(Construction) - As a country with extremely limited resources, Singapore has an extremely strong sense of energy saving, reducing emissions as well as sustainable development. In the field of construction, Singapore Lion Island has always focused its efforts on promoting green construction and has become one of the earliest green building countries and the third country in the world in terms of green building.
"Impressive" green buildings in Singapore (Photo: Internet)
Green building development is a key strategy of Singapore and this country sets the goal of green building to help the country relieve pressure on natural resources and the environment and realize sustainable development.
Singapore has determined that the Government must be the key, pioneering the construction industry in a sustainable direction. Since 2007, the Government has started to model for the whole country to follow the green building path. The Government requires that the works of government agencies, whether big or small, must meet the most basic requirements, all must save 15% of energy.
In 2009, all buildings with an area of 5,000 square meters or more are required to achieve Platinum grade, meaning savings of 30% or more energy. Among existing projects of the Government of Singapore, when the area for air conditioners exceeds 10 thousand square meters, it is mandatory to reach the Gold level in the green building criteria before 2020. Singapore requires the compulsory works. Public investment is required by the Government to pass green certification.
Since 2005, the Government of Singapore has launched the "green building" criterion plan, conducting the grading of the environmental design of buildings, setting 4 levels of awards for construction designs. construction in accordance with specified standards. From there, promoting and enhancing the awareness of environmental protection of investors, designers and enterprises in the Construction industry. Singapore's Green Building Criteria mainly assesses the environmental impacts with the building performance indicators. Those are the bases for assessment including means such as energy saving, water saving, low energy use ... The scale is divided into 4 levels: qualified level, award level. Gold, the Super Gold level award and the Platinum award.
Singapore's green building system is built in many aspects such as green areas, green buildings, green infrastructure, green parks ... It is worth mentioning that they are constantly innovating and perfecting in reality. see off. Green building evaluation standards in the system fully show local climate and environment conditions, respect current conditions, combine with development needs of territories, promote functions and effects of the green building construction system.
Singapore pays special attention to the building of administrative and administrative management institutions during the green building construction process. They are always clear in the functional relationships between regulatory agencies in areas such as planning, construction, urban ...
Singapore always attaches great importance to propaganda of ideas, attaches great importance to the expansion of green buildings to a large number of people in society. They always encourage investor activeness when building green buildings as well as influence green building buyers. Develop flexible and diversified Government incentives such as flexible and diversified incentives and reward measures. In addition to financial support, also includes other incentives such as tax, land ... For example, since 1996, Singapore has started to enforce depreciation for saving equipment. energy; Support for investment in highly efficient energy-saving equipment; The government offers land rent incentives for factories to make use of construction waste treatment ...
For the existing work, the Singapore Government introduced a 100 million USD incentive plan. In addition to the cash bonus, the Singaporean government also lends to investors at low interest rates, and at the same time the government accepts the risk, thereby significantly reducing the obstacles that renovating developers have. used to be afraid. As for new construction, they come up with a reward plan for the green building area. With newly built green buildings reaching Platinum grade, the Government provides additional support with the maximum amount of 2% of the building area (reaching 5000 m2). If it is a green building reaching the Super Gold level, the Government will support the highest additional 1% of the work area, reaching 2500m2.
In order for green buildings to develop synchronously, the Singaporean Government focuses on certification and specialized training for this field. They have developed and perfected the training and introduced the relevant vocational certification mechanism.
Complete the comprehensive training and certification system, promote the green construction industry, create a basis for investors and developers when choosing to use related products such as green building materials, household electrical equipment. ..
The Singaporean government strengthens communication and education in various forms. They propagandize about green construction through many methods such as preparing handbooks, guiding and advertising to guide people to pay attention to green buildings.
In residential communities, seminars on green building topics are held every week. Multimedia games on green buildings are arranged in the exhibition halls, helping people to be evocative and understanding. They conduct education on green building in a delicate way from preschool to general education to create a clear understanding of green building among the people.
According to Khanh Phuong / baoxaydung
