New Jurong facility to cut production times for concrete

Related construction plants brought closer; emissions reduced with fewer truck trips

- Wong Yang

A new one-stop facility for manufacturing concrete in Jurong will shorten production times and reduce carbon emissions by cutting more than a million truck journeys a year.

The ready-mixed concrete (RMC) ecosystem at Jurong Port uses five conveyor belts to move raw materials shipped to the port to storage sites and production plants where they are mixed into concrete.

The $200 million facility, which has been operational since September 2023, will reduce the need for these materials to be moved by trucks, and takes Jurong Port a step closer to completing Singapore's first integrated construction park, which will house different construction facilities.

In the next phase of the integrated construction park's development, an integrated construction and prefabrication hub - where precast building components are made with automated systems and two more RMC batching plants will be built by 2027.

At the launch of the integrated construction park on Nov 27, National Development Minister Desmond Lee said the authorities plan to build more of such facilities across Singapore, including at Pulau Punggol Barat.

"Bringing related construction facilities closer together, such as co-locating the import of sand and granite with cement and steel handling, saves time and resources that would have otherwise been spent hauling materials from place to place across Singapore," he said.

The Building and Construction Authority had on Oct 28 called a tender for consultants to conduct feasibility studies and propose conceptual designs for the next integrated construction park at Pulau Punggol Barat.

The studies are expected to conclude by the first half of 2027.