Author: Peter Carlisle

Construction of ten more routes in Thailand’s Northeast with a budget of Bt18.6 billion was  endorsed by the Public-Private Partnership Committee meeting in this northeastern province today. Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Kittiratt Na Ranong said the committee agreed on the new infrastructure, affirming that the big-budget routes will be put in the government’s Bt2 trillion […]

Thailand-based ONYX Hospitality Group marked a key milestone in the development of one of its upcoming projects, OZO Chaweng Samui, with a ‘ground breaking’ ceremony to mark the start of construction at the project site. Located in the popular and central resort area, Chaweng, the new OZO will be the first OZO property in Thailand as […]

Foster Wheeler AG announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd. (Samsung) for a waste heat recovery unit for PTT Public Company Limited’s (PTT) Power Generation and Heat Recovery project at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Complex in Thailand. Samsung is […]

A seminar on a new electrical generating plant planned for Krabi attracted 600 people on Saturday (July 28), but villagers most likely to be affected by the plant have asked for more information relating to health and pollution impacts. The new 800-megawatt Electrical Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) facility is planned in connection with the […]

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The move comes amid discussions on whether it will maintain operations in Ayutthaya’s flood-prone Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Estate. James Phillips, the managing director of Ecco (Thailand), said the new factory in Saraburi is scheduled to be completed in September 2013. The 55-rai plot in Hemaraj Industrial Estate is 5.5 metres above sea level and […]

The oil and gas industry has had the highest number of prosecutions for bribery in the UK compared to any other sector in recent years. Five (almost 20%) of the 26 cases of bribery and graft prosecuted since 2008 were in the oil and gas sector. Other top offending sectors were construction, medical goods and insurance […]

Parliament will invite more bidders to vie for the contract to construct the new building in the Kiakkai area for a budget of 12 billion baht, he said. The project has so far attracted only four bidders _ Italian-Thai Development Plc, Syntec Construction Plc, Power Line Engineering Plc and Sino-Thai Engineering & Construction Plc. Construction […]