Seriously Singapore Property Develop Eco-Sustainable

Building authorities in Singapore, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA ') set aside 15 million Singapore dollars to promote sustainable development in the island country.

The funds will focus on developing the recycling capability of the buildings demolished and the use of recycled materials during construction.

Construction industry in Singapore warmly welcome this latest initiative, but hopes more government support for its use.

Eco-green area development showed a lack of focus Samwoh about sustainable development methods in the construction industry in Singapore. This is the first building in Singapore that was built using recycled aggregate concrete. And Samwoh want to increase production of recycled materials in the construction industry.

However, sustainable development will be a long term investment because of low margins.

The government hopes that more and more companies are able to use materials of concrete and recycled materials to reduce Singapore's dependence on imported raw materials.

Elvin Koh, Managing Director Samwoh Corporation said ,"... We have invested around 20 million Singapore dollars (in this eco-park). If you talk about the refund, it may be slow because it is still new in the market. But we see this as long-term business. It all depends on government agencies and how quickly they can accept this new concept. "

Road construction

The concept of eco is also made another breakthrough. Singapore Land Transport Authority, the Land Transport Authority to make changes in specifications allow the construction of roads with recycled materials used in road construction.

Although support these measures, the industry players in Singapore said it was too early to specify whether this will impact on cost. But they stressed that it takes more government budget for sustainable development is to be able to immediately take off.

Andrew Khng, President of the Singapore Contractors Association says, "I hope the government will lead, encourage industries to implement this concept in their contracts, there is a certain percentage of the components of their contract to use environmentally friendly products. For the contractors, we need some kind of incentive to encourage us to go green on what we have. "

Some companies say, the public sector was in front and pushed to adopt environmentally friendly practices that can have positive impacts on their incomes. Samwoh for example, get a 3 percent to 4 percent of their revenue from sales of materials recycled materials.