Prefabricated modular construction has been the future of the building industry for at least half a century, so I was intrigued when I got a press release announcing "Sustainability, access to green ...

SINGAPORE (Aug 27): Tiong Seng Holdings, the construction group and property developer, has been awarded a construction contract worth $130.5 million by Midtown Development, a company that is part of ...

Instead of employing the usual heavy lift flat top tower crane for PPVC construction, a different lifting solution was chosen for this project in Singapore. Alex Dahm reports. South East Asia is still ...

Two upcoming Government Land Sales (GLS) sites at Yishun Avenue 4 and Jurong West Street 41 will need to adopt Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC), an advanced technology in ...

WHEN the concept of prefabricated pre-finished volumetric construction (PPVC) was first introduced in Singapore, there were concerned murmurs in some quarters that we were giving up aesthetics in the ...

IT does not always pay to be the first mover. That's how some contractors feel about the government's push for more productive methods in the construction industry. But Singapore building firms have ...

A pair of fascinating 56-story residential towers will soon rise on the western edge of Singapore’s urban core. The addition of more skyscrapers to a densely populated city-state is hardly surprising, ...

The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) noted that for PPVC, entire flats or modules complete with internal finishes, fixtures and fittings are manufactured in factories, and are then ...

Why is prefabricated prefinished volumetric construction (PPVC) only required for selected building sites? What are the constraints preventing wider use and will the Ministry of National Development ...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 (Bernama) -- The Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC) method can help reduce the country’s dependence on foreign workers in the construction industry, said ...