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Project Management Of Sentosa Cove, Singapore

Introduction

The S$4 billion, 117-hectare Sentosa Cove development has become the most coveted luxurious residential property in Asia and offers Singapore's only truly oceanfront residences. When this clever blend of luxury houses, apartments, marina hotel, full yachting marina amenities and quayside commercial units is fully developed by 2008/2009, some 10,000 residents will call this enclave home. The Oneo 15 Marina with moorings for over 250 yachts is already operational and some residents have already moved into their new homes.
Sentosa cove pte ltd (SCPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of sentosa development corporation, a government statutory board was established to undertake the master planning, infrastructure development, project management, land sales of sentosa cove.

Milestone

1992 first master planner Bernard spoerry was engaged to conceptualize sentosa cove as a vision for water front living
1993 the master plan for sentosa cove was approved by URA
1996 the master plan was reviewed and modified by McKerrll Lynch and subsequently by Klages Carter Vail
2003 first sale of site
2006 completion of first residence
2008 Targeted end of completion

This project is still ongoing as the clubhouse and subsequent phrases of residence are still being built. The project management team on this project has done a good planning as the project has been going well and the schedule is on time since the approval of the project.

Project management

Project management basically is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements. It is also the integration of time, cost, scope, human resource, quality, procurement, risk and communication.

Project planning and management is important as the saying goes “fail to plan, plan to fail”. The idea of project management is to do it once and good so the completion of the project will result in time and cost savings.

Although the sentosa cove is...