Moshood Olawale Fadeyi, Singapore Institute of Technology

Building information modelling (BIM) story of Jurong Town Corporation (JTC)

Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) was set up on 1 June 1968, slightly less than three years after the independence of Singapore in 1965. As part of Singapore’s industrial modernization plan, JTC was the lead government agency tasked with the responsibility for the development of industrial infrastructure to support the growth of industries and enterprises. Its first major task was the development of the Jurong industrial estate from reclamation of swarm lands. Within three years, the swarm lands were transformed into a self-contained satellite town complete with its own recreational amenities for residents and workers. It had achieved many significant milestones and key infrastructural projects in Singapore. Some of the more well known and high-profile projects included Airport Logistics Park of Singapore, International Business Park, Changi Business Park, Seletar Aerospace Park, CleanTech Park and Tuas Biomedical Park; the Jurong Rock Caverns, Southeast Asia’s first commercial underground storage facility for liquid hydrocarbons. JTC was renamed as JTC Corporation in November 2000, and it is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The mission of JTC is reported as: “To develop industrial infrastructure to catalyse the growth of new industries and transform existing enterprises”. In 2016, JTC released a total of 98,700 m2 of industrial space and 37.3 hectare of industrial land. In addition, JTC has benefited 108 companies by allocating 106.5 hectares of industrial land. In 2011, JTC embarked on the Building Information Modelling (BIM) journey.

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Cite as: “Fadeyi MO, Chua JT, Ho YK (2018). Building information modelling story of Jurong Town Corporation (JTC). Teaching and Learning Case Studies, #01. ISSUU Digital Publishing.”

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Published by Moshood Olawale Fadeyi, Singapore Institute of Technology

Dr. Moshood Olawale Fadeyi is an Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology, specialising in Engineering Education Practice for Indoor Air Quality and Sustainable Building Engineering. He is an architect, a Chartered Engineer (UK), and a Chartered Construction Manager (UK), with over 200 publications spanning peer-reviewed research and peer-level public scholarship. He is a global leader and pioneering scholar in the development of communication solutions, in the form of cognitive and emotional tools, through practice-based applied educational research to strengthen engineering education practice. He plays a leading role in advancing SIT’s global leadership in strengthening human capability through applied research in engineering education practice that enhances cognitive abilities for value-oriented problem solving. In his practice-based applied educational research, he systematically identifies real-life problems in IAQ and sustainable building engineering that people struggle to solve because of absent or inadequate mental models, which create cognitive barriers that limit the development of the cognitive abilities needed to guide value-oriented physical effort in problem-solving. He then creates communication solutions, published in the Indoor Air Cartoon Journal, that break these cognitive barriers and enhance the required cognitive abilities. Through this process, he strengthens both his own capabilities and those of others in the education institution, industry, and community to teach, learn, and solve problems in a value-oriented manner, particularly within the IAQ and sustainable building engineering domains. The outcome of his practice based applied educational research lies in the quantity and safety of the quality of the developed solutions to potentially transformation his learners, from over 100 countries, cognitively and the impact is the transformation enabled in the learners and how it is used to deliver value in their professional and personal lives. Both his teaching and research emphasise mental model development, question generation, cognitive transformation, and the cultivation of understanding to enable value-oriented problem-solving. He holds degrees in architecture (BSc, M.Arch), building science (MSc), and engineering (PhD) from Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria), the National University of Singapore, and the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of CIBSE, CIOB, and ASHRAE, and a former National Taekwondo Champion in Singapore, reflecting his commitment to excellence across disciplines.

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