Singapore Towers To Be World's Tallest Modular Buildings

Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com SINGAPORE TOWERS TO BE WORLD'S TALLEST MODULAR BUILDINGS A two-tower residential project planned for a site on the western edge of Singapore's urban core will be notable as the world's tallest modular-constructed buildings, Architectural Digest reported on July 13. The 56-story towers, known as Avenue South Residences, will be built with a process called prefabricated, prefinished volumetric construction (PPVC). Semi-finished apartment modules will be manufactured offsite at factories in Singapore and Malaysia and brought to the 5.6-acre site, where they will be stacked like building blocks to create a total of 988 condominium units. Markus Cheng, an associate of ADDP Architects, the firm overseeing Avenue South Residences, said PPVC is especially useful in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, because social distancing is easier to implement: "When you build in a factory, you minimize workers having to work at height. You also don't have lots of workers mingling around taking an elevator up 40 stories." The project is scheduled for completion in 2026. Image credit: courtesy of ADDP Architects To read the full transcript of today's podcast, visit: elevatorworld.com/news Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes │ Google Play | SoundCloud │ Stitcher │ TuneIn