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[TaiShang]

HA and Chinese contractor team up for offsite housing
19 December 2016
Construction Manager

A Chinese contractor has teamed up with a UK housing association to deliver 25,000 prefabricated homes over the next five years.

Under the £2.5bn deal China National Building Material company (CNBM, 中国建材) will build six offsite factories around the UK in a partnership with Your Housing Group as well as renewable energy company Welink.

Factory sites are being looked at across the UK in places such as Scotland, south Wales, the north east, north west and in the south and south west. Five pilot schemes are set to deliver a total of 2,000 homes next year, with production ramping up to 25,000 homes a year by 2022.

The first scheme, in Liverpool, is expected to receive planning permission in January.

The joint venture will incorporate Barcelona Housing Systems design practices to speed up delivery of homes. This uses precision-produced steel frames and modern composite materials to deliver developments that are low carbon and energy efficient in both their construction and in their operation.

The UK needs around 250,000 new homes a year, but last year only 170,000 were built, according to National Housing Association figures.

Stephen Haigh, UK chief executive of the new joint venture, said: “Our announcement is very much about identifying new opportunities and assisting government and other housing associations to achieve their housing aspirations as announced in the recent Autumn Statement, such as the £2.3bn infrastructure fund.

“It is also crucial that we work closely with local authorities to create mixed-tenure communities to cement our development model as the solution to their house building and development needs.”

Housing minister Gavin Barwell said: “This joint venture shows the potential modular construction has to meet the UK’s housing needs and help build a country that works for everyone.

“This government is committed to delivering a more diverse and innovative house building sector and our £3bn Home Building Fund will encourage more pioneering house building projects and partnerships like this one.”

In September Swan Housing Group committed to plans to build a new modular housing factory.

Two weeks ago, Circle Housing Group and Affinity Sutton announced plans to merge under a new name of Clarion Housing Group and build 50,000 homes in the next 10 years.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Chinese giant to build six UK pre-fab housing factories
Aaron Morby 7 hours ago

A giant Chinese construction firm is teaming up with a UK housing association to deliver 25,000 pre-fabricated homes over the next five years.

Chinese financial power teams up with Spanish offsite design to tackle UK housing shortage
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The Government has helped to broker the £2.5bn deal that will see the China National Building Material Company build six offsite factories around the UK.

It has formed a joint venture with housing association Your Housing Group and renewable energy specialist WElink.

The partners are currently looking at factory sites in Scotland, South Wales, North East, North West, Yorkshire/North Midlands, and in the South and South West.

Five pilot schemes are set to deliver a total of 2,000 homes next year, with production ramping up to 25,000 homes per year by 2022.

The first scheme, in Liverpool, is expected to receive planning permission in January.

The joint venture aims to introduce a modular housing type, based on designs pioneered by Spanish specialist Barcelona Housing Systems, to transform the pace of the delivery of new homes in the UK.

Barcelona Housing Systems mixes light-guage steel frames with energy efficient composite materials to produce a panel-based system

This uses precision produced steel frames and modern composite materials to deliver developments that are low carbon and energy efficient in both their construction and in their operation.

International Trade Minister, Greg Hands MP, said: “This is a clear endorsement of the UK’s attractiveness as a place for inward investment. This announcement has the potential to benefit local communities across the country, creating jobs, boosting local economies and creating homes.

“The Department for International Trade has worked closely with the consortium to highlight the strengths of the UK and played a fundamental role in bringing together the partners in this exciting joint venture.”

Stephen Haigh, UK CEO of the new joint venture, said: “Our announcement is very much about identifying new opportunities and assisting Government and other housing associations to achieve their housing aspirations as announced in the recent Autumn Statement, such as the £2.3bn infrastructure fund.

“It is also crucial that we work closely with local authorities to create mixed tenure communities to cement our development model as the solution to their house building and development needs.”

Ajmal Rahman, chairman of WElink Group, added: “This joint venture will give a significant kick-start to delivering the new homes people need across the UK which includes helping to address fuel poverty issues through our incorporated solar and energy efficient design – meaning our developments can be at least 75% off-grid.

“Furthermore, British produced light gauge steel framing will help keep our carbon footprint to a minimum.

Cesar Martinell, chairman of Barcelona Housing Systems, said: “The UK represents a cornerstone market for our energy efficient modular housing solution and we are excited to be working with YHG to deliver a national solution for the British market.”

http://www.constructionenquirer.com...iant-to-build-six-uk-pre-fab-homes-factories/

 

[cirr]

Chinese state-owned construction firm signs £2.5bn deal to build modular homes with UK housing association

Construction workers installing modular flats for an estate regeneration project in Lambeth CREDIT: HEATHCLIFF O'MALLEY

Rhiannon Bury

19 DECEMBER 2016 • 12:04PM

A UK housing association has signed a landmark £2.5bn joint venture with a Chinese state-owned construction company to build 25,000 modular homes over the next five years.

Your Housing Group, which currently manages 33,000 affordable homes across the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands, has agreed to partner with China National Building Material Company (CNBM) to build the homes, alongside WeLink, a renewable energy company.

As part of the deal, which has the support of the Government, CNBM will build six factories in the UK, creating 1,000 new jobs.

Government statistics suggest that the UK needs a million new homes by 2020, but last year just 142,890 homes were built, below the 200,000-a-year target.

Modular homes can be constructed off-site and then transported to their final location, resulting in a quicker and cheaper building process. At the moment, around 15,000 homes are constructed this way in the UK each year.

If the initial stage of production is successful, the new factories could produce 25,000 homes each year, the company said.

The first scheme, in Liverpool, is expected to receive planning permission in January.

Ajmal Rahman, chairman of Welink Group, said that “radical innovation” in building practices and modular housing would help to address the housing shortfall.

“This joint venture will give a significant kick-start to delivering the new homes people need across the UK, which includes helping to address fuel poverty issues through our incorporated solar and energy efficient design,” he added.

Brian Cronin, chief executive Your Housing Group, said: “This is an opportunity for YHG to get back to building more social and affordable homes across a wider geography of the UK, it also ensures new types of employment, new building skills, and the nurturing of additional apprenticeship opportunities are available, which can only be good news for local people and businesses where we develop our housing and supply chains.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...wned-construction-firm-signs-25bn-deal-build/

 

[cirr]

Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Consortium appoints China company to build refinery in Kedah

KUALA LUMPUR: Konsortium Petrohub has appointed China-based Hainan Zhenrong Energy Co Ltd as the main contractor to design and build an oil refinery facility project in Yan, Kedah worth over US$20 billion.

“We expected to start the construction of the first refinery in February next year, depending on the financing approvals,” said Konsortium Petrohub chief executive officer Raja Chik Jaafar.

“The first refinery would have a minimum capacity of 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day when completed,” he told reporters at a signing ceremony between Konsortium Petrohub and Hainan Zhenrong yesterday.

The consortium also signed an agreement with QMIS World Trade International, which would assist the firm to raise further funds for the projects.

The consortium was formed by IMC London, which have a 50% stake, with VR4U Technologies Sdn Bhd having a 30% share and another local company having the remainder stake.

“For the first refineries, IMC London would assist with the financing,” Raja Chik said, adding that IMC London comprises a group of bankers and funders based in Britain.

He said the project would involve the development of the region’s largest reclamation works of 8,000 acres, portside facilities and two oil refineries, which is to be known as the Sultan Abdul Halim Refinery Complex.

“We will import crude oil from the Middle East, Africa and South-East Asia, process it and export to China,” Raja Chik said.

He added that Konsortium Petrohub bought Merapoh Resources Corp Sdn Bhd in November which led to the takeover of the refinery project in Kedah.

http://www.thestar.com.my/business/...nts-china-company-to-build-refinery-in-kedah/

 

[TaiShang]

Developmentalism in Chinese characteristics.

Now compare this with now defunct Washington Consensus. Latin America is where it is today, a raw material export dependent region, for the most part.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Konsortium Petrohub has appointed China-based Hainan Zhenrong Energy Co Ltd as the main contractor to design and build an oil refinery facility project in Yan, Kedah worth over US$20 billion.

A $20 billion engineering project, good news! Perhaps you may start a thread to keep a tally of all engineering contracts, just massive to even think of these.

 

[TaiShang]

CN Briefing: Offsite; China Building Material Company; Your Housing Group; WELink Energy

19 December, 2016 By Jack Simpson


When Brandon Lewis last year outlined his target of building a million new homes by 2020, many questioned whether the then housing minister had bitten off more than he could chew.

While disagreements raged over whether this target was achievable, the housing sector agreed on one thing: the country wouldn’t get anywhere near that number if it continued with its old ways of delivery.

Change needed to happen; prefabrication needed to be properly embraced.

Since then, we have seen some positive signs, including Legal & General’s plans for a £55m offsite housebuilding plant in Yorkshire.

But today’s news of an ambitious joint venture between China Building Material Company (CBMC), Your Housing Group and energy firm WELink Energy could be the most significant step for the roll-out of prefabricated homes yet.

The newly formed JV announced that it aimed to produce more than 25,000 homes a year by 2022, all to be delivered through six offsite factories planned across the UK.

With more than £2.5bn ready to be injected into the programme, the JV certainly has the financial muscle to back up its plans.

And with backing from the UK government and China’s state-backed building company, it has the political clout too.

“With this firepower we have the opportunity to industrialise the housebuilding process and make it more like how cars are manufactured,” the JV’s UK CEO Stephen Haigh told me.

The JV itself plans to be in charge of the manufacturing and assembling of housing developments across the UK, without the need for contractor or housebuilder.

But Mr Haigh was keen to stress that with huge demand for new housing, the JV would not be taking work away from contractors.

Indeed, Home Builders Federation executive chairman Stewart Baseley said the new method should be welcomed as long as it was “proven, tested and delivered high-quality housing”.

But we have heard this before, haven’t we?

When Legal & General unveiled that it was to invest £55m into its offsite factory earlier this year, it was seen as the first step to delivering a new solution to the housing shortages faced in the UK.

Nearly a year later, it has already missed its initial target of delivering its first home by June.

Mr Haigh was keen to outline the differences between both projects and said his JV was already working towards its goals.

The first factory is already under construction in Berkeley, Gloucester, and Mr Haigh hopes it will be complete by the middle of next year.

But more importantly, it seems as if the JV already has clients lined up.

Offsite manufacturing relies on a strong pipeline of work to ensure efficiencies through scale, and Mr Haigh says this pipeline is already being secured.

He told me the JV was already in discussion over 2,000 housing units, with other local authorities keen to bolster their affordable housing stock expressing an interest too.

Yet we know from Legal & General and Laing O’Rourke’s experiences that it doesn’t always go as planned when it comes to offsite construction. The industry will be watching closely next year.

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[Shotgunner51]

China to Build USD 1.5 Billion Power Line Across Pakistan
December 30, 2016, 10:33 PM IST

Islamabad: China's State Grid Corporation (SGCC) is set to build a USD 1.5-billion power line across Pakistan to enable the transmission of 4,000 megawatts of electricity from the country's north to south, the government said on Friday.

Pakistani and Chinese officials signed an investment agreement in Beijing on Thursday to build the country's first high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) line, according to a government statement.

The power transmission line would link the national grid between the southern Pakistani town of Matiari and easternmost city of Lahore, some 1,000 kilometres apart.

Pakistan has been struggling to provide enough power to its nearly 200 million citizens for years, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has vowed to solve the crisis by 2018.

Sharif inaugurated Pakistan's fourth nuclear power plant on Wednesday, a joint collaboration with China that adds 340 megawatts to the national grid as part of the government's efforts to end a growth-sapping energy deficit.

The energy sector has traditionally struggled to cover the cost of producing electricity, leading the government to divert USD 2 billion annually as a subsidy, according to a recent report commissioned by the British government.

China is ramping up investment in its South Asian neighbour as part of a USD 46-billion project unveiled last year that will link its far-western Xinjiang region to Pakistan's Gwadar port with a series of infrastructure, power and transport upgrades.

Last week Pakistan's main bourse announced that a Chinese consortium was set to acquire a 40 percent stake in the stock exchange in a deal estimated at $84 million.

Shanghai Electric announced in August it would buy a majority stake in the utility that supplies energy to Karachi for USD 1.7 billion, in the country's biggest ever private-sector acquisition.

http://www.news18.com/news/world/ch...llion-power-line-across-pakistan-1329621.html

 

[TaiShang]

Contract signed to build Asia's new twin towers
Xinhua, January 1, 2017

Contract for building twin towers in Cambodia, which will surpass the height of Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, was signed in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, on Saturday.

The Wuhan-based Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co. Ltd. signed the 2.7 billion-U.S. dollar contract with its Cambodian partner Thai Boon Roong (TBR) Group and Macao-based Sun Kian Ip Holding Co. Ltd.

The 560 meter towers, to be named TBR Twin Tower World Trade Center, will be located in Phnom Penh by the Mekong River and will be 108 meters higher than Petronas Twin Towers.

Under the agreement, Wuchang Shipbuilding will undertake the construction along with the Sino Great Wall Engineering Co. Ltd.

Yang Zhigang, chair of the Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co. Ltd., said the company has aimed to undertake infrastructure, shipbuilding and port construction cooperation with countries joining China's Belt and Road initiative.

 

[Daniel808]

Updated on Construction of Algiers Grand Mosque, Cooperation Project between China and Algeria.

This Mosque will be the Third largest in the world, after those in Mecca and Madinah in Saudi Arabia.
and Cost about 1 Billion Euro (1.3 Billion US Dollar). Located in the Shore of Mediterannean Sea, Algiers City, Algeria.

@AndrewJin @PaklovesTurkiye @The Eagle @gambit

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

Updated on Construction of Algiers Grand Mosque, Cooperation Project between China and Algeria.

This Mosque will be the Third largest in the world, after those in Mecca and Madinah in Saudi Arabia.
and Cost about 1 Billion Euro (1.3 Billion US Dollar). Located in the Shore of Mediterannean Sea, Algiers City, Algeria.

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@AndrewJin @PaklovesTurkiye @The Eagle @gambit

This is really awesome...China needs to enhance its relation with Muslim world. Muslim world is tired of US and Russia....Now, the big next power left is China. The image of China will shoot up positively if Muslims will see China building religious places for Muslims....

I have read it somewhere that Muslims always have had good relations with Chinese people through out the centuries...

Good luck to China for its relations with everyone including Muslims...
Pakistan-China brotherhood forever...

 

[TaiShang]

Updated on Construction of Algiers Grand Mosque, Cooperation Project between China and Algeria.

This Mosque will be the Third largest in the world, after those in Mecca and Madinah in Saudi Arabia.
and Cost about 1 Billion Euro (1.3 Billion US Dollar). Located in the Shore of Mediterannean Sea, Algiers City, Algeria.

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To make money is virtuous.

 

[ahojunk]

To make money is virtuous.

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Yes, to make money is virtuous.
It is only virtuous if your products/services is beneficial to your customer.
More so, if it is value for money.
It has to be a win-win relationship for it to be sustainable.

 

[艹艹艹]

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017-01/03/content_27842324.htm
Shipbuilder joins twin tower project
By Zhong Nan and Zhou Lihua | China Daily | Updated: 2017-01-03 07:51

A major Chinese shipbuilder will join an international group to construct a $2.7 billion, 133-story twin tower skyscraper in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.

Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co, a Hubei-based subsidiary of China Shipbuilding Industry Corp, will form a consortium with Beijing-based Sino Great Wall International Engineering Co to be the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the project, according to the Hubei provincial government on Monday.

The building, which will be on the bank of the Mekong River in Phnom Penh and rise to a height of 560 meters, will be the tallest twin towers in the world, it said.

Cambodia's Thai Boon Roong Group will be the project's main developer, and Macao-based Sun Kian Ip Group will be co-developer.

The project is Wuchang Shipbuilding's first in a country along the Belt and Road Initiative routes. It will accelerate the pace of infrastructure and engineering projects in the overseas market.

With more than 11,000 employees, Wuchang Shipbuilding is proficient in providing high-rise steel structures.

Luo Renjian, a researcher at the Institute of Transportation Research of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the company's product range and financing ability are advantages in competing with foreign rivals.

The twin towers will accommodate hotel, shopping mall and apartment facilities, as well as offices, an exhibition hall, theater, restaurants and a basement parking garage.

"Building this project shows that Cambodia is eager to attract global companies and tourists through better-developed infrastructure facilities," said Zhang Xiaojing, director of the Institute of Economic Research for China and ASEAN at the University of International Business and Economics.

 

[ahojunk]

The top five twin towers worldwide
Source: Globaltimes.cn | Published: 2017/1/3 21:15:28