Ministry Orders Gold Tower 42 to Suspend Construction

• 21 November 2019
• Local News
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The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) issued a temporary moratorium on the construction of the Gold Tower 42 on 20 November and ordered the company to fulfill the required safety conditions before construction could resume.

The letter ordered Lee Sun-hum, a representative of Yon Woo (Cambodia), the owner of Gold Tower 42, to suspend construction from the date of the issued letter, and instructed him to meet the following criteria:

• To remove the cargo lift along the public road
• To work with a specialist company in the field of site security to evaluate and validate the site

Gold Tower 42, located on lot 60 and lot 154 on Preah Sihanouk Boulevard on the corner of Monivong Boulevard, cannot continue construction unless approved by the MLMUPC, the ministry said.

There was recently a case of a metal pole falling from Gold Tower 42 and impaling itself in a car parked in front of a shop near the site. Luckily there were no injuries as a result, but construction laws and inspections have been tightened following the collapse of a building under construction in Sihanoukville.

The 42-storey Gold Tower, worth US$240 million, has been under construction since 2008 and was suspended in 2010 during the global financial crisis.  Construction activities resumed almost a decade later in early 2018 and Yon Woo said the building was expected to be completed by the end of 2020.

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