Category: Construction News

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has received a full-turnkey order for a project to build a 1,600 megawatt (MW) gas turbine combined-cycle (GTCC) power generation plant from Gulf JP NS Company, Limited (GNS) in Thailand, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf JP Company Limited which is 90% owned by a local subsidiary of Electric Power […]

Italian-Thai Development expects to allot 40,000 rai of industrial land in Burma’s Dawei project next year, with plans calling for a 300-billion-baht steel mill, says ITD president Premchai Karnasuta. The industrial estate will also comprise a fertiliser factory and petrochemical refineries. The basic infrastructure for industrial use is expected to be completed and ready to […]

Italian-Thai Development expects to allot 40,000 rai of industrial land in Burma’s Dawei project next year, with plans calling for a 300-billion-baht steel mill, says ITD president Premchai Karnasuta. The industrial estate will also comprise a fertiliser factory and petrochemical refineries. The basic infrastructure for industrial use is expected to be completed and ready to […]

Best Condo Development for Phuket Goes to Staffan Nordstrand’s Mandala Condominiums On December 6th 2011, thirty months after the actual beginning of the project Mandala in Bang Tao, it was finally recognised by the Thanachart Bank Thailand Property Awards for its Mandala Condominiums as the Best Condo Development on Phuket. Its initiator, builder and entrepreneur […]

Construction of the 100-kilometre “MUSTS” channel is crucial to saving Bangkok from future floods, the Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) reiterated yesterday. “It stands for Multi-Service Flood Tunnel System. But also, I want to say that it’s a ‘must’ here,” said Suchatchavee Suwansawas, chairman of the Thailand Underground & Tunnelling Group (TUTG) of the EIT, […]

Construction of the 100-kilometre “MUSTS” channel is crucial to saving Bangkok from future floods, the Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) reiterated yesterday. “It stands for Multi-Service Flood Tunnel System. But also, I want to say that it’s a ‘must’ here,” said Suchatchavee Suwansawas, chairman of the Thailand Underground & Tunnelling Group (TUTG) of the EIT, […]

Bangkok-based Ogawa Atsushi, CEO of Northern Japan (Thailand) Co Ltd, a business revival specialist, is a survivor of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Today, that tragic experience is one of his assets, as his company has been contracted to help Japanese-owned flood-ravaged factories recover from Thailand’s worst deluge in many decades. Altogether, nearly 800 Japanese-owned factories […]

Bangkok-based Ogawa Atsushi, CEO of Northern Japan (Thailand) Co Ltd, a business revival specialist, is a survivor of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Today, that tragic experience is one of his assets, as his company has been contracted to help Japanese-owned flood-ravaged factories recover from Thailand’s worst deluge in many decades. Altogether, nearly 800 Japanese-owned factories […]

German-Thai JV to generate 84 MW German-based Galip GmbH is joining with Four Us Technology (Thailand) to invest over 8 billion baht in solar power plants with a combined capacity of 84 megawatts in Thailand. The 8.2-billion investment will cover seven provinces in Thailand starting with a pilot project in Phrae province with 24 MW. […]

Thai Solar Energy Co., Ltd., opened the first of some 15 planned concentrated solar power plants in Thailand at the Huaykrachao, Kanjanaburi site on November 29, 2011. Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit pushes start button at first solar thermal power plant in Thailand built with Solarlite’s unique technology. On November 29, 2011, Southeast Asia’s […]