SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung C&T Corp., the construction unit of Samsung Group, said Wednesday it has made an equity investment of US$7.5 million in CarbonCure, a Canadian carbon dioxide removal tech company. Along with the investment, the two companies have also signed a business agreement. Founded in 2012, CarbonCure has developed a [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — GS Engineering & Construction Co.’s decision to reconstruct the apartment complex, where an underground parking lot collapsed, is known to be driven by the determination of its top management, industry sources said Thursday. The company initially issued a written apology after the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport briefed [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering Co. said Tuesday it held a completion ceremony for South Korea’s tallest modular apartment building, located in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. Modular buildings are constructed by pre-producing primary construction materials in a factory and assembling them on-site. The 13-story building comprises 106 homes. According to the Building Act, [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Construction orders in South Korea are likely to slump nearly 13 percent on-year in 2023 due to less government spending on infrastructure and a sluggish housing market, a think tank said Monday. Local builders’ orders are predicted to decline 12.9 percent from a year earlier to 200.1 trillion won [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) —GS E&C, the owner of the Xi apartment brand, is expanding into the single-family home market. The company announced on Thursday that its subsidiary, XiGEIST, which specializes in wooden modular houses, will launch its website and commence business-to-consumer (B2C) sales in earnest. The modular houses are produced in a factory [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean construction firms are turning towards new ventures in the environment and energy sectors amid worsening profitability in the housing market. SK Ecoplant Co., which underwent a corporate name change from SK Engineering & Construction Co. in 2021, is pursuing new ventures such as waste battery recycling, bio [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder Samsung C&T Corp. will build modular homes in Saudi Arabia, the land and transport ministry said Wednesday. Land Minister Won Hee-ryong on Tuesday held a meeting with Yasir bin Al-Rumayyan, Governor of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), in Saudi Arabia with both parties signing a memorandum [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung C&T Corp., the construction unit of Samsung Group, said Wednesday it had made new employee ID card cases by recycling waste helmets from its construction sites. The company said that it was the first among domestic companies to make employee ID card cases using waste generated during business [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Overseas construction orders clinched by South Korean builders topped the US$30 billion mark for the third straight year in 2022 as the global economy slowly recovered from the fallout of the pandemic, data showed Tuesday. Local builders secured a combined $31 billion worth of construction orders last year, up [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Home prices in South Korea are cooling at a jaw-dropping clip amid soaring borrowing costs and an economic slowdown, portending that indebted home owners may face the toughest-ever challenge this year and Asia’s fourth-largest economy may suffer a decline in private spending. The country’s apartment prices nationwide fell 0.76 [...]