Building Investment (Nov - Dec 2016)

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EDITOR’SNOTE
As we roll out our last issue for the year, it is
only natural to cast a retrospective glance
on past events. The year 2016 will most likely
be remembered for Brexit and Americans electing a billionaire businessman
as President. It was also a challenging year for the building and construction
sector with the regional economic slowdown, government cooling measures
and bank credit squeeze.
But good times or bad, developments, especially infrastructural projects,
will go on while the more established developers will always look at the market
in the longer term and planning for bigger things when the market rebounds.
Case in point is KL Metropolis (our front cover feature; pg 6 & 28) by Naza
TTDI, which will see their MITEC exhibition centre preparing for launch next
year; and the launch of the Ibrahim International Business District (IIBD) by
Johor Corporation (pg 30).
Meanwhile, the Selangor Development Corp (PKNS) will be shifting to
their brand new sustainable building complex called Laman PKNS (pg 8) in
December to prepare for the challenges ahead. Boutique developer, DK Group,
will also be putting the finishing touches to their D’Latour project (pg 12) for
delivery by year end. A timely article in this issue is WTW’s take on Budget
2017 for the construction sector (pg 14) and their analysis on the impact of
the budget in the year ahead.
For the creative minded, you may want to check out what AkzoNobel is
recommending as ‘Colour of 2017’ (pg 36) and our slew of new architectural
design ideas (from pg 52).
Meanwhile, if you have suggestions to offer, projects to highlight or events
that you would like us to cover, do kindly drop us a note.
Happy holidays, have a great year-end season and see you again in 2017!
ERIC TAN, Editor
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