Uploaded on 2015-05-10 by hybridgibs

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14312354769615599.png Photo taken by Karl Gibson The magnificent building pictured above is the Marina Bay Sands, an iconic mixed-use building complex located in Singapore's central business district. The building is a testament of a globalized economy as it was built with several international corporations, not local to Singapore, construction workers from other countries and the use of Industrialized Building Systems (IBS), which were modules of precast concrete piers, panels, steel forms and other structural pieces manufactured in another controlled environment to be delivered to the construction site and simply installed. International consultants were involved in the project, such as ARUP engineering, based in the UK; Moshe Safdie, an architect based in Canada; and Ssangyong Engineering and Construction, based in Korea. Extra workers were brought in from Malaysia and other countries in South Asia to provide adequate man power for the construction effort. IBS requires coordination between those building and managing on-site and those manufacturing. Although the pre-fabricated materials used on this structure were most likely made near the construction site, the concept and method can be seen in almost any other construction project and can range from local coordination to international coordination, in instances where it is more cost effective to outsource material fabrication or expertise.