THE Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and City Developments Limited (CDL) have joined hands to organise a first-of-its-kind competition to generate green ideas that existing buildings in Singapore can adopt.
The inaugural BCA-CDL Green Sparks Competition has attracted about 120 student participants from five local tertiary institutions. The challenge is to enhance green features of Fuji Xerox Towers, which attained Green Mark Gold award under the BCA Green Mark Scheme.
Ideas that participants come up with should qualify Fuji Xerox Towers for the highest accolade under the BCA Green Mark Scheme - the Green Mark Platinum status.
Participants, in teams of five to 10, are to submit a retrofitting proposal. The best eight entries will be shortlisted for the final competition on Aug 19, when teams will present their projects to the judges.
The judging criterion include energy savings and environmental benefits, feasibility and cost effectiveness of ideas, creativity, replicability and presentation.
Leading the panel of judges is Mr Lee Chuan Seng, president of the Singapore Green Building Council. The other panellists include BCA's technology development division director Tan Tian Chong, CDL's property and facilities management general manager Lim Tow Fok, DP Architects director Tai Lee Siang and G-Energy Global director Vincent Low.
Source: The Strait Times, 2010-04-01, Link
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2010-04-02
Green Building Saves Money
THE Residences at W Singapore Sentosa Cove do not come cheap, at up to $3,000 per square foot (psf).
Thankfully, the energy bills for owners of the newly launched waterfront project promise to be a different story.
Every year, each unit is expected to save its efficient fittings in the bathrooms will cut about $400 a year in water bills for each home.
The 228-unit residential project received the Green Mark Platinum award last year. It is the highest rating the Building and Construction Authority hands out to green buildings in Singapore.
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Source: The Straits Times, 2010-03-26, Link
Thankfully, the energy bills for owners of the newly launched waterfront project promise to be a different story.
Every year, each unit is expected to save its efficient fittings in the bathrooms will cut about $400 a year in water bills for each home.
The 228-unit residential project received the Green Mark Platinum award last year. It is the highest rating the Building and Construction Authority hands out to green buildings in Singapore.
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Source: The Straits Times, 2010-03-26, Link
2010-03-10
Singapore buildings to get leaner and greener
Singapore’s Building & Construction Authority (BCA) is set to make changes to some of its regulations to push the construction industry towards green building and greater productivity.
The mandatory minimum energy efficiency standard that must be met before a new building can receive a Green Mark certification will be raised by 10 per cent from today’s standard. The energy efficiency standards for other Green Mark levels - Gold, GoldPlus, and Platinum - will also be upped.
BCA will also increase the regulated minimum buildability score so that firms will have to use labour-efficient construction technologies. The industry regulator said that it has not yet decided on the new minimum score, which now stands at 75 - a significant climb from 61 in 2001.
‘The industry can seek government funding to build capability in areas such as prefabrication, precast technology and other construction technology to meet the new buildability requirements,’ said Grace Fu, Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of National Development. She announced the changes in Parliament yesterday.
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Source: Eco-business, 2010-03-09, Link
The mandatory minimum energy efficiency standard that must be met before a new building can receive a Green Mark certification will be raised by 10 per cent from today’s standard. The energy efficiency standards for other Green Mark levels - Gold, GoldPlus, and Platinum - will also be upped.
BCA will also increase the regulated minimum buildability score so that firms will have to use labour-efficient construction technologies. The industry regulator said that it has not yet decided on the new minimum score, which now stands at 75 - a significant climb from 61 in 2001.
‘The industry can seek government funding to build capability in areas such as prefabrication, precast technology and other construction technology to meet the new buildability requirements,’ said Grace Fu, Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of National Development. She announced the changes in Parliament yesterday.
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Source: Eco-business, 2010-03-09, Link
2010-01-20
S'pore Highlights Positive Outlook for Construction Industry
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Greening our Buildings – a Key Growth Area
To sustain and grow the industry in the medium term, the industry should go beyond traditional construction. It must move into the cutting edge of technology and build capabilities in the key growth area of Green Buildings. In this regard, we have introduced incentives schemes and training programmes to build capability and grow the pool of professionals needed. Let me elaborate.
Green Incentives
As part of the 2nd Green Building Masterplan, we launched two new incentive schemes in April 2009, namely, the Green Mark GFA Incentive Scheme and the Green Mark Incentive Scheme (GMIS) for Existing Buildings. The response to date has been encouraging. A total of 19 applications for these two schemes have been received and they are being evaluated. I encourage the industry to actively tap on these schemes to pave the way for the greening of our built environment.
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Source: The Gov Monitor, 2010-01-13, Link
Greening our Buildings – a Key Growth Area
To sustain and grow the industry in the medium term, the industry should go beyond traditional construction. It must move into the cutting edge of technology and build capabilities in the key growth area of Green Buildings. In this regard, we have introduced incentives schemes and training programmes to build capability and grow the pool of professionals needed. Let me elaborate.
Green Incentives
As part of the 2nd Green Building Masterplan, we launched two new incentive schemes in April 2009, namely, the Green Mark GFA Incentive Scheme and the Green Mark Incentive Scheme (GMIS) for Existing Buildings. The response to date has been encouraging. A total of 19 applications for these two schemes have been received and they are being evaluated. I encourage the industry to actively tap on these schemes to pave the way for the greening of our built environment.
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Source: The Gov Monitor, 2010-01-13, Link
2009-12-13
Singapore to Train Up Green Building Professionals
Singapore must train up to 20,000 more green building professionals by 2030.
They will be needed to help introduce innovations for carbon emission reduction in buildings - one of the biggest carbon culprits in Singapore.
Buildings produce six million tons or 16 per cent of Singapore's carbon emissions - mainly from using electricity to power lighting and air-conditioning.
To reduce electricity use in buildings, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is targeting to green 80 per cent of Singapore's buildings by 2030. Currently, only five per cent of buildings in Singapore are green.
The City Square Mall is Singapore's first eco-friendly mall, receiving the BCA's Green Mark Platinum rating - the highest achievement in green buildings.
Its building cost of S$188 million is five per cent more than conventional ones. But its energy consumption is 39 per cent less, thanks to its green features, inspired mainly by buildings in Japan.
"It is through these visits that we learn about foreign best practices. We learn about what unique features they have... we implement it and make it even better," said Allen Ang, assistant GM of Projects Division, City Developments.
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Source: Channel News Asia, 2009-12-10, Link
They will be needed to help introduce innovations for carbon emission reduction in buildings - one of the biggest carbon culprits in Singapore.
Buildings produce six million tons or 16 per cent of Singapore's carbon emissions - mainly from using electricity to power lighting and air-conditioning.
To reduce electricity use in buildings, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is targeting to green 80 per cent of Singapore's buildings by 2030. Currently, only five per cent of buildings in Singapore are green.
The City Square Mall is Singapore's first eco-friendly mall, receiving the BCA's Green Mark Platinum rating - the highest achievement in green buildings.
Its building cost of S$188 million is five per cent more than conventional ones. But its energy consumption is 39 per cent less, thanks to its green features, inspired mainly by buildings in Japan.
"It is through these visits that we learn about foreign best practices. We learn about what unique features they have... we implement it and make it even better," said Allen Ang, assistant GM of Projects Division, City Developments.
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Source: Channel News Asia, 2009-12-10, Link
2009-10-31
Green Project At Business Parks In Singapore
Forest canopies keep temperatures in our nature reserves cooler, so could a similar concept have the same effect in our business parks?
Singapore's leading industrial landlord intends to find out, and if it works, industrial clusters here are set to turn a shade of green.
The Green Roof Trellis concept by JTC Corporation aims to lower temperatures in these parks by 2-3°C – which would reduce energy consumption and, hence, electricity bills.
"Climber plants will grow from planter boxes along roof edges of buildings, to a wire mesh structure supported by cables from columns across the rooftops of two buildings," explained JTC senior planner Mr Yio Yang Huat, who came up with the idea. "Over time, plants will grow to cover the entire mesh and provide shade."
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Source: Channel News Asia, 2009-10-29, Link
Singapore's leading industrial landlord intends to find out, and if it works, industrial clusters here are set to turn a shade of green.
The Green Roof Trellis concept by JTC Corporation aims to lower temperatures in these parks by 2-3°C – which would reduce energy consumption and, hence, electricity bills.
"Climber plants will grow from planter boxes along roof edges of buildings, to a wire mesh structure supported by cables from columns across the rooftops of two buildings," explained JTC senior planner Mr Yio Yang Huat, who came up with the idea. "Over time, plants will grow to cover the entire mesh and provide shade."
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Source: Channel News Asia, 2009-10-29, Link
New Council To Speed Up Green Building Development in Singapore
Singapore has set up a new council to help accelerate the "greening" of buildings in Singapore.
Buildings in the city-state are the second largest guzzlers of electricity - after the industrial sector. But this is also the area where energy use can be easily reduced.
A UN study has concluded that energy consumption in new and old buildings can be lowered by 30 to 50 per cent without significantly increasing investment costs.
Trane, an exhibiting company that cools about half of the buildings fronting Orchard Road said an average investment of S$2 million to reduce energy use in buildings is usually recouped within eight months to three years.
Speaking at the inaugural International Green Building Conference on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean said: "This is not rocket science but it does require steady and consistent policies and effort.
"We plan to 'green' 80 per cent of our buildings by 2030 to reduce energy intensity by more than 30 per cent. Government and public buildings will also have to achieve higher green building standards."
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Source: Channel News Asia, 2009-10-28, Link
Buildings in the city-state are the second largest guzzlers of electricity - after the industrial sector. But this is also the area where energy use can be easily reduced.
A UN study has concluded that energy consumption in new and old buildings can be lowered by 30 to 50 per cent without significantly increasing investment costs.
Trane, an exhibiting company that cools about half of the buildings fronting Orchard Road said an average investment of S$2 million to reduce energy use in buildings is usually recouped within eight months to three years.
Speaking at the inaugural International Green Building Conference on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean said: "This is not rocket science but it does require steady and consistent policies and effort.
"We plan to 'green' 80 per cent of our buildings by 2030 to reduce energy intensity by more than 30 per cent. Government and public buildings will also have to achieve higher green building standards."
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Source: Channel News Asia, 2009-10-28, Link
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