Putting the 'green' in built environment

Singapore

IN 2016, after Super Typhoon Meranti devastated southern China with wind speeds of 170 kilometres per hour, Elmich's Green Wall at JI Hotel Xiamen remained completely unscathed - concrete evidence of the company's superior product.

Two years later, Elmich Pte Ltd received the Enterprise 50 Award as well as the Inaugural Enterprise Transformation Award. The latter was in recognition of a company that has transformed itself to be innovative and future-ready.

Currently, Elmich - a leading provider of ecologically-minded urban greenery solutions to developers, contractors and architects worldwide - holds over 160 patents and design registrations granted and pending under its name.

The company was founded in 1985 by then 35-year-old Alan Lee, the executive chairman, when his uncle requested waterproofing coats for public housing projects at Simei. A trained naval architect who used to work for a Soviet fishing company, Mr Lee resourcefully supplied the same waterproof lubricants he applied to fishing boats to waterproo…