While prefabricated components are still being popularized in our country, Singapore has passed this stage and shifted towards full decoration prefabrication and modular installation..

As a developed country with a predominantly Chinese population and a small population, Singaporeans have similar living habits to China, and their housing construction also has the characteristics of high plot ratio. They have achieved the popularization of prefabricated buildings early on, and the level of industrialization in construction is very high. What inspirations can China draw from the development of prefabricated buildings in Singapore?.

In February 2016, the last room module was lifted at the construction site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Changi Airport in Singapore. This is Singapore’s first five-star hotel built using PPVC – a fully decorated modular construction technology. All room modules come from a prefabrication factory in Shanghai, which is manufactured, decorated, and assembled for testing before being loaded onto the ship. After a month of sea transportation, it arrived in Singapore and was fully lifted in 26 days..

In recent years, PPVC projects in Singapore have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, distributed in private residential, government projects, and commercial buildings. While prefabricated components are still being popularized in our country, Singapore has passed this stage and shifted towards full decoration prefabrication and modular installation. The development of prefabricated buildings in Singapore is closely related to its people’s livelihoods..

1.1 In response to the “Home Ownership” policy, introduce prefabricated housing.

Prefabricated buildings in Singapore began with the government’s demand for affordable housing in a fast, efficient and efficient manner, and have been fully popularized nationwide due to the government’s decades long insistence on the housing security policy of “homeowners have their own homes”..

The housing system in Singapore began in 1960. At that time, Singapore had just separated from British colonial rule and established autonomous institutions, resulting in underdeveloped society and poor housing conditions for its people. For this reason, Lee Kuan Yew proposed the slogan “Home for All”, making solving the housing problem a basic national policy, and established the Housing Development Board (HDB) in 1960 to lead the construction of public housing. In the first three years, the Housing Authority planned and built a total of 21000 public housing units..

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In the 1970s, the Singapore government stipulated that only those with a monthly income of less than SGD 1500 could apply and gradually raised the standards, basically ensuring that over 80% of households could obtain affordable housing. Since the implementation of this policy, various parts of Singapore have been constructing public housing units, and the living conditions of the people have been continuously improving. The proportion of people living in public housing units in the country has rapidly increased..

At this time, in order to quickly provide a large number of public housing units to the market at a lower cost and achieve the “Home Ownership” policy as soon as possible, the Housing Authority introduced the concept of prefabricated buildings into residential engineering in the 1980s. From 1981 to 1983, three foreign contracted trademarks were awarded five key projects of HDB. They began to introduce prefabrication technology to Singapore, and in these projects, the components using prefabrication methods mainly include frame beams, walls, floors, garbage bins, and stairs..

In recent years, the assembly rate of newly-built housing units has reached over 70%, with some units having an assembly rate of over 90%. Common prefabricated components for residential buildings include precast concrete beams and columns, shear walls, prestressed composite floor slabs, building exterior walls, stairs, elevator walls, air defense trenches, air conditioning panels, garbage bins, and pipe shafts.