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Keppel Land says it is progressing into Phase Two of developing a 37-storey office tower in Saigon Centre, its landmark mixed-use development in Ho Chi Minh city.
Meanwhile, its retail podium, which is currently under construction, has achieved a pre-commitment of about 40%.
Anchor tenant, Takashimaya, will house its first department store in Vietnam in the retail podium, taking up about 15,000 sqm of retail space.
Saigon Centre Phases One and Two are jointly owned by Keppel Land, Toshin Development Co., Ltd and Vietnamese partners, Southern Waterborne and Transportation Corporation and Saigon Real Estate Corporation.
Keppel Land holds a 45.3% stake in the development.
Standing at a total of 42 storeys, Saigon Centre Phase Two will comprise 40,000 sqm of premium Grade A office space, five levels of 50,000 sm retail space and about 200 units of luxury serviced apartments.
The total investment cost for Phase Two will be about US$255 million ($324.5 million).
Keppel Land closed 1.7% lower at $3.40.
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The UK construction sector activity has hit a new eight-month high, thanks to the housebuilding sector, according to Markit's purchasing managers' index (PMI) reading for September. Beating analyst expectations of a 63.5 reading, PMI climbed to 64.2, up 0.2 points from August. A reading above 50 signals growth.
Markit attributed the upturn to house building, but noted that once again construction firms reported rapid growth of commercial activity and civil engineering, indicating an increased level of investment in office space, industrial units, retail space and infrastructure.
Markit's chief economist Chris William said: "After the manufacturing PMI signalled a disappointing slowing of factory growth in September, a near-record increase in activity registered by the construction PMI provides more encouraging news on the health of the UK economy at the end of the third quarter."
The average reading for the third quarter was 63.5, compared to 61.1 in the second.
"Although only representing around 6-7% of gross domestic product (GDP), the sheer pace of expansion signalled by the PMI suggests that the construction sector can provide a meaningful boost to economic growth in the third quarter," William continued.
However, Markit also noted that economic growth may slow in the second half of the year, according to levels of optimism amongst construction firms in relation to the outlook.
Levels have fallen to their lowest for nearly a year, hit by concerns over a slowing housing market, shortages of both skilled labour and suitable sub-contractors, higher interest rates and a general weakening of growth in the wider economy.
"Combined with the weakening picture from manufacturing, this downturn in construction firms' optimism may mean the second quarter GDP expansion of 0.9% could represent a peak in the pace of economic growth this year," William explained.
"We await [Friday's] services PMI numbers to get better steer on the economy's growth in the third quarter, though data available so far point to an expansion in the region of 0.7-0.8%."
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When Ken Griffin, the director of IT operations for Harvard Business Publishing, warned his staff, 12 months from now, those servers are being switched off, his message was crystal cleartheres no going back, learn the cloud or step aside.
Top management at Harvard Business Publishing, a nonprofit subsidiary of Harvard University that publishes management learning materials, decided in 2012 to go all-in on the cloud. We dont want to replace hardware anymore, Griffin said.
The company is now two years into a three-year plan to move all of its operations, consisting of more than 70 applications used by about 650 employees and contributors, to the cloud. Griffin shared some of the lessons he and his team learned on the journey at the Interop New York conference this week.
Moving to the cloud is more complicated than a simple lift-and-shift approach of copying software and data over to the hosted service, Griffin said. Organizations should be open to change, he said. The most efficient way to do something in the cloud may involve a radically different approach than doing it in-house.
Some of the migrations were fairly easy, such as moving mail services to Office365. Griffin was surprised how many cloud services employees were already using before the official decision to move operations. Employees were using Jive, Jira, Dropbox and a variety of commercial consumer and enterprise services.
The base infrastructure, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), required more planning, though. Initially, Harvard Business Publishing had planned to replicate AWS infrastructure services in the on-premises systems and not make any architectural changes. This approach quickly proved to be inefficient.
Today, there are no Web servers in Harvard Business Publishings cloud operations. Content is served directly from Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3), and delivery can be auto-scaled as demand waxes and wanes.
With AWS architecture is key, Griffin said. Poor cloud-system design means that you will be in a world of pain, Griffin warned.
AWS can provide organizations a fair bit of help to transition to the cloud. Griffin advised getting a professional support subscription and then letting AWS know how much your organization plans to spend. Once Griffin indicated that Harvard Business Publishing could spend up to US$50,000 a year running operations on AWS, Amazon made sure its questions were answered.
While the technology may need rethinking, Griffin found the biggest challenge was getting existing IT staff to move to a cloud mindset.
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