Past Events

The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) announced a bold vision to address climate change - by 2030, all new buildings, infrastructure and renovations will have at least 40% less embodied carbon with significant upfront carbon reduction, and all new buildings are net zero operational carbon. Come 2050, new buildings, infrastructure and renovations will have net zero embodied carbon, and all buildings, including existing buildings, must be net zero operational carbon. Through the “Balancing the Net Zero Equation” SGBC Webinar series held in July 2020, industry experts have covered decarbonisation efforts in the Asia Pacific and shared crucial perspectives from the built environment's key stakeholders. In this special SGBC virtual roundtable, gather deep insights and actionable knowledge to begin your own net zero journey. Read more about the event here. Register for the complimentary roundtable today.

The emphasis on human health and wellbeing has never been greater in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, with cleanliness and hygiene becoming key weapons in addressing public health concerns. The built environment sector must step up to deliver healthy, equitable, resilient spaces and places for people to live, work and play in the new normal. In this 3-part SGBC Webinar series supported by Education Series Partners Dyson and Softbank Robotics, dive into the intricacies of what is now the new normal for the foreseeable future. From enhancing workplace wellness to determining if a place is sufficiently clean, gather insights, best practices and industry intelligence from our speakers to adapt facilities for the new normal. Session #1 - Enhancing Workplace HealthTuesday, 14 July 2020, 3pm - 4pm Post-coronavirus restart, designing and adapting workplaces catering to the greater emphasis placed on public health and hygiene will be crucial for organisations. Find out how to configure and redesign your workplaces to keep occupants safe and healthy. Session #2 - How Clean is Clean?Tuesday, 21 July 2020, 3pm - 4pm Regular and effective upkeep of cleanliness have become one of the most effective weapons against the pandemic. But how clean is clean? Find out more about the metrics for cleanliness and how to take preventive cleaning measures to benefit the health and wellbeing of building occupants. Session #3 - Creating Greener, Cleaner, & Healthier Places & SpacesTuesday, 28 July 2020, 3pm - 4pm As public health converges with workplace health, workplaces now have to incorporate occupant health and wellbeing as an essential dimension to workplace design and configuration. Learn more about the evolving industry trends and associated trade-offs through a special panel discussion helmed by SGBC. Find out more and register for the series today: https://web.sgbc.online/public/event/rsvp/176

The built environment, responsible for more than a third of global carbon emissions, is in a prime position to address climate challenges through low-carbon and net-zero building principles. The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC)’s Advancing Net Zero (ANZ) project aims to consolidate and catalyse action across the globe, and highlight leadership action in total sector decarbonisation. Through a combination of thought leadership and direct intervention action, the global project aims for buildings to be Net Zero Energy by 2030 and for all buildings to be Net Zero Carbon by 2050. In this 3-part webinar series, hear perspectives on going net zero from different stakeholders in the built environment value chain, the possible pathways towards net zero and how challenges can be addressed. A roundtable discussion with the WorldGBC ANZ team will be held after the 3rd webinar session to help translate notion into action and for the WorldGBC to share about the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment. Registration for the roundtable is complimentary, and separate from the webinar registration and will be shared once finalised. Click here for more information: https://mailchi.mp/sgbc/webinar-series-anz2020?e=8ef57f98e4 Click here to register: https://web.sgbc.online/public/event/rsvp/173

Lighting is an integral part of our places and spaces, playing a vital role in the health and wellbeing of occupants, as well as contributing to energy optimisation and savings. A growing body of research has linked good lighting with improved occupant comfort, including an improved quality of sleep for occupants in workspaces that prioritise the use of daylight. In this 3-part live webinar series, delve into the intricacies of lighting design and controls, illuminating this aspect of green and healthy buildings. At each interactive webinar, hear from industry professionals and specialists on key lighting design considerations and take the opportunity to have your questions answered. The third session of Lighting the Way to Health & Sustainability is about daylighting systems. Human beings are attuned to daylight, with a body of research showing that improving employee access to natural daylight can reap productivity and health benefits. By automating daylight penetration with an efficient control strategy, workplaces and spaces can make full use of natural daylight to improve the health and wellbeing of its occupants. Session 3 features speakers Michael Heinemeier, Director at Lutron GL Limited, and Robert Tsu, Senior Lighting Designer at Aurecon. Find out more here

As the world gradually recovers from the activity restrictions imposed due to the global pandemic, employees worldwide are slowly returning to the workplace. While working-from-home has become the new norm, offices and other workplace premises still cannot be done away, but are our workplaces ready and safe for employees to return? Buildings, being where we spend the majority of our time in, have key roles to play in safeguarding the health and wellbeing of its occupants. Worldwide, building-based prevention and control measures have become one of the most important methods of fighting against the effects of the pandemic. In this special webinar, join us as we take a look at how our buildings can prepare for the resumption of work and the new business as usual. Click here to register: https://mailchi.mp/sgbc/webinar-26052020

Lighting is an integral part of our places and spaces, playing a vital role in the health and wellbeing of occupants, as well as contributing to energy optimisation and savings. A growing body of research has linked good lighting with improved occupant comfort, including an improved quality of sleep for occupants in workspaces that prioritise the use of daylight. In this 3-part live webinar series, delve into the intricacies of lighting design and controls, illuminating this aspect of green and healthy buildings. At each interactive webinar, hear from industry professionals and specialists on key lighting design considerations and take the opportunity to have your questions answered. The second session of Lighting the Way to Health & Sustainability highlights the effects of lighting on productivity. Good lighting plays a major role in ensuring the productivity and wellbeing of employees in any workplace and is one of the seven features outlined by the World Green Building Council that defines a green and healthy workplace. By placing the occupant at the heart of lighting control strategies, light can be used to foster greater employee satisfaction and motivation. Session 2 features speakers Michael Heinemeier, Director at Lutron GL Limited, and Angela Woo Scott, Design Director at Light Collab. Find out more here

Live Webinar/SIBL-RICS Joint Seminar: Enhancing Collaborations in Built Environment Projects – 14 May 2020  (with a panel discussion on Covid-19’s disruption to projects)How can employers or contractors distribute the risks and make use of the reliefs in Singapore under the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020?We will look at COVID-19’s disruption to projects, challenges faced by stakeholders and the legal assessment process companies can put into place to deal with the new Act.Join our speakers Amos Cheong, PMP from Arcadis, Hsieh-Min Loy from Faithful+Gould and Kelvin Kek from Allen & Gledhill LLP on latest updates, case studies and lessons learnt in project management and legal developments in Singapore and the region’s build ecosystem. CPD Accreditation: PEB (3 PDUs); SILA (6 CPD points); IES (3 PDUs) Pending CPD Accreditation: SISV, QS division CIJC Member organisations enjoy discounted rate at $80.25. For more details and registration, please visit https://rics.org/enhancing-collaborations

Lighting is an integral part of our places and spaces, playing a vital role in the health and wellbeing of occupants, as well as contributing to energy optimisation and savings. A growing body of research has linked good lighting with improved occupant comfort, including an improved quality of sleep for occupants in workspaces that prioritise the use of daylight. In this 3-part live webinar series, delve into the intricacies of lighting design and controls, illuminating this aspect of green and healthy buildings. At each interactive webinar, hear from industry professionals and specialists on key lighting design considerations and take the opportunity to have your questions answered. The first session of Lighting the Way to Health & Sustainability is an in-depth discussion on lighting metrics. Lighting metrics help building and space designers to understand and assess how a lighting system will operate. By taking into consideration and understanding the key metrics of light quantity, quality and efficiency, lighting can be designed cost-effectively for optimum efficiency and coverage. Jewel Changi Airport will be used as a case study for this session, showcasing how its indoor lighting was conceptualised and designed for 24-hour operations and how lighting helps to create an outdoor environment indoors. Session 1 features speakers Michael Heinemeier, Director at Lutron GL Limited, and Yusuke Hattori, Associate Director at Lighting Planners Associates. Find out more here.

  The health and wellbeing of all SGBC Members remain paramount during these challenging times. In view of the ongoing public health concern, the SGBC Annual General Meeting 2020 will be held as a teleconference. The event date and time remains unchanged: Date: 31 March 2020 (Tuesday) Time: 12:00pm to 1.00PM Upon confirmation of registration, a system-generated email will be sent to the registered participant’s email address with a unique URL and a password to access the AGM teleconference on 31 March 2020. If you are unable to attend the AGM, you may nominate a staff member from your organisation to register on your organisation’s behalf with the Attending Representative Form. If you would like for another SGBC Corporate Member to attend the AGM as your proxy, please complete the Proxy Form. The completed and duly signed form(s) should be returned via email to membership@sgbc.sg before 30 March 2020. Please contact the SGBC Secretariat at 6732-5518 or membership@sgbc.sg should you require any clarification.

As the world undergoes its third industrial revolution, we are experiencing advances in new technology that will transform the way we live, work and play. Digital Transformation is the big megatrend that is changing the way we look at buildings. By harnessing the connectivity of the Internet of Things and rethinking the ways we can combine the intelligence of humans with the power of technology, we will then be able to create smart and green homes for all. 10 October 2019, Thursday09:30AM - 1:00PM(Registration begins at 09:00AM) CBR AuditoriumHDB Centre of Building Research (CBR)10 Woodlands Ave 8Singapore 738973 Register today: https://web.sgbc.online/public/event/rsvp/151

World Green Building Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of green buildings as one the most effective means to achieving a range of global goals, such as addressing climate change, creating sustainable and thriving communities, and driving economic growth. This World Green Building Week, we’re #BuildingLife and exploring how we can create a green, healthy and climate resilient built environment for all. This year’s campaign aims to raise greater awareness of the carbon emissions from all stages of a building’s lifecycle, and therefore encourage new practices and new ways of thinking to work towards reducing carbon emissions from buildings. Did you know buildings and construction are responsible for 39% of global energy-related carbon emissions? 28% of these emissions come from the operational "in-use" phase – to heat, power and cool them, while 11% of these emissions are attributed to embodied carbon emissions, which refers to carbon that is released during the construction process and material manufacturing. To date, the building and construction industry’s focus has been on operational emissions and how buildings actually perform in-use. However, in order to fully decarbonise by 2050 to keep global warming to below 1.5 degrees, the building and construction sector must also tackle embodied emissions from the entire building lifecycle. Therefore, this World Green Building Week, we’re calling on all of the building and construction industry supply chain to decarbonise. Click here to find out more: https://www.worldgbc.org/calendar/world-green-building-week-2019

The International Built Environment Week (IBEW) is a new flagship event in the region for industry leaders and renowned professionals from the global built environment industry to exchange ideas and experiences on policies, business solutions and technologies, as well as explore business opportunities. Jointly organised by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and Reed Exhibitions Singapore, and supported by 12 Trade Associations and Chambers, the first IBEW will be held from 4 to 6 September 2019, with the theme “Transforming the way we build”. The event is expected to welcome more than 12,000 attendees from all over the world, and participants can look forward to anchor events and opportunities to network, including: a) International Built Environment Conference (IBEC) Co-developed by BCA and various Trade Associations and Chambers, the 3-day International Built Environment Conference (IBEC) will showcase today’s best practices and tomorrow’s innovations spanning the entire built environment lifecycle, from project conceptual stage to operation and maintenance.  Special focus will be on productivity, green buildings and integrated digital delivery. IBEC is expected to bring together 50 speakers and more than 1,700 participants from over 30 countries. b) Networking and Business Matching IBEW will provide an international dedicated business-matching platform for regional buyers and investors to network and engage with top urban solutions providers who are equipped to meet their needs. c) Trade Shows Four trade shows, organised by Reed Exhibitions Singapore, will be co-located with IBEW 2019 – Build Eco Xpo Asia (BEX Asia), Mostra Convegno Expocomfort Asia (MCE Asia), Innobuild Asia and Smart Cities & Buildings Asia (SCB Asia). These will feature a host of innovative products and solutions tailored for the diverse needs of the region's built environment.

    The SGBC Gala Dinner 2019 will be held on the evening of 5 September 2019 at the Orchard Hotel. This year's gala dinner is particularly significant as SGBC is celebrating its 10th year anniversary.

  Better Places for People is a global project by the WorldGBC to raise awareness on the impact of buildings on occupant health and wellbeing, and to encourage those who design, build, own, occupy, operate or sell them, to shape buildings for the benefit of people.A follow-up to 2018’s The Future of Buildings: Placemaking in Green Buildings session, this year's seminar focuses on 7 key aspects of health and wellbeing in buildings, along with pathways to improving indoor environments. Through the sharing of knowledge and workable strategies, participants will gain insights to create their own better places for people.01 August 2019, Thursday2:00PM - 5:30PM(Registration begins at 1:30PM)M Hotel, Banquet Suite Level 1081 Anson Rd, Singapore 079908Nearest MRT Station: Tanjong Pagar

To help local enterprises navigate the challenging business climate, numerous grants and schemes are in place to help companies connect to better growth. Recent grant offerings have been streamlined and are more forthright, geared towards industry-specific needs. This seminar will provide an overview of the grants and schemes that companies can tap on to grow their businesses. Event Details Date: 25 July 2019, Thursday Time: 2:00PM - 5:00PM (Registration begins at 1:30PM) Venue: Devan Nair Institute of Employment and Employability (e2i), Hall 1, 80 Jurong East St 21, Singapore 609607 (Nearest MRT Station: Jurong East MRT) Registration Fees (incl. GST) SGBC Member: Complimentary Non-Member: $30

  The Building Integrated PV Conference 2019 with the theme “Solar Architecture towards Sustainable Cities” will take place on 25 to 26 July 2019 at the Kent Ridge Guild House (KRGH) on the campus of the National University of Singapore (NUS). Organised by the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), the BIPV Conference 2019 features distinguished local and international speakers; presentations on the latest BIPV technologies, success stories from around the world and the potential for BIPV in Singapore; as well as panel discussions and a site visit to the BIPV façade testbed at NUS.Find out more about the BIPV Conference 2019 here.For further information, you may contact: seris-info@nus.edu.sg

Fuelled by greater awareness and a growing demand worldwide for sustainable actions, the green building movement is gaining steam now more so than ever.Yet, a fundamental question is always asked:Does going green cost more and is it worth it? In the age of innovative building solutions and readily available green building materials, the cost of going green has definitely been decreasing steadily.Green Buildings can become the norm and provide a healthy and sustainable environment for people. The Economy for Green seminar, jointly organised by REDAS and SGBC, will centre the spotlight on some of the key concerns for going green. Exploring the drivers for green building acceleration and delving into the economic opportunities presented by green building, this seminar aims to sharpen the focus and further the conversation towards creating a truly green built environment and economy. 30 May 2019, Thursday9:30AM - 1:00PM(Registration & Networking Breakfast begins at 8:30AM) M Hotel, Banquet Suite Level 1081 Anson Rd, Singapore 079908Nearest MRT Station: Tanjong Pagar

JTC and the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) are pleased to organise the 7th JTC-SGBC joint seminar to discuss innovative and integrative approaches to sustainability. Titled A New Era of Possibilties for the Green Building Industry, this seminar will share perspectives from industry experts on how greening their product line have enabled new opportunities and opened up new markets. Date: 10 May 2019, Friday Time: 2:00PM - 4:30PM (Registration begins at 1:30PM) Venue: The Theatrette, Level 2, JTC Summit, 8 Jurong Town Hall Road, Singapore 609434 (Nearest MRT Station: Jurong East) Seminar Fees (incl. GST) SGBC Member: $30 Non-Member: $60 Click here to view the programme and register for the event: https://sgbc.online/event/rsvp/141/     Seminar Fees (incl. GST) SGBC Member: $30 Non-Member: $60

  Join SGBC under the Singapore Pavilion at Architect'19, the largest architecture exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand and enjoy up to 50% subsidy! Show Date: 30 April 2019 to 5 May 2019 IMPACT Challenger Hall 1-3, Bangkok, Thailan Architect’19, the 33rd edition of ASEAN’s largest building technology expo, is poised to attract 400,000 visitors and 850 exhibitors across 60,000 square meters of show space. Themed around Green Living, the 33rd edition of the event provides a comprehensive platform to showcase and profile green building products and solutions. About the Show  Organised by: Association of Siamese Architects Under Royal Patronage (ASA) Managed by: N.C.C Exhibition Organizer Co., Ltd (NEO) Event theme: Green Living Floor Space: 60,000 sqm Visitorship: 400,000 Exhibitors: 850 Exhibition Profile: Facade Systems, Finishes & Decoration, Sanitary Ware, Tile & Stone, Construction Equipment, Safety & Security Click here for more information. To register your interest, please contact: Ms. Chew Wenyi Manager (Certification & Technology), Singapore Green Building Council T: (65) 67325518 | E: enquiry@sgbc.sg  About the Show Organised by: Association of Siamese Architects Under Royal Patronage (ASA) Managed by: N.C.C Exhibition Organizer Co., Ltd (NEO) Event theme: Green Living Floor Space: 60,000 sqm Visitorship: 400,000 Exhibitors: 850 Exhibition Profile: Facade Systems, Finishes & Decoration, Sanitary Ware, Tile & Stone, Construction Equipment, Safety & Security

The SGBC Green Trends Seminar 2019, organised by the Singapore Green Building Council and supported by Schuco International KG, brings together a stellar line-up of thought leaders and industry experts to share on key green building trends and developments. Event Details Date: 24 April 2019, Wednesday Time: 2:00PM - 5:30PM (Registration begins at 1:30PM) Venue: M Hotel, Banquet Suite Level 10, 81 Anson Rd, Singapore 079908 (Nearest MRT Station: Tanjong Pagar)  Click here to find out more and register for the seminar.  

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2019 of the Singapore Green Building Council will be held on Thursday, 28 March 2019, 12:00pm at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel at 392 Havelock Road, Singapore 169663. All SGBC Member Representatives are invited to a lunch reception before the formal proceedings of the AGM. The new SGBC Board for 2019/2021 will be formally introduced during the event. If you are unable to attend the AGM in person, you may appoint a proxy to attend on your behalf. Please download and complete the Proxy Form here and email it to membership@sgbc.sg  Register for the event here: https://sgbc.online/event/rsvp/131/ 

Titled “Energy Performance Contracts and Audits”, this SGBC-BCA Industry Briefing focuses on how Energy Performance Contract can ensure the efficient operation of air-conditioning system throughout its life cycle. The seminar will also share the benefits of connecting to BCA Chiller Portal, the lessons learnt in Periodic Energy Audit Notice and a new digital platform to conduct post occupancy evaluation. Date: 18 February 2019, Monday Time: 2:00PM - 5:00PM (Registration begins at 1:30PM) Venue: Lifelong Learning Institute, Lecture Theatre, Level 2, 11 Eunos Road, Singapore 408601 (Nearest MRT Station: Paya Lebar) This event is for SGBC Members only. Admission is free. CPD: PEB PDUs: Pending BCA-Registered Energy Auditor: Pending Click here to register.