r.e.Design Guide to Green Real Estate

Colliers International recently launched r.e.Design in Singapore – a guide to green real estate for developers, landlords and tenants. r.e.Design has four categories including Managing Green, Developing Green, Occupying Green and Living Green. The guide shares with real estate players on being sustainable, implementing green real estate practices, and the opportunities and challenges involved. The Regional Head of Sustainability, Asia Pacific at Colliers International, Mr Simon Carter, explains:

Colliers recognises and supports the acceleration of green real estate practices in Asia. The region is now at an exciting and critical juncture as it aims to maintain a balance between sustaining ecological systems and economic profitability. It is imperative for companies to gain better understanding of sustainable real estate practices in which they will benefit from a win-win situation. As such, r.e.Design is produced with the aim of providing industry players with real estate-centric knowledge on sustainability, as opposed to just building-centric.

The r.e.Design guide also complements the Green Mark Scheme by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and would help developers in implementing green features and achieving the Green Mark status.

Source credit: Colliers International.

Green Events Guide

All events, big or small, use resources and have negative impacts on the environment. The planning, preparation and conducting of events tend to consume water, energy and materials, and produce waste and gas emissions. We understand that event organisers and venue managers would like to reduce their impacts on the environment and go green, but they are not sure how to start.

We have teamed up with ECO Singapore to produce the Green Events Guide. This Green Events Guide aims to provide a framework of principles and practical tips on how event and venue managers can start creating greener events by identifying and reducing the various environmental impacts in its process. Read more

A Guide to Clean Energy Initiatives and Funding by the Singapore Government

Singapore has identified the clean energy industry as a key growth area since Mar 2007. The clean energy industry is expected to “contribute S$1.7 billion to the GDP and create 7,000 jobs by 2015“. To support our vision of a Clean Energy Hub, there are several clean energy initiatives and funding by the government as shown in the list below:

1. Clean Energy Programme Office (CEPO)
2. Clean Energy Research and Testbedding Programme (CERT)
3. Clean Energy Research Programme (CERP)
4. Solar Capability Scheme (SCS)
5. Market Development Fund
6. Singapore Initiative in New Energy Technologies (SINERGY) Centre
7. Innovation for Environmental Sustainability (IES) Fund (related funding)
8. MND Research Fund for the Built Environment (related funding)

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