Daily Industry News Update (6 April 2022)

How safe are our buildings?

On June 14, 2017, the stillness of the night was rudely shattered at 12.54am when a fire broke out in a flat in the Grenfell Tower block in North Kensington, West London. The blaze spread rapidly to the exterior cladding, ripping through it to engulf the 24-storey blocks of 129 flats housed on 21 residential floors and three floors of mixed use space.

DBKL, MRT Corp sign MoU to develop Kuala Lumpur into ‘City for All’

The Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and Mass Rapid Transit Corp Sdn Bhd (MRT Corp) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop the federal capital into a

EcoFirst sets to benefit from MRT3 development

Property company EcoFirst Consolidated Bhd (EcoFirst) is set to launch an enlarged masterplan for its Ampang township now that its landbank is a beneficiary of the third Mass Rapid Transit Line 3 (MRT3).