New NTU sports hall makes waves with innovative timber construction technology
Building process involves assembling parts pre-fabricated off-site, reducing on-site manpower needs by 25 per cent and structural construction time by 33 per cent
Singapore
THE Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on Monday officially unveiled its new S$35 million sports hall called The Wave, the first large-scale construction project in South-east Asia to use Mass Engineered Timber (MET) - an innovative timber construction technology that reduced on-site manpower for the project by 25 per cent and structural construction time by 33 per cent.
This is because the building process involves assembling parts that were pre-fabricated off-site.
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