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Lighthouse Club Illuminates Site Safety
Cambodia is one of the most exciting markets in Southeast Asia and has experienced unprecedented political stability and growth in the last two decades and is one of the fastest growing economies worldwide. Latest reports from the World Bank are estimating Cambodian GDP growth for 2015 at 7.1 percent, with the strongest growth expected in the construction sector.
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Construction Safety: Minimizing the Hazards
Despite the building boom in Cambodia, very few construction workers and some project supervisors pay much attention to the risks they can face on construction sites.
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Tsurumi: The Expert Pump For Building Works
Tsurumi pumps are globally renowned as the best Japanese pump brand for specialised use on various works including construction and agriculture.
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Designing a Better Infrastructure Future for Cambodia With An Australia Awards Scholarship
Poverty has decreased in Cambodia from 53 percent of the population in 2004 to less than 20 percent today. However, the Cambodian people have limited access to sanitation, good roads and electricity due to poor infrastructure development. Building quality infrastructure is critical to the continued development of Cambodia and the country needs professional Cambodians with good knowledge, experience and a passion to improve fellow Cambodians’ lives and livelihoods. People like Oung Ponnaka, an Australia Awards alumnus, whose work focuses on rural infrastructure projects such as irrigation, road construction and small community buildings throughout Cambodia, benefiting thousands of Cambodians.
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Speco to Assist Cambodia?s Aec Road Works
Countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) need to collaborate in creating more road, rail and maritime links to connect with the major transport routes in each country in order to create true connectivity, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB). India recently announced plans to build a highway running from Kolkata to Ho Chi Minh City via Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. It is a grand opportunity especially for Cambodia which will see many more international and regional infrastructure development projects across the country as it prepares to merge with the region.
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Buildtech Asia 15 Showcases Smart Builds
Based in an advanced construction market, Singapore’s BuildTech Asia 2015 expo showcases the latest developments in construction technologies and materials for a smart built environment.
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China Aims to Equip World With High-speed Trains
China is currently in talks with 28 countries about high-speed rail projects, China CNR Corporation announced in February. Yu Weiping, one of the state-owned train manufacturer’s vice presidents, described the most promising projects as being in Russia, Thailand, and India.
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Safety Central to Scaffolding
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.
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China to Spend Us$1.1 Trillion on Infrastructure in 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.
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Pushing The Boundary Of Today’s Home
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.
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