| 1914年 |
Glyn T. H. Ing, founder of Continental Engineering Corporation (CEC), was born in the coastal province of Zhejiang, in eastern China. |
| 1936年 |
After graduating from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a degree in civil engineering, Ing worked on major transportation infrastructure projects in northwest and southeast China for the state-run Lung-Hai Railway (now known as Longhai Railway) Management Bureau and the Chuan-Kang Transportation Bureau. The anti-Japanese resistance campaign was at its height. |
| 1945年 |
Wei Dah Corporation was renamed and restructured as Continental Engineering Corporation, symbolizing Ing’s sweeping ambition to rebuild the nation. After the war, CEC moved its headquarters from Chungking (also known as Chongqing) to Shanghai to take on the massive task of postwar reconstruction. |
| 1947年 |
CEC focused on postwar reconstruction from its headquarters in Shanghai and two new branch offices in Nanjing and Taipei. Its main businesses in Nanjing were construction of the airport and post offices. |
| 1948年 |
CEC’s new headquarters were located on Chongqing South Road in Taipei. During this period, CEC’s business was primarily military contracts – the Hsinchu Airport runway and apron; warehouses, dormitories and mess halls for the Air Force; the Armed Forces Supply Center; US military warehouses; engineering and maintenance facilities; living quarters for the US military; and US military compounds in Taipei, Taichung, Chiayi, and Kaohsiung. |
| 1948年 |
CEC obtained the rights to represent French Freyssinet prestressed concrete technology in Taiwan. |
| 1958年 |
CEC formed a joint venture, Prepakt China Company Ltd., with Intrusion Prepakt of Cleveland, Ohio. CEC became the first in Taiwan to introduce prepakt grouting and foundation piling technology. Prepakt concrete piling technology was used in construction of the nuclear reactor at Tsing Hua University. CEC also became the first to use precast concrete columns for excavation support in tunnel construction for the Nanhu coal mine. |
| 1959年 |
Tunghai University campus complex designed by I. M. Pei
CEC worked with the world-renowned architect, I. M. Pei, on construction of dormitories, a chapel, and sports center at Tunghai University. |
| 1959年 |
Built Taipei Mosque, the first Muslim place of worship in Taiwan
This government contract was partially funded by Saudi Arabia, and has become a landmark for visitors from the Middle East as well as the primary place of worship for Taipei’s Muslim community. |
| 1960年 |
CEC built the Yuanshan Tunnel. |
| 1964年 |
Pioneered in international markets
CEC was the first among its Taiwanese peers to explore business opportunities outside of Taiwan, after the government passed the Veterans Assistance Act, legislation that gave preferential treatment to state-run contractors on government projects. Among CEC’s first international projects were military compounds for the US government in Okinawa and Guam. |
| 1965年 |
Kuang Wu Villa, first multi-story residential complex
Kuang Wu Villa, on Taipei’s Zhongxiao East Road, was a new concept of urban living in Taiwan and paved the way for developments in the Xinyi, Nankang, and Neihu districts of Taipei, turning what was formerly an urban periphery into the Taipei East District, a bustling residential, commercial, and business center.
Due to the geological composition and environment of the area, reinforced concrete structure for better earthquake resistance was used for the construction of Kuang Wu Villa, instead of brick structure.
Kuang Wu Villa set the stage for the development of Taipei’s eastern district.
Started in 1965, Kuang Wu Villa was one of CEC’s earliest masterpieces. |
| 1969年 |
CEC built Fu Jen Catholic University Gymnasium
SVD Architects of Rome, Italy, designed the gymnasium, which used a precast dome structure with no internal beams or columns, establishing a first for Taiwan. |
| 1972年 |
1972年「中華民國不動產協進會」成立後，全體理、監事一致推薦殷先生為首任理事長，二十多年來，殷先生帶領臺灣不動產業者活躍於國際舞台，並在1974年正式加入總部設在巴黎之「世界不動產聯合會」為會員，成為「臺灣分會」迄今。殷先生對臺灣不動產業界的貢獻，深受全體理監事及會員敬佩，通過敦請他擔任「永久名譽理事長」。 |
| 1972年 |
CEC a major player in the government’s 'Ten Major Construction Projects' initiative. Of the ten national projects, CEC built the Yuanshan Bridge section of the First Freeway and the structural foundations for the Chiang Kai-Shek Airport Terminal. |
| 1973年 |
CEC completed the Continental Building, the first office building located in the East District of Taipei, which was also the first large building in Taiwan without interior columns. |
| 1973年 |
CEC’s construction of one of Taipei’s landmarks, the Grand Hotel, in the style of traditional Chinese palace architecture, led to technical innovations including a new underpinning technique to protect adjacent buildings, as well as a ground covering method for slope protection during excavation. The steep slope of the palace-style tiled roof made it necessary to develop new installation techniques. The use of reinforced concrete technology to create a building in the traditional style was widely admired by industry experts. |
| 1974年 |
1974年正式加入總部設在巴黎之「世界不動產聯合會」為會員，成為「臺灣分會」迄今。 |
| 1974年 |
CEC became the first construction company in Taiwan to use the Freyssinet prestressing method in the construction of the Yuanshan Bridge section of the First Freeway, after sending a team of engineers to Japan to study the technology. The late President Chiang Ching-Kuo visited the site during its construction. |
| 1977年 |
CEC completed the Yuanshan bridge. At 1,452 meters total length, it had the longest span and the largest deck area of any balanced cantilever prestressed concrete bridge in the world at the time. The high quality and timely completion of the bridge brought CEC to the forefront in bridge construction. |
| 1978年 |
CEC was awarded contracts for the Industrial Power Building, Riyadh Postal Center, and REDEC Office Building projects in Saudi Arabia, which required the use of clear face concrete and system formwork, and had to meet international standards for quality and project management. |
| 1978年 |
Through the construction of the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Industry and Electricity Headquarters Building, CEC brought its construction quality to international level. |
| 1978年 |
CEC sent engineers to Japan to study the precast building construction method, used in industrial factories, shopping malls, and external walls of buildings. |
| 1981年 |
CEC developed steel molds for precast concrete panels for use in building Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Postal Center. |
| 1981年 |
Completion of the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Industry and Electricity Headquarters Building in Riyadh. |
| 1982年 |
CEC developed pre-assembled module formwork systems, which eliminated traditional on-site assembly and improved efficiency. The new system was used in the construction of the Hsing An Public Housing Complex in downtown Taipei, and helped improve quality, shorten completion time, and reduce costs. |
| 1985年 |
開發臺灣的第一個造鎮計劃「青山鎮」...從1985年取得土地，即以「低密度開發、尊重自然和永續經營」為開發理念，前置時期投入數十億經費，在維護原生態環境的原則下，進行十幾年不曾間斷的整地開發。 |
| 1989年 |
This combined residential and commercial development, located in a hilly area, became Taiwan’s first example of a large-scale residential project that used integrated planning to protect the environmental assets of its woodland site. After the land was acquired, CEC took 15 years to master the technological and design requirements for a project of this quality, at an additional cost of hundreds of millions of New Taiwan dollars. In 2006, The Village was awarded the FIABCI‑Taiwan Real Estate Excellence Award – Special Award in the construction quality category. It continues to be regarded as the most forward‑looking community development of its type in Taiwan. |
| 1989年 |
Glyn T. H. Ing invested the 100‑year‑old American Bridge Company (ABC), builder of such legendary projects as the San Francisco‑Oakland Bay Bridge, Woodrow Wilson Bridge, and Mackinac Bridge. ABC specializes in the construction of complex steel structures, repair and maintenance of bridges, construction of large‑scale bridges, military marine bases, structural works and buildings. (Note: CEC divested the business in 2020) |
| 1992年 |
CEC built Taiwan’s first prestressed arch bridge, the 800-meter Bitan Bridge of the Second Freeway (Freeway No. 3), which included the Xindian No. 5 tunnel from the north, the Xindian river crossing, and an off ramp connecting to the Ankeng Interchange. CEC was awarded the Construction Technology Automation Award for the steel caissons it developed for deep foundation excavation in the Xindian river. Bitan Bridge became a landmark and a symbol of technological excellence for Taiwan’s infrastructure construction industry. |
| 1992年 |
As a key contractor for the nation’s most significant infrastructure projects, CEC was a pioneer in employing new construction methods, such as the Tunnel Boring Machines, New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM), and non-explosive tunnel excavation methods, bringing Taiwan’s construction industry to new heights. |
| 1993年 |
殷先生(右三)參加1993年「亞太營造業聯合會」(IFAWPCA) |
| 1993年 |
Nita Ing became president of CEC, introducing modern management to the firm. |
| 1993年 |
EU was established. |
| 1993年 |
After helping to establish The Real Estate Association of R. O. C. in 1972, the organization was officially recognized by the international Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) in 1974. In recognition of his many contributions, members of FIABCI Taiwan honored him with the title of Lifetime President. |
| 1993年 |
CEC introduced the CONEX Tunnel Segment System from Austria – another breakthrough for Taiwan’s engineering and construction industry. |
| 1994年 |
On April 27, at the age of 80, our founder Glyn T. H. Ing passed away. |
| 1994年 |
CEC received Taiwan’s Top Quality Contractor Award for the innovative alternative construction methods used in the National Highway No. 3 (also known as Southern Taiwan Second Freeway) Kaohsiung Beltway C393Z project, including precast bridge segments and a balanced cantilever construction method. The client adopted this design, recognizing that it was an improvement over the original. |
| 1994-08-04 |
CEC was publicly listed and traded on Taiwan Stock Exchange on August 4, 1994. This marked the transformation of CEC from a family-run company to a modern, efficient, professionally managed corporation. |
| 1996年 |
CEC became the first construction company in Taiwan to receive ISO9001 certification, the standard used by more than 100 countries. The ISO certification standard reflects the company’s ability to manage operations aligned with the latest management standards, and is a testament to the company’s quality control system and management’s commitment to continuous improvement. |
| 1997年 |
CEC introduced cable-stay bridge construction technology in the Hsin Tong bridge, which connects Miaoli city and Kungkuan township. Cable-stay bridges require fewer piers, and have longer spans than conventional pier-supported bridges, reducing the risk of damage during storm surges. |
| 1998年 |
CEC participated as a principal investor and contractor in the-then the world’s largest BOT project — the Taiwan High Speed Rail. CEC was responsible for viaducts and tunnels in the Changhua, Yunlin, and Chiayi sections, as well as the two technically challenging stations of Taichung Wuri and Kaohsiung Zuoying. CEC worked with its technical partner, Bilfinger Berger AG (now known as Bilfinger SE), to become more competitive in international project bidding and construction. |
| 1999年 |
CEC moved its headquarters to the newly completed Min Sheng East Road Office Tower, which used clear face concrete and exposed structural steel. The tower received an award for Excellence in Structural Engineering from the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (SEAOSC) in 2000, and remained CEC’s headquarters until 2004. |
| 1999年 |
CEC won its first turnkey project for Taipei Metro Tucheng Line Extension contract CD550. The contract covered train depots, civil works, track works, rolling stock, power supply, signaling, communication, systems integration, commissioning, and testing. The civil works of the contract included two underground stations, a maintenance depot, and tunnels using both tunnel boring machines and the cut and cover method. |
| 2003年 |
CEC completed the Dun Hua South Road Office Tower in 2003. Designed by the US architectural firm, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, the structural steel office building has 31 floors and 6 underground levels, and was named one of Taipei’s top ten office buildings in 2005 and 2013 by CB Richard Ellis, the world largest real estate investment group. The office building has been CEC’s headquarters since 2004. |
| 2004年 |
CEC completed the Dun Hua South Road Office Tower in 2003. Designed by the US architectural firm, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, the structural steel office building has 31 floors and 6 underground levels, and was named one of Taipei’s top ten office buildings in 2005 and 2013 by CB Richard Ellis, the world largest real estate investment group. The office building has been CEC’s headquarters since 2004. |
| 2004年 |
Commonwealth Magazine, Taiwan’s leading financial and management magazine named CEC Taiwan’s “Most Admired Company” in the construction industry category for the fifth time. |
| 2004年 |
CEC won the contract for the C260 section of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Project, which passes through Paghuashan Mountains. The scope of work included 7 tunnels, 13 bridges and extensive civil works. The most difficult stretch was the 7.4 km Paghuashan Tunnel. The tunnel was broken through in 22 months, two months ahead of schedule. It set a new time record for tunnel construction. In addition to the time record, the tunnel was a successful example of minimizing environmental damage from construction. |
| 2005年 |
CEC was awarded the contract for the C270 section of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Project, which included 43 km of double track viaduct, four river crossings, and the Yunlin Station area. In building continuous viaducts for both the C260 and C270 projects, CEC was the first to use the 30-meter and 35-meter full-span precast launching method, winning recognition from the industry for its ingenuity, quality, and speed. The C260/270 project received the British Construction Industry International Award in 2005. |
| 2005年 |
CEC was awarded the India National Highway Contract RJ-7. It established an Indian subsidiary, CEC International Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. (CICI) to carry out the work. After this initial milestone, CICI went on to win further contracts in India. |
| 2006年 |
青山鎮...於2006年獲得國家卓越建設獎最佳施工品質類住宅類特別獎。 |
| 2006年 |
CEC entered the environmental engineering market and founded HDEC Corporation in the next year. |
| 2006年 |
The success of this project led to the establishment of a subsidiary in 2006, HDEC Corporation, to explore opportunities in the environmental market. |
| 2006年 |
CEC became the first in Taiwan’s construction industry to receive OHSAS18001 certification, reflecting the company’s high standards in occupational health and safety. |
| 2006年 |
CEC completed the technically challenging High Speed Rail Wuri Station, the largest steel-reinforced concrete structure in the Taiwan High Speed Rail Project. In order to reach the required strength level, one of the steel columns in the Wuri Station was made of 8 steel H-beams welded together, in contrast to conventional steel columns which use one steel H-beam. A major design challenge was to integrate the station and track supporting structures, making Wuri Station unique among the stations in the Taiwan High Speed Rail Project. |
| 2006年 |
CEC completed the Taiwan High Speed Rail Station at Zuoying, the only station at grade. Zuoying Station has multiple tracks with a concourse level at the second floor and platforms at ground level. Zuoying is the only station in southern Taiwan where the Taiwan High Speed Rail, conventional railways, and the MRT converge. This represents the emergence of a new business, commercial, and residential center in Kaohsiung. |
| 2007年 |
Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) commenced operation. |
| 2007年 |
Nita Ing became chairman of the board. |
| 2007年 |
FIABCI Taiwan awarded CEC’s Bridge up to Zenith the 2007 FIABCI-Taiwan Real Estate Excellence Award in planning & design. The Bridge up to Zenith is a complex of four large-scale, steel-reinforced concrete, earthquake-proof residential buildings in the Banqiao Special Zone. |
| 2007年 |
CEC adopted the proprietary Endless Self-Advancing (ESA) Method from Japan’s Uemura Corp. in constructing the tunnel underpass beneath the Songshan Airport. The project received the Taiwan Public Construction Golden Quality Award. |
| 2008年 |
Financial crisis enveloped the world |
| 2009年 |
CEC established a branch in Hong Kong to explore the Hong Kong and Asian markets. |
| 2010年 |
Taiwan and China signed ECFA |
| 2010年 |
CEC spun off its property development business as Continental Development Company (CDC) and established Continental Holdings Corporation (CHC) as a holding company for both CDC and CEC. The restructuring allowed CEC and CDC to focus on their core businesses by aligning resources and management systems, with CHC responsible for strategic business guidelines for both. |
| 2010年 |
CEC completed Contract BC-16 in New Delhi, a model project for the New Delhi Metro. CEC’s team set a new record by boring 202 meters (168 rings) in one week, establishing CEC’s competitive credentials in India’s metro market. |
| 2010年 |
CEC imported India’s first slurry tunnel boring machine for the Bangalore Metro UG-2 project, which included construction of four underground stations and two 5.8-meter diameter tunnels. Although the technology is higher cost and more complex to operate than conventional tunnel boring machines, the unique Bangalore terrain, with its mixture of very hard rock and mud, demanded a unique solution. Use of slurry tunnel TBMs allowed tunnel boring to be conducted safely and efficiently underneath the highly congested downtown Bangalore traffic. |
| 2011年 |
Stonecutters Island HATS 2A |
| 2012年 |
CEC’s Macau branch won its first project, the Macau C360 Light Rail, which serves the cultural and entertainment business district in Macau as well as residents in the Nova Zona Urbana areas and sporting events in the Macau Sports Area. |
| 2012年 |
CEC won the CJ910 Contract for the Taichung MRT project, including three subcontracts, CJ910A for the civil works for Peyton Depot and G0 Station; CJ914A for environmental control facilities for the G0 station utilities and depot; and CJ901 for track works for the Wuri to Wenxin line. These were its first contracts awarded in the Taichung area. |
| 2012年 |
CEC won its first Malaysian project, the 2.6 km Kuala Lumpur Metro underground tunnel from Pudu to Pasar Seni Station, and Merdeka Station. After completion of the metro line in 2016, it will take just 40 minutes to travel from Pasar Seni to the Kuala Lumpur city center. |
| 2012年 |
CEC established a subsidiary, CEC International Malaysia SDN. BHD (CIMY) to take advantage of the opportunities in Malaysia’s growing infrastructure sector. |
| 2012年03月 |
CEC completed this project ahead of schedule in March 2012, allowing the electrification of the train in August of 2013. The most technically challenging of four tunnel contracts for electrification of the Hualien-Taitung Railway, the CL314 Shan-Li Railway Tunnel Project was in the southernmost stretch of the project with a total length of 8,210 meters. The scope of work included a 5,300-meter double track tunnel, situated in a difficult to access mountain area, making geological surveys and materials transport difficult. The project encountered heavy storms that destroyed roads and supply lines to the construction site, resulting in additional time and cost to resume work. With the completion of the tunnel and railway project, the total travel time from Taipei to Taitung was reduced from 5 hours to 3.5 hours. |
| 2013年 |
CEC won its third major project in the Taichung area with CJ930 Contract, the most critical section of the Taichung Green Line Metro, which significantly reduces travel time between the Wuri High Speed Rail Station and Taichung City. Similar to CJ910, the CJ930 Contract included elevated viaducts for stations G10-G17, elevators, and escalators for all the stations of the green line. |
| 2014年 |
With the completion of the CR580A Contract, a tunnel boring project for the Taipei MRT’s Xinyi Line, CEC’s first tunnel boring project in which it did not work with international technical partners, CEC established itself as Taiwan’s leading tunnel boring machine construction contractor. The project included Daan Station, Daan Forest Park underground station, the stabling track area, and 4.14 km of tunnel boring to connect four stations. It won the Excellence Award in Construction Methods from the Taipei Municipal Government. Daan Forest Park has become a landmark on the Taipei MRT, for the way the station design blends with the natural beauty of its surroundings. |
| 2014年07月 |
With the booming property market and the reputation for quality that CEC has established over the years, it saw a significant increase in building construction work, leading to a record high US$2.13 billion in work-on-hand as of July 2014. |
| 2015年 |
CEC celebrated 70 years in business, it has defined itself as a company that accepts change and is committed to innovation. This important milestone is also a new beginning, and it looks ahead to another 70 years of path-breaking leadership in the global civil engineering and construction industry. |
| 2020年 |
殷先生投資歷史悠久的美國橋樑公司。擁有超過百年歷史的美國橋樑公司，專精於承攬需高精密技術的專業鋼骨結構工程，尤其在結構繁複的建築工事和各式橋樑的維修保養上，不斷開發並施行獨特的創新工法。其所承包的多數合約工程，包含各種橋樑、大型軍事碼頭工程、大型鋼構工程或大跨度建築等，最具指標性的像是舊金山奧克蘭海灣大橋(San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge)、伍德羅威爾遜拱橋(Woodrow Wilson Bridge)及馬基納克橋(Mackinac Bridge)，展現美國橋樑公司具有高專業價值的業務特性 (附註：該項投資已於2020年全數處分)。 |
| 2023年 |
CEC’s backlog value reached a record NT$80 billion in Q1, 2023. |
| 2025年 |
CEC signed contracts for Taipei MRT North Circular Line CF690B Project and South Circular Line CF670 Project. |
| 2025年 |
CEC reported record-high backlog of NT$130 billion. |
| 2025年 |
CEC marks its 80th anniversary—reminding ourselves that our legacy is not about resting on past success, but about continuing to create value for clients and societies and move forward. |
