Your up date on the construction progress of the building in Penang, Malaysia.

Time flies! All workers are challenged to get the building finished in time.

Even if it might look on a first sight things are not rapidly progressing the progress is quite significant. If you like we take you on a backstage tour. Touring the back stage of our construction area Europeans may get once and a while puzzled because of the special and very different building style. The brick walls between the concrete pillars looks kind of deficient, because there is not much plaster seen between the bricks - but this is the smart trick to these walls. The gabs between the bricks let the air ventilate and at the same time the space between the walls and the outer facing cause a so called “chimney – effect” to transfer moister and heat between the brick walls and the outside facades up to roof slots. Believe me, this is a very smart and efficient way to keep house dry in spite of the 31% humidity of the tropical Malaysian climate. See you soon on our next construction tour.

The walls have been closed with the special bricks		The steel beams of the roof construction have been set.
The steel girders for the outside facing are already in place.

 

 

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