The Building and Construction Authority of Singapore is piloting a new voluntary Maintainable Design Appraisal System to assess building designs’ degree of maintainability. As part of the initiatives to uplift the Facilities Management (FM) sector – a...
Singapore’s Ministry of Health recently opened the Ng Teng Fong Center for Healthcare Innovation at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). The Ng Teng Fong Center is one of the 9 new developments under HealthCity Novena Master Plan 2020 developed by the Ministry of...
The Energy Market Authority (EMA) of Singapore announced two new EMA partnerships that total a combined USD 12 million. The aim is to support the uptake of new energy storage solutions and renewable energy solutions like solar. The first partnership is with the PSA,...
Signaling its third investment in four years, Kimberly-Clark announced a new investment of SGD 25 million (USD 18.3 million) in its factory in Tuas, Singapore, which aims to double its export volume and value by the end of 2022. Funding will be allocated to expand...
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore launched a new research facility that turns waste from the NTU campus into electricity and resources. The facility, located in Tuas South hosts a slagging gasification plant...
During FY19 (April 2019 – March 2020), the Singapore government expects to award ICT contracts worth SGD 2.5 -2.7 billion (USD 1.83 billion – 2.05 billion). Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) will be eligible to participate in over 80% of the contracts. To...
Singapore has been ranked as the world’s most competitive economy for the first time since 2010, in a yearly ranking of 63 countries by the IMD World Competitiveness Centre, a research group based in Switzerland. The IMD World Competitiveness Rankings, established in...
Singapore’s Funan Mall, being built on the site of the former IT-focused Funan Digital Life Mall, is set to open ahead of schedule after a three year redevelopment phase. The mail has been described as Singapore’s first online-and-offline (O&O) mall....
The Aerospace division of Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) and Vietnam Airlines Engineering Company (VAECO) have incorporated a new joint venture. JVCo, or Vietnam Singapore Technologies Engineering Aerospace Co Ltd will signal the group’s first...
Jet Aviation, a subsidiary of American aerospace and defense multinational General Dynamics, announced that it has completed the integration of Hawker Pacific operations at Seletar Airport in Singapore. Hawker Pacific was an integrated aviation solutions provider with...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on 8 May that it would be transferring SGD 45 billion (USD 33 billion) from the official foreign reserves (OFR) to the Government for management by one of Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds, GIC, so that these...
Singapore-based LNG ( liquefied natural gas) player, Pavilion Energy announced on 2 May that it has performed the first commercial ship-to-ship LNG bunkering in the Port of Singapore. The operation comprised a reload of 2,000 cubic meters of LNG onto a small-scale...
