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New ideas for land optimisation
JTC Corporation (JTC) has developed
two innovative concepts for optimising
the use of land for industrial facilities
– the Cluster Industrial Complex with
Mega-hoist (CICM) and the Plug-and-
Play Factory.
The ideas are applicable to all new and
existing industrial estates and industry
clusters.
CICM can be introduced in any
estate where there is high demand for
logistics and a sizeable plot of land is
available. However, JTC says it will seek
the feedback from industry players to
determine which clusters will benefit most
from the concept.
The Plug-and-Play Factory is suitable
for estates with high warehousing demand
and which permit the co-location of
workers’ dormitories.
Feasibility studies and design
development will be completed in two
years’ time. The implementation time-line
will depend on market demand.
The CICM concept envisions the co-location of factories, warehouses, supporting industries, showrooms,
R&D, offi ces, and amenities (ie the entire value chain in a particular industry). This achieves greater
industrial land and resource optimisation and greater synergy among different industry players.
CICM
The CICM concept envisions the
co-location of factories, warehouses,
supporting industries, showrooms, R&D,
offices, and amenities (ie the entire value
chain in a particular industry).
This achieves greater industrial land
and resource optimisation and greater
synergy among different industry players.
The concept is a major enhancement
to the materials handling cycle and serves
the logistical needs of all parties in the
high-rise complex.
The construction of a stepped-up
structure which acts as a central cargohandling
spine, and the incorporation
of a mega-hoist mechanism, ensure that
materials and goods are moved efficiently.
Land use is intensified as the need for
heavy vehicle ramps, as seen in stack-up
factories, is eliminated.
The system can be shared by the
block of manufacturing units (factories)
located on one side of the spine and the
warehousing/logistics facilities on the other
side, thus optimising the use of resources.
There will be no need for factories to have
their own individual warehouses.
The efficiency in the materials/goods
movement cycle is improved as the value
The Plug-and-Play Factory seeks to optimise land use through the sharing of accessways for services, and
through a structurally strengthened central hub that accommodates warehousing, offi ces, amenities,
and workers’ dormitories, to which standard factories can be connected.
chain is integrated in one complex.
Productivity will be greatly increased
and operational costs reduced.
Plug-and-Play Factory
The Plug-and-Play Factory is an industrial
development that allows for the colocation
of land-based factories with
central warehousing/logistics support,
offices, amenities, and primary / secondary
workers’ dormitories.
Preliminary analyses, based on
comparisons with JTC’s E9 series of
standard factories, have shown that land
savings of up to 30% and an increase in
the land use intensity of up to 70%, can
be achieved.
Land use is optimised through the
sharing of accessways for services, and
through a structurally strengthened
central hub that accommodates
warehousing, offices, amenities, and
workers’ dormitories, to which standard
factories can be connected.
Companies can save on the costs
required to build internal roads and
separate workers’ dormitories, and for the
transportation of goods.
Companies will also have flexibility
in the configuration of production spaces
and in the designing of their factories.
Images by JTC.
40 · THE SINGAPORE ENGINEER Jun 2010