Sustainable buildings: passivhaus, low carbon design and NABERS | Pablo Gugel, Director of Sustainability

We must find ways to deliver what we need using much less.

The ongoing struggle to deliver PPVC cost-effectively in Singapore has an increasing degree of urgency.The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 in Singapore’s foreign workforce shows the need to drive greater productivity while reducing over-reliance on foreign labour is more urgent than ever before.

But the big question is, ‘What next?’.Hong Kong: Modular Integrated Construction.The Hong Kong Government is also a leading agent for change in the regional construction industry.

In recent years there has been a growing focus on the potential afforded by DfMA to address systemic issues in construction in Hong Kong.The Construction Industry Council, a statutory body established in 2007 to advocate for and promote the Hong Kong construction industry, has been instrumental in growing awareness of the opportunities afforded by DfMA and particularly MiC, the local term for prefabricated and prefinished volumetric modules..

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Construction 2.0. , produced by the Hong Kong Development Bureau in September 2018 with the assistance of KPMG.Joined up thinking may improve the situation and help to find a path forward..

Discussion in the room moved to nuclear self-generation for a while and how far we are away from viable small nuclear power self-generation.The modular size of small nuclear is critical.

Due to the need for power resilience, sites would need to have some arrangement of N+1 power units – if each unit is too large then the investment costs would be simply too high.The modularity of SMRs and suitability to support DC loads will be important.. Licencing and regulation of nuclear power.