Vertical Greenery and Green Walls: A Singapore Guide
Singapore’s skyline has become noticeably greener over the past two decades, and much of that green is vertical. Vertical greenery — plants grown on…
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All articles →District Cooling Explained: How Marina Bay Is Cooled
Most buildings in Singapore make their own cold. Each has a chiller plant, cooling towers on the roof and a plant room in the…
Reverberation Time and Room Acoustics: A Clear Guide
Clap your hands in an empty concrete stairwell and the sound hangs in the air; clap in a furnished bedroom and it stops almost…
Greywater Recycling in Buildings: A Singapore Guide
Every shower, wash basin and washing machine in a building sends relatively clean water straight to the sewer. Greywater recycling captures that water, treats…
Thermal Comfort in Buildings: PMV, Adaptive Comfort
Two people in the same office can disagree completely about whether it is too cold. Thermal comfort is the condition of mind that expresses…
Building Automation System: How Smart Buildings Run
A modern commercial building contains hundreds of pieces of equipment that need to start, stop, modulate and report: chillers, pumps, air-handling units, fans, lights,…