Demand Grows for Automated Car Parking Systems in Singapore’s Commercial Buildings

MHE – a Jebsen & Jessen brand, in Singapore has supplied Kim Eng Properties Pte Ltd with the ideal solution for building parking at their redevelopment at 48 North Canal Road, a plot of land previously occupied by two old shop houses. The new commercial building required eight parking lots, and a conventional basement parking would not be economically sensible due to the size of the land, hence the company opted for MHE automated car parking system to maximise its land space.  

Based on the site requirements, MHE supplied and installed a Speedy Automated Parking System, also called Elevator Tower Parking (DET), which consisted of one car elevator, eight fixed-height vehicle parking platforms, and one slide-up auto door for security purposes. Suited for middle to large-sized building projects, the parking system can take in cars up to 2,250kg in weight and 2.15m (W) x 2m (H) x 5.25m (L) in size. The system was designed to move and park vehicles rapidly across multiple levels of a building’s parking zone and require less than 3 minutes to retrieve a vehicle. The high-speed elevator was fabricated with an inner turntable to facilitate vehicles entering and leaving the parking system.

The parking system was easy to operate via an integrated control, with a touch screen mounted next to the auto-door further enhancing the operation and monitoring of the system in a single glance. For the collection of vehicles, the driver only needs to enter a four-digit pin number on the touch-screen panel and the system would send the elevator to the correct position to retrieve the vehicle.

Many safety features were built into the parking system to ensure the safety of users and vehicles, such as the various sensors that ensure cars are properly positioned on the pallets and elevator, and that detect the presence of vehicles and their height clearance. In addition, the system was designed for high speed, low noise and low vibration to meet the local authority’s stringent regulations for minimising noise disturbance to dwellers of buildings nearby.