Author: Peter Carlisle

Thailand’s Transport Ministry pushes master plan to construct eight new motorways that will run parallel with rail routes The Transport Ministry is calling for a detailed course of action to implement a master plan to construct eight new motorways that will run parallel with rail routes, to better improve transport links with neighbouring countries. The […]

Green Building Consulting & Engineering, sustainability consultant for winning bid design of Thailand’s Eastern Airport City Project U-Tapao We won! We’re proud to share with you that our team’s design is the winning bid design for the Eastern Airport U-Tapao Project. We joined the team alongside Varda Associates as Technical Advisors for the BBS joint […]

New Phnom Penh International Airport to employ 20,000 workers a day Prime Minister Hun Sen confirmed yesterday that the current Phnom Penh International Airport will be used only for the head of state, heads of local governments and Cambodian senior leaders, as a military airbase, for domestic flights, private jets and for diplomatic officials and […]

Contract 2.3 of Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima high-speed train project gets State Railway of Thailand approval The board of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) on Thursday (18 June 2020) approved a draft on the so-called Contract 2.3 with China to begin the construction of a high-speed train project from Bangkok to the northeastern province […]

Vietbuild expo from June 24 to 28 in HCM City to feature nearly 1,800 booths The Vietbuild International Exhibition with the theme Construction – Building materials – Real Estate – Interior and Exterior Decoration will be held in HCM City from June 24 to 28. The exhibition will have nearly 1,800 booths of more than […]

Vestas secures second EPC contract in Vietnam’s Tra Vinh province The turbine manufacturer will supply and install 12 wind turbines of 4.2MW capacity each for a new 48MW wind project Turbine manufacturer Vestas has secured its second Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contract in Vietnam. Vestas will supply and install 12 turbines of 4.2MW capacity each […]

Cambodia’s Power plant in Kandal province delayed by Covid-19 travel bans The first phase of a $380 million heavy fuel oil power plant in Kandal province’s Lvea Em district has been further delayed due to travel restrictions imposed to curve Covid-19, a Ministry of Mines and Energy senior official told The Post. Its General Department […]

Cambodia’s new Siem Reap airport 30% complete despite pandemic Construction on the new $880 million Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport (AIA) is nearly 30 per cent on schedule and on track to be finished in March 2023, the developer said. Sin Chansereyvutha, a spokesman for the State Secretariat for Civil Aviation (SSCA) told The Post on […]

Construction of Korea-Myanmar Industrial Complex to begin in 2020 Construction of the Korea-Myanmar Industrial Complex (KMIC) in Yangon is expected to commence before the end of the year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Kim Gun-Woo, general manager of Korea Land and Housing Corporation representative office in Myanmar, told The Myanmar Times. “According to our plan, we […]