UE Wins S$280m Contract To Build ICT Hub At Changi Business Park

Source : Channel NewsAsia, 30 November 2007

United Engineers has won a contract to build an ICT hub at the Changi Business Park awarded by the JTC Corp.

The built-to-suit project is worth S$280 million.

Built-to-suit properties are designed to satisfy the specific requirements of particular customers.

It will involve building a complex called the Global Centre for Information and Communication, or Centric Singapore.

This will include a business centre for 200 IT companies and an IT training hub comprising exhibition and convention halls, an auditorium and seminar rooms.

The centre will also house a business hotel with up to 300 rooms, and office and retail space.

It is sited on a land area of 29,000 square metres.

It has an expected built-up gross floor area of 72,500 square metres.

Construction is slated to start next year and completed in 2011. - CNA/ch