As an industrial infrastructure innovator, JTC is constantly exploring creative ideas and innovative solutions to intensify industrial land use and meet our customers’ evolving needs. This allows JTC to meet the demand for industrial land while supporting sustained economic growth in the long run. Our Request for Proposal (RFP) is, thus, in the main themes of increasing plot ratio of buildings in the marine and aerospace industries, and increasing construction speed of industrial infrastructure

Increasing Plot Ratio of Buildings in the Marine and Aerospace Industries

Marine Industry

Generally, shipyards and their supporting suppliers of marine & offshore equipment face difficulty in intensifying their operations and achieving more productive usage of land. As their manufacturing processes involve very heavy machinery and equipment, shipyards are typically spread out over large tracts of open land.

This RFP seeks innovative proposals that address the following:

• Examine the entire value chain of activities within the marine cluster and identify the impediments faced by companies to intensify land use due to their existing processes.
• Propose new conceptual layouts and configurations for shipyard processes as well as their supporting marine & offshore equipment manufacturing operations that would allow optimisation of land use and improvement of supply chain efficiency, thereby allowing the shipyards and supporting companies to achieve better productivity, resource optimisation, and operational synergy.
  
  The following should be explored in arriving at the layouts and configuration:
  
• Optimised dock/quay/waterfront facilities layout for shipyards and their supporting marine & offshore equipment manufacturers to ensure more efficient usage of waterfront resources and faster turnaround time for repairs, upgrading and conversions.
• Integrated production facilities (e.g. fabrication sheds, workshops, warehouses as well as utilities such as common waste treatment plants) that would ensure more productive usage of land, as well as reduce wastage of time and avoid duplication of resources.
• Stacking and splitting of existing production/warehousing processes into several floors to reduce the overall footprint required by the shipyards or marine & offshore equipment manufacturers.
• Material handling solutions that could facilitate efficient movement/transfer of bulky raw material and components, shipping blocks, etc within the work area that could help reduce working/safety space or allow work activities to be carried out on the upper floors.

Aerospace Industry

This RFP seeks innovative proposals that address the following:

• Automated Mechanical Parking Systems (AMPS)

  Conventionally, aircrafts are parked in hangar space at the ground level due to the bulky weight and capacity. As a result, hangars are usually low-rise buildings and take up about 30% to 40% of the land in a typical aerospace industry. This RFP seeks innovative proposals to increase parking capacity through vertical stacking of aircraft using an Automated Mechanical Parking Systems (AMPS) to achieve land intensification. The AMPS should be able to cater for business aviation jets for a typical size and capacity of up to 9 seats, or general aviation jets for a typical size and capacity of 100 to 120 seats.

• Split Level Hangar

  Currently runway access companies can only achieve an average plot ratio of 0.4 - 0.6, as land uptake of about 1/3 of the site is usually required for apron and tow way use. In addition, hangar buildings are typically low single-storey buildings due to operational requirements. Conventionally, aircrafts are towed to the hangar from the airport taxiway using the gradient allowable similar to the taxiway standard i.e. 1:100. As towing vehicles can potentially climb up to approximately 1:30 gradient depending on the specification, there are opportunities to explore the potentials of a split level hangar concept utilizing towing ramps for access to the higher level. This RFP seeks innovative proposals to increase the plot ratio of runway access hangers to between 0.8 and 1.0.

Increasing Construction Speed of Industrial Infrastructure

We are looking for innovative solutions to accelerate the construction speed by exploring new technologies or creative methods to reduce construction time and improve efficiency and cost effectiveness to meet the industrialists’ needs. We are considering two specific areas:

• Roads

  Using conventional methods, the typical construction of roads usually take about 12 months per km of road. The road works involve the construction of roadside drains, road kerbs and flexible pavement, which consists of sub-grade, sub-base, base-course, binding course and wearing course. This RFP seeks innovative proposals to accelerate the road works by integrating the different layers of the flexible pavement so the construction process involves only one or two stages. The proposals should reduce the road works construction time by at least 30%. Applicants should consider the relevant authorities requirements in their proposals.

• 66 kV Electrical Sub-stations

  In JTC’s estates, the construction of 66 kV sub-stations usually take about 14 - 15 months. To better meet the needs of industries, this RFP seeks innovative proposals that speed up the construction of 66 kV sub- stations through pre-engineering and the use of pre-cast, pre-fabricated and modular units. The proposed sub-stations should have 5 - 6 storeys and should be constructed within 12 months or shorter. Applicants should consider the relevant authorities requirements in their proposals.

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