Singapore's 1st Integrated Construction Park Opens in Dec 2022
Singapore's first integrated construction park, located at Jurong Port, will be operational from December 2022. It will bring together key supply chain players in the construction industry, making it easier for them to collaborate, as well as share resources and facilities. These include storage yards and ready-mix concrete batching plants. The integrated construction park is one of several initiatives that form part of a new Industry Transformation Map (ITM), announced by Minister for National Development Desmond Lee. Lee said that bringing the construction facilities together will lead to greater efficiencies when producing construction components. For example, raw materials like cement, sand and granite can be transported using conveyor systems instead of lorries. This can also result in a more efficient and greener construction materials supply chain, said the Building and Construction Authority (BCA). Lee said that the concept will be trialled at Jurong Port before authorities consider replicating it in other locations. Before integrating construction facilities, the industry will be nudged to adopt integrated design and planning, as well as collaborative contracting practices. The BCA will encourage greater adoption of Integrated Digital Delivery which allows for collaboration by stakeholders through digital platforms. It will also push for a redesign of conventional contracts to motivate parties to work together, build trust and facilitate risk-sharing. Seven agencies have identified nine upcoming public sector projects to pilot collaborative contracting, Lee said. The BCA is also targeting to increase the adoption of prefabricated buildings or Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) from 44 per cent currently to 70 per cent by 2025. This means more off-site production will be done in a factory environment with greater adoption of automation, said BCA. The latest move is to require all large building projects to adopt DfMA technologies from April 2022. The ICPs will support this by allowing for more automation and robotics in the production of precast and PPVC (prefabricated prefinished volumetric construction) modules. Liam Wee Sin, co-chair for the Urban Systems Cluster of the Future Economy Council, that COVID-19 showed how the industry is vulnerable as it is highly dependent on migrant workers and low in productivity.
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