Cover Story: Built Environment

• Making of a Great City
  What features differentiate a good city from a great one? Renowned architect Liu Thai Ker looks at the Lion City critically.

• Assessing Total Building Performance
  A holistic approach to achieve the ultimate built environment.

• Urban Heat Island Effect: Sinking the Heat
  Rising temperatures have become a major concern for densely built-up tropical cities. Something needs to be done, and soon, to alleviate the urban heat island effect.

• Eco-Friendly Town Design
  Greener townships and better environmental practices combine to make Singapore’s housing quality second to none.

• Better Air for Healthier Living
  Innovative developments redefine ventilation strategies to improve indoor air quality.

• Growing Old Affordably

• Integrating Water into the Housing Plan
  Unconventional architectural planning integrates water infrastructure and supply in residential estates.

• Viewing Property Values in 3D

• Benchmarking for Better Building-Energy Management
  Web-based assessment and comparison show how buildings fare in terms of energy management.

• Interacting with Buildings
  Architecture professor explains why human interaction serves an important function in designing a building or a city.

• Towards Zero Landfill: Waste Minimisation and Recycling
  Singapore has adopted a waste minimisation and recycling approach aimed at environmental sustainability.

Features

• Safe Storage of Ammunition Underground
  Defence agency creates a new safety standard that leads to huge land savings in the development and operation of underground ammunition storage depots.

• Unlocking Road Gridlock
  Engineers are developing a simulation system to reduce traffic congestion by predicting road conditions in close to real time.

• Outstanding Biomedical Research Wins Recognition
  NUS and NUH honor outstanding research conducted in the field of biomedicine.

• Abstinence and Diet: The Keys to Longer Life?
  A scientist has demonstrated some unexpected factors that prolong life in the fruit fly that may well hold true for humans.

Departments

• Editorial
  Habitability of a Built Environment.

• In Brief
  Innovative highlights in various fields.

• Spotlight
  Dr No: Nobel laureate Prof Louis lgnarro expounds on the protective benefits of nitric oxide.

• Events Calendar

• Advertiser Listing

Entrepreneurship Special

• Creating a Singapore Brand of Entrepreneurial Culture
  An entrepreneurship expert gives tips on how the spirit of enterprise can be cultivated.

• Stanford Global Entrepreneurs Challenge
  What is the X factor that makes for a successful start-up company? Fifteen teams from around the world converged on Singapore to find out whether they had what it takes to be the next Microsoft or Pfizer.

• Made-in-Singapore Entrepreneurs
  Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur extraordinaire, talks about his pet subject.

• Replicating US Entrepreneurship in Singapore
  "What You Did NOT Learn at Harvard Business School" — it takes more than formal education to set up a business.