Category: Construction News

Alstom has been awarded a new Long Term Service Agreement (LTSA) as well as an extension of a Long Term Parts Agreement (LTPA) by Gulf Power Generation Company Limited (Gulf Power) for its Kaeng Khoi II power plant in Thailand. With a combined value of over €160 million, the new extension agreements will see Alstom […]

Shizuoka Gas Participates in IPP Project Company in Thailand Shizuoka Gas Company, Ltd. (“Shizuoka Gas”) has acquired 28% issued shares of Eastern Power and Electric Company Limited (“EPEC”), an IPP (“Independent Power Producer”) project company in Thailand, from a subsidiary of Marubeni Corporation (President: Mr. Fumiya Kokubu) through a newly incorporated subsidiary of Shizuoka Gas. […]

Cruise ship facilities on Phuket have been below standard for decades Photo by phuketwan.com PHUKET: Thailand’s Cabinet has given the green light to the improvement of Phuket Deep Seaport to enable the facility to accommodate bigger cruise ships while also considering the construction of a similar port in Krabi or Samui. Following the Cabinet meeting, Deputy […]

A Silom Line train stops at Pho Nimit station on Ratchaphruek Road. (Bangkok Post file photo) The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration on Tuesday officially announced the route for the next phase of the BTS Silom line extension to serve commuters in Thon Buri. The route was selected among three proposed at the BMA’s second public hearing […]

AirAsia Bhd aircraft stand next to boarding gates at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 in Sepang, Malaysia in this 2014 file photo. Airline executives complain the $1 billion budget-airline terminal is sinking, with cracks appearing in the taxiway and water forming pools that planes must drive through. (Bloomberg photo) KUALA LUMPUR — A new budget-airline […]

Protesters end rally but vow to monitor joint panel set u to review power project RIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha’s order to put the Krabi coal-fired power plant project on hold brought an end to the protest outside Government House last night, a rally organiser said. Anti-coal activist Prasitchai Noonual said the protesters were happy with […]

Jarken Co., Ltd., a leading Thai design and architecture firm, has been awarded a 2015 Top 10 Architects Award at the annual BCI Media Group (Asia) Awards ceremony, which recognizes the top architectural firms and developers that had the greatest impact on commercial and residential real estate in Southeast Asia over the past 12 months. […]

Listed and non-listed property firms plan to launch new condominium projects in Bangkok and its suburbs worth more than Bt100 billion in the second half of this year after condo projects in those areas recorded total sales worth Bt101.4 billion in the first half of the year, up 72 per cent from the same period […]

Thailand has announced that applications for solar farm licenses will be open to the public sector early 2016. A FIT of $0.16/kWh has been slated for 25 years. Director-General of the Energy Policy and Planning Office Twarath Sutabutr has  stated that his office expects to grant a total of 800 MW of licenses Thailand-wide. Applicants […]