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ខ្មែរ Construction Focus
New Siem Reap International Airport 35% Complete, On Schedule
- 23 December 2020
As of 23 December, construction of the new Siem Reap Angkor International Airport (AIAI) is 35% complete and expected to finish in March 2023 as scheduled. According to the site inspection by State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) HE Mao Havannall on 23 December, construction on the airport is proceeding smoothly despite the pandemic. During the inspection, Angkor International Airport I...
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Plan floated for Island Mosaic in Penang, Malaysia
- 23 December 2020
A team of Danish and Malaysian architects and engineers has won a competition to design a masterplan for a 1,800-hectare artificial island development on Penang in the Malaccan strait in Malaysia. The BiodiverCity project will feature villages for 16,000 residents along 25km of waterfront, 4.6km of public beaches and 240ha of parks. Homes will be built from low-carbon materials and energy wi...
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26 Companies Compete to Develop Indonesian Airport
- 19 December 2020
With the Indonesian government planning to transform Lombok Airport to drive the tourism business on the island as a second choice to Bali, 26 companies have expressed interest in bidding to develop and operate the new airport. The US$700-million project has attracted world-leading contractors such as Bechtel and Vinci (the latter which has developed Cambodia’s airports) and airport operators i...
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Thailand Offers Residency Via Condo Purchase System
- 18 December 2020
In a process approved at the end of November, Thailand is to offer residency visas to foreigners purchasing condos or apartments in a bid to shore up the declining real estate sector and shift completed stock for two years starting in 2021. According to Somchai Soongswang, president of Thailand Privilege Card, buyers will be given a free or discounted five-year residency visa valued at THB500,0...
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French Architect Proposes World’s Tallest Carbon Sink Tower in New York
- 5 December 2020
French architecture firm Rescubika has recently proposed an over 730-metre-tall carbon sink tower in Manhattan called Mandragora. If built, the project will become the world’s tallest environmentally friendly skyscraper, covered in over 10,000 plants and absorbing more CO2 than it releases. With a design inspired by the mandrake plant, Mandragora goes beyond being carbon-neutral but instead wil...
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Construction on Vietnam’s Largest Airport Project to Begin Next Month
- 20 November 2020
The US$4 billion Long Thanh International Airport project, Vietnam’s largest airport, will break ground next month, according to VnExpress. Located about 40km east of Ho Chi Minh City in Dong Nai province, the airport will be built on an area of 1,800 hectares. The first phase includes the construction of a 75-metre wide, 4-kilometre long runway and a 373,000-sq-m terminal designed to serve ...
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World’s Longest Rail and Road Tunnel Approved
- 7 November 2020
The world’s longest combined rail and road tunnel project connecting northern Germany to Denmark costing US$8-billion has been recently approved, according to The Local on 03 November. The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link is an 18-kilometre submarine link between the two countries constructed under an investment of US$8 billion, funded by Denmark and the European Union. The project is expected to ope...
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Singapore Launches Track & Trace for Construction Workers
- 5 November 2020
In an effort to halt the spread of COVID-19 among the mostly foreign construction workforce in the country, Singapore started distributed 450,000 contact-tracing tags on 18 October to all construction, shipyard and process industry workers. The workers wear the water-resistant tag on their wrist so any worker who comes into close contact with them can be identified via Singapore’s TraceTogether...
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Construction of 500-hectare Kampong Speu Industrial Zone Begins
- 22 October 2020
The construction of OCIC’s 500-hectare industrial zone project located between National Roads 51 and 44 has begun, according to the project manager Kou Borin. Mr Kou Borin told Construction & Property Magazine on 21 October that the working team are currently filling in the land and preparing some of the project’s internal infrastructure. “Besides a factory and residential area, this ind...
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Floods Damage More Than 90 Roads Nationwide
- 16 October 2020
According to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, as of 15 October, at least 90 roads or over 200 sections nationwide have been affected by floods. In the meantime, the ministry is temporarily fixing some sections and will re-evaluate some others after the waters recede. These damaged roads are at least 300 kilometres long in total, including National Roads 2, 3, 4, 5, 20, 20A, 21, 21A, ...
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