Urban Solutions & Sustainability

With Asia being at the heart of the global urbanisation megatrend, governments are being pushed to develop smart and sustainable solutions to mitigate urban problems such as congestion, pollution and environmental degradation. Singapore is home to some of the biggest companies who are innovating, testing and collaborating to develop and commercialise sustainable solutions for Asia.

Smart Sustainable City

Smart Sustainable Cities is Singapore’s effort to harness solutions across industries to ultimately create green, digital and efficient urban spaces. Singapore is well placed to realize this after having successfully exported urban solutions in areas like built environment and city management, urban mobility, energy, safety and security and environment and water. As an urban living laboratory, companies are testing and developing smart city technologies in Singapore that will serve to boost efficiencies and comfort of lives of millions in the region.

Sitting at the heart of Asia, Singapore brings together innovators, managers and financial experts to develop urban solutions for the smart city of the future.

Five key pillars – Infrastructure, Built Environment, Clean Energy, Water & Environment, Urban Mobility – are promoted by EDB. Together, these industries form the Urban and Solutions Sustainability sector, an increasingly important growth area for both the region and Singapore.

Company Highlights

3M Smart Urban Solutions Lab

3M has established a regional lab in Singapore in 2015, which will support the rapid business growth in Southeast Asia, particularly in energy and smart infrastructure domains.

Bolloré Global Innovation Centre

Bolloré will have an innovation centre in Singapore for research and development in mobility solutions. With its electric vehicle fleet here, it will partner companies to test new charging technology, intelligent transport and self-driving vehicles.

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Infrastructure

As a key regional services hub, Singapore has a developed eco-system revolving around four key areas in infrastructure - engineering and infrastructure consultancy; legal and accounting advisory services; project financing; and support from multilateral organizations such as the World Bank.

18,000

workers are employed by the infrastructure sector. The sector contributes about $2.6 billion in value-add to Singapore’s economy in 2016.

15

of the top 20 global engineering consultancies have their regional operations based out of Singapore.

60%

of project financing in the Southeast Asia region is managed through Singapore.

40

of the top 100 international law firms, including those with active infrastructure practices are based in Singapore. The top 5 Singapore law firms are the largest in Southeast Asia with a strong regional practice.

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Atkins Acuity

Engineering consultancy firm Atkins has its advisory business – Atkins Acuity –headquartered in Singapore. It has plans to invest and train consultants, managers and directors here to deliver solutions for developing economies.

Surbana Jurong

Surbana Jurong is a home-grown urbanisation, industrial and infrastructure consultancy firm. To increase its market access, it partnered with CITICC (Africa), which opened up the potential to develop 30,000 affordable homes in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Built Environment

Singapore is set to be the global leader and innovation hub for smart and sustainable building solutions in Asia. It is striving towards a target of ‘greening’ 80% of its buildings by 2030 through the S$50 million Green Mark Incentive Scheme – the most ambitious target of its kind in the world for a country.

2nd

in the world for green buildings in 2016, as ranked by a white paper published by Solidiance.

>3,000

green buildings in Singapore as at June 2017, equivalent to approximately one-third of Singapore’s buildings.

$450mil

committed out of S$800 million. The funds, from BCA’s Construction Productivity and Capability Fund, will benefit some 9,000 firms.

80 cities

now have adopted Singapore’s Green Mark. The label is developed in Singapore.

Company Highlights

Philips Lighting

Singapore is Philips Lighting’s regional hub. The company opened its Lighting Application Centre (LAC) here, which supports the testing and development of lighting innovations in multi-experience stadium lighting and connected street lighting.

Asahi Glass Company

Asahi Glass Co opened an innovation centre in Singapore to provide technical support for the use of fluorochemical products, and expand its capabilities to transfer advanced technologies and develop new solutions for the region.

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Clean Energy

Driven by technological advancements and regulatory changes, the clean energy sector is seeing strong growth globally. In Singapore, clean energy companies are building capabilities, commercialising their products and exporting them to the rest of the world.

50

top solar companies in Singapore. Singapore is the solar hub for Asia, with over 50 international and local solar companies across manufacturing, project development and financing.

S$11mil

floating photovoltaic testbed. In 2016, Singapore launched the world’s largest floating photovoltaic (PV) testbed on Tengah reservoir.

1st

eco-business park in the region. Commissioned in 2013, Singapore’s CleanTech Park is the first eco-business park in the region. The park facilitates R&D and test-bedding of clean technology and solutions through its plug-and-play environment.

#1

largest microgrids platform in the tropics. ERI@N operates the Renewable Energy Integration Demonstrator – Singapore (REIDS), which is the largest microgrids platform in the tropics. The REIDS platform allows for co-innovation and development of microgrids solutions.

Company Highlights

REC

REC established one of the world’s largest integrated solar manufacturing complexes in Singapore in 2010 and employs around 1,700 people here today. The plant produces solar wafers, cells and modules for customers worldwide.

Singapore Power Group

Singapore Power Group is responsible for the country’s electricity and gas transmission and distribution. Its S$30-million Centre of Excellence is developing the next-generation energy network technology for better energy reliability and efficiency.

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Water & Environment

Faced with the challenge of ensuring self-sufficiency in water, Singapore has used technology to innovate and develop new water management and treatment technologies such as water reclamation and seawater desalination. Today, the country has transformed its vulnerability in water into a strength.

180

water companies based in Singapore. Singapore is recognised as a ‘Global Hydrohub’ and arguably home to the densest concentration of water companies globally.

#1

university in the world for water research. In 2013, Lux Research ranked NUS and NTU the top 2 universities in the world for water research. Singapore excelled particularly in the fields of membrane, water reuse and desalination.

150

pilot project conducted by PUB with companies since 2006. Global players such as Suez Water Technologies & Solution and Black & Veatch are developing solutions locally and emulating them abroad, affirming Singapore’s position at the forefront of environmental innovation.

$670mil

(SGD) committed by the government to fund innovation and capability development in the water industry since 2016. In 2015, the sector contributes about S$2.25 billion to Singapore’s gross domestic product and provides 14,000 jobs.

Company Highlights

Suez Water Technologies & Solutions

The future of innovative water technologies is taking shape at Suez Water Technologies & Solutions’ R&D centre in Singapore. Suez is also piloting solutions to smart metering and stormwater management.

Memstar

CITIC Envirotech provides services in wastewater treatment, water recycling and river restoration. The Group is listed on SGX with a market capitalisation of more than S$1.5 billion, and has invested in more than 60 water plants in China and Asia.

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Urban Mobility

As a small and densely populated country, Singapore depends on efficient and effective transportation solutions to overcome land and manpower constraints. The city-state presents real and challenging use-cases, making Singapore an attractive lead market and location for companies to develop, test and commercialise smart mobility technologies and solutions that can be exported to the global market.

1,000

Electric Vehicle Car-Sharing service to be piloted with 2,000 charging stations from December 2017.

1st

self-driving taxi trial in the world. The world’s first self-driving mobility-on-demand trial (nuTonomy) was launched in Singapore in 2016, as part of the government’s larger efforts to deploy AVs in Singapore.

2

mobility startups acquired by MNCs in 2017. Quantum Inventions and nuTonomy were acquired by Continental and Delphi (now Aptiv) for more than half a billion Singapore Dollars.

1st

city in the world to manage congestion through an electronic road pricing system. Singapore will be deploying a satellite-based road pricing system by 2020.

Urban Solutions & Sustainability

Smart Sustainable City

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Infrastructure

18,000

15

60%

40

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Built Environment

2nd

>3,000

$450mil

80 cities

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Clean Energy

50

S$11mil

1st

#1

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Water & Environment

180

#1

150

$670mil

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Urban Mobility

1,000

1st

2

1st

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