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Making S’pore a green building hub

Posted on 29 Oct 2009 | Comments Off on Making S’pore a green building hub

New council to boost green construction; deal with UN unit to promote best practices
Solar panels line the roof of the first ‘zero energy’ building in Braddell Road, which can produce as much energy as it uses. Singapore aims to be the green building hub of the tropics. — ST PHOTO: BRYAN VAN DER BEEK

SINGAPORE took two major steps yesterday in its drive to position itself at the forefront of the increasingly vital field of ‘green’ construction practices and technologies.

A Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) has been set up to promote sustainable construction. This includes driving efforts to green at least 80 per cent of buildings here by 2030.

And the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Environment Programme to collaborate on promoting best building practices across Asia. Continue reading →

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Use by-laws to handle condo issues: BCA

Posted on 14 Aug 2009 | Comments Off on Use by-laws to handle condo issues: BCA

I REFER to last Thursday’s letter by Mr Henry Ng, ‘Update law to deal with recalcitrant condo residents’.

We wish to highlight that the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act provides a legal framework for the management and maintenance of strata properties such as condominiums. The Act, which spells out the duties and obligations of various stakeholders such as the subsidiary proprietor, management corporation, council members and managing agent, is aimed at facilitating self-regulation among these stakeholders who have interests in the well-being of the strata properties.

The Act prescribes a set of by-laws that every management corporation is required to adopt. To enable flexibility and autonomy in the running of strata properties, management corporations are also allowed to make additional by-laws to control and manage the use of common property and the strata lots in the development, and all subsidiary proprietors and occupiers are obliged to comply with these by-laws. Continue reading →

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