Jesselton Twin Towers Project in Malaysia Passes Acceptance Inspection

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The Jesselton Twin Towers project in Kota Kinabalu, constructed by CSCEC, successfully passed the acceptance inspection. The project is located in Sabah, Malaysia (Asia), with a total construction area of 210,000 square meters and a building height of 192.15 meters. It comprises two towers, A and B, each with 56 floors, along with a three-story commercial annex. Upon completion, it will become a new landmark in Sabah and the tallest building in the eastern region of Malaysia to date. During the construction, the project actively promoted technical knowledge-sharing activities among employees and implemented various competitions and technical training programs, cultivating … Read more

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Get Smarter About Electric Construction Equipment

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Submitted by CONEXPO-CON/AGG Sustainability in the construction industry is being advanced by the public and private sectors. Governments are adopting more clean-air regulations at local and regional levels and companies are adopting sustainability policies and asking partners to help them meet their targets. Consequently, many manufacturers have already developed – or are in the process of developing – electric-powered construction equipment to meet increasing emissions regulations, provide efficiency improvements and lower operating costs. All electric, electric/hydraulic and battery-operated versions rival their diesel and gas counterparts in performance, notes Joel Honeyman, vice president of Global Innovation at Bobcat. The changing industry … Read more

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Construction Begins on New Building of Sanxingdui ‘Smart’ Museum

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CSCEC recently began construction on the new building of the Sanxingdui Museum, located in Deyang, China. With the construction area of about 55,000 square meters, the new building is expected to open to the public in the end of 2023. The completed building will systematically house existing collections, as well as cultural artifacts newly unearthed from the pits of the Sanxingdui Ruins. Located in the park of the Sanxingdui Museum, the Sanxingdui Museum of Ancient Shu Cultural Heritage covers an area of 44,000 square meters and a construction area of about 55,000 square meters, five times the size of the … Read more

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Trimble Begins Construction on Campus Expansion in Westminster, Colorado

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Trimble has begun construction on a second building in Westminster, Colorado. With the capacity to accommodate over 1,100 workers, the Westminster campus will be Trimble’s largest employment center and will continue to serve as a central business hub for several of of the company’s core market segments including agriculture, construction and geospatial. Construction is scheduled for completion in late 2018. The Colorado construction will extend Trimble’s U.S. and international footprint, with the Westminster building project showcasing Trimble technologies which improve efficiencies across the entire building lifecycle. Contractors, surveyors, architects and designers will use more than 50 Trimble … Read more

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Maximizing LEED Points on the Jobsite

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By Thomas Taylor Studies from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency state that Americans spend 90 percent or more of their lives indoors1. This is one reason why the USGBC’s LEED 2009 rating system, which is being used by most project teams that have potential LEED-certified projects in the works, rewards teams from keeping harmful materials out of the facilities they build. Almost all manufactured materials used on construction sites contain some amount of chemicals. The truth is, chemicals that emit harmful gasses into the air, a process that is known as off-gassing, can be found in all sorts of other … Read more

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