Category: Construction News

Phuket’s Bluepoint Condo development, which is already confirmed as having won a prize in the asia-Pacific Property Awards, this week announced that it has won another, this time from Canada. Paul Raff Studio, the architects for Bluepoint, have won an Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) award for their design of the development’s sales pavilion. Mr Raff […]

Wind farms can cause climate change, according to new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures. Usually at night the air closer to the ground becomes colder when the sun goes down and the earth cools. But on huge wind farms the motion of the turbines mixes the […]

BRITISH Embassy staff have been ordered to leave their new £13 million luxury apartments in Bangkok after the complex became contaminated by huge amounts of harmful mould. The Foreign Office is set  to sue those in charge of the building project to recoup an estimated £3 million repair bill, after 22 of the 35 flats were evacuated […]

Capacity gain to 60m slated for 2018 The long-awaited expansion of Suvarnabhumi Airport, which should have been completed by now, looks poised to commence this year. If all goes as planned, the 62.5-billion-baht programme, adding sorely needed capacity to the congested airport, will be a step closer to reality when a project management consultant (PMC) is […]

Capacity gain to 60m slated for 2018 The long-awaited expansion of Suvarnabhumi Airport, which should have been completed by now, looks poised to commence this year. If all goes as planned, the 62.5-billion-baht programme, adding sorely needed capacity to the congested airport, will be a step closer to reality when a project management consultant (PMC) is […]

Patong Municipality has announced a plan to build a 300-million-baht reverse-osmosis (RO) water treatment plant to increase municipal water supply and cut down on the volume of wastewater released into Patong Bay, on Phuket’s west coast. Although still in the initial study stages, a decision to provide Bangkok-based firm ITR Water Solution Co Ltd with […]

The Transport Ministry has scrapped the bid for the construction of an electric railway section from Bang Sue in Bangkok to Rangsit in Pathum Thani province because the lowest quote is too high. The ministry ordered the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) to end the bidding contest to select a contractor for the 26km section […]

Bouygues Construction’s subsidiary in Thailand has signed a €100m (£82m) contract for the construction of three residential towers and an office block. Noble Development’s scheme which has a total area of 157,000m², is located in the business district of Ploenchit, in Bangkok. The three residential towers, which will have 14, 47 and 52 floors, will contain […]

To relocate discrete assembly to new site Toshiba Corporation (tokyo:6502) today announced that it will rebuild its semiconductor manufacturing operations in Thailand by relocating Toshiba Semiconductor Thailand Co., Ltd. (TST) to a new manufacturing facility. The move will position the company to meet future growth in demand and replace the factory inundated by the 2011 […]

The Bangkok Metropolitan Council has set up two committees to develop plans to deal with the threat of earthquakes. BMC president, Sutthichai Veerakulsoonthorn, said it is important for Bangkok to be prepared for natural disasters even though the capital city is a considerable distance from quake zones in Southeast Asia. “One of the committees will […]