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Construction and Real Estate

Sri Lanka mulls exporting Hambantota port rocks

Feasibility of exporting up to a million tonnes of granite to be assessed

January 30, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka to resume work on 600 roads from Feb

Until the debt restructuring process is completed road constructions were halted

January 19, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka UDA properties draw interest from China, Japan, Korea investors

Could draw investments five times the value of Rs21bn

January 12, 2024 3 min read

Sri Lanka UDA to finalise investment for 22 development projects

Another 5 projects are in clearance.

January 11, 2024 2 min read
Kerner Haus Global Solutions to manage office space in Nawam Mawatha, Sri Lanka

Growing demand for flexible, professional office solutions in Sri Lanka's expanding outsourcing and business services

Maga Engineering gets Rs696.75mn contract to widen road in Kandy, Sri Lanka

To widen and upgrade a section of the William Gopallawa Mawatha in Kandy, Sri Lanka, to a 4-lane standard road

Japan's Taisei Corporation gets Sri Lanka expressway deal

Japans' Taisei Corporation has won the bid to build part of an expressway to central Sri Lanka for which a 100 billion y...

February 21, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Access Engineering wins Rs3bn nanotech park deal

Sri Lanka's Access Engineering Plc has won a 3.0 billion rupee deal to expand a nanotechnology park, from Sri Lanka's mi...

February 1, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Catalina villas to be trailblazer for retirement community industry

Catalina Koggala, an upmarket villa development targeting over-50s buyers is aiming to be a trail blazer in kindling a r...

January 31, 2018 3 min read

Sri Lanka to expand Galle Face green, new access route to Port City

Sri Lanka will expand Colombo's Galle Face Green by 30 meters and a new access route will be built to Colombo port from ...

January 26, 2018 1 min read

China Harbour to break ground billion dollar towers in Sri Lanka in June: Minister

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) expects to break ground on a billion US dollar 60-floor triple tower project at...

January 25, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka Railways to improve returns on land holdings

ECONOMYNEXT – Surveys of land holdings owned by Sri Lanka Railways are to be conducted to improve management of i...

January 18, 2018 1 min read

Denmark's Rohde Nielsen wins Sri Lanka sea sand dredging deal

ECONOMYNEXT - Rohde Nielsn A/S, a Denmark based company had won a 20 million US dollar deal to dredge sea sand in Sri La...

January 11, 2018 1 min read

China to invest a billion dollars in three towers at Sri Lanka's reclaimed city

China will invest $1 billion in the construction of three 60-storey buildings at a mega-project near Sri Lanka's main po...

January 2, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Maga Engineering wins Rs4.5bn wholesale market deal

Sri Lanka's Maga Engineering Pvt Ltd, has won a 4,507 billion rupee deal to construct a wholesale bazaar outside the cap...

December 24, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka ties up with China Harbour to fund billion dollar financial building

Sri Lanka has tied up with China Harbour Engineering group the sea near the capital Colombo seek funds for a billion dol...

December 22, 2017 1 min read
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Sri Lanka approves PPP for ‘Port City’ tunnel link

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan government has approved a proposal to build a tunnel to link the Chinese-built â€...

December 13, 2017 1 min read

$8.4bn investment opportunity in Sri Lanka ‘green buildings’

ECONOMYNEXT – The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has said it estimates an investment opportunity of almo...

December 6, 2017 2 min read

Highest Sri Lanka bare land prices in Kotte area – RIU

ECONOMYNEXT – The highest land prices in Sri Lankan are currently found in the Kotte, Sri Jayawardenapura area, a...

November 28, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Capital Trust plans more condos, wins at Asia Property Awards

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Capital Trust Residencies, which won the ‘Best Condo Sri Lanka’ awa...

November 16, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka retains protection for ceramic industry in 2018 budget

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government has largely retained protection given to the local ceramic industry t...

November 10, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Royal Ceramics Sept net down 7.3-pct

November 9, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's China reclaimed city at halfway mark; EIA for comments

Sri Lanka's 269 hectare sea reclamation project by China Harbour Engineering Corporation extending the capital Colombo, ...

October 25, 2017 2 min read

Singapore property portal to hold Sri Lanka awards

PropertyGuru, a Singapore based real estate portal that has a presence is several Asian markets said it will begin an a...

October 4, 2017 2 min read

Sri Lanka's JAT Property starts apartment with rainwater harvesting

Sri Lanka's JAT Holdings, a distributor of wall and wood coatings, has started building a 52-unit apartment in the Nugeg...

September 27, 2017 1 min read

Private funding for Sri Lanka Megapolis, govt equity minimal

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government is keen to get the private sector involved in financing critical urba...

September 20, 2017 2 min read