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Cultivating &
Enabling A
Sustainability-
Conscious
Community

Joining hands with tenants, experts and the public to achieve a sustainable city precinct vision

A place can only be sustainable when all stakeholders work together. Recognising the importance of collaboration in achieving its sustainability vision, Lendlease rallied the efforts of an eco-conscious community that includes tenants, partners, and the public.

This is how Lendlease cultivated an eco-conscious community.

NEEDS ANALYSIS

Establishing Needs

Recognising community involvement as an essential part of sustaining a green development, Lendlease worked with these key objectives in mind:

  • 01

    Understanding what matters most to stakeholders whom the development engages with, and build a sustainability plan that address them – with focus on environmental and social aspects across three business imperatives.

  • 02

    To have a collective force – the development team, owners representatives, operations team, construction team, designers, consultants and subcontractors – go on a sustainability journey in co-creating and cohesively delivering the sustainable outcomes PLQ was targeting to achieve.

  • 03

    To achieve the highest rating for the BCA Green Mark building rating tool for operational-efficient outcomes and beyond, which include climate resiliency, energy and water conservation, waste reduction, use of sustainable materials, good air quality and the promotion of occupants’ health and wellbeing, community development etc.

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    Engage with tenants for a whole-of-precinct sustainable outcome.

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    Engage with members of the community in creating space where they want to be, as Lendlease worked on placemaking.

IDEA CONCEPTUALISATION

All In It Together

Lendlease built a plan that would enable all in the PLQ community and beyond to play a part in PLQ’s sustainability vision. This plan involved PLQ tenants and its occupants, members of the public, as well as experts in sustainable practices management.

Lendlease considered the various possibilities:

  • Tenants
    • To incorporate more environmentally sustainable features within PLQ’s working spaces that influence the development’s performance as a whole.
    • To make involvement in green practices more accessible to tenants.
  • Partners (Specialists in green practices)
    • To monitor energy consumption.
    • To engage expertise to efficiently achieve PLQ’s sustainability targets.
  • Public
    • To raise awareness of some environmental issues faced by Singapore, such as plastic and food waste.
    • To educate the public on reducing waste output.
    • To engage the public in green practices.

DEVELOPMENT

How It Was Done

Once the most feasible ideas were finalised to get the community on board, Lendlease devised specific strategies for each group.

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      INCLUDING GREEN MARK SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS IN LEASE AGREEMENT

      At PLQ, tenants take up over 60% of building space, and are the major users of building resources, namely, energy, water, and waste management services. Lendlease sought to onboard tenants on sustainable business practices through the Green Lease initiative, an agreement between Lendlease and tenants to meet sustainable outcomes guided by the Green Mark’s Minimum Sustainability Standards in aspects such as lighting, water fitting, materials, waste management plans and recycling requirements as part of the tenancy lease.

      To ease the adoption process, Lendlease built a Green Lease Compliance Tracker portal for tenants to submit details on the sustainable aspects to Lendlease in a guided way; the portal was also useful in helping tenants track aspects that they might have missed out on.

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      REQUIRING GREEN FITOUT STANDARDS

      For Lendlease tenants, fitout (the process of making interiors ready for use, through actions such as furnishing and outfitting the place) typically could only commence after they have verified all green obligations. To assist tenants in making sustainable fitout decisions, Lendlease designed a Green Fitout Guide with information on recommended minimum environmental standards, and details on meeting such requirements. Tenants, as well as their contractors and engineers, were educated on aspects such as possible materials to achieve certain desired outcomes, calculation tools, bulk discount deals, and sustainable resources such as the Singapore Green Labelling Scheme.

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      ENHANCING AWARENESS THROUGH GREEN EDUCATION

      During the tenant onboarding process, Lendlease distributed The Green Building User Guide. The easy-to-read Guide highlights to tenants the development’s green features and their intended use.

      “Green Corners” have also been created around PLQ, dedicated to educating and promoting green building elements and environmental sustainability. In these “corners”, interactive boards are placed in areas with high foot traffic to ensure visibility to tenants, occupants and visitors.

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      GETTING THE PROS ON BOARD

      Lendlease also tapped the expertise of specialists in green operations. One key initiative involved engaging Kaer, an industrial and commercial air-conditioning systems specialist, to implement an Air Conditioning as a Service model in PLQ. This approach follows the outsourcing of installation and maintenance works to the professionals, so that PLQ is able to focus its resources on other aspects of sustainability.

      David Mackerness, Senior Manager, Customer Success at Kaer explains how Air Conditioning as a Service works, and the benefits of this approach.

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      REQUIRING GREEN FITOUT STANDARDS

      For Lendlease tenants, fitout (the process of making interiors ready for use, through actions such as furnishing and outfitting the place) typically could only commence after they have verified all green obligations. To assist tenants in making sustainable fitout decisions, Lendlease designed a Green Fitout Guide with information on recommended minimum environmental standards, and details on meeting such requirements. Tenants, as well as their contractors and engineers, were educated on aspects such as possible materials to achieve certain desired outcomes, calculation tools, bulk discount deals, and sustainable resources such as the Singapore Green Labelling Scheme.

A Collective Force

Today, PLQ’s mall and three office towers have been awarded a Platinum Rating under the BCA’s Green Mark scheme — the first and highest sustainability standard for non-residential buildings in Singapore. Many positive results have spun from PLQ’s power and waste management strategies

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    Annual energy savings are estimated to have the ability to power

    2,601
    four-room HDB flats

    in Singapore

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    Water savings of about

    21
    Olympic-sized
    swimming pools

    every year

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    2
    tons

    of food waste diversion daily given in the capacity of the digester