Largest Property Brand Worldwide Arrives to Lead Market
U.S.-based Century 21 enjoys a global reputation and, having realized the potential that the Cambodia property market represents, the world’s biggest global franchised real estate operation officially celebrated its inception in Cambodia as its 75th market on 4 September, 2014. The giant real estate brand was founded in 1971 and now has with some 7,100 affiliated offices in 75 countries and more t...
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Overseas investors have for the first time overtaken UK institutions to become the largest owners of UK commercial property, new data shows. The value of portfolios held by overseas owners has more than doubled, up by 129%, over the last decade to £94 billion, according to the Property Industry Alliance. The increase means that overseas investors now own almost a quarter, 24%, of all commerc...
Read MoreSafety 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. Scaffolds are temporarily used construction tools which are utilised as working platforms, shoring for formwork or assembly work. It is used ...
Read MoreChina 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. The projects were approved supposedly as part of a broader 400-venture, 10 trillion yuan plan to run from late 2014 through 2016 w...
Read MoreCamBodia To Benefit From New China-AsEan Building Club
Cambodia will get billions of dollars in loans to finance various projects after it joined the China-ASEAN Construction Industry Cooperation Committee— a new building group established in late May this year. In line with its foreign policies such as One Belt and One Road, the Silk Road Economic Belt, and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, China initiated and established the new China-ASEAN cl...
Read MorePushing 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. The indoor and outdoor spaces are clearly separated by plastered ...
Read MoreJust a Few Months Left Until Big Builng Expo
The two events are scheduled for December 3-5, 2014 at the Diamond Island Exhibition and Convention Center and will feature government officials as well as construction industry leaders. The expo will feature some 280 booths and showcase a wide variety of building materials and technology, property development projects, and services related to the construction and property sectors, including fr...
Read MoreVinci Win a Further High-rise Building Construction Contract in Malaysia
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...
Read MoreCCA And Developers Comment On Construction Management Proclamation
In an effort to enhance the nation’s construction industry, the Cambodian government is in the process of codifying a Construction Management (CM) Proclamation — a new mechanism to ensure quality and cost-effective construction projects. Construction Management (CM) or Construction Project Management (CPM) is the overall planning, coordination, and control of a project from beginning to complet...
Read MoreChinese Firm 3d Prints Entire Villa
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 ...
Read MoreCambodia’s Construction Innovator
Construction & Property Magazine had the opportunity to catch up with Varheng Dawuth, Managing Director of Camcona Group, and one of the nation’s leading innovators in the construction sector. 46-year-old Varheng Dawuth has been striving since his teenage years to help develop the nation’s construction landscape. Back in 1995, Dawuth had graduated with an Architecture major and continued hi...
Read MoreKng Bring Bomag to Cambodia
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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