JTC Corporation has unveiled two new concepts that could optimise land use and promote synergy within industries.
The first involves a giant hoisting system to move bulky goods to a company’s doorstep – even if it is on a high floor. This would allow developers to build taller industrial facilities and intensify land use by at least 20 per cent.
The second concept looks at housing factories, warehouses and workers’ dormitories in a single complex.
With shared driveways and fewer setbacks needed, land take-up could be cut about 35 per cent.
JTC started examining the two concepts last year and expects to complete its study this year.
‘We are looking at feasibility now,’ said land planning division director Josephine Loke. ‘When we are ready, we will share with industrialists to get their buy-in and feedback.’
JTC staff got the idea for the first concept – a cluster industrial complex with mega hoist – from seeing how cranes at ports worked.
They developed the idea and came up with a design that incorporates a huge hoist in the middle of a complex. Factories can occupy one side of the complex and warehouses the other, sharing the hoist and loading bay for moving goods.
The complex could be five storeys, with a plot ratio of 2.5. This is 23 per cent higher than the plot ratio for stack-up factories at Woodlands Spectrum 1 and 2, which is 2.04.
And because there is no need for a vehicle ramp for trucks to transport goods to higher floors, the design saves up to 0.5 ha of land area.
Industries which could fit into such a complex include those in electronics and precision engineering.
The second design is based on a ‘plug-and-play’ concept. A row of warehouses, logistics facilities, car parks and other amenities will form a central ’spine’. Flatted factories and workers’ dormitories will be built on top of this spine.
Industrialists can then ‘plug in’ to this spine by building their own modular factories along it. At the same time, they can share car parks, access ways for moving goods and other amenities.
Locating various facilities together means less space needs to be set aside for internal driveways and setbacks.
This complex can have a plot ratio of 1.5, almost double the 0.85 for a type E9 standard factory today.
Both concepts are likely to be tested at Jurong. JTC is open to letting private-sector developers handle the projects, but it is also ready to take the lead if the projects turn out to be too intensive.
Source: Business Times, 5 Jan 2010
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