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SINGAPORE (Sept 7): Singapore’s Housing Development Board (HDB) says it will improve construction productivity through a greater use of prefabricated units that are assembled off-site but that can be installed on-site.
According to a report by The Business Times, this would drive HDB’s construction productivity on a larger scale, setting it on track to achieve a productivity improvement of 25% by 2020, compared with 2010.
One of the initiatives is to expand the use of prefabricated bathroom units (PBUs).
The HDB yesterday said that it would implement PBUs in 60% of the flats launched in 2017, before extending this to all projects launched by 2019.
It first piloted the concrete PBU in Fernvale Lea, a build-to-order (BTO) project in Sengkang, which completed in January 2016.
So far, the HDB has implemented the PBU in 15 BTO projects involving some 14,000 units.
This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on Sept 7, 2017.
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