HDB

2022 - 10 - 12

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HDB resident says 'cutting down a rainforest tree for a bicycle lane in ... (The Independent)

"For that under achievement, we lost about a 70 years old tree standing 40 meter high giving good protection for a HDB playground slope and an unshelter ...

Another said that the tree might have a disease, otherwise, it would have normally been allowed to live. “Cutting down a rain forest tree for a bicycle lane in Ang Mo Kio Street 42 is just plain ridiculous. In the comments to his post, he added he had seen that the tree had been cut down after coming back from a weeklong holiday and that the newly-upgraded bicycle lane had come with a “foot high retaining wall” which was “too close to the tree roofs for contractor redesign” submission.

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HDB piloting 'beamless' flats with higher headrooms in Tengah BTO ... (Youthopia)

The Garden Waterfront I & II @ Tengah Build-To-Order (BTO) project launching in November 2022 will see flats designed and built without a beam resulting in a ...

The new design is part of HDB’s Construction Transformation Project, which will pilot a range of innovations and technologies to further raise productivity. These include simulating design and construction activities virtually, instead of the current timber mock up, as well as the using special fibre-glass reinforced concrete material to provide structural strength. The use of the glass will allow HDB to use, potentially, less material than conventional 3D printing methods.

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