Three more junior colleges (JCs) will join Eunoia JC (EJC) and have high-rise buildings when their new campuses open in January 2028.
The three JCs – Temasek JC (TJC), Anderson Serangoon JC (ASRJC) and Jurong Pioneer JC (JPJC) – will move into new campuses that will occupy smaller land sites but will have buildings that go up to 12 storeys, tender documents obtained by The Straits Times show.
EJC, which opened in 2020, has a campus that comprises 12- and 10-storey blocks.
Despite occupying smaller site areas than the campuses they replace, the new campuses will have more total floor space.
They will also have a track and field – something that is common across almost all of Singapore’s pre-university campuses.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) announced in March 2019 that campuses of older JCs would be upgraded or rebuilt as part of the JC Rejuvenation Programme.
An MOE spokesperson said in 2022 that the ministry is “studying the possibility of smaller campus footprint based on high-rise designs to maximise land use”.
A construction tender for TJC was called on Oct 14, and MOE told ST on Oct 28 that design work for the ASRJC and JPJC campuses is under way and “will be completed progressively over the next few months”.
This story is from the November 04, 2024 edition of The Straits Times.
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