Singapore’s First Zero Energy Building Launched at the Inaugural Singapore Green Building Week

Mr Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development, today officially opened Singapore’s first retrofitted Zero Energy Building (ZEB) located at the BCA Academy. The ZEB is also the first existing building in Southeast Asia to be fully retrofitted with green building design features and technologies. It is aBCA’s flagship R&D project. Housing fully functioning classrooms, a library, multipurpose hall and offices, the ZEB is used as a test-bed for innovativebuilding designs and energy efficient building solutions, especially for existing buildings.

Further information at  http://www.bca.gov.sg/Newsroom/others/SGBW_ZEB_Media_release.pdf

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