Floor area concession incentives as planning instruments to promote green building: A critical review of international practices

Gross Floor Area (GFA) concession scheme, as a planning incentive, is developed from the notion of “make developers pay” in UK in 1990. It rewards developers additional GFA in exchange for public amenities so that government could save that amount of money. This paper carries out a review of GFA concession scheme in Hong Kong and Singapore to...

Towards “Smart Cadastre” that Supports 3D Parcels

Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is the government agency responsible for the cadastral survey and property title registration in Singapore. We have implemented the SVY21 cadastral survey system which adopted the “Coordinated Cadastre” concept in 2004. In 2005, Electronic Submission of cadastral survey jobs and paperless job processing was...

3D Cadastre in Singapore

Property rights have always been shown in 2D with the surface parcel being the fundamental representation of ownership. Complex 3D situations, interlocking properties, multi-levelled train station, underground rock caverns are all immediate but unresolved challenges for us in Singapore. Volumetric parcels such as strata subdivision, subterranean...

A decade of change and improvement? An industry view of construction industry development in Singapore under construction 21

Sir John Egan’s report on UK construction industry in 1998, Rethinking Construction, inspired a similar review in Singapore in 1999. The Construction 21 (C21) report has served as the blueprint for developing Singapore’s construction industry. A series of interviews was carried out in late 2009 to investigate the implementation of the C21 report...