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Over 400 Families Living Along Siem Reap River to be Relocated
- 13 May 2021
A total of 431 families living on state land along the Siem Reap River from the Neak Bridge to the Angkor Bridge in Slor Kram commune, have been ordered to demolish their properties and relocate to new government-provided land plots. Deputy Governor of Siem Reap Province Ngan Phirun said during the site inspection yesterday that the new location is located in Run Ta Ek commune in Banteay Srei d...
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Top 5 Tallest Wooden Buildings in the World
- 11 May 2021
When talking about skyscrapers, who could imagine them to be built from wood? However, there are some skyscrapers made from timber. Here is the list of tallest timber buildings in the world arranged by Construction Review Online. 1) Voll Arkitekter’s Mjøstårne, Brumunddal, Norway The 85 metre-high tower claimed the title of the tallest timber building in the world after it was complet...
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Mondulkiri Landowners Instructed to Build Fence or Path Around Lands to Prevent Encroachment
- 10 May 2021
Mondolkiri Provincial Governor Svay Sam Eang has instructed all concessional landowners or companies to build paths or fences around their investment lands to prevent illegal encroachment and unexpected disputes. HE Sam Eang made the statement during a site inspection of the Pacific York Stock Company Limited encroachment case on 9 May. “Marking borders in form of path or fence is very essen...
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Australian firm mulls building ‘solar trees marketplace’ in Shanghai
- 8 May 2021
Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has designed a “solar trees marketplace” in Minhang district, 20km southwest of Shanghai, reported GCR. The project has a total area of 3,450 sqm, comprising of 32 towers. All towers are designed based on a set of organically curved podiums that will allow stalls to be located on three levels. Each tree tower will be built with timber branches and lea...
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Siem Reap Administration Issues New Guidelines to Enhance 38-Road Construction Quality
- 6 May 2021
The Siem Reap Provincial Administration has issued four new guidelines to local authorities and construction teams to implement in order to improve the quality of the 38-road project. According to the site inspection on 4 May, Deputy Governor Ngan Phirun said that these guidelines have been set to increase the cooperation between the local authorities and construction teams, which include: 1...
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Progress Update on Five Affordable Housing Projects in Cambodia
- 5 May 2021
To date, Cambodia has a total of five approved affordable housing projects, three of which are landed properties with a total of 8,331 houses, and two others are co-owned buildings with a total of 7,256 units, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC). Here is a progress update on those five projects: 1) Arakawa Affordable Hou...
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Gov’t Sets Up New Inter-Ministerial Committee to Evaluate Request to Establish New Villages
- 30 April 2021
Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided to set up a new inter-ministerial working group to study and evaluate all proposals for the establishment of new villages nationwide, according to an official government announcement on 22 April. Secretary of State of the Ministry of Interior HE Leang Vy has been appointed as the chairman, with a representative from the Ministry of Economy and Finance as the d...
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Land Ministry Speeding Up Work on Land Usage Masterplan in Sihanoukville
- 27 April 2021
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning, and Construction (MLMUPC) recently chaired a meeting to review and speed up the progress of land usage planning in Sihanoukville with the aim of boosting the province's potential.. Held on 27 April via zoom, the meeting focused on the two major areas, including the Sihanoukville download (vision to 2038) and the Boeung Kang Kep development zone. ...
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Supply of Landed Property and Condo by Districts in Phnom Penh
- 22 April 2021
By the end of 2020, the number of landed properties in Phnom Penh had increased to over 186,000 units while the number of condominiums had skyrocketed to over 109,000 units, according to research data from Z1 Data Co., LTD (Cambodia). The same data also shows that comparing 2018 to the end of 2020, the number of landed properties, known as boreys in Cambodia, rose by 21%, while the number of un...
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Top Five Green Buildings of 2021
- 20 April 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 project is designed by ...
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