Industry Interview with Melissa Lok, Associate Director, Climate Asia
Melissa Lok discusses why Southeast Asia’s built environment climate transition now depends on reliable carbon data, product-level baselines, and the practical capacity to turn disclosure into decisions.
Integrated Sustainability in a Modest HDB Home
Designed for a homeowner and two cats, this 800-square foot, reconfigured 3-room HDB flat in Pasir Ris blurs the threshold between interior and exterior. The 37-year-old unit reconciles aesthetics with function, and modesty with exuberance.
The 50% Nobody Fully Counts
The Missing Half of Building Emissions: Singapore’s data shows tenant electricity use can account for about half of total building electricity consumption in office and retail developments. As electricity is a major driver of operational carbon—and recurring fit outs add significant embodied impacts—tenant interiors are emerging as a critical decarbonisation blind spot that most building level metrics fail to accurately capture.
Exclusive Interview With Allen Ang, Head, Green Building, Decarbonisation & Safety, City Developments Limited; President, Singapore Green Building Council
Allen Ang looks at what Singapore’s built environment decarbonisation agenda demands as it moves beyond targets and into the owner realities.
Southeast Asia Energy & Decarbonisation Watchlist
A regional watchlist of energy and decarbonisation projects where rising fuel exposure, power demand, renewable procurement and 2030 climate targets are beginning to meet project delivery.
Southeast Asia Adaptation Watchlist
A regional watchlist of adaptation projects and programmes where climate risk is entering coastal protection, flood control, community resilience finance, drainage systems and outdoor work planning.
Singapore–Batam Data Centres: A Cross-Border Digital Infrastructure Corridor
USRF™ Applications Series: March 2026 Singapore–Batam Data Centres: A Cross-Border Digital Infrastructure Corridor in Southeast Asia Using the Urban Systems Risk Framework (USRF™) to examine the emerging Singapore–Batam digital infrastructure system. Candice Lim Across Southeast Asia, the expansion of data centres is increasingly shaped not just by demand for digital services, but by the alignment […]
