A couple of tall towers will be the tallest prefabricated buildings in the world.
A couple of tall towers will be the tallest prefabricated buildings in the world.
And while the two 192-meter-high (630-foot) towers will be located in densely populated Singapore, most of the structures are being built over the Malaysian border.
The residential project, called Avenue South Residences, will see 988 apartments consisting of approximately 3,000 vertically stacked “modules”. The corporate project, ADDP Architects, says the structure method, known as the prefabricated volumetric structure (PPVC), requires less labor and can help reduce waste and noise pollution.
Individual modules are manufactured at the Senai plant in Malaysia, where a series of six-sided boxes are poured in particular and then transported to a facility in Singapore for installation and equipment before being moved to the site.
When they arrive, the boxes are 80% complete, according to ADDP Architects. They then rise to their position through a crane and “sew” in combination to shape a forged frame that supports the load, one of the company’s partner partners said. Markus Cheng Thuan Hann. Final touches, such as doors, are added later, the architect said.
“It’s like a concept of car production, but for the structure sector,” he said in an interview.
Benefits of prefabrication
Controlling the amount of structure painting done at the site in Singapore’s Bukit Merah residential district can lessen disruption for those living nearby, Hann said.
“But this structure (method) is helping to reduce noise,” he said, on the benefits to surrounding public subdivisions. “And this can decrease the WasteArray . . . because production in a factory is much more controlled. “
Another unforeseen merit developed in the gentleness of Covid-19: less labor is needed at the structure site at any time. “It’s less difficult to secure distance and logistics by making plans at the factory, rather than having everyone (the workers) on site. “Hann said.
In the post-war period, the prefabrication industry flourished in Europe and America, with urban planners temporarily and cost-effectively addressing housing shortages, but prefabricated products are now increasingly governed in the Asia-Pacific region.
The structure approach is very popular in Singapore, as the country’s Building and Construction Authority actively encourages the use of PPVC, resulting in 8% savings and a 40% increase in productivity compared to classic means of structure (attributes greater “labor” and “time-saving” productivity for the latter). Since 2014, the firm has even made prefabrication a requirement for safe structure sites.
Construction on South Residences Avenue has already begun, and developers aim to complete the allocation until the first quarter of 2023. This assignment will surpass Singapore and the world’s tallest prefabricated Clement Canopy, 140 meters high also designed through ADDP Architects. Other higher modular buildings in the world come with a 135-meter (443-foot) tower in Croydon, south London, and a residential progression of 109 meters (359 feet) in New York City.