Since its establishment in Thailand in 2018, the “China Railway No 10 Engineering Group (Thailand)” (CREC10 Thailand) has won bids for construction of 13 other projects in the country, together worth about 5 billion baht, in addition to the 2.1 billion baht contract to build the now former new State Audit Office building.
The projects are:
• The Narathiwat airport terminal, ~ 639 million baht.
• A 354-unit town home housing project in Phuket, ~343 million baht.
• The Wat Amarinthraram School building, ~160 million baht.
• A parcel warehouse at the Chakri Naruebodindra Medical Institute, ~146 million baht.
• A hostel at Rajabhat University in Phuket, ~132 million baht.
• The government complex in Phrae province, ~540 million baht.
• The Sports Authority’s boxing training centre in Hua Mark, Bangkok, ~608 million baht.
• A housing project for 9th Region Appeals Court judges, ~386 million baht.
• The Provincial Electricity Authority’s service centre, ~ 210 million baht.
• A Royal Thai Navy Supply Department building, ~179 million baht.
• The National Water Resources Department offices, ~716 million baht.
• A provincial technical institute, ~606 million baht.
• The Songkhla Hospital’s out-patient building, ~426 million baht.
CRC10 (Thailand), a subsidiary of the China Railway No 10 Engineering Group, is reported to have habitually created joint venture entities with Thai companies, to bid for construction projects, instead of bidding independently.
The Department of Special Investigation is currently investigating the Chinese company’s business practices, as they relate to the Foreign Business Act (1999), the Industrial Product Standards Act (1968) and laws prohibiting bid collusion.
Paitoon Kengkarnchang, deputy secretary-general of the National Water Resources Office, said that, after the earthquake on March 28th, he ordered the evacuation of all construction workers and a thorough inspection of the building was done, to make sure that there was no damage to the structure.
