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Surbana Jurong is part of the consortium appointed for Changi Airport’s Terminal 5 project

Changi Airport Terminal 5 engineering Surbana Jurong aviation — Changi East and T5 Site Plan

Surbana Jurong, Arup, Mott MacDonald and Changi Airport Planners and Engineers, are pleased to be appointed by Changi Airport Group for the upcoming Terminal 5 project, that will cement Singapore’s position as a key aviation hub position and Changi Airport’s reputation as the world’s best airport.

For more information, please see Changi Airport Group’s press release:

Appointment of Master Building and Civil Consultants for Changi Airport Terminal 5

SINGAPORE, 13 April 2018 – Changi Airport Group (CAG) today announced the appointment of the Master Building Consultants, comprising three teams, that will provide architectural design and engineering consultancy services for the development of Changi Airport’s Terminal 5 (T5). It also announced the appointment of the Master Civil Consultants for the T5-related landside and airfield works.

Master Building Consultants

The firms that have been appointed are:

KPF (Singapore) Pte Ltd, in partnership with Heatherwick Studio and Architects 61 Private Limited, for the provision of architectural design services;
Arup Singapore Private Limited, Mott MacDonald Singapore Pte Limited, and Surbana Jurong Consultants Pte Ltd, for the provision of engineering services; and
DP Architects Pte Ltd, for the provision of design services for commercial spaces.

These firms will provide full consultancy services for the design of the Main Terminal Building, Satellite Terminal Building, Ground Transportation Centre and Primary Landside Roadway.

Master Civil Consultants

The Master Civil Consultants appointed are Arup Singapore Private Limited, Mott MacDonald Singapore Pte Limited, Surbana Jurong Consultants Pte Ltd and Changi Airport Planners and Engineers Pte Ltd.

These firms will provide consultancy services for the design of infrastructure at the landside and airside areas outside of the T5 buildings. These include taxiways, aircraft parking stands, roadways and drainage systems, as well as the connections for utilities such as power, water, gas, fuel and telecommunications to the T5 buildings.

T5 will cement Changi Airport’s position as a premier global air hub

Mr Yam Kum Weng, CAG’s Executive Vice President for Airport Development, said, “Today’s award of the contracts comes after months of in-depth discussions with each of the shortlisted firms. We thank all the firms for working closely with us on their proposals for this project and look forward to taking the development of T5 forward with our appointed consultants.

“With the aviation industry expected to experience strong growth in the coming decades and demand for capacity at Changi Airport projected to increase annually, the development of T5 as a single integrated terminal will ensure that Changi Airport remains competitive as a leading air hub capable of serving the growing needs of our airline partners and taking the travel experience of passengers to new levels.”

With the appointments of the Master Building and Civil Consultants, CAG will embark on the full design journey for the T5 project. The terminal is part of the larger Changi East development project that includes a three-runway system, as well as the development of cargo complexes and other supporting aviation and ground transport infrastructure. The project will provide Changi Airport with additional capacity of up to 50 million passenger movements per annum in its initial phase and 100 more aircraft stands.

Surbana Jurong celebrates official opening of AETOS’ new complex at Jurong West

Aetos official opening — The building on Corporation Drive is equipped with many of the security services that AETOS can offer to its clients.

AETOS, a member of the Surbana Jurong Group, has opened its first purpose-built complex, situated minutes down the AYE highway from its former headquarters in Jurong West, in the western part of Singapore.

The building was declared open in an official ceremony on 26 January, graced by Minister, Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Manpower and Home Affairs, Josephine Teo. The event was attended by over 200 guests, including government officials, clients and partners.

AETOS indoor live firing range — The indoor shooting range uses lighting and targetry controls to simulate different environments and situations during live firing training. Previously, AETOS had to rent training facilities at the Old Police Academy.

The seven-storey complex has several key facilities, including AETOS’ first shooting range – a 25-metre indoor range which was designed and built by SMM.

It also has a new Cash Processing Centre that provides a complete end-to-end chain of financial security services, boasting numerous physical security measures such as multiple interlocking access doors, custom-made transparent workstations and extensive 24/7 CCTV coverage.

The innovative safety and security technologies that AETOS offers to its clients have been incorporated into this complex, such as an Intelligent Fire Detection System, virtual fencing through video analytics, and automated security terminals for seamless access control.

Monitored from its in-house command centre, these features are part of the clustered building security service provided to its clients, integrating security, safety and facilities management to increase operational efficiency and reduce reliance on manpower.

security management auxiliary police Aetos — At the opening ceremony were (from left) Wong Heang Fine, Group CEO of Surbana Jurong, Quek Poh Huat, Chairman of AETOS Holdings, Minister Josephine Teo and James Tan, Executive Director and CEO of AETOS Holdings.

Under the upcoming government-led Security Industry Transformation Map, key initiatives include the adoption of technology and the re-alignment of the regulatory environment in its support. In her opening address, Minister Teo noted that “the appropriate use of technology to carry out routine, labour-intensive tasks allows the security officer to focus on tasks that are more complex or require human judgement, such as incident response”.

To this end, AETOS is fully committed to the adoption of such technologies, leading the shift in the overall industry as it strives to meet changing security needs and manpower constraints.

Yale-NUS College and Surbana Jurong team up to test-bed next generation of smart city solutions

Technology solutions incubated at Yale-NUS will support development of “Smart City in a Campus”

next generation smart city solutions NUS — Pictured at the signing ceremony are (L to R): Teo Say Hong, Group Director (Strategy, M&A & Integration), Surbana Jurong, Poon Joe Keen, Managing Director, Smart City Solutions, Surbana Jurong, Dr Koh Poh Koon, Senior Minister of State for Trade & Industry, Prof Tan Tai Yong, President, Yale-NUS College, Prof Lam Khee Poh, Dean of School of Design and Environment, NUS, and Kristen Lynas, Executive VP (Admin), Yale-NUS College.

Singapore, 15 November 2017– Yale-NUS College and Surbana Jurong (SJ) signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today, with Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Dr. Koh Poh Koon gracing the ceremony. Yale-NUS and SJ will collaborate in test-bedding the next generation of smart city solutions within the College campus. The two parties will use their respective resources and expertise to co-develop a digital masterplan for “Smart City in a Campus”, an initiative by Yale-NUS, in the following ways:

Knowledge sharing to co-create solutions – Yale-NUS students, staff and faculty members will share their feedback and experience on using SJ’s smart facilities management solutions, and explore the use of artificial intelligence in Yale-NUS’ upcoming mobile app, to allow users to conveniently submit feedback or report defects.
Test-bedding and refining technology innovations – SJ will deploy and test its smart city solutions such as a predictive lift monitoring system at the campus to enhance the residential living facilities and built environment of the College. Yale-NUS faculty and students will play an active role in improving and refining the prototypes alongside SJ via user testing and feedback and faculty expertise in collating and analysing data findings from the project. The College’s wide range of research expertise, which spans across the humanities, science and social sciences, will contribute to the unique solutions that can be developed as a result of this partnership.
Training of students – SJ and Yale-NUS will explore various collaboration channels (e.g. internships, job attachments and lectures) to educate Yale-NUS students and equip them with the relevant skills on smart city solutions.

These initiatives are aimed at enriching Yale-NUS’ unique residential living and learning model, which provides an ideal environment to test-bed SJ’s technology solutions. Currently housing more than 800 residents, the 64,000 square-metre Yale-NUS campus consists of three residential colleges (RCs), 1,000 student rooms, seminar rooms, laboratories, a library and a performance hall among other facilities. With students staying in suites of four to six people within three RCs, Yale-NUS is a microcosm of a small town, allowing SJ to test their solutions accurately in a real-life environment. The College’s close-knit community will also facilitate the collection of data and feedback that will enable SJ to improve their smart city solutions.

“Yale-NUS College is excited to partner Surbana Jurong by providing our fully-residential campus as a site for test-bedding their ideas, as well as contributing our research expertise. Our students are curious and have inquisitive minds that enable them to challenge the status quo and innovate. They are well-equipped to delve deep into these smart city initiatives and contribute to its further development to better improve the way we live. Our faculty members are also well placed to contribute their research expertise to the smart city research projects. We are excited by the opportunity to translate research findings into real world technology solutions for meaningful outcomes,” said Professor Tan Tai Yong, President of Yale-NUS College.

“Surbana Jurong looks forward to supporting Yale-NUS college in developing their “Smart City in a Campus” by leveraging our strong expertise and 30 plus years of experience in developing and managing smart solutions for Singapore’s HDB town councils. We hope this meaningful collaboration will lead to the robust creation of innovative ideas for the next generation of smart city solutions,” said Mr. Wong Heang Fine, Group CEO of SJ.

For media enquiries, please contact:

Yale-NUS College
Melissa Wang, Senior Executive, Public Affairs
Tel: (+65) 6601 5090
Mobile: (+65) 9126 0426
Email: melissa.wang@yale-nus.edu.sg

Surbana Jurong
Gerald Lim, Senior Manager, Group Communications & Branding
Tel: (+65) 6248 1825
Email: gerald.limyk@surbanajurong.com

About Yale-NUS College
Established in 2011 through a partnership between Yale University and the National University of Singapore, Yale-NUS College is a leading liberal arts college in Asia, with a full residential programme that integrates living and learning. Drawing on the resources and traditions of its two founding universities, Yale-NUS aims to redefine liberal arts and science education for a complex, interconnected world. A Yale-NUS College education emphasises broad-based multi-disciplinary learning in the full range of arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences. Our curriculum and pedagogy, built from scratch by the inaugural faculty, seeks to draw on the strengths of established liberal arts traditions, while introducing our students to the diverse intellectual traditions and cultures of Asia and the world. We are nurturing young minds and equipping the next generation with the means to appreciate and understand the breadth and complexity of issues, the capacity to think critically and solve problems, and the skills to effectively communicate and lead.

Our Vision:
A community of learning,
Founded by two great universities,
In Asia, for the world.

About Surbana Jurong
Surbana Jurong Private Limited (SJ) is one of the largest Asia-based urban, industrial and infrastructure consulting firms. Leveraging technology and creativity, SJ provides one-stop consultancy solutions across the entire value chain of the urbanisation, industrialisation and infrastructure domains.

Headquartered in Singapore, the SJ Group has a global workforce of 13,000 employees in 113 offices across 44 countries in Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, and an annual turnover of around S$1.3 billion.

SJ has a track record of over 50 years, and has built over a million homes in Singapore, crafted master plans for more than 30 countries and developed over 50 industrial parks globally.

SJ’s motto ‘Building Cities, Shaping Lives’ reflects its belief that development is more than just steel and concrete. SJ creates spaces and designs infrastructure where people live, work and play, shaping cities into homes with sustainable jobs where communities and businesses can flourish.

Visit www.surbanajurong.com for more information.

Double wins for Surbana Jurong Group at BCA BIM Awards 2017

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SIPM’s latest projects further enhance Singapore’s urban landscape

Singapore urban landscape - Robertson Quay hotel — Conversion of the Intercontinental Singapore Robertson Quay hotel adds to the revitalisation of the Robertson Quay area.

With over 14 years of well-established project management capabilities, SIPM has played an active role in changing the urban landscape of Singapore.

Two hotels – the Intercontinental Singapore Robertson Quay and Park Hotel Farrer Park and Medical Suites – and the Mediacorp campus are a few of the exciting developments opened to the public this year which were handled by Surbana Jurong’s project management arm.

Each of these projects contributed to the Singapore skyline in their own unique way, while each carried their individual challenges. For instance, the Intercontinental hotel involved the part- demolition and conversion of the existing Gallery Hotel and is one of the first steps towards the revitalisation of the Robertson Quay area.

Park Hotel Farrer Park interfaces with the Farrer Park MRT station and disruption to the travelling public had to be minimised during construction. With the hotel and medical suite development being part of the larger Farrer Square healthcare and hospitality development, the project involved multiple stakeholders with highly diverse interests which had to be actively managed over the course of the project.

As for the Mediacorp campus, it is likely to be Singapore’s only media campus in the foreseeable future. Its requirements are unique to the broadcast industry, such as office floors sitting above large, column-free recording studios. Together with the building’s distinct architecture, the project created unique opportunities to deliver to global standards, said SIPM’s Managing Director Bernard Ho.

Across all these projects, Bernard noted that his project managers stayed focused on their clients’ needs in the face of demands from multiple stakeholder fronts, and provided all the solutions necessary to ensure the projects remained on track till completion.

Surbana Jurong to design and build new fresh food distribution centre for NTUC

NTUC food distribution centre — Mr Seah Kian Peng, CEO of NTUC Co-operative Ltd, and Mr Wong Heang Fine, Group CEO of SJ, signed the contract to appoint SJ to provide consultancy services for a new fresh food distribution centre

Surbana Jurong (SJ) has been appointed by NTUC Fairprice Co-operative Ltd (NTUC), the largest supermarket chain in Singapore, to provide multi-disciplinary consultancy services for a new fresh food distribution centre.

The 2.8ha development will consist of a 40-m-high Automatic Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS), multi-temperature cold-rooms, ancillary office and facilities. It will be used as a distribution centre for the receiving, sorting, storage and distribution of fresh food for NTUC. The scope of works includes architecture, civil and structural engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, and quantity surveying.

“In this project, we will be taking special care to ensure that the cold-rooms are designed to handle condensation, as well as meet cold chain and fire safety requirements,” said Michael Vong, Project Director and Deputy Managing Director, Building Consultancy Services (Urban Development 1). “We have assembled a team who recently completed the JTC Foodhub project and will be tapping on their experience to deliver this project successfully.” The project is targeted for completion in early 2021.

Surbana Jurong’s Floating Ponds wins WAFX Prize in the Water category

Surbana Jurong’s multi-storey Floating Ponds concept has won the WAFX (World Architecture Festival – Xth Edition) Prize in the Water category. Surbana Jurong partnered Singapore firm Apollo Aquaculture Group to develop the vertical-farming concept where fish and vegetables can be farmed together in a closed-loop, self-sustaining ecosystem with a minimum waste of water, energy and nutrients. The concept is highly scalable, both vertically and horizontally, to fit any available urban space.

The win is exciting for Surana Jurong as the WAF Awards are likened to the Oscars in the world of architectural projects, said senior architectural associate and project lead Alakesh Dutta, who added, “The prize is a firm acknowledgment of SJ’s ability to recognise critical agendas for the next generation of sustainable urban solutions and highlights the importance of developing collaborations with strategic partners like Apollo Aquaculture Group.”

Floating Ponds wins WAFX award

This is the first award for the Floating Ponds project. It is in the running for another award – WAF 2017’s Future Projects award in the Experimental category, to be held in Berlin in November 2017, where team members Ms Tan Yok Joo and Mr Alakesh Dutta will be presenting the project to the jury.

Floating Ponds WAFX Prize in the Water category

If it wins, it will join the shortlist for World Building of the Year, an honour which other Singapore buildings have received in the past — The Interlace apartment complex won in 2015 and the Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in 2012.

Aside from Floating Ponds, another Surbana Jurong project has made the Future Projects shortlist, in the category of Education. The National University of Singapore’s School of Design is a net zero-energy building that produces as much if not more energy than it consumes. The building was designed by Surbana Jurong in collaboration with Serie Architects and MPly Architects, and will contain the schools of architecture, landscape, interior and product design. When completed, it will be the first net-zero energy building in the tropics.

Surbana Jurong’s big sweep at SIP Planning Awards

Surbana Jurong’s Planning Group (SJPG) has walked away with its biggest haul yet at the SIP Planning Awards.

It snapped up five awards in four categories at the Singapore Institute of Planners’ 5^th SIP awards, winning in all the categories it competed. The gala dinner and awards ceremony was held on 21^st September 2017 at The Swissotel Merchant Court, where the who’s who in the urban planning fraternity gathered to recognise the industry’s best.

SJ took top spot in three categories – for Best Project for Resilient Planning, Best Planning Project and Best Urban Design Project.

Philip Tan, Managing Director of the Urban Planning Group called this “a great milestone for the five projects competing among 59 other project entries by local and foreign consultants”.

He added, “SJPG has been consistently winning these awards since the programme was first inaugurated in 2008, a testament that SJ is at the forefront creating value in planning cities and also representing the Singapore brand experience in planning townships, where Singapore is widely known to be the innovative and leading showcase to many international communities.”

On the judging panel were W. Paul Farmer (past president, American Planning Association), Fong Chun Wah (Deputy CEO, HDB), Hwang Yu Ning (Chief Planner, URA), and Mohinder Singh (Dean, LTA Academy).

SJ winners at the SIP awards 2017
Project	Category	Award
Social Resilient Plan for Amaravati, India	Best Project for Resilient Planning	Gold
Northern Savannah Ecological Zone (NSEZ) Regional Concept Plan, Ghana	Best Planning Project	Gold
Kaloum Redevelopment Master Plan 2040, Conakry Guinea	Best Urban Design Project	Silver (no Gold was awarded)
Mwanza City Master Plan, Tanzania	Best Planning Project	Bronze
Arusha City Centre Urban Design, Tanzania	Best Urban Design Project	Merit

Surbana Jurong leading the pack in PPVC technology

It is not every day that a condominium receives VIP visitors before construction is completed but that is what happened at The Wisteria, Surbana Jurong’s ongoing private residential project in Yishun.

Earlier this month, Mr Desmond Lee, Singapore’s Second Minister for National Development, led a group of young leaders from the construction sector on a learning visit to the condominium – it is the first Government Land Sales residential project development in Singapore to incorporate Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC) technology.

The Wisteria is also one of the first projects by SJ’s architectural team in Urban Development 2 (UD2) to use PPVC extensively. Between UD1 & UD2, SJ has built up good capabilities in PPVC, making SJ an early adopter and industry leader in this field.

According to Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA), PPVC is considered a game changer in the building industry for being able to speed up construction and achieve up to 50% in manpower and time savings. However, PPVC systems tend to be proprietary in nature and are subjected to stringent approval processes; they also require significant investment in technical knowledge and skills to implement.

Hence, contractors who are new to PPVC have been engaging SJ for advisory services on getting their PPVC systems approved. This ensures that the new players’ designs and materials are robust and can meet the minimum industry standards set by BCA.

SJ and its member company KTP Consultants have adopted PPVC in several multidisciplinary projects across residential, commercial, hospitality, healthcare and institutional sectors, working with clients such as MOH Holdings and Nanyang Technological University.

PPVC projects undertaken by SJ include:

Crowne Plaza Changi Airport Extension
Woodlands Nursing Home
Undergraduate Residential Halls 22, 23 and 24 at Nanyang Crescent, Nanyang Technological University
Canberra Drive Executive Condominium
New HDB Build-to-Order Parcel in Yishun.

The Wisteria is part of a mixed-use development comprising three nine-storey towers and 216 units built on top of a two-storey shopping centre called The Wisteria Mall. The development is targeted for completion by end 2018.

Surbana Jurong showcases future home innovations

Surbana Jurong’s (SJ) Sustainability team, in collaboration with the Innovation Programme Office, was invited by Build Eco Xpo Asia, one of Southeast Asia’s leading green building exhibitions, to curate Future Home, to showcase how sustainable technologies can be seamlessly integrated in future homes.

The booth is composed of modular pockets of spaces, featuring smart technologies in an integrated living environment. These include new façade glass in the living room; domestic vegetable farming shelves in the kitchen; grey water recycling systems in the bathroom, where waste laundry water can be processed and looped back for non-potable use; home lighting systems that respond to ambient light conditions; as well as home safety monitoring systems.

It showcased the team’s capabilities and solutions, while offering visitors a vision into the future of low-carbon, environmentally resilient cities. Held from 12 to 14 September, the exhibition attracted thousands of building professionals from around the world.

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