The "Links Community Concept" is introduced to emerging market mega—cities when there is a clear and growing demand for expatriate services. Projects of this quality and scope can take up to three years to plan properly and another three years to build. Because of the high operating standards involved, every project and its various components must be strategically orchestrated within the local environment. The impact of infrastructure such as roads, airports,utilities, and the like is a key factor in determining a community's success. Every site must be chosen and planned in the context of existing and future infrastructure.

What are the principal elements that contribute to the success of Sealand’s "Links Community Concept"?

Site selection, master-planning, design, and engineering to provide optimum solutions for:
Specification (Hardware): Western standard building systems and products to ensure the highest standards of :
Operations Management: Western-trained professionals are in control of facilitating the core operating functions. This ensures consistently high standards of services such as utilities, property management, security, etc.
Sealand provides and manages on a day-to-day basis corporate housing in a landscaped setting which features all the necessary amenities that expatriate families would be accustomed to back at home.
Poor living conditions are a significant issue for expatriate managers and their families, and pose a human resource problem for the multinational corporation.
The fully integrated expatriate residential community resemlrles the expatriate manager's lifestyle back at home.
All municipal services and utilities are engineered, imported, constructed, and managed to western standards.
Facilities management is under Sealand's control and is therefore maintained at a consistently high standard.
Servicing expatriate lifestyle needs by providing recreation, healthcare, and education
Eflective planning, architecture, and engineering are the key elements to suceesfully implementing western standard management operating systems.
Management Cantinuityc is a critical factor in a company’s success, especially for start-up operatios.
Creating soft infrastructure benefits the multi national corporation, the expatriate family, and most significantly, the emerging market economies.
Solid baking form four of the largest financial institutions in the world