{"id":52798,"date":"2017-04-25T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/govt-target-to-increase-projects-using-new-technologies-an-uphill-task\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:22:09","slug":"govt-target-to-increase-projects-using-new-technologies-an-uphill-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/govt-target-to-increase-projects-using-new-technologies-an-uphill-task\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t target to increase projects using new technologies an uphill task"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nConstruction in Singapore.
\nAchieving the government\u2019s target to increase the number of construction projects using new technologies would be an uphill task, said industry experts in a report by The Straits Times.
\nKenneth Loo, president of the Singapore Contractors Association Limited, said it will take over three years to achieve the target.
\n\u201cWhile some of our members are ready, it will take some time to build up across the whole industry,\u201d said Loo.
\nThis comes as the use of new technologies are more expensive compared to traditional methods.
\nThe Wave, for instance, a sports hall at Nanyang Technological University that is mostly made of mass engineered timber costs S$35 million to construct.
\nThe Building Construction Authority, however, said more companies should use the technologies in order for the costs to come down.
\n\u201cThis is a demand and supply problem,\u201d said BCA chief executive John Keung.
\n\u201cWhen you have more of such projects, you have an economy of scale and over time, costs will definitely come down.\u201d
\nMinister for National Development Lawrence Wong on Monday (24 April) announced the government\u2019s goal to multiply the number of construction projects using more efficient techniques \u2013 which require fewer workers \u2013 from one in 10 currently to four in 10 by 2020.
\nDescribing it as not sustainable, Wong noted that the current methods are labour intensive and could lead to a \u201cfar larger pool of foreign workers than we can possibly accommodate in Singapore\u201d.
\n\u201cThe shortage of workers ends up becoming a bottleneck and a constraint in our development \u2013 we end up having to defer projects,\u201d he said at the launch of The Wave.
\nNotably, only 14 workers put together the 72m wave-like roof of the sports hall in about three weeks.
\nWith conventional methods, 30 workers would have needed up to three months to complete the roof, said Kang Choon Boon, managing director of The Wave\u2019s contractor, B19 Technologies.
\n\u00a0
\nThis article was edited by Denise Djong.
\n
\nSource : proppertyguru.com.sg\/Property Market
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