The smart services to be offered include telehealth services, online registration and check-in as well as the use of artificial intelligence to help health care providers sift through large amounts of data and reduce medical errors. The hospital will cover 246,000 square meters (2.64 million square feet) in Woodlands, a planned residential town in the northern part of Singapore. The consortium plans to break ground on the hospital soon. The construction is expected to take 33 months and the hospital is scheduled to start operations from 2022. For this bid, the Korean companies were able to avoid a price-war by teaming up in a consortium and beating competitors through healthy competition on construction technology, a spokesperson from the consortium said. According to Daewoo E&C, Singapore is one of the largest construction markets in Southeast Asia and the company plans to expand its operations there in the future.