Elevator World

Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com SINGAPORE TOWERS TO BE WORLD'S TALLEST MODULAR BUILDINGS A two-tower residential project planned for a site on the western edge of Singapore's urban core will be notable as the world's tallest modular-constructed buildings, Architectural Digest reported on July 13. The 56-story towers, known as Avenue South Residences, will be built with a process called prefabricated, prefinished volumetric construction (PPVC). Semi-finished apartment modules will be manufactured offsite at factories in Singapore and Malaysia and brought to the 5.6-acre site, where they will be stacked like building blocks to create a total of 988 condominium units. Markus Cheng, an associate of ADDP Architects, the firm overseeing Avenue South Residences, said PPVC is especially useful in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, because social distancing is easier to implement: "When you build in a factory, you minimize