World’s tallest modular buildings top off
by sadia_badhon | July 4, 2019 4:20 pm
[1]Photo courtesy Bouygues Bâtiment International
Construction is now complete on Clement Canopy[2], the world’s tallest modular buildings. The 40-story tall towers are located in the heart of a residential and student district in western Singapore.
The 13,038-m2 (140,338-sf) Clement Canopy buildings consist of two 140-m (459-ft) high towers built in modular concrete. They include 505 apartments made with 1899 modules.
Construction company Bouygues Bâtiment International[3] and modular construction laboratory Dragages Singapore[4] used prefabricated and prefinished volumetric construction (PPVC) technology to build the structures. Modules were prefabricated in a factory. Most of the tradework was also installed before the modules were brought to the site for assembly.
The design process was developed with Dragages’s in-house engineering team and ADDP Architects[5]. Design was optimized to include modularization of floor plans, facilitation of offsite manufacturing, and the syntheses and coordination with building information modeling (BIM).
The manufacturing was divided into two steps: the module structures were precast on a yard in Senai, Malaysia, and technical and architectural works were carried out in a factory in Tuas, Singapore. The modules were then transported to the site where it is stacked as per the sequencing programme and to form its structure.
- [Image]: https://www.constructionspecifier.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Opener-3.jpg
- Clement Canopy: https://www.clementcanopycondos.com/
- Bouygues Bâtiment International: https://www.bouygues-construction.com/en/group/affiliates/bouygues-batiment-international
- Dragages Singapore: http://dragages.com.sg/
- ADDP Architects: http://addp.sg/
Source URL: https://www.constructionspecifier.com/worlds-tallest-modular-buildings-top-off/