BCA's green building innovation grant gets S$20 million top-up
Kelly Wong Channel NewsAsia 4 Sep 19; SINGAPORE: The built environment sector received a S$20 million boost to go green on Wednesday (Sep 4). This was announced by National Development Minister Lawrence Wong at the opening of the inaugural International Built Environment Week (IBEW), organised by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA). Mr Wong said that the top-up of the funds will encourage more collaboration between the built environment industry and the research community. This is to support BCA�s drive toward Super Low Energy (SLE) buildings, which BCA has said will be the �next generation of green buildings". The additional grant provided by the National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF) can be used by companies in the Green Buildings Innovation Cluster (GBIC) set up by BCA in 2014 and that had an initial grant of S$52 million, also from NRF. The aim of this cluster is to experiment with, exhibit and exchange knowledge of energy-efficiency solutions with stakeholde...