News about construction

PETALING JAYA (May 10): Kuala Lumpur continues to be the fourth least expensive city in Asia to build in, according to the “International Construction Costs 2019” report published by Arcadis, the global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets.

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 24): The project and asset owner of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project, Malaysian Rail Link Sdn Bhd (MRL), has dismissed allegations that China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC) will be able to state their claim on assets, minerals or objects of interest during the construction of the 640km railway.

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 18): Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd (MRL) clarified yesterday that a proposed joint operations agreement between the company and China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC) does not involve ceding any form of ownership of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) to its Chinese counterpart.

  PETALING JAYA (April 16): Jalan Tun Razak, known for its traffic congestion, will soon see the construction of a 2.

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 16): Apart from reducing the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) construction cost by RM21.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 12): Malaysia Rail Link Sdn Bhd (MRL) and China Communications Construction Co Ltd (CCCC) have signed a supplementary agreement pursuant to the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project, which will proceed at a lower cost of RM44 billion compared with its original cost of RM65.

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 5): Vizione Holdings Bhd, whose subsidiary was mentioned in a cheating case linked to a graft probe on the Penang undersea tunnel, clarified yesterday that the RM15 million reportedly paid out from its subsidiary's account was actually a security deposit it paid for a certain work package under the Penang Mega Infrastructure (PMI) project.

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 2): Sunway Construction Group Bhd’s (SunCon) indirect unit Sunway Builders (Myanmar) Co Ltd (SBM) has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a Myanmar company Capital Construction Ltd (CCL) to jointly bid for major infrastructure and construction projects in Myanmar, marking SunCon’s first foray into the Southeast Asian country.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 29): BBCC Development Sdn Bhd, the project owner of the multi-billion-ringgit Bukit Bintang City Centre (BBCC), today disputed a claim of late payment made by Zelan Bhd's subsidiary, which involves a principal sum of RM3.

  KUALA LUMPUR (March 29): Zelan Bhd’s wholly-owned unit Zelan Construction Sdn Bhd is claiming for a principal amount of RM3.