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Safety Central to Scaffolding
- 31 December 2015
A major challenge and requirement in construction nowadays is to meet safety standards. However, there are still various shoring and scaffolding companies and systems who did not yet realise how important safety is to scaffolding and the benefits from it. Scaffolds are temporarily used construction tools which are utilised as working platforms, shoring for formwork or assembly work. It is used ...
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China to Spend Us$1.1 Trillion on Infrastructure in 2015
- 31 December 2015
China will spend US$1.1 trillion on accelerating 300 infrastructure projects in 2015. The move has been widely seen as an attempt by the government to boost growth in an economy that has the potential to slip below 7 percent for the first time in more than 20 years. The projects were approved supposedly as part of a broader 400-venture, 10 trillion yuan plan to run from late 2014 through 2016 w...
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Pushing The Boundary Of Today’s Home
- 31 December 2015
A house by definition is a shelter built to house people from the harsh environment it is in. A house usually has four walls with clearly defined functional spaces such as an entrance foyer, car porch, living room, dining room, kitchen and bedroom etc… and outside the house there are the outdoor spaces with some landscape design. The indoor and outdoor spaces are clearly separated by plastered ...
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Vinci Win a Further High-rise Building Construction Contract in Malaysia
- 31 December 2015
The Malaysian property developer Jesselton Group has awarded to VINCI Construction Grands Projets the construction of a 125,000 sqm mixed-use development on the Kota Kinabalu seafront in northern Borneo. The project covers a 7-storey podium over two underground levels that will house a 20,000 sqm shopping centre and more than 900 parking spaces, as well as a complex made up of three 20-storey r...
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Chinese Firm 3d Prints Entire Villa
- 31 December 2015
Last March, Shanghai firm WinSun Decoration Design Engineering caused a sensation when it printed the components for 10 houses in a single day. Now, Global Construction Review reports, it has achieved another world first by printing an entire villa measuring 1,100 sqm, and not only that, but a five-storey apartment building, as well. The firm unveiled the structures at a press conference in ...
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Kng Bring Bomag to Cambodia
- 31 December 2015
A partnership deal between Cambodia-based machinery supplier Kong Nuon Group Co., Ltd (KNG) and German infrastructure machinery producer BOMAG has brought the world-class earth work machinery and equipment onto the Cambodian market. The deal, signed in early September 2015, appointed KNG as BOMAG’s sole distributor in Cambodia with both parties aiming to capitalise on the kingdom’s rapid constr...
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Uk, China to Probe Building Materials That Could Help Save the World
- 31 December 2015
Chinese and British scientists have joined forces to probe concrete that can sense itself and eat pollution, and also glass that might regulate a building’s temperature better, saving huge amounts of energy. Late last year, the UK announced it would give US$4.5m to six research projects, each a collaboration between British and Chinese academics. Nine universities in China and nine in the UK ar...
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Muhibbah to Build $200 Million Expressway
- 31 December 2015
Muhibbah has won the bid to build a $200-million expressway connecting Phnom Penh’s downtown to National Road 4 and the capital’s airport. Stretching over 14km, the 24 metre wide, 4 lane (2 lanes for each direction plus space for broken-down vehicles to park) highway will connect Toul Kork Roundabout to National Road No. 4 with a link to Phnom Penh International Airport, said Lok Oknha Hann Khi...
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The Improvement of Electricity Supply in Cambodia
- 31 December 2015
With the rapid economic growth and development of Cambodia between 1999 and 2013, electricity demand has been forecasted to grow at 17.9 percent annually from 2012 to 2020. Most of Cambodia’s electrical supply comes from heavy fuel oil and diesel oil generators and imported electricity from Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos. Cambodia’s hydropower generation is quickly growing and in 2014 the country’...
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Cambuild?15 Attracts Almost 10,000 Visitors
- 31 December 2015
CAMBUILD, now in its fifth year as one of Cambodia’s biggest international building, construction and M&E industry shows, attracted over 9,000 trade visitors including architects and professionals from contractor firms, according to the company. Hosted on 10-12 September 2015 at Cambodia’s iconic Diamond Island Exhibition Center under the theme “Innovation & Solutions on Building, Const...
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