Changi Exhibition Centre - panoramio (1)

The '
Changi Exhibition Centre
'
(CEC)
(

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: 樟宜会展中心) is a

convention center A convention center (American English; or conference centre in British English) is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typica ...

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located on a plot of land just beyond the northern edge

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of the new

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. It is the home of the

Singapore Airshow The Singapore Airshow is a biennial aerospace event held in Singapore, debuted in 2008. It hosts high-level government and military delegations, as well as senior corporate executives around the world, while serving as a global event for leadin ...

, which has been held at the venue since 2008
Changi Exhibition Centre
is owned and managed b
Experia Events Pte Ltd

History

Changi Exhibition Centre
was originally purpose-built in 1988 to host the

Asian Aerospace Asian Aerospace (AA) is an international trade fair for the aerospace business. Currently based in Hong Kong, it was held in Singapore since 1981 until disagreements between co-organisers Reed Exhibitions and Singapore Technologies in 2006 forced ...

, an event which was held in Singapore. However, in 2007, disagreements with co-show organiser

Reed Exhibitions RELX plc (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, England. Its businesses provide scientific, technical and medical information and analytics; legal information and analytics; ...

led to Asian Aerospace pulling out. In the wake of this division, a separate company
Experia Events Pte Ltd
was formed to take ownership o
Changi Exhibition Centre
and continue the task of building Singapore into a world-class aviation hub by building th
Singapore Airshow
from scratch.

Specifications

The CEC is built on a 30-hectare site off

Aviation Park Road Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes airplane, fixed-wing and helicopter, rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as aerostat, lighter- ...

, on

reclaimed land Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new Terrestrial ecoregion, land from oceans, list of seas, seas, Stream bed, riverbeds or lak ...

to cater for future expansion of

Singapore Changi Airport Singapore Changi Airport, commonly known as Changi Airport , is a major civilian international airport that serves Singapore, and is one of the largest transportation hubs in Asia. As one of the world's busiest airports by international passen ...

. Aviation Park Road, a new service road built to serve the site, branches off from

Changi Coast Road Changi () is a planning area located in the geographical region of Tanah Merah in the East Region of Singapore. Sharing borders with Pasir Ris and Tampines to the west, Changi Bay to the southeast, the South China Sea to the east and the Seran ...

and was specially built to double-up as a

taxiway A taxiway is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities. They mostly have a hard surface such as asphalt or concrete, although smaller general aviation airports sometimes use gravel ...

linking the site with the runway at

. This provision allows exhibition aircraft to arrive and depart without disrupting operations in Changi Airport. The fully air-conditioned exhibition hall itself has a total gross floor area of 40,000 m², spread over three halls on the first floor and a mezzanine floor. The three main exhibition halls has a continuous H-shaped layout which can be segregated, and includes halls A (14,660 m²), B (3,200 m²) and C (16,000 m²) for a total of 33,860 m² of space. Nine function rooms ranging in size from 60 m² to 330 m² are located within Hall A, covering a total of 1,905 m². The mezzanine floor offers an additional 3,870 m² of space. The outdoor exhibition space includes a front plaza measuring 298 by 94 metres in size, and an outdoor display area 355 by 259 metres in size, both of which are located adjacent to the exhibition hall. Outdoor exhibition chalets are located along the waterfront beside the outdoor display area. In all, 100,000 m² of outdoor exhibition space is available, equivalent to 33 soccer fields and can house ten Boeing 747s at a time. A total of 2,000 open-air car parking spaces are available on site.

Usage

Changi Exhibition Centre. It is the home of the biennial

, which it has since been held for six editions since 2008. In between these events, the show site becomes a venue for car-related events. Several brands including BMW,

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Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz (), commonly referred to as Mercedes and sometimes as Benz, is a German luxury and commercial vehicle automotive brand established in 1926. Mercedes-Benz AG (a Mercedes-Benz Group subsidiary established in 2019) is headquartere ...

Lexus is the luxury vehicle division of the Japanese automaker Toyota. The Lexus brand is marketed in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide and is Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. It has ranked among the 10 largest Japanese ...

Mitsubishi The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries. Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group historically descended from the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company which existed from 1870 ...

Ariel Ariel may refer to: Film and television *Ariel Award, a Mexican Academy of Film award * ''Ariel'' (film), a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki * ''ARIEL Visual'' and ''ARIEL Deluxe'', 1989 and 1991 anime video series based on the novel series ...

and

Porsche Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, usually shortened to Porsche (; see #Pronunciation, below), is a German automobile manufacturer specializing in high-performance sports cars, SUVs and sedans, headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany ...

have held events there, most in the form of private driving experiences. It also played host to the

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in 2008 and the Shell Eco Marathon in 2017 and 2018. The International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (IMDEX) Asia, held biennially, which had been held at the Changi Naval Base, was shifted here in 2011. Since then, it has been held at the CEC on every two years.
Experia Events Pte Ltd
the same company that runs Singapore Airshow and IMDEX Asia, launched Rotorcraft Asia and Unmanned Systems Asia in 2017, which were also held together at the CEC. In response to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...

, the Changi Exhibition Centre was repurposed into a community isolation facility to house those who patients who were displaying mild symptoms of the COVID-19 disease, accepting its first patients on 25 April. It was set up by a task force comprising nine MINDEF-affiliated organisations along with partners such as the Dormitory Association of Singapore, Experia Events and

Surbana Jurong Surbana Jurong Private Limited is a Government of Singapore, Singaporean government-owned consultancy company focusing on infrastructure and urban development. It was formed in June 2015 with the merger of Surbana International Consultants and ...

. The remodeled facility can accommodate about 2,700 patients, and is currently undergoing an expansion of its outdoor area to accommodate an additional 1,700 patients. Its operations are managed by Mandarin Oriental Singapore and

Raffles Medical Group Raffles Medical Group (RMG), (Chinese: 莱佛士医疗集团 : Lái fú shì yīliáo jítuán) is a private healthcare provider in Asia, operating medical facilities in thirteen cities in Singapore, China, Japan, Vietnam and Cambodia. RMG ha ...

. Changi Exhibition Centre was also used for the filming of

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, a drama show that was aired on

Mediacorp Channel 5 Channel 5 (Chinese: 五頻道) is a free-to-air, English-language television channel in Singapore. Owned by state broadcaster Mediacorp, it broadcasts general entertainment, news, and sports programming. The channel's logo is a big white number ...

References

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External links

Official site
Changi Convention centres in Singapore