Singapore is planning to redevelop the town of Tengah to turn out to be an ‘evergreen’ eco-friendly setting by incorporating sensible know-how.
‘The important thing options of Tengah will revolve round nature and the group, to create an endearing city the place future residents can expertise being “At House with Nature,”’ the builders say on their web site.
Town shall be piloting a centralised cooling system at chosen precincts to control the temperature inside residents’ properties and goals to be extra energy-efficient than particular person air-conditioning models.
‘Tengah is a clear slate,’ Chong Fook Loong, group director for analysis and planning at Singapore’s Housing and Growth Board (HDB) mentioned in accordance with CNN. ‘We’re going for the perfect idea of segregation of site visitors, (with) all the things underground after which the bottom degree completely freed up for pedestrians — for individuals. So, it’s a really protected setting for all.’
The brand new metropolis will provide 42,000 model new properties, a car-free metropolis centre in a 100-metre-wide ‘ecological hall’ and high-tech options like automated family waste elimination. One other addition to lowering power consumption is the sensible lighting function, which is able to handle the lighting ranges based mostly on human site visitors throughout the precincts.
‘We would like a city that permits strolling and biking in a really user-friendly method,’ Chong added.
The completion date for the brand new metropolis has not been confirmed.
Image: Singapore HDB