Channel NewsAsia 29 Mar 10;
SINGAPORE : Singapore's first eco-business park will have a new S$90 million building called CleanTech One.
The building is the first structure for the CleanTech Park, and is due to be completed in December next year.
JTC Corporation, the industrial landlord, announced this at a news conference on Monday.
The two towers of the building have been designed with green sustainable features, including sky trellises that allow natural daylight into the buildings.
CleanTech One is on a 1.5 hectare site next to the Nanyang Technological University.
Building consultancy Surbana said it maximised the use of land and kept the layout naturally ventilated.
CleanTech One will house about 50 companies with green sustainability plans, including anchor tenant, Nanyang Technological University.
The CleanTech Park will be developed in three phases over 20 years.
Tang Wai Yee, director, Aerospace, Marine & CleanTech Cluster, JTC, said: "We hope to develop a very green CleanTech One, but in a practical and a cost-effective manner.
"And if this is successful, we will replicate the solution in the rest of the CleanTech Park and we will share this with the rest of Singapore and possibly in the region.
"CleanTech One will also be a test bed for urban solutions and sustainable development in the tropics. Hopefully, one day, new urban solutions, clean technologies will be discovered, developed or commercialised in CleanTech One."
- CNA/al
CleanTech One to be up by end-2011
It will be a 'seed' building to testbed and showcase innovative green solutions
Teh Shi Ning, Business Times 30 Mar 10;
(SINGAPORE) The first building at Singapore's CleanTech Park is expected to be up by end 2011 at a cost of $90 million, JTC Corporation said yesterday.
With a gross floor area of 403,646 square feet, CleanTech One is expected to house about 40 green tenants, such as cleantech companies' headquarters, firms financing cleantech activities, as well as private and public research institutions.
Nanyang Technological University, which is adjacent to the CleanTech Park, will be its first tenant.
Surbana International Consultants beat 30 other entries to win the design tender JTC launched last December, with its ecological and commercially sustainable design.
As the first development on the eco-business park launched last month, CleanTech One will act as a 'seed' building to testbed and showcase innovative green solutions for tropical, urban settings.
These include solar panels, sky gardens, rainwater harvesting and sky trellises. If successful, these can then be rolled out to the rest of the CleanTech Park, Singapore and even the region, said JTC director for the aerospace, marine and cleantech cluster, Tang Wai Yee.
Surbana said that green features aside, the building itself was designed to minimise 'cut and fill' of the sloping terrain on which it is located, and takes into account the direction of wind and sun so as to reduce energy consumption.
Piling works will start around June while actual construction of CleanTech One should begin by August - an 'aggressive and accelerated timeline', Surbana said.
The 50 hectare CleanTech Park, which will house cleantech research, innovation and commercialisation activities, is expected to draw $2.5 billion worth of investments in buildings by its 2030 completion.
$90m cleantech building
Jessica Cheam Straits Times 29 Mar 10;
INDUSTRIAL landlord JTC Corp on Monday unveiled the first cutting-edge building to be built on Singapore's Cleantech Park at Jalan Bahar.
The $90 million building - called Cleantech One - will offer about 404,000 sq ft of office space that could house up to 50 green businesses when it is completed by December 2011.
The building will incorporate green features such as solar systems, rainwater harvesting, sky gardens and green construction, said JTC at a briefing on Monday.
'If the solutions we implement are successful, we will replicate this throughout the rest of the Cleantech Park and share it with the rest of Singapore and the region,' said JTC director (Aerospace, Marine and Cleantech cluster) Tang Wai Yee.
JTC launched a design competition for the building last December and local architecture firm Surbana International Consultants emerged the winner from 31 entries.
JTC said Surbana's entry won for its highly compact design and ecological features, it said.
Park to create 20,000 jobs
THE industrial landlord had announced the masterplan for the 50 ha Cleantech Park last month.
To be built in three phases at an infrastructure cost of $52 million, the park will help to create 20,000 'green-collar' jobs by 2030.
The park will also serve as Singapore's first large-scale integrated development, allowing firms to test-bed cleantech products and solutions - especially those catering to the tropics - before they are commercialised for the market.
The park is located next to the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which will be Cleantech One's first tenant.
Discussion is ongoing with other companies to locate there, said JTC.
Construction of the six-storey building will begin in June.
