Engineering & Construction

Samsung C&T receives a top evaluation in the 2020 Win-Win Growth Index
October 15, 2021
Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction Group is striving to establish a culture of growing together with its partners. Thanks to these efforts, it achieved the highest grade in the 2020 Win-Win Growth Index evaluation for the second consecutive year. In the same evaluation, Samsung C&T’s Fashion Group received the second-highest grade of “Excellent.” Overall, Samsung […]

Remodeling is key to keeping a structure fresh and stable
September 17, 2021
The Louvre Museum in Paris was originally built as a fortress in 1190, then it was turned into a Royal Palace and then it became a museum. It has maintained its lofty reputation for over two centuries through good maintenance, renovation and remodeling. Unlike reconstruction, which involves demolishing and rebuilding from the ground up, remodeling […]

Building Information Modeling leader Kim Jong-hoon
September 10, 2021
Dr. Kim Jong-hoon has the unique career of having joined Samsung C&T not once but twice. He first entered the company in 1995 and worked for about three years. He then left to attend Stanford University for further studies, eventually receiving his doctorate degree in Construction Engineering and Management, with a specialization in Building Information […]

Sincerity and humility the keys to good construction
August 21, 2021
There are many different jobs that are part of a construction project. One of those roles is that of Public Affairs Manager, which is related to all tasks necessary for construction, such as the calculation and management of construction materials and personnel costs, quantity calculation, licensing, subcontracting, bidding, and documentation completion. Jeon Jung-nam, currently Public […]

Interview: LNG tank construction specialist Ju Jong-yeol
July 29, 2021
For the last 26 years, Ju Jong-yeol has been accumulating expertise in the construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanks within the Samsung C&T Construction and Engineering Group. Now he is team leader in charge of the construction of LNG tanks at the Thi Vai LNG Terminal site in Vietnam. In a recent interview, he […]

Virtual reality safety training
July 16, 2021
All around the world, virtual reality (or VR) is rapidly being adopted in education and training. The interactive nature of VR makes it effective in providing a truly immersive kind of training. Instead of the education such as cramming a series of content into one’s mind, or watching a video or presentation, VR enables interactive […]

Peace among neighbors: Reducing inter-floor noise
July 15, 2021
Since COVID-19 with all the social distancing and working from home, people have been spending more and more time in their own residences. One thing that people in apartments notice more often is noise from upstairs neighbors – people walking, things being dropped, even televisions on high volume – coming through the ceiling from the […]

Raemian: Building a new future as a Life Companion
June 16, 2021
In the last 18 months, regulations on social distancing and self-isolation have been enforced in many countries to control and prevent the spread of COVID-19. This has naturally led to an increase in the time that people spend in their homes. While in the past, one’s home was merely considered a place for living or […]

In the middle of a career as a geotechnical engineer
June 4, 2021
When building highways, railways, subways, or other civil engineering projects, geotechnical engineers are indispensable. Seok Jeong-woo is one such geotechnical engineer for Samsung C&T’s Engineering & Construction (E&C) Group with 19 years of work experience both in- and outside Korea. In this article, Seok shares some of the things he has experienced and learned while […]

Constructing safely and stably under Singapore
May 21, 2021
On March 26, Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction (E&C) Group won the contract to build a section of the Cross Island Line in Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system. This line, the eighth in the MRT system, connects the eastern and western parts of Singapore, and this section, dubbed the CR112 project, consists of an interchange station […]