The 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 – […]
Continue ReadingToyota Motor Corp said Tuesday that it would spend 16.9 billion yen (220 million dollars) on the construction of a new vehicle production plant in Thailand to meet growing demand. The new factory, Gateway Plant No 2, is scheduled to start operations in mid-2013 with an annual production capacity of some 70,000 units, Toyota said […]
Continue ReadingA Thai company, Hydrotek, an engineering firm, says it is planning to enter the water-management business in Burma, which is underdeveloped and will grow in the near future. Chief executive officer Slib Soongswang told The Nation newspaper in Bangkok the company will focus on Burma and Laos, because they are similar to Thailand 30 years […]
Continue ReadingSuggestions that prolonged flooding in Bangkok late last year was the main cause of the recent partial collapse of a building under construction was ruled out yesterday by the secretary general of the Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT). “If the flooding was the major reason, other nearby buildings would not stand firm like this. From […]
Continue ReadingConstruction of a 750 km standard gauge line from Bangkok to Chiang Mai is the largest single project included in a 400bn baht programme of infrastructure investment announced by the government on January 10. Comprising 128 different work packages for completion by 2016, the programme includes a range of other public transport, road and flood […]
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