Recent research has been dedicated to creating new underground spaces and achieve high standards of liveability in high-density places like Singapore.
This is all part of Singapore’s move towards the Land Liveability National Innovation Challenge (L2 NIC), announced today (June 27) by Senior Minister of State for National Development Lee Yi-Shyan at the Urban Sustainability Research and Development Congress.
The initiative was announced last year and a total of S$135 million has been approved for the first six years of the programme aimed at enhancing liveability, environmental quality, land creation and land savings.
Senior Minister said the first competitive call for R&D proposals will be made at the end of the year and will allow researchers to begin tapping on the fund.
It is a long-term project involving multiple agencies and needs to have high potential for practical implementation.
Separately, four projects have been selected to receive research grants under the Ministry of National Development’s Sustainable Urban Living programme. The projects will receive S$8 million. They are among the first to be selected since the programme’s inaugural grant call was launched in August last year.
These projects cover areas of underground construction and land reclamation technology.
The programme aims to provide nearer-term seed funding for R&D on urban solutions in land and liveability.
Source: CHANNEL NEWSASIA