Author: Peter Carlisle

Salcon Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Salcon Engineering Bhd, through its joint venture company Hydrotek-Salcon Consortium, has been awarded construction works worth RM21.991 million in Thailand. The award is from the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) for the construction of reservoirs for Phet Kasem and Rat Burana distribution pumping stations and related works in Bangkok. “The Eighth Bangkok […]

Temporary expansion at Phuket International Airport is to begin from October to cope with record numbers of passengers expected on Phuket in 2012 and beyond. With Phuket likely to reach eight million arrivals and departures this year, based on projections by Phuketwan, airport managers Airports of Thailand now have to stretch the capacity of the […]

Bangkok Post reported that Switzerland based Global Steel Dust is investing up to USD 35 million to build Thailand’s first steel dust recycling plant in the Eastern Seaboard to help make the country’s growing steel industry more environmentally friendly without the need to landfill hazardous waste. Mr Russ Robinson CEO of Global Steel Dust said […]

The Central Administrative Court is set to deliver a verdict in a landmark case in which Pathum Wan district office is accused of falsely certifying over a period of more than 15 years that Bangkok’s Soi Ruamrudee is more than 10 metres wide to facilitate the illegal construction of several skyscrapers. In the final court […]

Black & Veatch to support 1,500 MW power plant expansions in Thailand Marubeni Corp. has selected Black & Veatch to support the balance-of-plant design and procurement for the 1,500 MW expansion of two combined-cycle power plants in Thailand. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand owns both plants. The projects involve adding a new 780 MW […]

US-based Miyamoto International sounds the alarm on disaster readiness and says Bangkok is not immune from earthquakes The Thai property industry has seen disaster awareness heighten against the backdrop of current flooding in Thailand and the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Both the public and private sectors are looking to retrofit and strengthen buildings, […]

The Transport Ministry is setting up plans for a multi-billion-baht third ring road for Bangkok and surrounding provinces, which will feature a canal in lieu of a traffic island to alleviate flooding. Transport permanent secretary Supoj Saplom yesterday unveiled the six-lane, 280-kilometre-long ring road project that will cost an estimated 150 billion baht. It will […]

 The Taiwan-based Tycoons Group Enterprise Co., Ltd., a large-sized steelmaker, has planned to construct an electric steelmaking plant in Thailand, in an effort to enhance its vertical integration to better compete in the country. Already approved by the local competent authorities and estimated to cost between NT$1.7 billion and NT$2 billion, the construction plan is […]

Security checkpoints at Suvarnabhumi are undergoing dramatic changes under a 155-million-baht makeover designed to remove the bottlenecks choking traffic at one of Asia’s busiest airports. When construction of the new “centralised security screen checkpoints” is completed in March of next year, security screening for outgoing passengers will get a significant boost. The service area will […]