Peering into Changi’s Jewel Changi Jewel T1

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Jewel Changi Airport, a five-storey development with five basement floors, Future

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Terminal 5
is on track to open in early 2019. Being built in front of Terminal 1, it will
offer travellers a plethora of shopping and dining options and visual treats,
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Terminal 4 T3 T2
including a 40m indoor waterfall. Karamjit Kaur and Lim Yong take a closer look.

CROSS-SECTIONAL VIEW
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4 LEVEL 5
Aviation facilities Main • Air-conditioned travelator • The skytrain between Yotel Changi Canopy Park
(early check-in, integrated entrance bridges – about 300m long – the two terminals will Airport with will feature
multi-modal transport lounge). of Jewel. to link Jewel to T2 and T3. run through Jewel. about 130 rooms. park space of
approximately
13,000 sq m

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with gardens,
walking trails
and dining
outlets.

About
PAN-ISLAND
Term Skytrain
64m

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BASEMENT 1 BASEMENTS 2-5
Taxi stand and Parking for about 2,500 cars (retail and F&B outlets
car pick-up. available from Basement 2 to Level 5).

Linkbridge leading
to T3 departure hall

Linkbridge leading
to T2 departure hall

UNIQUE FEATURES
• Forest Valley • 40m indoor waterfall
A five-storey garden with about Transforms into an enchanting light
and
Project cost Total site Total gross floor area Facilities for Indoor gardens Retail
2,500 trees and 100,000 shrubs sound show with special lighting
$1.7 billion 3.5ha 134,000 sq m airport operations and attractions 53,800 sq m from countries like Brazil, Australia, Thailand effects in the evenings.
18,500 sq m 21,700 sq m (about 300 shops
and restaurants)
and America.

CONSTRUCTION FACTS The facade is made up of:

CONSTRUCTION TIMELINE
Jewel’s roof facade • The glass, manufactured • May 2013 • Oct 2016
in the US, can transmit to Oct 2014 Completion of all
A contiguous grid shell that weighs Close to 18,000 light – for plant growth – Design development structural works from
4,000 tonnes, equivalent pieces of steel beams. while reducing heat gain and calling of tender basements 1 to 5
to the weight of about to ensure sustainable • Oct 2014 • Fourth quarter 2018
cooling of the interior. Award of main Construction works
six Airbus 380 planes. Over 6,000 steel nodes – • The entire study, contractor expected to be
The roof spans an area It is 200m at its longest pieces that connect the steel engineering and • Dec 2014 completed
of 23,410 sq m – roughly and 150m at its widest, and beams and glass panels shortlisting of the glass Groundbreaking
the floor space of supported by a ring of 14 material alone took nearly and start of
• Early 2019
Opening
213 HDB 12m-tall tree-like Over 9,600 pieces two years to complete. construction works
five-room flats. columns. of specially manufactured glass.
SOURCE AND ARTIST’S IMPRESSIONS: JEWEL CHANGI AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS