Singapore Budget 2021

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Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced on Tuesday (16 February) that Budget 2021 will shift “from containment to restructuring” as Singapore’s economy continues to reopen. Budget 2021, with the theme Emerging Stronger Together, combines measures to help families, workers and businesses weather the COVID-19 crisis in the immediate term, with measures to accelerate structural adaptations for the long […]

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Strengthening access to sustainability: SGBC inks MoU with Singapore Polytechnic

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Industry players and end-users can look forward to greater access to built environment sustainability, enabled through a new collaboration between the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) and SGBC Founding Member Singapore Polytechnic (SP). The partnership was cemented by a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 11 December 2020 at Singapore Polytechnic and witnessed by Desmond Lee, […]

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Singapore Green Plan 2030

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The Government unveiled the Singapore Green Plan 2030 today. The five ministries backing the plan are the Ministries of Education, National Development, Sustainability and the Environment, Trade and Industry, as well as Transport. The Green Plan charts ambitious and concrete targets over the next 10 years, strengthening Singapore’s commitments under the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda […]

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WorldGBC spotlights female leader driving Asia Pacific’s sustainable building movement

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The biennial World Green Building Council (WorldGBC)’s Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards showcases businesses and innovators breaking ground for sustainable buildings. One of this year’s categories, Women in Green Building Leadership Award, celebrates the inspiring female leaders from the movement. An independent panel of judges assessed nominations from Asia Pacific Green Building Councils, and selected winners […]

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Energy

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The first rule of energy is to use less. The building sector emits an excess of 30 per cent of all global greenhouse emissions. And so, for nations to reach the targets of the Paris Agreement, it must become more efficient, stay cool and reduce demand. In the pages ahead we see examples of passively […]

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Refinishing Hardwood Flooring Surfaces Offers Reduced Carbon Footprint

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Brought to you by Bona In a 2020 report from the IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, which was conducted with input from Bona, it states that a 78 per cent reduction in carbon footprint can be achieved when refinishing rather than replacing hardwood floorings. With resilient floor surfaces, refinishing can offer up to 92 per […]

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