Thailand is racing to implement water management schemes costing 300 billion baht (6.0 billion pounds) to prevent a repeat of last year’s flood disaster, but companies want to see even more haste while some experts say things shouldn’t be rushed. Thailand’s worst flooding in at least five decades forced the closure of seven industrial estates […]
Continue ReadingAfter a 10-month delay, the 450-million-baht TU Dome Plaza will be opened for business in March, with a break-even period of eight years. Ittiphon Dharakasem, the managing director of PB Plus Property Co, developer of TU Dome Plaza, said it is fortunate the project launch was delayed from last year even though the great floods […]
Continue ReadingChonburi Concrete Product targets revenue growth of 15-20 per cent to between Bt2.7 billion and Bt2.8 billion this year on strong demand for building materials to renovate both residences and factories in the wake of the recent disastrous flood. Managing director Chakrit Theepakornsukkasame told a group interview on Tuesday that 40 per cent of revenue […]
Continue ReadingMitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. (MGC; Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Kazuo Sakai) has established a subsidiary for the production of electronic materials in the Kingdom of Thailand. The construction of the production plant for copper clad laminates and prepregs will begin in May 2012 and is scheduled for completion in April 2013. Following prototyping […]
Continue ReadingThe housing market will improve slightly this year, with more than 80,000 units of new supply serving pent-up demand from last year’s fourth quarter and the higher incomes of civil servants. Sopon Pornchokchai, president of the property consultant Agency for Real Estate Affairs (AREA), said last year’s floods affected 23 housing projects which were subsequently […]
Continue ReadingFlooding will be the main theme of the Architect ’12 fair, featuring flood-escape housing design, a trend toward ceramic tile instead of wood, and redesigned mechanical and engineering systems. Chalay Kunawong, vice-president of the Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage (ASA), said flooding was the hot issue with the public, so Architect ’12 would […]
Continue ReadingInnovative oil refinery, storage tanks on the cards One Anametrics Intertrade will invest in a new type of oil refinery and storage tanks worth Bt12 billion in total over the next five years. Saran Nithijinda, chairman of One Anametrics and managing director of S-One Petrochemical, said yesterday that the company would invest in a Bt3-billion […]
Continue ReadingDisassembly of the first ever TBM to be used in Laos is nearly complete following the November 2010 breakthrough of CMC di Ravenna’s 7.6m diameter Robbins Single Shield machine used to construct the 5.5km long headrace tunnel for the Theun Hinboun Expansion Project on the Nam Theun River. The machine broke through on November 21 […]
Continue ReadingAECOM was ranked No. 1 tunneling consultant in Asia, No. 2 consultant in the world and No. 4 in Australasia, by Tunnels & Tunnelling International magazine in its 2011 Annual Listings. AECOM Technology Corporation, a leading provider of professional technical and management support services for government and commercial clients around the world, was ranked No. […]
Continue ReadingAECOM has been appointed by Ch. Karnchang Public Company Limited (CK), one of the largest civil contractors in Thailand, to be its design consultant for the underground civil infrastructure works of the Bangkok Mass Rapid Transit Blue Line Extension: Contract 2 – Sanam Chai to Tha Phra Section, Underground Civil Works and Contract 5 – […]
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