S'pore will need about 30,000 construction workers this year
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SINGAPORE : Singapore will need about 30,000 construction workers this year to meet its building programme.
National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan revealed this in a written response to a question from West Coast GRC MP Arthur Fong.
Mr Fong wanted to know the impact of the increase in the building of public flats on demand for foreign workers.
Mr Khaw added that with each building programme taking three to five years to complete, the cumulative requirement of construction workers could rise to 45,000 within the next few years.
In 2011, the Housing and Development Board needed 18,000 construction workers for its building programme.
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So where are the 30k construction workers going to stay? They are going to buy up all the public flats leaving none for the locals.
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come on! don;t fuckin bull! the ministers hsould go on site and be a spy 1 day see how the construction workers work! i guy dig the mother asshole while 4 guys watches, then they take turns to dig. that's why we need so many thousands of them every year!
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Originally posted by MagnificientDiagrams:
So where are the 30k construction workers going to stay? They are going to buy up all the public flats leaving none for the locals.
on the streets,
you see them everywhere
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Originally posted by troublemaker2005:
come on! don;t fuckin bull! the ministers hsould go on site and be a spy 1 day see how the construction workers work! i guy dig the mother asshole while 4 guys watches, then they take turns to dig. that's why we need so many thousands of them every year!
Why should ministers go on site?
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Does he know how many construction workers we have ?
How did he come out with that figure ?
I have serious doubt about the accuracy of what they announced nowadays since they have overspent and overearn the tax payer money.
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Originally posted by Medicated Oil:
Does he know how many construction workers we have ?
How did he come out with that figure ?
I have serious doubt about the accuracy of what they announced nowadays since they have overspent and overearn the tax payer money.
You walk on the street and think there could only be 30,000 construction workers?
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Originally posted by charlize:
Why should ministers go on site?
they have their... cough cough...ermm
ISD
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
they have their... cough cough...ermm
ISD
Huh?
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Originally posted by charlize:
Huh?
ISD spy for our..cough...cough..erm
Ministers
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Originally posted by charlize:
You walk on the street and think there could only be 30,000 construction workers?
No one check the actual figure.Anyway they all will go to work in the morning, taking the bus and trains and going home in the evening.together with us.
And all will be off on Sunday and Public Holidays, and they will be at Little India, Lucky Plaza, Golden Mile, Orchard Road.
We gotta share the space with them.
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Not forgeting sentosa. This nholidays i also dare not go sentosa, will be crowded. i wiaat until 2 days holidays over, take leave and then go snetosa, last time in year 2008 i had one bad experience at the singapore zoo - hundreds of them hogging the place
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Sentosa is a good place to relax.
Just pay the entrance fee and you get to enjoy the sun, sand and sea.
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Originally posted by charlize:
Sentosa is a good place to relax.
Just pay the entrance fee and you get to enjoy the sun, sand and sea.
go east coast park lah
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their tatcic is simple lah. raise rentals, taxes and all business realted costs. allow and relax emploment laws on cheap foreign labors - as an avernue for businesses to take to alleviate the high costs of doing busness here. gahmen will only reclaim lands for business commercial and purposes that will see immediate profits, never look at how much additional land we can reclaim and expand ourselves within our jurisdiction
Then they tell workers we have to take cheaper than the foreigner labor pay to stay competitive, all the crap give you 10 dollars angpows during CNY that go geyland call chicks also not enough
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Why they need so many?
Our flats blocks are all precast - no need to pour cement, wield steel.Only lock the precast material into place wat
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looks like the huge quantity means half for construction on the surface...the other half for the future underground works .....lol
but authorities must tighten their approvals and securities as well...
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
go east coast park lah
Ecp so crowded that even fw don't want to go.
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yep, and worse we have smart brains to do business but when it cums to dead man, cannot lazy to dig a bigger hole and bury them proper - when the dead man has no identity illegal in sg
i bet now our cemetery is goinig to be more crowded with foreign corpse - please gahmen don;t rais ethe burial land for our dead now? our living arer struggliing hard in live, please make our dead peaceful rest in peace not having to compete for final resting land with the foreign dead
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Originally posted by charlize:
Sentosa is a good place to relax.
Just pay the entrance fee and you get to enjoy the sun, sand and sea.
priest la...they also go there to beo the bikinis...
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Khaw Boon Wan on raising construction productivity
SINGAPORE: National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said the local construction industry needs to raise productivity through standardisation and prefabrication.
In his latest blog entry, he said Singapore can try to build more flats with fewer foreign workers, if construction productivity is raised.
Singapore is adding another 25,000 public flats this year through the Build-to-Order scheme, and needs some 30,000 foreign construction workers to meet its building programme.
Mr Khaw said prefabrication technology is now indispensable in HDB's building programme.
Seventy per cent of public housing building components such as walls, floors and toilets are now precast.
These parts are fabricated off-site and then transported to the construction site for assembly.
But Mr Khaw added that at the next stage of development, prefab plants themselves also need to be transformed to up their own productivity.
He cited local company, Tiong Seng Contractors, as an example of how companies can raise their productivity by implementing the Construction Productivity Roadmap.
Tiong Seng has set up Singapore's first computerised and semi-automated multi-storey precast plant at Tuas, with some funding support from the Building & Construction Authority.
Known as Integrated Construction and Precast Hubs, these plants optimise land use and achieve higher productivity through automated production processes.
Tiong Seng's precast plant only needs a third of the workers to produce almost double the tonnage of precast components.
An existing plant would need 150 workers to produce 60,000 cubic metres of precast components, while a new integrated construction and precast hub only requires 50 workers to churn out 100,000 cubic metres of precast parts.
Mr Khaw said BCA will make more land available for such integrated construction and precast hubs in its masterplan.
He hopes more contractors will come forward to participate in implementing the Construction Productivity Roadmap to transform Singapore's construction industry and raise its productivity.
This, he says will help Singapore cut down on its reliance on foreign construction workers.
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Even with technology you still need foreign workers.