Sinohydro Corporation
Encyclopedia
Sinohydro Corporation is a Chinese state-owned hydropower
engineering
and construction
company
. It is the world's largest hydroelectric company. The company engages in architectural projects, electric power
investment, house
property
and real estate
, research and development
, and design and manufacture of construction equipment
.
It provides investment, project financing, consultation, and construction services. The company also engages in the manufacture and installation of mechanical and electrical plants.
It trades in water conservancy, power generation, expressway, railway, harbor and sea-route, airport, municipal public utility
, and building industries.
The company was founded in 1950 and is based in Beijing
, China. Sinohydro Corporation has operations in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America.
, Malaysia were flawed. The admission came after Sarawak Report
reported that Sinohydro had widely used a technique involving adding excessive water to cement, with potentially dangerous consequences. The Sarawak Report said its website was attacked after it published the report.
Hydropower
Hydropower, hydraulic power, hydrokinetic power or water power is power that is derived from the force or energy of falling water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes. Since ancient times, hydropower has been used for irrigation and the operation of various mechanical devices, such as...
engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
and construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
company
Company
A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
. It is the world's largest hydroelectric company. The company engages in architectural projects, electric power
Electric power
Electric power is the rate at which electric energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt.-Circuits:Electric power, like mechanical power, is represented by the letter P in electrical equations...
investment, house
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
property
Property
Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation...
and real estate
Real estate
In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
, research and development
Research and development
The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...
, and design and manufacture of construction equipment
Construction Equipment
Construction Equipment is a trade publication and web site serving the information needs of construction contractors, materials producers, and other owners and operators of construction equipment....
.
It provides investment, project financing, consultation, and construction services. The company also engages in the manufacture and installation of mechanical and electrical plants.
It trades in water conservancy, power generation, expressway, railway, harbor and sea-route, airport, municipal public utility
Public utility
A public utility is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service . Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to state-wide government monopolies...
, and building industries.
The company was founded in 1950 and is based in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, China. Sinohydro Corporation has operations in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America.
Faulty construction of Bakun Dam
In 2011, Sinohydro acknowledged that its construction procedures used for the Bakun Dam in SarawakSarawak
Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. Known as Bumi Kenyalang , Sarawak is situated on the north-west of the island. It is the largest state in Malaysia followed by Sabah, the second largest state located to the North- East.The administrative capital is Kuching, which...
, Malaysia were flawed. The admission came after Sarawak Report
Sarawak Report
The Sarawak Report is a Sarawak investigative journalism news online resource in UK founded by Clare Rewcastle Brown, sister-in-law of former UK prime minister Gordon Brown...
reported that Sinohydro had widely used a technique involving adding excessive water to cement, with potentially dangerous consequences. The Sarawak Report said its website was attacked after it published the report.