Green is the colour of future real estate

CONCEIVED by the late Lee Kuan Yew as a Garden City, Singapore is rapidly evolving to become a City in a Garden, upholding sustainability as one of its key tenets. While we witness world- class gardens and community engagement coming to fruition, real estate market participants must step forward as important stakeholders and frame a suitable response to support the nationwide enterprise.

Construction is one of the largest consumers of raw materials, and research has shown that the construction sector alone is responsible for almost half of the world's…