Industry to draw lessons from first public project using PPVC technology

Singapore

REGULATIONS and collaboration among various government agencies still need to be ironed out as Singapore's builders look to improve their construction productivity, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Wednesday.

The minister, who chairs the National Productivity Council, made this point to reporters during a tour of the new residential halls being built in North Hill on the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) campus.

These are Singapore's first public buildings to use prefabricated, pre-finished volumetric construction (PPVC) technology, which involves stacking pre-built rooms on top of one another and bolting them tight.

He said: "This project has been a very useful learning experience. It has taught us about some of the problems that have to be ironed out. You need to have a …