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Retrofitted SDE1 & 3 at National University of Singapore (NUS) to open in February

31 JANUARY 2023 – As part of a larger campus redevelopment to meet net zero carbon targets, National University of Singapore (NUS)’s renovated School of Design and Environment (SDE) 1 and 3 will be opened this February. Alongside SDE4 as Singapore’s first new-build net-zero energy building that was opened in 2019, the new SDE1 and […]

Finding common ground at the World Cities Summit 2022

11 AUGUST 2022 – On 1 August, 2022, the Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) World City Prize Lecture and Forum saw the presentations made by representatives of the LKY World City Prize 2020 Laureate, the City of Vienna, and the Special Mention cities of Antwerp, Boston and Lisbon, respectively. Four cities, 1 common tale? A “tale […]

Day to night: Rejuvenating Clarke Quay with a Green rating update

3 AUGUST 2022 – The riverside precinct of Clarke Quay in Singapore was historically a conduit for trade. Since the 1800s, warehouses along the waterfront saw a bustle of activity with commodities unloaded and re-loaded onto traditional tongkang and twakow ships. But after shipment activities were redirected to Keppel Harbour in the 1980s, the area […]

The cornerstone of Singapore’s built environment sector

18 JULY 2022 – [MEDIA PARTNER] Be inspired, connected, and empowered at the International Built Environment Week (IBEW) 2022 as a much-anticipated event for the built environment (BE) sector in the Asia Pacific region. The 4th edition of IBEW will return as an in-person event from 5–9 Sep 2022 at the Sands Expo & Convention […]

FuturArc Prize 2022 Merit recipient awarded at BCI Asia Awards Singapore

24 JUNE 2022 – On Friday evening at the Fairmont Singapore, the annual BCI Asia Awards (BCIAA) was held to acknowledge the nation’s Top 10 developers and architecture firms, as well as recognise sustainable design ideas from the next generation of talents. The keynote speech was delivered by Mr Melvin Tan, SIA President, Deputy Managing […]

Coastal Protection Strategy Team launched to improve Singapore’s flood resiliency

April 2022 – Considering its low-lying geography, Singapore is particularly vulnerable to climate change. The Centre for Climate Research Singapore has projected that the island city-state could experience an increase in daily mean temperature of 1.4–4.6 degrees Celsius towards the end of this century and a mean sea level rise of up to 1 metre […]

Closing the Loop of Food Waste: A Hawker Centre Generates Energy and Bio-fertiliser

17 November 2021: The hawker centre East Coast Lagoon Food Village is piloting an anaerobic digestion system for food waste treatment. This aims to reduce the incineration of food waste—which would release the highest amount of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere—and instead use it to generate electricity and produce bio-fertiliser to improve the surrounding park infrastructure. The system was developed by a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Associate Professor Tong Yen Wah from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. […]

Building on Water for a Climate-Aware Future

The vast majority of the world’s largest cities are located next to water and face challenges such as sea level rise, land subsidence and frequent flooding due to a change in weather patterns. Meanwhile, the most significant population growths occur on the developing regions of the African and Asian continents, which result in a sprawl […]

Moving From Intuitive to Informed Design for Ecosystems

On the second day of Archifest 2021’s conference event, three speakers presented their thought- provoking ideas on the theme of Ecosystems, reflecting on subjects from the human body and urban landscapes, up to outer space. Bonnie Shaw, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Place Intelligence, spoke about the importance of resilience against stress in the […]

Archifest 2021 seeks Design Evidence from the Past to Inform the Future

Sustainability and heritage are key issues to be considered amidst rapid development in Singapore, which are highlighted as the main themes of this year’s Archifest. Entitled Design Evidence, the event takes an inquisitive attitude towards the complex parameters of our world, relating the evidences of best practices for our creative design processes. The architecture festival, […]

FuturArc Prize 2020 Professional Winner Receives Award

1 September 2021: At the BCI Asia Awards 2021 Singapore event today, the Singaporean winner of FuturArc Prize 2020 finally took home their award. The 2020 cycle for Asia’s leading Green design competition FuturArc Prize (FAP) received entries from international professionals and students who submitted their ideas in Bringing Nature Back into the City in […]

Reducing excessive consumption of disposables

Environmental impact of disposables 10 April 2021 — Disposables, regardless of whether they are made of paper, plastics, or degradable materials, have some impact on the environment during their production, transportation and disposal. The current “take, make, use and throw” approach to disposables is not ideal. In 2019, about 200,000 tonnes of disposables—enough to fill […]

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