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Laos Launches 500kV Transmission Line with Plan to Connect with Cambodia
- 7 January 2023
Yunnan Energy Investment (HK) Co Ltd has launched a 500kV transmission line in the southern Lao province of Champasak and connected to a substation in Khong district on the Laos-Cambodian border, according to Laos' Vientiane Time on 5 January. Mr Chanthaboun Soukaloun, Managing Director of Electricite du Laos (EDL), said the 500-kilovolt transmission line and substation project was the first o...
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Infrastructure Projects in Southeast Asia Named as Finalists in Bentley Systems’ 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure
- 13 November 2022
Winners to Be Selected and Announced on Nov. 15 as Part of Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced several projects from Southeast Asia, India, and Japan as finalists in Bentley’s 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure. The annual awards program honours the extraordinary work of ...
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Industry partners use ORNL software to trim carbon footprint of buildings
- 30 September 2022
Two years after the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided a model of nearly every building in America, commercial partners are using the tool for tasks ranging from designing energy-efficient buildings and cities to linking energy efficiency to real estate value and risk. International companies like Google and SmithGroup are sharing the benefits by making the resultin...
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Going Digital, for Infrastructure Resilience!
- 27 August 2022
The opportunity now is to institutionalize going digital not only within our organizations but also towards “future-proofing” our world’s assets with respect to economic and environmental dependencies. As we look forward at the outset of 2022, having endured an unanticipated and unexpectedly protracted global pandemic, we should prioritize making the most of what we’ve learned in response to vuln...
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Singapore Launching First Taxi Drone Service in Early 2024
- 13 July 2022
Singapore will use a modern and innovative way of transporting tourists to get new experiences and excitement with a 12-kilometre air drone that can fly up to two passengers. According to The Straits Time published on 12 July. This type of taxi drone was developed by the German company Volocopter and is expected to go public in Singapore in early or mid-2024. This taxi drone will initially b...
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60,000 ATTEND SHANGHAI EXPO
- 16 July 2016
The International Building & Construction Trade Fair 2016 welcomed 60,000 visitors over four days between 23-26 March at the National Convention & Exhibition Center in Shanghai. Over 400 companies exhibited at the one of the biggest expos in China over an area of 80,000 square metres showcasing customised furnishing, doors & windows, hardware, smart homes, machinery and wall decorat...
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SWEAT FREE SITE WEAR WINS PRIZE
- 10 July 2016
A Hong Kong company has won a prestigious international prize after inventing breathable work clothing for construction workers in to reduce heat-related incidents in hot and high humidity environments. Heat in Southeast Asia leads to a higher number of heat-related health incidents in the construction industry than in other industries because workers often take their shirts off. Hong Kong P...
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INDONESIA HALTS RAIL PROJECT AFTER 5 DAYS
- 7 April 2016
The Indonesian government has halted work on the controversial Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail project just five days after the ground-breaking ceremony. The chaotic bidding process for the $5 billion project saw the government first halt the bid in favour of a cheaper local line before then finally awarding the bitterly contested bid to China over Japan. The Indonesian transport ministry confi...
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AIIB OPENS FOR BUSINESS
- 7 April 2016
Chinese President, Xi Jinping officially launched the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing on 16 January in a move expected to change the global economic balance of power. “Asia’s financing needs for basic infrastructure are absolutely enormous,” Xi said in a speech at the launch, adding the bank would aim to invest in projects that were “high-quality, low-cost”. The Chines...
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