Making of a Great City What features differentiate a good city from a great one? Renowned architect Liu Thai Ker looks at the Lion City critically
Assessing Total Building Performance A holistic approach to achieve the ultimate built environment.
Urban Heat Island Effect: Sinking the Heat Rising temperatures have become a major concern for densely built-up tropical cities. Something needs to be done, and soon, to alleviate the urban heat island effect
Eco-Friendly Town Design Greener townships and better environmental practices combine to make Singapore’s housing quality second to none
Better Air for Healthier Living Innovative developments redefine ventilation strategies to improve indoor air quality.
Interacting with Buildings Architecture professor explains why human interaction serves an important function in designing a building or a city
Towards Zero Landfill: Waste Minimisation and Recycling Singapore has adopted a waste minimisation and recycling approach aimed at environmental sustainability.
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Safe Storage of Ammunition Underground Defence agency creates a new safety standard that leads to huge land savings in the development and operation of underground ammunition storage depots
Unlocking Road Gridlock Engineers are developing a simulation system to reduce traffic congestion by predicting road conditions in close to real time.
Outstanding Biomedical Research Wins Recognition NUS and NUH honor outstanding research conducted in the field of biomedicine.
Abstinence and Diet: The Keys to Longer Life? A scientist has demonstrated some unexpected factors that prolong life in the fruit fly that may well hold true for humans.
Stanford Global Entrepreneurs Challenge What is the X factor that makes for a successful start-up company? Fifteen teams from around the world converged on Singapore to find out whether they had what it takes to be the next Microsoft or Pfizer.