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City Hall Unveils Improved Facilities
- 9 July 2016
To enhance efficiency and centralise operations, Phnom Penh Municipality officially opened its new administrative building and underground parking facility in early April. Construction on the City Hall-funded, 12-storey, 51-metre high building began in June 2015 and was completed in January 2016. With a total floor area of 11,310 square metres, this architectural masterpiece combined Khmer and ...
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Cces Asphalt Batching Plant: on the Road for Further Growth
- 9 July 2016
tab-stops:14.15pt" class="CM2"> mso-font-width:98%">CCES Engineering Services Co., Ltd which started out strongly in telecommunication equipment installation services in 2010, has now become a major part of Cambodia infrastructure development in the roads sector. tab-stops:14.15pt" class="CM2"> "Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-width:98%">Since Cambodia is pumping more funding into road...
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Quality Improvement Needed Amid Construction Boom
- 9 July 2016
Over the last decade, the construction industry in Phnom Penh has been growing quite notably. More and more high-rise buildings, sub-cities, and boreys have been continuously and progressively built and old buildings have been replaced by the new. At the same time as this rapid growth, Phnom Penh citizens are increasingly recognising that many complaints about standards are coming out after bui...
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Brother P-touch: Tough Labels for Tough Jobs
- 9 July 2016
Labelling on cables, wires, walls and many other applications can be troublesome and confusing if they are hand-made. But with the P-touch labelling machine, labelling for any tough job is now easy. Designed and produced by Brother Industries, Ltd., the leading Japanese electronics manufacturer, P-touch is designed to handle labelling tasks for any kind of work including in the construction ind...
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Planning for the Future
- 9 July 2016
Hun Chansan, design director for Re-Edge Design + Architect and architecture lecturer at Limkokwing University shares his thoughts on the future of construction and architecture in Cambodia. The Phnom Penh Urban Planning Master Plan was unveiled last year to guide the city’s development until 2035. What are the positive and negative aspects you see in the plan and what would you like to see cha...
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Jv Expands Base for Precast Concrete
- 9 July 2016
Cambodian-owned Phnom Penh Precast Plants inked a joint venture deal in early March with leading Thai construction company Vcon Group to diversify its products and gaining a stronger foothold in the market. Phnom Penh Precast Plants expects this joint venture to improve investor confidence and widen its customer base. In addition to the high quality poles, piles, and pipes the firm has been pro...
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New Cbd Slated for Capital
- 5 April 2016
According to a filing to the ASX by developer Kingsland Global Ltd, an agreement with a subsidiary of Shukaku Inc has been signed to develop 10,000 square metres of undisclosed prime real estate in Phnom Penh’s “central business district”. The agreement paves the way for a JV to build a mixed use development to include a hotel, residential units, retail outlets and office space according to the...
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Thailand and Uk Create Anti-corruption Initiative
- 5 April 2016
The British Embassy in Bangkok and Thailand’s State Enterprise Policy Office have co-hosted a seminar on the Construction Sector Transparency (CoST) Initiative. Last year Thailand signed up to become the 14th member country of CoST, a global initiative to reduce corruption in the construction industry. Mark Kent, British Ambassador to Thailand, said, “it is a challenging process, with constr...
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Construction Law Draft Complete
- 5 April 2016
The Council of Ministers will soon receive the draft Construction Law which may be passed into legislation by mid-2016 according to senior government advisor Sok Siphana. “There are about 300 articles of the draft and we have taken models from many countries and adapted them to meet the requirements in our country,” Mr. Siphana said. “Many laws from foreign countries do not fit the situation he...
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Bosch’s 2015 Sales Surpass €70bn
- 1 April 2016
Robert Bosch, a world leader in technologies and services, announced that its 2015 sales exceeded €70 billion for the first time in its history—marking a 10 percent growth against 2014 sales of about €65 billion. Driven mainly by an increasing number of solutions for the connected world, the growth varied among its four business divisions, according to the company’s press release published in e...
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