GMS members and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will initiate infrastructure development projects worth 552 billion baht over the next decade. Among the priorities for ADB are an improvement in the 198-kilometre road linking Gorgarek, Thaton and Myawaddy in Myanmar to Tak’s Mae Sot district, which is part of the East-West Corridor linking Myanmar, Thailand, […]
Continue ReadingThe Labor Ministry is set to speedily tackle the problem of labor shortage in the construction sector. Labor Minister Phadermchai Sasomsub said on Wednesday that the construction industry is now experiencing the shortage of labor because of last year’s flood crisis. Mr. Phadermchai is urging business operators, who are in need of workers, to contact the […]
Continue ReadingSubstandard construction, inadequate design, cause delays, frustrate millions Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, which opened only six years ago on what amounted to a swamp, is approaching a crisis stage with overcrowding and increasingly impaired runways, travelers and officials say. Designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects of Chicago, the airport was in trouble the day […]
Continue ReadingTentative 2018 completion date of the third runway The long delayed plan to build a third runway at Suvarnabhumi airport, code-named BKK, has been greenlit as authorities now see the urgency of addressing the airport’s overcrowding. Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) is setting the scheme into motion, which was initially planned for right after BKK […]
Continue ReadingThe cabinet yesterday (11 July 2012) approved the State Railway of Thailand (SRT)’s proposal to build a double-track railway from the eastern province of Chachoengsao to Kaeng Khoi in Saraburi, estimated to be worth 11.3 billion baht. Deputy Government Spokesperson Pakdiharn Himathongkham said rail bypasses at three railway junctions will be built in conjunction with […]
Continue ReadingThe construction sector is pressing the government to allow import of foreign labour from a broader selection of countries to offset the shortage of 100,000 workers in the industry, said Chakporn Oonjitt, executive director of the Construction Institute of Thailand. As of April, the construction industry employed 2.68 million workers or 7% of the country’s […]
Continue ReadingMalcolm McVicar, vice-chancellor and president of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), has spent the past three to four years nurturing a project to open a full-scale campus in Thailand. “This will be the first British university here. We chose Thailand because the country is a good centre to reach other parts of the region and […]
Continue ReadingThe ambition of Laos to turn Vientiane into a city equivalent to Singapore or Bangkok justifies all construction activities in the Laotian capital. With Chinese money flooding into the country, such a move bears also the risk to alter the charm of the city and turn it into a replica of a Chinese suburb. Since […]
Continue ReadingPM PLAYS DOWN SUVARNABHUMI DAMAGE Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Saturday brushed aside concerns about Suvarnabhumi airport’s safety following damage to the western runway. Ms Yingluck said the problem was unlikely to shake travellers’ confidence while stressing that the damage had already been fixed. She said the runway defect was caused by normal wear and tear. […]
Continue ReadingSuvarnabhumi airport general manager Somchai Sawasdeepon is insisting Thursday’s subsidence on the western runway was caused by normal wear and tear. But airline managers yesterday questioned if the airfield had been built with proper civil engineering techniques and high-standard construction materials. An area of 3,600 sq cm (60cm by 60cm) at the northern part of […]
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