IBEW and BEX Asia 2026 Put AI’s Built Environment Test on the Floor
This September, the paired conference and exhibition turn attention to applied intelligence: where AI, robotics, data and sustainability tools meet delivery, operations and workforce capability.
Huawei’s Guangzhou Campus and the Industrial Riverfront’s Next Economy
A former sugar-processing site on the Pearl River’s western bank has been converted into Huawei’s Guangzhou R&D Campus: a 305,000-square-metre complex of offices, hospitality and cultural space designed by Singapore-based SPARK as a single urban composition.
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.
Can Regenerative Collectives Offer a Different Way to Live with Land in India?
This contributed essay asks whether regenerative collectives can reconnect living, food, water, livelihoods and ecological repair under intensifying urban and resource pressures.
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.
From River System to Material System
RiverRecycle is a test of whether polluted waterways can support a working recovery system—one tied to local labour, river conditions, and downstream material use, rather than to one-off environmental campaigns.
The Resort Landscape Is Now an Operating Risk
For Indonesia’s hospitality pipeline, landscape is no longer a finishing layer. Water, soil, heat, planting and maintenance are becoming asset-performance questions.
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.
The Unpublished Layer: Nipun Prabhakar on What Architecture Photographs Cannot Fully Hold
Interview The Unpublished Layer: Nipun Prabhakar on What Architecture Photographs Cannot Fully Hold Candice Lim I first knew architect, photographer and community practitioner Nipun Prabhakar years ago, when he approached me with a Charles Correa story I could not refuse. He went on to write regularly for the magazine I used to run, often supporting […]
