HDB Registered Contractor
Only contractors on HDB's Directory of Renovation Contractors may apply for a renovation permit for your flat. This is the licence that makes the work legal.
In 1982, Yap Kian Hock Contractor began taking on renovation work in Singapore. No showroom, no brochure — a man, his tools, and a reputation built one job at a time.
His son grew up around that work. Around sites and sawdust, and around a standard that was never written down anywhere but was never negotiable either: you finish properly, even when nobody is watching.
In 2022, Patrick Yap founded GoDesign, carrying his late father's trade forward under a new name. Four decades separate the two businesses. What carried across was not a logo — it was a way of working.
Go the extra mile.
The line under our name — and the thing his father did
It is the extra trip back to correct something small. The detail nobody would have noticed. The call answered after hours. It is an easy thing to print on a wall, and a harder one to do on a Friday evening when the job is almost finished.
That is the standard we are trying to keep — and the reason the work starts with understanding how a household actually lives, rather than fitting every home to the same design.
