Nisha Wijaya / Chief Operating Officer
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Owners of large construction programmes watch the programme, the quality records and the safety statistics. The earliest sign that a main contractor is failing usually appears further down, among the subcontractors and suppliers it has quietly stopped paying.
Read the essayOwners of large construction programmes watch the programme, the quality records and the safety statistics. The earliest sign that a main contractor is failing usually appears further down, among the subcontractors and suppliers it has quietly stopped paying.
Industrial-park developers in Southeast Asia still describe themselves as landowners who also distribute power and water. Manufacturers choose parks the other way round, and boards should govern utilities as the main thing a park sells.
As data centres spread from Singapore to nearby islands and states, campuses are planned around the megawatts a tenant asks for. On an island that depends on rain-fed reservoirs, the cooling design decides how much room is left for everyone else to grow.