EventsNews2021202020192018Happenings20212020201920182017Sign up for e-newsletterReducing excessive consumption of...SINGAPORE – Environmental impact of disposables10 April 2021 — Disposables, regardless of whether they are made of paper, plastics, or degradable materials, have some impact on the environment... Ho Chi Minh City is the newest member of the...VIETNAM – The newest member of the City Science Network is Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. As part of this collaboration, the MIT City Science team will work with the Architecture Research Center... SGBC announces new president & board for...SINGAPORE – Singapore, 30 March 2021 — The Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) has announced the members of the 7th Board, who will lead the Council through the 2021–2023 term.Tang Kok... Earth Hour 2021 to unite millions around the...GLOBAL –Image courtesy of World Wildlife Fund (WWF)On Saturday, 27 March at 8:30 p.m. (your local time), Earth Hour will unite individuals, businesses and leaders from all over the world... Singapore now home to one of the...SINGAPORE – Singapore has completed the installation of one of the world’s largest floating solar farms on sea water in the Straits of Johor.With the successful building of the 5-MW-peak... Calls for submissions to reclaim the value...SINGAPORE – CAPTURING THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF PLASTIC WASTE The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (the Alliance), an international non-profit organisation, today announced on 8 March 2021 the request... Latest technologies for water efficiency and...SINGAPORE – PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, has curated a series of presentations and resources from government agencies and local technology providers in a one-stop online platform.... Push for Greener buildings and new support...SINGAPORE – 4 March 2021 — The Ministry of National Development announced several key initiatives during its Committee of Supply debate today. These initiatives will further accelerate the... China installed half of new global offshore...GLOBAL – 25 February 2021 — According to the latest data released by GWEC Market Intelligence, the global offshore wind industry had its second-best year ever in 2020. A total of 6 GW of new... Four new companies join WorldGBC’s Net Zero...GLOBAL – February 2021 — The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) welcomes four new additions to its Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment:Siemens AGCity Developments LimitedCharter... Singapore Budget 2021SINGAPORE – February 2021 — Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced on Tuesday (16 February) that Budget 2021 will shift “from containment to restructuring” as Singapore’s economy... Swathes of Kranji woodland were cleared by...SINGAPORE – Large swathes of Kranji woodland along the rail corridor were mistakenly cleared while the authorities were in the midst of biodiversity impact assessments there. The National Parks... First Singapore real estate developer...SINGAPORE – February 2021 — City Developments Limited (CDL) is the first real estate developer in Southeast Asia to sign the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment by the World Green Building Council... Singapore Green Plan 2030SINGAPORE – 10 February 2021 – The Government unveiled the Singapore Green Plan 2030 today. The five ministries backing the plan are the Ministries of Education, National Development,... Singapore’s fourth desalination plant,...SINGAPORE – 4 February 2021 — Water security in Singapore has been boosted with the opening of the country’s fourth desalination plant.The Keppel Marina East Desalination... French state convicted for failure to address...FRANCE – State found guilty of ‘non-respect of its engagements’ aimed at fighting global warming3 February 2021 — A Paris court has convicted the French state of failing to address the... Built Environment and Property Prospect...SINGAPORE – Singapore, 18 January 2021 — The pandemic has caused much disruptions globally. Closer to home, while the built environment sector is facing unprecedented challenges amidst much... First movers of carbon emission reductionSINGAPORE – Singapore, 13 January 2021 — The Singapore Environment Council (SEC) honoured 12 organisations with the GreenDNA certification as champions of environmental stewardship in Singapore.... Philippines’ sustainable buildings...PHILIPPINES – World Green Building Council launched a series of mini-documentary style films on 11 November 2020, highlighting the impact of buildings on the environment and human health as well as the... WorldGBC spotlights female leader driving...GLOBAL – The biennial World Green Building Council (WorldGBC)’s Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards showcases businesses and innovators breaking ground for sustainable... A longstanding commitment to sustainability:...GLOBAL – Surbana Jurong Group, a global consultant in urban and infrastructure development, and Atelier Ten, a global environmental design consultancy headquartered in London that specialises in... Innovation in the sustainable building...GLOBAL – Produced by BBC StoryWorks, the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) films explore how sustainable buildings can address climate, health and well-being as well as resource efficiency... Reusing landfill materialSINGAPORE – NEA is leading the research and development (R&D) efforts to find solutions to extend the lifespan of Semakau Landfill beyond 2035 under the Closing the Waste Loop (CTWL) R&D... Japan will go carbon neutral by 2050JAPAN – 26 October 2020 — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed to build a carbon-neutral “Green society” by 2050, marking a paradigm shift for the world’s... World Architecture Day 2020ASIA, GLOBAL – The theme for this year’s celebration is Toward a Better Urban Future.World Architecture Day is celebrated in concurrent with UN World Habitat Day, which carries a similar theme... WorldGBC launches report: Asia Pacific...GLOBAL – The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) launched a new report today focused on the Asia Pacific region that outlines the business and climate opportunities of tackling embodied carbon... Coming together for a low-carbon and...GLOBAL, SINGAPORE – International Built Environment Week (IBEW) 2020The annual IBEW will be a complimentary event this year, starting on 1 September 2020 through to 30 September 2020.Dr Ho Nyok Yong,... Singapore clinches Water Project of the Year...SINGAPORE – National water agency Public Utilities Board’s (PUB) Choa Chu Kang Waterworks (CCKWW) has been named Water Project of the Year at the Global Water Awards 2020, a year after its... Master plan for a sustainable urban district...MALAYSIA – The Penang State Government initiated an international design competition in January 2020 to transform Penang South Islands into a sustainable, global destination. Penang’s biodiversity... BCA’s Green Mark Award: 376 building...SINGAPORE – 19 August 2020 — More building owners are aiming for higher tier Green Mark Certifications (Green Mark Platinum and above), an indication of the industry’s awareness of the positive... Newater, Newoil, NewsandSINGAPORE – Moving on from Newater, Singapore has big plans for Newsand – a promising new construction material culled from incineration waste.More ambitiously, it wants to create Newoil... Mitigating climate change with...SINGAPORE – Singapore, 2 July 2020 — Carbon emissions make up 97 per cent of Singapore’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Under the Paris Agreement, Singapore has pledged to, by 2030,... Construction Support Package to help firms...SINGAPORE – Singapore, 27 June 2020 – A new $1.36 billion Construction Support Package will be extended to firms in the construction sector to help them cope with the impact of COVID-19. As the... WGBC: Advancing Net Zero Status Report 2020GLOBAL – On World Environment day, 5 June 2020, World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) released the 2020 Advancing Net Zero Status Report, highlighting leadership action from GBCs and the... Better solutions to help society cope with...SINGAPORE – Singapore’s design community rallies behind DBCS’s call to reimagine a better world with the Design for Good initiative: Six most promising projects selected for funding, project... COVID-19: Sustainable Development Goals that...GLOBAL – The pandemic has exposed that gains made to address poverty, hunger, good health and well-being may face serious setbacks, unless the global community also urgently addresses the global... Singapore’s largest...SINGAPORE – Over S$2.42 billion in total raised through sustainable finance in less than two years underscoring CapitaLand’s commitment to responsible growthRecords utilities cost avoidance of... Carbon emissions are falling sharply due to...GLOBAL – 3 April 2020 — CO2 emissions are crashing as the world winds down, but experts say the drop won’t last if governments don’t start moving to cleaner energy.It is... WHO Director-General’s opening remarks...GLOBAL – 2 April 2020Good morning. I’d like to begin by thanking Member States for last week’s briefing. It was inspiring to hear from China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Singapore... International trade for food securityGLOBAL – 30 March 2020 — A joint statementMillions of people around the world depend on international trade for their food security and livelihoods. As countries move to enact measures... Green buildings’s contribution in the...GLOBAL – 23 March 2020 — An analysis by China Green Building CouncilThe Assessment Standard for Green Building (ASGB) (GB/T 50378-2019) applies new technologies and new concepts in the... SMEs with Singapore Green Labelling Scheme...SINGAPORE – 19 March 2020 — The HSBC SME Green Loan is the first-ever Green loan in Singapore to draw on existing eco-labelling certifications instead of the externally-reviewed bespoke Green... World Water Day: 39 iconic Singapore...SINGAPORE – 22 March 2020 — More than 35 iconic landmarks and bridges such as the Esplanade, Singapore Flyer, Gardens by the Bay and Helix Bridge lighted up in blue to commemorate World Water... COVID-19 could prompt new approach to urban...ASIA – 18 March 2020 — From food to tech, coronavirus to spur urban planning rethink in the Asia-Pacific region, home to some of the world’s most densely populated citiesThe... Sungei Kadut Eco-District to attract new...SINGAPORE – 6 February 2020 – To cater to the fast-changing needs of the manufacturing industry, plans are underway to ensure one of Singapore’s oldest industrial estate continues to remain agile... 2020 Pritzker Architecture PrizeGLOBAL – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara (photo courtesy of Alice Clancy)03 March 2020 — Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin, Ireland, have been selected as the 2020... Sustainability scholarship for Southeast Asia...SINGAPORE – 11 March 2020 — Pomeroy Academy and The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), UK, today announced the launch of a new scholarship aimed at supporting... Ministry for National Development announced...SINGAPORE – 4 March 2020 — Singapore’s Ministry of National Development announced that the new HDB Green Towns programme aims to make HDB towns more environmentally friendly and liveable by 2030.... A Green and healthy baseSINGAPORE – SGBC’s new office encapsulates the collaborative nature of the Singapore Green building industry03 February 2020 — The Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) officially opened... Pioneer signatories from Singapore in...SINGAPORE – Singapore, although somewhat protected by its equatorial location and its ‘City in a Garden’ policies, has been experiencing the twin crises of climate breakdown and loss of... UN Climate Change Conference COP25GLOBAL – Changing the course of climate action and ambition10 December 2019 – The high-level Segment of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 kicked off today, with urgent reminders that... Opening of Sky Green in Taichung, TaiwanTAIWAN – 29 November 2019, Taichung, Taiwan — WOHA announced the completion of their first project in Taichung, Taiwan. In 2012, WOHA was invited by the Taichung City Government and Feng Chia... HASSELL’s Panda Land Project wins big at...SINGAPORE – HASSELL’s Chengdu Panda Land Master Plan has been widely recognized at Singapore’s 2019 landscape architecture and planning awards, collecting three awards for this standout... Singapore’s Tuas Nexus Wins the Most...SINGAPORE – First-in-the-world development planned from ground up that integrates used water and solid waste treatment in a compact footprint 24 October 2019 – Singapore’s Tuas Nexus —... Pioneering RCx Project for Public Hospitals...HONG KONG – Being part of Government’s Climate Action Plan, retro-commissioning (RCx) is one of the key promulgated measures to reduce Hong Kong’s carbon emission. Aligning with Government’s... B.A.U.M. honours GROHE CEO Thomas Fuhr for...GERMANY – Düsseldorf, Germany, 4 Sep 2019 — The corporate network B.A.U.M. awarded Thomas Fuhr, CEO GROHE AG, with the 2019 Environmental and Sustainability Award for the category “Large... Transforming the way we build (IBEW 2019)SINGAPORE – 4 September 2019, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore — The inaugural International Built Environment Week (IBEW) welcomed more than 12,000 overseas and... WOHA designs the Singapore Pavilion for the...GLOBAL, SINGAPORE – Singapore-based architecture firm WOHA has been appointed to design the Singapore Pavilion for the 2020 World Expo, held in Dubai. The Singapore Pavilion is led by the Urban Redevelopment... César Pelli, architect who designed Petronas...USA – Pelli and his firm’s best-known work is Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers, twin 88-story skyscrapers linked by a 41st-floor sky bridge. Built in 1998 and standing at 452... World Sustainable Built Environment (WSBE)...GLOBAL – Gothenburg, Sweden, will be hosting BEYOND 2020, the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference, from 9 – 11 June 2020. The mission of this large event is to engage the global... World Green Building Council partners with...GLOBAL – WorldGBC also announces partnership with RESET on a Plant a Sensor campaign collecting crucial air quality data from across the worldThe World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) is... Environmental leaders in Thailand launch...Thailand – Pioneering grassroots campaign invites Asia’s eco-conscious warriors to shoot a 60-second video on the environment to win prizes and show to leading industry pros at PHIST 2019.... Phnom Penh Sustainable City Plan 2018-2030CAMBODIA – Vision: By 2030, Phnom Penh will become a clean, Green and competitive city offering a safe and quality lifestyle to its residents.The Phnom Penh Sustainable City Plan provides a... Four dynamic built environment tradeshows to...SINGAPORE – New all-in-one platform combines sustainability, productivity, energy efficiency as well as smart city solutions and innovations in building and construction from across the globe.... BCI Media Group and SmartBuild Asia join...SINGAPORE – Industry leaders BCI Media Group and SmartBuild Asia join forces to fuel international growth and advance big data and artificial intelligence solutions throughout the construction... Building Professionals Expound on Green at...MALAYSIA –18 June 2019, Kuala Lumpur — FuturArc Forum was created to expand the conversation on Green architecture and development beyond the printed FuturArc magazine, onto a more personal and... PUB to deploy Singapore’s first...SINGAPORE – PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, 6 June 2019 – National water agency PUB intends to deploy a 50 megawatt-peak (MWp) floating solar photovoltaic (PV) system on Tengeh Reservoir by... World Environment Day 2019GLOBAL – The world turns the spotlight on air pollution.PRESS RELEASE – 05 June 2019, Hangzhou, China – Governments, industry, communities and individuals around the world today... Regional Built Environment Forum 2019SINGAPORE – Two significant announcements have been made at the Regional Built Environment Forum (BEF) 2019 on Tuesday, 4 June 2019.1. IMDA, Australian Government sign built environment MoUAs... Architect IM Pei dies at age 102USA – NEW YORK: IM Pei, whose modern designs and high-profile projects made him one of the best-known and most prolific architects of the 20th century, has died, the New York Times... Swedish 16-year-old climate activist brings...GLOBAL – Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg brought her class-boycott campaign to Paris on Friday, hoping to encourage more French students to hit the streets with demands for bold... International Construction Transformation...MALAYSIA – The recent International Construction Transformation Conference (ICTC) held at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) from 18 to 19 March 2019 shone the spotlight... Arata Isozaki Named 2019 Pritzker Prize...GLOBAL – Arata Isozaki, photo courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture PrizeArata Isozaki, distinguished Japanese architect, city planner and theorist, has been selected as the 2019 Laureate of... Kampung Admiralty by WOHA wins World Building...GLOBAL – 30 November 2018 – Kampung Admiralty, designed by WOHA, has won the prestigious World Building of the Year 2018 award at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Amsterdam.... International Built Environment WeekSINGAPORE – 29 November 2018, Singapore – The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and its strategic partners, including 12 trade associations and chambers (TACs), will launch a new... Women in Green Building Leadership Award...GLOBAL – The Award recognises Ms Chan’s integral role in the early development of Green buildings in Hong Kong, and her involvement in industry initiatives like the Green Shop... A resilient SingaporeSINGAPORE – A joint title between CLC and 100 Resilient Cities, A Resilient Singapore is a book that explores two key resilience changes: climate change and changing demographics, both of which have... Smart cities in Southeast AsiaGLOBAL –Report by McKinsey Global Institute: How technology can deliver a better quality of life In a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, produced in collaboration with the... Recognition of global leadership: HKGBC...HONG KONG – HKGBC is delighted to announce that Director Ms Ada Fung Yin-suen, BBS, JP, is appointed to the Board of Directors of World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) for a two-year term from 1... GROHE’s first fully-owned Asia flagship...SINGAPORE –Designers and architects come together for a night of Pecha Kucha at GROHE ICONIC Tour (image courtesy of GROHE Asia Pacific).The iconic tour in Singapore took place for the... Oasia Downtown Hotel named “Best Tall...CHICAGO – Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat named 2018 Best Tall Building Worldwide, among 9 other awardsThe Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) have announce the...