HONG KONG Balfour Beatty's 50:50 Far East joint venture, Gammon Construction, has been awarded the Homantin luxury residential project by Gold Topmont, a subsidiary of Goldin Financial Holdings. The project, worth HK$2.9 billion (€325 million) in the Homantin residential area in Kowloon, Hong Kong, involves the construction of six residential towers, a clubhouse, outdoor swimming pool, and a two-level basement with carpark areas. To ensure the project's safe and efficient delivery Gammon said it would deploy a wide range of innovative technologies. These include 3D scanning for data collection and defect management tools, such as drones and InfraRed cameras. The wellbeing of the workforce will be safeguarded by the use of exoskeletons for manual handling to reduce physical strain and enhance productivity for repetitive tasks. CHINA German manufacture Wacker Neuson has officially opened its new Pinghu facility, near Shanghai, China, two years after the initial groundbreaking ceremony. Strategically located between the cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou, and with access to good infrastructure, the new facility covers a total area of about 135,000m~2 and has about 30,000m2 of building space. The site has a production plant, a research and development (R&D) centre, a training centre, and teams dealing with quality management, logistics, sales and service, and administration functions.The decision to open this new plant was said to symbolise the group's long-term commitment to customers and partners in China.
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