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S’pore zero-energy building by next year

Reuters 5 JULY

RENOVATIONSto a research institute will turn the facility into Singapore’s first zero-energy building by next year, news reports said Saturday. Officials plan to cover the government-run BCA Academy with half a football field’s worth of solar panels. “Hopefully, with a little help from heaven, there won’t be too many rainy days,” The Straits Timesquoted National University of Singapore Professor Lee Siew Eang as saying. The ultra-efficient institute is scheduled for completion next year, at the forefront of a drive to reduce power consumption and cut greenhouse gas emissions in the city-state.