality you cannot control because you cannot select the boards; waste and stock losses on site; labour-intensive installation that blows the programme; and sustainability claims that cannot be traced through loose components.

Dekloc^™ moves all of it to the factory — board selection, panelisation, QR-coded traceability and quality control happen before shipment, so the site receives a product, not a pile of sticks. And the finish moves to the factory too: durable hardwood, bolstered with pressure treatment, finished with factory-applied Patina+ silicates — a unique, high-quality product built to stand the test of time.

What that buys the project: availability, surety on price, and extremely high levels of performance.

CERTIFIED TROPICAL HARDWOOD

African Ironwood, Yellow Balau, Merbau and treated Keruing from certified concessions — EUDR-compliant, with ISO 14064 GHG verification available.

FACTORY QUALITY

Interlocking panels with robust composite backing; boards selected per panel, unsuitable material recycled — quality high, prices optimised.

HIDDEN DURABILITY

Concealed, reverse-fixed CE-rated marine-grade fasteners dramatically prolong board life — panels interlock with minimal through-gap fixings.

SPEED & EFFICIENCY

Regionally manufactured, prefabricated panels install fast — full-container logistics, easy unstuffing, modern inventory control on site.

CUSTOM DESIGN IN BIM

Every detail tailored — access openings, trims, borders, CNC-curved profiles — supported with testing and calculations.

SITE INVENTORY CONTROL

Loose timber on site is where the waste happens — boards get damaged, mislaid and over-ordered. Panels are countable units: what lands is what installs. QR-coded and traceable, supplied direct from partner Dekloc^™ manufacturers.

Surbana Jurong Campus — 2023

Yellow Balau with CNC-curved profiles — panelised geometry, factory-made.

Police Academy, Kuwait — 2013

50,000 m² of FSC-certified Ipe decking over steel structure — one of the region’s largest hardwood decking installations.

Six Senses Belize — 2026

ACQ-treated Keruing Dekloc^™ panels shipped April 2026 — jetties and guest villas. The system in production today.

Ritz-Carlton, Fari Islands, Maldives — 2021

The realisation: build the panel in the factory, not the deck on site.

Custom interlocking panels are produced where quality and wastage can actually be controlled — in the factory. Boards are selected per panel; anything unsuitable is recycled, not shipped. Instead of bringing sticks to site, we bring products — panelised, inventory-controlled, and locked into place. Quality, speed and cost stop competing with each other.

Decades in service across resorts in the Maldives, Caribbean, Dubai and Singapore. Dekloc^™ systems and care products — MTCE Wash + and Brightener — are documented at nautilus-innovation.com →

Marina Bay Sands SkyPark, Singapore — 2010

Surbana Jurong Campus, Singapore — 2023

Dekloc^™ is delivered through the Nautilus marketplace — direct from export-ready, highly qualified manufacturers. ACQ pressure-treated hardwood panels, packed and containerised for site — unique to Dekloc^™.

The Marketplace →

08 — WARRANTY & RISK MITIGATION

Compliance and warranty, direct from the people who answer for it.

Comprehensive structure delivered direct from key manufacturers to the asset owner or main contractor. Every layer of cover sits with the party that can actually stand behind it — the mill for the product, the treater for durability, Venturer for workmanship, the engineer for design — with ongoing work to underwrite warranties through the insurance industry.

Manufacturer warranty & product complianceStructural timber supplied against a recognised certification regime — Eurocode CE marking (EN 14080 glulam, EN 16351 CLT), GLTAA and JAS — with mill certificates, declarations of performance and batch traceability issued per shipment. Factories are audited before they enter the supply chain and product is inspected before it leaves the floor, so the compliance file is complete on arrival rather than reconstructed afterwards.

Treatment / durability warrantyPressure-treated timber, up to 25 years

Workmanship warrantyTypically 10 years — professional installation quality

Coating warrantyAvailable for selected pre-finished products

Engineer’s indemnityDesign adequacy and compliance

09 — CLIMATE & ESG IMPACT

Verified carbon, not marketing claims.

Audit and certification under ISO 14064 is now available across Venturer deliveries — with DoubleHelix Tracking as independent sustainability auditor.

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Incentivising Timber Building

Forests are carbon sinks — a more productive timber industry protects the global acreage of forests. Repurposing components from MET buildings enables true circularity.

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Supporting Sustainable Timber

Supply chains rooted in sustainable forestry practices — audit and certification under ISO 14064 now available.

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Stored Carbon in Timber

Mass timber has potential for carbon credits with long-term value on the voluntary carbon market — supporting Article 6 (COP26) climate action.

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Carbon Emissions Reduced

Timber has a significantly lower carbon footprint than traditional construction materials — with ISO auditing and certification to prove it.

10 — WORKING WITH NAUTILUS

One staged model. Two companies. Clear hand-offs.

Venturer and Nautilus run the same four-stage engagement model that owners see on nautilus-innovation.com — Nautilus leads the front end and the marketplace; Venturer delivers the build and stands behind it.

Stage 1 · Nautilus

Preconstruction

Concept-to-ROM study, pre-engineering, supply-chain options — fixed fee. Start at Nautilus →

Stage 2 · Marketplace

Procurement

Owners contract validated manufacturers directly at factory pricing — Nautilus coordinates through factory inspection.

Stage 3 · VENTURER

Delivery

The builder’s stage — engineering & BIM from Chennai, logistics, our own installation crews, site management, workmanship warranty. This site.

Stage 4 · In-Service

Operate & Verify

Maintenance systems, care products and verified carbon claims across the life of the asset — with DoubleHelix verification.

Products specified on Venturer builds — VENGUARD, Patina+, Dekloc^™, VIKING, Venturer Epoxy Paste — are carried and documented at nautilus-innovation.com →