What we do

The Jurong Island Westward Extension land reclamation project is another addition to Jurong Island, an island that has been amalgamated out of seven existing smaller islands in the Western part of Singapore and has become the world’s third largest oil refining and petrochemical hub.

DEME was awarded a Design and Build contract for 148 ha of land reclamation to extend Jurong Island by Jurong Town Corporation, the largest industrial landlord in Singapore.

Our scope comprised sand bund construction with shore protection, dredging to deepen the shoreline, basin and channel realignment, soil improvement works, sand supply, the reuse of marine dredged and land-based excavated material and the construction of roads, drains and sewers and preparation of a site for vacuum consolidation research. A part of the Temasek Fairway and West Jurong Channel also had to be realigned and deepened to the specified levels.

This re-use of resources was further augmented by the addition of external material sources (sand supply from overseas and supply of excavated materials from other construction sites within Singapore), necessitating a detailed and diligent design and follow-up of the reclamation process, the composition and material properties of the reclamation fill, and the soil improvement activities. Experimental methods, such as vacuum consolidation (in an on-site trial testbed), were also deployed to assess them for possible future use at scale.

This project was followed by the subsequent Ayer Merbau Phase 2 Project (2017-2019) for the account of Jurong Town Corporation on Jurong Island, attesting the competitiveness and quality of DEME’s engineered solution.