Energy and Environment
Cambodia, Japan Officially Sign Construction Contract for Choeung Ek Wastewater Treatment Plant
The Phnom Penh Department of Public Works and Transport (DPWT) and Kubota Metawater Joint Venture officially signed a construction contract on Tuesday 20 April for a large-scale wastewater treatment plant at Choeung Ek Lake in the southern part of Phnom Penh. Construction is expected to begin by the end of the month. The signing ceremony […]
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Top Five Green Buildings of 2021
Photo credit to Procore Since climate change has become one of the major issues of our world, architects around the world are turning their designs into innovative, eco-friendly, and green buildings. US construction project management software firm Procore Technologies, Inc. has listed their top five innovative green building in 2021: Valley in the Netherlands This […]
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Why Don’t We Build the World’s Largest Solar Farm in the Sahara Desert?
Photo: Aerial view of a large concentrated solar power plant. Novikov Aleksey/Shutterstock. Credit to the conversation. Renewable energy from solar panels has now become one of the most popular energy alternatives. However, solar farm require large space and strong light. So, why don’t we build a large-scale solar farm on the world’s largest desert in […]
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New Zealand Firm Unveils Tyres-to-Cement Production Technology
A New Zealand construction company Fletcher Building has recently completed a study to divert used tyres from landfill to cement manufacture, which could help reduce carbon emissions by over 13,000 tons per year. According to the Global Construction Review’s report on 1 April, the company will burn a total of 3 million used tyres a […]
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Japanese Firm Wins Bid for Choeung Ek Wastewater Treatment Plant Construction Work
A Japanese private company Kubota Metawater Joint Venture has won a bid to construct a US$27 million large-scale wastewater treatment plant at Choeung Ek Lake in the southern part of Phnom Penh. The bidding ceremony was held in Tokyo, Japan on 12 April. With the capacity to treat water up to 5,000 cubic metres/day, the […]
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Cambodia Produces Over 8.5 Billion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity in 2020
Cambodia produced over 8.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity through various power plants such as coal-fired and hydropower plants over the course of 2020, a slight decrease of approximately 1.87% compared to 2019, according to Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen’s recent keynote issued on 5 April. He added that the number of houses connected to the […]
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Special Features Making PP-SHV Expressway a Green Development Project
Xinhua Net has recently reported that the under-construction US$2 billion Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway could become one of the greenest infrastructure projects in Cambodia due to three special features. 1. Eco-friendly Technology At the quarry site, the company installed dust collectors to suck out the dust and store it in a sewage sedimentation tank. After the […]
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Apsara Field’s Oil Production Lower Than Expectation, Affecting Firm’s Restructuring Plans
The oil production from five wells in Cambodia’s Apsara Field is lower than expected, providing less revenue and affecting the firm’s restructuring plan, according to a KrisEnergy announcement on 31 March. KrisEnergy said in the announcement that it is evaluating and revising plans to make sure oil production hits the target. The Apsara oil field […]
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ADB Solid Waste Management Project in Kep 75% Complete, Operational by October 2021
The 8-hectare landfill, or solid waste management, project in Kep province is now 75% complete and scheduled to finish by October this year. Construction site manager Tith Tikea said that the project is located in Sangkat Prey Thom, Kep city and is being constructed with financial aid from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). “Phase 1 […]
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ADB Receives US$300 million for Green Projects in ASEAN, Cambodia Included
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has recently received US$300 million from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for its ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility’s (ACGF) Green Recovery Programme. Cambodia is one of the locations where ADB will implement a 40-megawatt solar power plant. The project is currently in public bidding procedure, according to the Ministry of […]
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