NEWS & EVENTSKSK LAND BAGS TWO WINS AT MALAYSIATECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2022The 8 Conlay resident service app and AI-driven dynamicpricing engine by KSK Land has earned Malaysia’s leadinglifestyle property and design company its winning spots intwo (2) categories under Real Estate: Artificial Intelligence (AI)and; Property Technology, at the recent Malaysia TechnologyExcellence Awards 2022.Lauded for their capability to provide seamless and data-drivenexperiences to property buyers and owners, these award-winninginnovations are powered by KSK Land’s proptech arm, KSK CityLabs.The Malaysia Technology Excellence Awards by SingaporeBusiness Review magazine, now in its fourth year, seeks outand crowns the most outstanding companies in pushing theboundaries of technology innovation.Celebrating this award-winning milestone, Joanne Kua, GroupCEO and Managing Director of KSK Land said: As we navigate thefluid business environment and accelerated shifts in consumerbehaviour, our business and people need to be more and moredynamic as we are subject to continual, if not continuous, change.In the current fast-paced lifestyle, we are always striving to meetthe growing demand of our homeowners to provide seamlesssolutions as part of a high-quality lifestyle. Understanding thisneed, we have committed to design our solutions in-house as wecan leverage the right kind of data with the right skill sets,”“These innovations are part of our greater pursuit ofplacemaking and the creation of a vibrant and sustainablelifestyle property ecosystem that covers the entire lifecycle fromthe earliest stage of design and construction to purchase thenproperty management.”8 CONLAY RESIDENT SERVICE APPThe 8 Conlay mobile app represents the inception of KSK Land’svision to develop and operate smart buildings and, eventually,at the frontier of smart cities innovation. The app provides thehomeowners and residents of YOO8 Branded Residences a suiteof residential services and lifestyle features, which enable themto track their unit’s construction progress, manage their homeremotely, access to luxury lifestyle services and communityevents, from the palm of their hand.The app offers a seamless and hassle-free experience whichelevates the entire homeowner journey from purchase toresidency to property management. This is made possible bysome of the most unique features available including isometricunit-level construction progress updates, in-app remote lift callingthrough the first-in-Malaysia partnership with KONE, first-ofits-kindtenant management where homeowner has full controlover access into their homes, IoT smart home control enabled byintegration with Lutron.More new and exciting features will be introduced down theline, including cardless residential access, a chat function thatconnects YOO8 residents directly to Kempinski’s Lady-in-Redfor access to the hotel’s hallmark services such as butler on call,private chef service, housekeeping, residential provisioning,tailoring and more.Krystine Kua, Co-Founder & Head of KSK City Labs (centre) with herteam from KSK City Labs celebrating their win at Malaysia TechnologyExcellence Awards 2022.AI-DRIVEN DYNAMIC PRICING ENGINEAs every unit with a development comes with its uniquespecifications and market conditions are ever-changing, homepricing requires an accurate, efficient and evolving solution. Byharnessing the power of data, KSK Land’s AI-driven dynamicpricing engine enables the capability of intelligently pricing unitsdaily, which ensures customers receive fair and accurate prices fortheir homes while at the same time, allows developers to secureand improve the financial health of their projects.In addition, through its first-in-Malaysia partnership withDelve by Google, a generative design product that helps realestate teams to design better and faster with less risk, KSK Landcan now customise the pricing of its units based on wellnessdriven,quality-of-life variables, such sunlight exposure hours,wellness grade and many more.With this web app, sales personnel can now customise theirproposals for customers based on their unit-related specs needswhile receiving rebate recommendations for every proposalmade, all in a single platform.Representing KSK Land in receiving the awards, KrystineKua, Co-Founder & Head of KSK City Labs said, “At KSK, oneof our core values is to be a trailblazer and as part of this, weemphasise a culture of challenging the status quo and therefore,we work to design and develop tech solutions that will enable ourhomeowners and members of the community not only to wieldconvenience in the palm of their hand but access a fully elevatedlifestyle experience. ”8 Conlay is an integrated mixed-use development in theheart of the city comprising the first Kempinski Hotel in Malaysia,YOO8 branded residences serviced by Kempinski and lifestyleretail quarters. The project is expecting the delivery of vacantpossession of its first tower (“Tower A”) by the end of 2022, whilstthe topping out of Tower B is expected by mid-May 2022.8 May-June 2022 | www.b-i.biz
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