Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd, and co-organised by the Environment Bureau of the HKSAR Government, the 12th edition of Eco Expo Asia was held at the AsiaWorld- Expo. The four-day (26 to 29 October 2017) expo featured 340 exhibitors from 19 countries and regions. The concurrent […]
The Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) welcomes the Government’s initiatives on liveable and smart city, climate change and Green finance as proposed in The Chief Executive’s 2017 Policy Address released on 11 October 2017. The HKGBC will continue its close collaboration with the government and all stakeholders to further the commitment for a Greener […]
The 5th cycle of the LafargeHolcim Awards, Asia-Pacific region, took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 23 to 24 November 2017. Organised by the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, the competition is held once every three years across five regions: Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa, as well as Asia Pacific. Winners […]
The International Urban Sustainability & Green Building (IUSGBC) Conference 2017, organised by Malaysia Green Building Confederation (MGBC) in conjunction with the International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition & Conference Malaysia (IGEM), addressed the importance of Green building in mitigating global warming and improving health worldwide. The exhibition gathered 320 participating companies and 34,868 trade visitors. […]
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Archifest, the annual architecture festival organised by the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA), was held from 4 to 15 October 2017. In its 11th edition, a lineup of more than 50 events took place at various locations nationwide over two weeks. Archifest 2017 was built upon the five pillars of the festival: Archi- Interfaces, Archicraft, […]
GreenUrbanScape Asia, the region’s only platform unifying both greenery and landscape design communities, returned for its third edition at the Singapore EXPO and MAX Atria from 9 to 11 November 2017. Themed Symbiosis: Intense Nature Within Cities, this year’s event was officiated by Desmond Lee, Minister for Social and Family Development, and Second Minister for […]
Jon Khoo, Innovation Partner at Interface, focuses on sustainability, inclusive business and intrapreneurship. Following a former career as a city lawyer, Khoo joined Interface in 2012, having chosen to reapply his skills to tackle the global challenges of marine plastics, inequality and climate change. He led the Interface and the Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) […]
NA: After your bachelor’s degree in architecture from CEPT University in Ahmedabad, what was the focus of your master’s programme overseas? And thereafter, what made you come back and start off a career in Ahmedabad? YP: I pursued higher studies in low-cost housing from McGill University in Montreal. What we studied there was also relevant to India […]
HB: What led you to set up a SHAU office in Indonesia? DS: We actually got our first projects in Indonesia through exhibitions. After the IABR in 2009, we continued exhibiting other urban architecture ideas, which got the attention of the Indonesian Diaspora Network. They put us in touch with several ministers, which led to meeting […]
Coastal cities around the world today face the common challenge of sea level rise, and Jakarta is no exception. Compounded by land subsidence of up to 18 centimetres per year due to groundwater extraction and the increasing intensity of the monsoon rains, the city has an urgent need to protect itself from flooding. Frequently, the […]
by Gayatri Mutum Almost a decade ago, the World Bank described the Mekong Delta as one of the most sensitive areas to climate change. That future is now here. About 70 million people reside along the Mekong. It is one of the longest rivers in the world and has a distinctive ecosystem in Southeast Asia. The […]
The phrase, climate change, pushes many buttons. Fear is the most common. To be sure, the science on climate change gives us a lot to fear: sea level rise, exceptional storms, extinction of species, and troubling questions about the future of humankind. It does not help that there is no certainty on timeline. Depending on whom you […]
