"Locating the (workers') dormitories is however a tricky business. Most Singaporeans will rather they be sited...

mndsingapore.wordpress.com 26 Jan '12, 7am

"Locating the (workers') dormitories is however a tricky business. Most Singaporeans will rather they be sited...

Photos courtesy of HDB This year, public housing will add another 25,000 units through BTO. Together with the earlier BTO projects still in construction, public housing will need some 30,000 construction workers, largely foreigners. The latter will need to be housed, mostly via foreign workers’ dormitories. Locating the dormitories is however a tricky business. Most Singaporeans will rather they be sited miles away. This is becoming increasingly difficult. But we need to build more flats, and quickly. We cannot do without foreign construction workers, but we can try to build more with less, if we raise construction productivity through standardisation and pre-fabrication. This is possible if we push for higher buildability and constructability in projects, coupled with the levy and manpower policy controls and other measures in the Construction Productivity Roadmap includi...

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@MNDSingapore More new flats = more construction workers? Prefab technology may be key to speeding up our construction programmes.

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@URAsg "Locating the (workers') dormitories is however a tricky business. Most Singaporeans will rather they be sited...

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@chuanjin1 We really need to go down this path in as big a way as possible. Together with using Building Information...

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@praisevariants Proof that even some aspects of construction can go beyond the cheap and mass human wave - mndsingapore

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