Ratch signs on for ‘smart industrial cities’ planning
Ratch Group Public Company Limited is to build two smart industrial cities in collaboration with Navanakorn Co Ltd (NNCL), ALT Telecom Public Co Ltd (ALT) and Thammasat University, with help from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
The projects will be at Thammasat’s Rangsit campus and the Nava Nakorn Industrial Promotion Zone in Pathum Thani.
Memoranda of understanding for the “digital industrial zones and intelligent communities” were signed on Wednesday (January 8).
Ratch chief executive Kijja Sripatthangkura said the sites were carefully chosen based on the suitability of the surrounding communities and their educational, residential, commercial and industrial zoning as well as infrastructure.
Thammasat’s Faculty of Architecture and Planning and the Harvard design school will create conceptual designs for architecture and landscaping and a master plan for urban planning and infrastructure.
Ratch, NNCL and ALT will contribute the needed information about energy technology, industrial and commercial infrastructure, telecommunications innovations and an intelligent communication network.
The project model is expected to be completed by mid-2020.
