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For the first time, Singapore’s Building & Construction Authority (BCA) is challenging developers and property owners to come up with ways to further improve the total energy savings of buildings conferred with the Green Mark Platinum rating by at least 20 percent.
Green Mark Platinum represents the highest rating here for sustainability and environmental impact.
The challenge urges experts and industry stakeholders to submit proposals on sustainable technologies to further enhance energy savings, with submissions open until 7 July 2017.
The ideas will be tested at the 18-storey Keppel Bay Tower (pictured), a Green Mark Platinum commercial building developed by Keppel Land and completed in 2002. It consists of a basement carpark and six-storey podium with a gross floor area of around 42,000 sq m.
The BCA is seeking novel, cost effective technologies that can further improve energy usage in eco-friendly buildings that can be adopted in the wider market. Proposals can be based on tested technology, but has not been widely introduced either locally or abroad.
Possible solutions include alternative versions of existing smart lighting and cooling systems. These could also involve adaptive and intelligent technologies with machine learning capabilities or integrated sensors that track energy usage, look out for errors and schedule maintenance. Among other possible ideas are an energy generation façade system and dynamic response façade technologies.
The submitted proposals will be evaluated based on their scalability, innovativeness and cost effectiveness, and testing must be completed within two years.
The successful ideas will be co-financed by Keppel Land and BCA’s Green Buildings Innovation Cluster (GBIC), an integrated R&D hub run by BCA’s Built Environment Research and Innovation Institute that has been established with the help of the National Research Foundation (NRF).
Romesh Navaratnarajah, Senior Editor at PropertyGuru, edited this story. To contact him about this or other stories, email romesh@propertyguru.com.sg
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