In the article, “Green buildings, Singapore’s natural ally for a greener future”, Mackenzie (2017) stated that promoting Eco-friendly buildings will be the solution to a cleaner and sustainable future for Singapore. The article emphasizes the importance of how sustainability can significantly affect the future. Singapore generates high energy consumption due to its metropolitan lifestyle and vast infrastructures. The immense demand for energy has gravely affected the natural environment because of the process the generate energy has led to the massive amount of greenhouse gases and carbon emissions being released. As a keen supporter of environmental protection, Building Construction Authority (BCA) aims to influence developers and designers to incorporate sustainable design into their buildings. In addition, the author also mentioned that the implementation of green buildings was a huge success and it can benefit the developers to save costs in the long run. Green buildings such as the Asia Square has proved that design is an important factor and therefore, it gives designers and stakeholders the power to achieve sustainability. The author concluded that a proactive approach to protect the environment will help to deal with climate change.
Although the implementation of in-cooperating green features into buildings will reduce the negative environmental impact, it does not ensure that our future environment will improve.
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