Twenty homes,
one narrow lane.

We are Modern Lao Sole Co., Ltd., incorporated and resident in Vientiane Capital. The firm was founded in 2017 by Benjamin Soo and Greg Nolan; Gary Lynn Snider serves as Managing Director and is on every active site each week. Five core staff carry the work end to end — director, head engineer, site engineer, and two architects. Twenty private residences delivered to Lao families, foreign residents, and diplomatic missions. One narrow lane: residential design and construction in Vientiane.

We work in deliberately small numbers because the model demands it. Intake is selective; we decline projects we cannot supervise in person. Drawings, structural engineering, MEP coordination, site supervision, and milestone payments are produced in-house — nothing routes through a subcontracted main contractor. Each milestone payment releases against a build-quality checklist signed at the site, and a weekly progress report goes to the client whether they ask for it or not. The price at handover matches the price at signing.

Our clients are typically foreign-Lao couples building their first long-term home in Laos, alongside Lao families, resident expatriates, and the occasional diplomatic mission. Homes run one to three storeys, 140 to 400 square metres, across Vientiane Capital — new build, renovation, and extension. Many clients reach us still researching, still cautious, before any money has moved. That is when we prefer the conversation to begin: drawings reviewed, contract read, references checked, then a decision.

Founders Benjamin Soo and Greg Nolan established the practice in 2017 to bring single-room-of-people accountability to private residential construction in Vientiane — a city where most homes pass through layered subcontracting and the price at handover does not match the price at signing. We hold the drawings, the engineering, the site, and the money trail in-house, for the duration of the build, on every project.

Gary Lynn Snider, Managing Director, is the day-to-day signatory on every active build and is on each site each week. The senior engineer carries credentials from a 40-storey commercial bank tower, a 250-room hotel, and several five-star resorts; we apply that same standard to a 200-square-metre family home — quietly, and without the volume that erodes it. Twenty private residences delivered to date — to Lao families, foreign-Lao couples, resident expatriates, and the occasional diplomatic mission.

The practice is deliberately small. Intake is selective; we decline projects we cannot supervise in person. Drawings, structural engineering, MEP coordination, site supervision, and milestone payments produced under one roof — nothing routes through a subcontracted main contractor. Each milestone payment releases against a build-quality checklist signed at the site, and a weekly progress report goes to the client whether they ask for it or not.