Green building (also known as green

construction or sustainable building)

expands and complements the building
design concerns of economy, utility,
durability, and comfort.

Some of the incentive schemes:

1.)

Green building:
uses less water
optimizes energy efficiency
conserves natural resources
generates less waste and;
provides healthier space for occupants as
compared to conventional buildings
Objective: reduce the impact on
human health and the natural
environment

By incentivizing the adoption of innovative

architectural design and energy-saving
technologies, Singapore has emerged as a
model of green building in Asia an
important development in a region that is
urbanizing more rapidly than any other in
the world

Government Agencies in Singapore

which provide funding and incentive
schemes:
>
singapore-currencyBuilding
Construction Authority (BCA)

and

> Economic Development Board (EDB)

> Energy Market Authority (EMA)
>Infocomm Development
Singapore (IDA)

Authority

of

> Land Transport Authority (LTA)

> Maritime and
Singapore (MPA)

Port

Authority

of

> National Environment Agency (NEA)

> National Parks Board (NParks)
> PUB, the national water agency (PUB)
> SPRING Singapore (SPRING)
> Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)

Energy Efficiency Improvement

Assistance Scheme (EASe)
NEA provides a co-funding scheme
called
the
Energy
Efficiency
Improvement Assistance Scheme
(EASe), to help companies in the
manufacturing and building sectors
engage accredited Energy Services
Companies (ESCOs) to conduct
energy audits and identify potential
areas
for
energy
efficiency
improvements. Funding is provided
up to 50% of the qualifying costs of
engaging an ESCO and capped at
$200,000 for a single facility or
building over a five-year period.
2.) Grant for Energy Efficient Technologies
(GREET)
The Grant for Energy Efficient
Technologies (GREET) by NEA and
EDB provides funding for the
Singapore-registered
owner
or
operator of existing or proposed
industrial facilities to invest in
energy efficient equipment or
technologies. Funding is provided
up to 20% of the qualifying costs
and capped at $4 million per
project. The applicant must also be
a partner under the Energy
Efficiency
National
Partnership
programme and have implemented
an energy management system.

3.) Building Retrofit Energy Efficiency

Financing (BREEF) Scheme
The
Building
Retrofit
Energy
Efficiency
Financing
(BREEF)
Scheme by BCA in collaboration
with
participating
Financial
Institutions (FIs), is a financing
programme
to
provide
credit
facilities for commercial building
owners, MCSTs and Energy Services
Companies to carry out energy
efficiency retrofits of existing
commercial buildings, which will
lead to the building achieving
minimum Green Mark certified
standard. The maximum loan
quantum per loan is up to S$5
million and the interest rate is
decided by the FI (minimum at

3.5%). The maximum loan tenure is

between 18 months to 8 years.

a building designed and constructed

4.) Green Mark Incentive Scheme for

Existing Buildings (GMIS-EB)
A $100 million Green Mark
Incentive Scheme for Existing
Buildings (GMIS-EB) was set up by
BCA to encourage private building
owners of existing buildings to
undertake improvements in energy
efficiency. The scheme provides a
cash incentive that co-funds up to
35% of the costs for energy
efficient equipment installed, and
capped at $1.5 million. The GMISEB also includes a Health Check
scheme, which is an energy audit
to determine the efficiency of the
air-conditioning plants. BCA will cofund 50% of the cost and the
remaining 50% is borne by the
building owner.

efficiently as a flower: a building

to function as elegantly and as

informed

by

its

bioregions

characteristics that generates all of

its

own

energy

with

renewable

resources, captures and treats all of

its water, and that operates efficiently
and for maximum beauty.
PETALS
The Living Building Challenge is
comprised of seven performance
categories, or Petals: Place, Water,
Energy, Health & Happiness,
Materials, Equity and Beauty. Petals
are subdivided into a total of twenty
Imperatives, each of which focuses

Living building Challenge

on a specific sphere of influence.

The Living Building Challenge is an

This compilation of Imperatives can

attempt to dramatically raise the bar

be applied to almost every

from a paradigm of doing less harm

conceivable building project, of any

to one in which we view our role as

scale and any locationbe it a new

steward and co-creator of a true

building or an existing structure.

Living Future. The Challenge defines

the most advanced measure of
sustainability in the built environment
possible today and acts to rapidly
diminish the gap between current
limits and the end-game positive
solutions we seek.
Living Building