Category: Construction News

Singapore-based Dalvey Development plans to invest more in the Thai condominium market with a 1-billion-baht annual budget for new projects. The company is shrugging off political uncertainties, noting that Thailand is a very attractive market with high growth potential. Moreover, property prices remain low when compared to neighbouring countries, said business development manager Noel Goh. […]

The 5.3km-long Taksin-Phetchakasem skytrain extension construction, for which the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) invested some Bt7.5 million, will be complete and ready for public service on December 5, 2012. BMA Govorner M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra and city executives Tuesday inspected the Pho Nimit station construction site which was in the process of placing the railway. He […]

Bang Buathong site sought for big plant The property developer Pruksa Real Estate Plc (PS) is looking for a large piece of land in the Bang Buathong area for a new precast concrete factory in the next two years, according to Jutha Promchinwong, the company’s deputy managing director. It wants a plot of around 200 […]

The Energy Ministry assured the Cabinet Tuesday that the gas leakage off Rayong’s coast would not lead to higher electricity bills to the public, though several power plants will need to shift to more expensive bunker oil following the suspension of the first gas transmission pipeline. Government spokesman Panithan Wattanayakorn said that the Energy Ministry […]

Retrofitted buildings more competitive New building control regulations covering retrofits to enhance earthquake preparedness will help to boost confidence among users and tenants and make the structures more competitive. Buildings erected before 2007 will be allowed to meet only those earthquake resistance standards in force at the time of construction and will not have to […]

Growing demand also brings about high competition The route from the Phloenchit intersection to Sukhumvit Soi 55 or Thonglor is seeing high competition among property developers as they launch condominium projects worth more than Bt100 billion, with more than 10,000 units. Since last year nearly 100 projects have been launched in the area by both […]

Thailand’s largest energy conglomerate PTT Public Company’s impaired natural gas pipeline from a natural gas processing platform in the Gulf of Thailand, leaking since Saturday afternoon, may affect power generation of about 3,000 megawatts, or 4-5 power plants, according to Suthat Pattamasiriwat, director of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). To tackle the problem, […]

Thailand’s largest energy conglomerate PTT Public Company’s impaired natural gas pipeline from a natural gas processing platform in the Gulf of Thailand, leaking since Saturday afternoon, may affect power generation of about 3,000 megawatts, or 4-5 power plants, according to Suthat Pattamasiriwat, director of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). To tackle the problem, […]