Autodesk and JTC Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore AI-enabled digital transformation across Singapore’s built environment, focusing on connected data, intelligent project delivery and interoperable digital workflows for industrial infrastructure.
Key Takeaways
- Autodesk and JTC, the Singapore government agency behind estates like One-North and Jurong Island, will jointly explore AI-enabled workflows across the built environment project lifecycle.
- The collaboration centres on three pillars: connected lifecycle data, AI-enabled integrated project delivery (including embodied and whole-life carbon assessments), and interoperability across platforms and vendors.
- Both organisations frame the MoU as supporting Singapore’s transition to an AI-enabled economy, moving the built environment sector from “digital delivery” toward “intelligent delivery.”
From Digital Delivery to Intelligent Delivery
Singapore’s built environment sector has made significant progress digitalising how projects are planned, designed and delivered. The MoU aims to build on that foundation by making information across the project lifecycle more connected, reusable and actionable through AI, combining JTC’s end-to-end role in developing industrial infrastructure with Autodesk’s design and make technologies to assess more efficient project delivery, informed decision-making and improved sustainability outcomes.
“Singapore’s vision to build an AI-ready nation presents a powerful opportunity to transform how we design, construct, and manage our built environment. Through this collaboration with JTC, we look forward to exploring how AI-driven workflows and connected data can unlock new possibilities across the Design and Make lifecycle,” said Haresh Khoobchandani, Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan, Autodesk.
Three Pillars of the Collaboration
The partnership will focus on connected data and lifecycle information management to strengthen decision-making from early planning through facility operations; AI-enabled integrated digital project delivery, including computational workflows for model verification and embodied and whole-life carbon assessments; and interoperability across platforms, system integrations and third-party solutions to support wider digital transformation and responsible AI adoption.
“We’ve made strong digital progress in Singapore’s built environment sector. The next step is to make it smarter. With Autodesk, we will explore how AI and data can be connected in a safe and accurate manner, to help us better plan, build, and manage our industrial infrastructure,” said Calvin Chung, Assistant CEO, JTC Corporation.
Chung added that the data generated could continue to work for JTC long after a project is completed, helping the agency understand and operate infrastructure more effectively and make informed decisions on future projects.
