What You'll Do
Ever wondered how our homes in Singapore are built even before they reach our shores? Join us on a cross-border journey to Gelang Patah, where Aurum Precast—one of the region’s largest precast facilities—quietly powers much of Singapore’s housing landscape. This early morning tour offers a behind-the-scenes look at the factory that fabricates entire building components, from bathrooms to staircases, long before they're craned into place back home.
You’ll walk through vast production halls and open yards where concrete is cast into walls, beams, and modules using precision moulds and automated machinery. Hear from engineers and staff about how these pre-fabricated units—known as PPVC (Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction)—are designed, tested, and cured on-site. From bay windows to entire bathrooms, these modules are built complete with finishes, wiring, and even tiles before being transported to Singapore, ready to be stacked and assembled into HDB flats, schools, and MRT stations.
See up close how logistics and quality control come together, and learn how the factory has adapted to meet the demands of both public housing and large-scale infrastructure. Along the way, you'll gain new perspectives on the scale and innovation that goes into the homes we live in—well before the first brick is laid on Singapore soil.
About MY-SG
Singapore and Malaysia are closely knitted cultural, historically and socially. This series hopes to highlight the essential, everyday connections between Malaysia and Singapore—particularly through the flow of produce. From fresh produce and poultry to beloved snacks and ingredients, much of what fills our tables in Singapore begins its journey across the border.
This programme shines a light on the unseen hands and early-morning movements that keep our markets and kitchens stocked. Through stories and shared meals, MY-SG honours the people, relationships, and supply chains that nourish both nations, reminding us how interwoven our daily lives truly are.
About the Host
About Woh Hup (Private) Limited
An established pioneer of more than 98 years in Singapore’s construction and civil engineering industry, Woh Hup is the builder behind Singapore’s most iconic developments - Golden Mile Complex, Lau Pa Sat, the two conservatories in Gardens by the Bay (Flower Dome and Cloud Forest), Jewel Changi Airport and the recently completed Punggol Digital District.
Driven to introduce the latest, most innovative building solutions to Singapore, Woh Hup has formed strategic joint ventures with overseas partners. These partnerships have widened its market reach and strengthened its leadership in the construction industry both locally and across the region.
About Aurum Precast
Established in 2014 as a subsidiary of Woh Hup (Private) Limited, Aurum Precast specialises in precast concrete products for use in civil, residential and commercial projects in Singapore. Some of the iconic projects Aurum Precast was involved in include the Tapestry building, the Singapore Business Foundation Centre, and the Outpost and Village Hotel Sentosa.
Aurum Precast strives to develop and execute the best technical approach in all its production. Aurum Precast is one of the first few precast contractors to have received various certifications from relevant authorities in both Singapore and Malaysia, certifying the works carried out by the organisation are done safely and in compliance with the requirements.
Who should come?
- Participants have to be 13 years and above to participate.
Programme Details
- Date: Thursday, 14 August 2025: 8am-5.30pm
- Approximate Duration: 9.5 hours
- Meeting Time: Meet at 7.45am (15 mins before the start of the tour for registration)
- Meeting Point: Meet at My Community's Office (Blk 115A Commonwealth Drive, #04-13/14, Singapore 149596)
- Ending Point: The event will end at Norwood Grand (8 Champions Way, Singapore 738974)
- Language: English
- The tour will proceed rain or shine.
Attire
- Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable long sleeved clothing to protect themselves from the sun and from mosquitoes.
- Participants must wear covered shoes with good soles grip.
What to bring?
- Bring along your physical NRIC, passport, a change of clothes, hand sanitiser, wet wipes, insect repellent, a bottle of water and an umbrella.
- Each traveller is solely responsible for ensuring that his or her passport or other travel document is valid for at least 6 months from the date of return and that he or she has all necessary visas, permits or passes as may be required by the governmental authorities of Malaysia.
- Please bring along your own breakfast to consume on the bus.
- We recommend that participants bring 100RM/person for meals and additional expenses.
- Participants are encouraged to bring their own earphones (with a standard 3.5mm audio jack) because we will be using radio guides for the tour!
- Please ensure that you bring along any personal medication. Asthmatic individuals are reminded to bring their inhaler.
What to expect?
- As we will be visiting a construction site, participants may need to walk on dirt paths during the tour.
Other important information
- Our facilitators will reach out to you before the event with further instructions. Please ensure that you are contactable via the email and phone number provided.
- The ending time provided is an estimate. Due to traffic congestion, customs clearance and other circumstances, the duration of the tour is an estimate and can only be used as a reference. Participants should not plan for activities after the tour.
- Parking is available at the meeting point. However, we recommend participants take public transport or a taxi to the meeting point to avoid extended parking charges.
- The venue is not wheelchair accessible.
- Photography is allowed at selected areas at the event premises.
Terms and Conditions
- Participants may wish to purchase a travel insurance separately. We will not be responsible for the loss, damage or theft of any item(s) belonging to a participant throughout the duration of the tour.
- Each ticket admits only one participant.
- Without limiting any other provision of these Terms and Conditions, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we shall not be responsible or assume any liability to any participant for:
- any injury, damage, loss or delay affecting any person or property not arising from our own negligence or breach;
- any loss, damage, cost, expense or delay suffered or incurred due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to:
- actions or omissions of third parties (including any applicable third party service providers);
- mechanical breakdowns;
- a Force Majeure Event;
- a failure by the participant to comply with any of his or her obligations hereunder;
- a failure by the participant or traveller to posess, obtain or maintain any travel documentation required for the tour (e.g. health certificates, visas, valid passports, etc.);
- a failure by the participant to follow reasonable instructions, including but not limited to noting and complying with specified check-in and check-out and/or meeting places and times.
- The sequence of any itinerary for a tour may be subject to change from time to time, due to traffic conditions and other unforeseen circumstances.
- It is the responsibility of participants who are pregnant to ensure that they have a doctor’s certification that they are fit for travel. Notwithstanding any such doctor’s certificate, My Community has the sole discretion to disallow a pregnant traveller to undertake certain activities and no refund shall be payable in such event.
- By agreeing to participate in the tour, every participant will be responsible for any injury, loss of damage due to careIessness of other actions on his/her part or that of children under his/her charge.
- It is compulsory for a parent/guardian to accompany any child of or under the age of 18.
- Videos and photographs may also be taken during the event. By registering for this event, you give My Community full rights to use the photos for marketing and publicity.
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