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Site 1 : Clementi market
Background of clementi food market
Site 2: Taman Jurong Market
Background of Taman Jurong Market
Solutions and Suggestions for Improvements Analysis and Conclusion
Surveys and Suggestions
Clementi survey results
Taman Jurong Market Survey Results
Analysis and Conclusion

Analysis and Conclusion

Overall, in comparison,

Taman Jurong Food Market has been better maintained as compared to Clementi Food Market.

	Clementi Food Market	Taman Jurong Food Market
Approach to Building	O	O
Change in levels	D	O
Edge protection	O	O
Floor surfaces	D	O
Gratings	X	X
Walls	O	O
Protruding Objects	D	O
Doors	O	D
Illumination	O	O
Sanitary provisions	D	O
Walkways	D	O
Seating Arrangement	D	O
Signage	D	O
Passenger Lift	X	D

O – Adequate maintenance

D – Inadequate maintenance/ Can be improved

X – Not applicable

Taman Jurong Market Survey Results

Clementi survey results

Link to survey result: http://www.surveymonkey.com/MySurvey_Responses.aspx?sm=wGeLN8Be0rRAbv0QSNFzgInut%2be%2b6yiHo6qqe5w7%2fy4%3d

Surveys and Suggestions

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How often do you visit this Hawker Centre?
Almost everyday
2 - 3 times a week
2 - 3 times a month
2 – 3 times a year
Almost never

Do you work/study/live in this area?
Yes
No

Are there sufficient signs to the toilets and other amenities?

Yes
No

Have you bumped into unnoticed objects protruding from walls?

Yes
No

Are the walkways between tables and stalls wide enough to comfortably to travel?
Yes
No

Are the slopes available for disabled sufficient?
Yes
No

Have you ever slipped (due to the floor material) while walking around the Hawker Centre?
Yes
No

Are there sufficient tables available for wheelchair-bounded people?
Yes
No

Are the lightings sufficient?
Yes
No

Do you feel that the hawker centre is accessible for the disabled?
Yes
No

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Survey analysis: Clementi

Survey analysis: Jurong West

Solutions and Suggestions for Improvements

Site 1: Clementi Food Centre

1. Approach to building
Although there were many slopes around the building to enter the food centre, there were a lack of slopes inside. There is a small heighted walkway between the inside of the food centre and outside street. Thus more slopes can be added inside so that disabled will be able to travel into the food centre conveniently.
Another point to note is that the slopes are smooth all around and it may cause difficulty when wheeling into the food centre. A suggestion would be to make the slopes straight and secure.

2. CHANGE IN LEVEL
There were many ramps provided but not all ramps had coloured bands indicating the change in level. The suggestion is to paint a different coloured line across the ramp to indicate this change.

3. FLOOR SURFACES
The area around the sinks are all tiles. Yes they are easy to maintain but when wet may cause it to be slippery and hazardous. A suggestion would be to put a mat on such areas as changing the entire surface would be too costly and time-consuming.

4. Protruding Objects
The protruding objects block space around the walkway. A wider corridor should be considered. Also, telephones protruding along the walkways between stalls can be dangerous especially to wheelchair-bounded users and children where the phone would be their head-height.
Furthermore, there are hazardous objects protruding from the walls.
Sufficient and efficient management has to be carried out to ensure that there are no hazards protruding from the walls and warnings should be placed when objects protruding are at dangerous heights. The telephone would be better placed if there was a table underneath it instead.

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5. SEATING ARRANGEMENT
More seats can be provided to have 40% of the capacity with fixed seating. These fixed seats will cater to the ambulant disabled as well as family/friends who may accompany them.

Site 2: Taman Jurong Food Centre

1. SANITARY PROVISIONS
The closets should be checked and made sure that the seat protector is placed back after a maintenance.

2. PASSENGER LIFT

The lift car had grab bars fixed on sides but NOT on rear end of the lift car. They should have additional railing fixed in the rear end too.

Background of Taman Jurong Market

Background information of the building

Consolidation of market and two old food centres transformed into community hub

NEWS RELEASE NO: 25/2005

DATE OF ISSUES: 24 May 05

Taman Jurong Market & Food Centre opened for business on 9 May 2005, after the completion of the upgrading of the Centre under the Hawker Centre Upgrading Programme (HUP) at a cost of S$14m. The 5-storey building, by far the centre with the highest number of storeys upgraded under the programme, has a market on the first storey and a food centre on the 2nd and 3rd storeys. The car park is located on the two upper floors of the building.

Adjacent to Taman Jurong Community Club and linked by a bridge on the Centre's second storey, the Taman Jurong Food Centre acts as a community hub, linking Singaporeans through a common, renowned past-time - eating.

Previously known as the Yung Seng Food Centre, Taman Jurong Market & Food Centre is a consolidation of three previous hawker centres slated for upgrading - Corporation Drive Market, Corporation Drive Food Centre, and Yung Seng Food Centre. Designed to balance aesthetics and functionality, the new Centre boasts a vast transformation - with ample parking space, a variety of seating arrangements to accommodate customers' needs, plenty of ventilation and systems to minimize smokiness and greasiness. Al fresco dining areas add to Taman Jurong's relaxed ambience.

With an open design concept, the market on the first storey is open and easily accessible from the road and its neighbouring facilities. The two-storey food centre is accessed through a central circulation space which is three-storeys high and affords patrons visual connection to the neighbourhood beyond. There are 122 cooked food stalls altogether on these two floors, and the entire Centre has a total seating capacity of 1,705.

The stalls in the food centre are arranged around two naturally-lit courtyards as well as along the periphery of the building. The courtyards draw light into the market and food centre while allowing for natural ventilation through the building. Patrons can choose to dine in the courtyards or along the building periphery.

The design of the building facade aims to convey varying degrees of transparency and give the building unique definition. In addition, the sun-shading systems give the building a strong architectural expression.

'The upgraded hawker centre is brighter, more spacious, and well-ventilated, which is good for the customers and stallholders, and we hope this will attract more customers to the Centre,' said Mr Andrew Lau, Manager, National Environment Agency.

To date, 38 markets/food centres have been upgraded under the HUP and 12 more centres are currently being upgraded.