Tag Archives: Platinum awards

CDL, HDB top construction productivity awards

Posted on 14 May 2013 | Comments Off on CDL, HDB top construction productivity awards

Developers City Developments Limited (CDL) and Housing & Development Board (HDB) have won Platinum awards for construction productivity.

The new award by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) gives greater recognition to stakeholders like developers, consultants and builders who play a crucial role in driving construction productivity in the built environment sector. The award integrates the previous CPA-Best Practices and Innovations and the CPA-Value Added Productivity.

BCA said a winning factor for CDL was their strong initiatives in influencing their consultants and builders to adopt safe and easy-to-build best practices in their projects to raise construction productivity.

Some key initiatives adopted by CDL included the use of prefabricated bathroom units, drywalls, and Building Information Modelling (BIM) during the planning and construction phase. As for HDB, it was their extensive use of precast technology since the 1980s to speed up the building process.

This included the use of precast facade with cast-in windows, columns, floor slabs, staircases and refuse chutes. BCA said the precast facade with cast-in windows helped improve the productivity of window construction by about 300 per cent.

Under the Builder sub-category, Chip Eng Seng Contractors won the Gold Award while the Merit award went to Kimly Construction and DLE M&E.

ADDP Architects was the only consultant to receive a Merit Award this year. Under the Projects sub-category, eight teams were lauded for their efforts in improving productivity of their projects.

Winning the Platinum awards were Tiong Seng Prefab Hub, ITE Headquarters and ITE College Central @ Ang Mo Kio, and VoLaRi, a private residential project by CDL.

Gold award winners include projects such as Punggol Green Primary School and HDB’s Punggol Spring estate. The winners will receive their awards during the BCA Awards on Thursday (May 16).

Source : CNA – 13 May 2013

Comments Off on CDL, HDB top construction productivity awards

Posted in Construction

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

More buildings going green

Posted on 18 May 2011 | Comments Off on More buildings going green

More buildings are going green.

This year, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is giving out a record number of BCA Green Mark awards to 164 winners, up from 102 last year.

Singapore is a step closer to the national target of “greening” 80 per cent of buildings by 2030.

The Green Mark Scheme was introduced in 2005 to recognise water and energy efficient buildings. And as of 2008, all new buildings are required by law to meet a basic Green Mark standard.

BCA said a series of green incentive schemes has encouraged many developers to go beyond the mandatory.

Incentives include additional floor area, which could translate to higher profit, as well as reimbursements for engaging environmental experts, who can help in achieving an energy-efficient design for buildings.

Organisations that voluntarily go the extra mile are given the Green Mark Gold, Gold Plus and Platinum awards.

Among them is private developer City Developments Limited (CDL).

It clinched more than 50 Green Mark Gold & Above awards, of which 16 are Platinum awards.

For this track record, CDL earned the inaugural BCA Green Mark Platinum Champion Award this year.

Apart from installing green features like water-efficient taps and energy-saving light bulbs, CDL said green development is about managing resources and harnessing Mother Nature.

And it can be cost-effective too.

Allen Ang, Deputy GM of Projects Division with CDL said: “Using green technology such as pre-fabrication, pre-fab bathrooms actually helps us reduce a lot of natural resources; not just materials, but manpower. And as you know, manpower is expensive.

“If the environment is sited such that we can orientate the building towards the north-south orientation, it also helps us to reduce air-con capacity in cooling our apartments. And in so doing, reduce the treatment cost for the glass of the facade.”

The BCA Green Mark Champion Award went to the Housing and Development Board (HDB), the first public sector agency to receive the award.

HDB has completed 14 projects that attained at least Green Mark Gold status, five of which were rated Platinum.

Some of the award-winning green projects include Treelodge@Punggol, Waterway Terraces and SkyTerrace@Dawson.

With this year’s winners, there are more than 750 Green Mark building projects in Singapore, amounting to 11 per cent of the total gross floor area.

Source : Channel NewsAsia – 17 May 2011

Comments Off on More buildings going green

Posted in Construction, General

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,