Engineering & Construction

Samsung C&T has again ranked 1st for the 7th consecutive year in the “2020 Construction Capability Assessment” announced by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) of Korea, and has widened its gap with 2nd place as well. Every year, MOLIT announces the Construction Capability Assessment that comprehensively evaluates construction performance, management status, technological […]

Anthropogenic climate change and our response to it continue to remain near the top of the agenda in terms of global problems that humanity must tackle. In the 2020 World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, the climate crisis was one of the top priority discussion items, while in late 2019 the European Commission announced a European Green […]

According to one old saying, clothes make the man. If this principle can be extended to a building, then the exterior of a building “makes” the whole structure. When you think about the simplest kind of an enclosed building, there are four walls with a roof on top where the walls hold up the roof […]

Construction can be seen as the act of drawing pictures on a wilderness. To realize the imagination of the architects requires the combined efforts of many people doing different jobs on the same construction site. Site managers take the leading role, marshaling all the various workers and teams together. Kim Myoung-sig is one such site […]

Bridges in various forms have existed for millennial, ever since our ancestors put stepping stones into streams. But as different modes of transport developed and people wanted to carry more objects, the need to build smoother, more solid bridges became apparent. Today, bridge construction technologies and techniques have become a separate science. Not content to […]

One building that shuns conformity is Seoul’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), the curvaceous exhibition and retail space that opened in 2014. Designed by Zaha Hadid and constructed by Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction Group, DDP flaunts curves and eschews sharp angles. Techniques and technologies applied to its construction can also be found elsewhere in our […]

Risks vs. Safety Whether we are talking about building apartments, constructing public facilities or erecting power stations, the construction industry is very labor intensive. From the initial groundbreaking to putting the finishing touches on a building’s interior, sites are full of people moving in different teams, each focused on their own task area. There are […]

These days it seems like everything is becoming “smart”ified. For instance, there are “smart” cashierless grocery stores, “smart” wearable technology that marries digital devices to our clothing, and even note taking by hand has become smarter with tablets that instantly convert your scribble into computer text. Now construction, one of the most labor-intensive industries, is also transforming in […]

Samsung C&T’s Engineering & Construction group held its first photo contest for the year in March. The theme this year was “Your Footprints.” A total of 139 photographs were submitted and in each the history of Samsung C&T was revealed in precious moments and treasured memories. These photos represent footprints on our workers’ personal journeys […]

Malaysia is one of the most urbanized nations of Southeast Asia: already in 2018 slightly over three quarters of the total population resided in urban areas, and this trend shows no sign of abating. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, in 2019 no less than 7 skyscrapers measuring 200 meters or more in height […]