LIAS Awards of Excellence 2019 Commemorative Publication
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1 CONTENTS Messages 03 About LIAS Introduction 11 About Landscape Industry Association (Singapore) 12 LIAS Council Members (2019-2021) 13 LIAS Awards of Excellence 2019 14 Panel of Judges 17 MESSAGES Award Implementation 27 Maintenance 61 Design & Build 85 Green Wall 95 Playground 101 Retail, Nursery & Wholesale Space 111 Overseas Project 117 Open Category 123 Participating Entries 129 Member Listing 136 2 3 Congratulations to all the winners for their successful and well-delivered projects! We Congratulations to all the winners of the 8th Landscape Industry Association of want to take this golden opportunity to acknowledge your achievements through this Singapore (LIAS)’s Awards of Excellence! publication and awards. The submissions for this year’s Awards continue to set high benchmarks and Over the past years, we have witnessed the rapid transformation of our country’s standards. They highlight the quality work that our landscape practitioners carry landscapes. The look and feel to what it is today was achieved by the industry’s out, from master-planning of greenery to delivering sustainable landscaping and passion and hard work. We continue to build our vision for Singapore to create a maintenance methods for every project. All of these efforts have contributed to our future-proofed and sustainable Garden City. We want to do this by engaging biophilic beautiful City in a Garden, where we can enjoy urban spaces nestled in lush and design, shaping the places we live, work and learn in an innovative way and create an beautiful greenery. architecture for healthy living in Singapore. Mr Goh Eng Lam Mr Lawrence Wong The landscape sector will continue to play an important role in our urban transformation. This will challenge our industry to make changes and adapt to new ways of We have a long pipeline of projects to make Singapore a more liveable city. We are Chairman integrating natural elements in our built environment, going beyond aesthetics and Minister for National Development pushing for more sustainable projects, expanding our green spaces, and enhancing Landscape Industry truly understanding nature and other living things. and Second Minister for Finance our natural heritage and biodiversity. Association Singapore It will take the collaboration of all of us to prepare for this change. We need to learn The Government will partner with the private sector in this next phase of greening how to partner technology correctly and smartly to deliver our strategies seamlessly. Singapore. This year, we worked with you to launch the Landscape Sector Transformation Plan – a 10-year roadmap to further elevate and grow the sector. As Design for sustainability can only be at its full potential, bottom up. We should part of the plan, we will equip our present and future landscape professionals with come together as one team, to be aligned, exchange good ideas and collaborate the necessary skills to use digital technology for sustainable greenery management. professionally. To do this we need to showcase our industry’s professionalism and work side by side with our labour force – there is more power in collaboration than I invite our landscape sector to continue to be a part of this journey to re-imagine delegation. and remake our city for the next century. Together, we can make Singapore a vibrant green oasis for future generations. Our landscape sector transformation road map is a progressive one. Let’s continue to build on it, stay close to our goals and deliver excellence and sustainable results. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication. We encourage more of you to participate in these awards and be ambassadors for our industry to showcase the strength and quality of what we bring forth to all residents and ultimately the face of “ “Green” Singapore to the world. We are pushing for more sustainable projects, expanding our green spaces, and enhancing our natural heritage Our“ landscape sector transformation and biodiversity. road map is a progressive one. Let’s ” continue to build on it, stay close to our goals and deliver excellence and sustainable results. ” 4 5 As Singapore moves towards the vision of a Biophilic City in a Garden, I would like to congratulate the Landscape Industry Association of Singapore (LIAS) the launch of the Landscape Sector Transformation Plan (LSTP) this year has for your 8th biennial LIAS Awards of Excellence. Each edition of the award has seen provided the roadmap to facilitate efforts in digitalisation, mechanisation and higher standards and this reflects the strength and growth of the landscape industry professionalisation of the landscape industry to meet the growing and changing which LIAS clearly contributes to. demands in our greening journey. NParks is grateful for the collaboration with LIAS for the formulation of the Landscape In the age of rapid disruption, the Labour Movement envisions that every worker must Sector Transformation Plan (LSTP) which was launched on 4 th May 2019 with the gear ourselves up towards Worker 4.0 – a highly skilled workforce with a combination strong support from several other key stakeholders. The successful announcement of of technical, adaptive and technology skillsets, who are ready for new jobs, possess the LSTP bears testimony to the enduring partnership that NParks and LIAS has built the relevant skills and are resilient to new ways of working. This will be one of the over the years. NParks looks forward to an even closer working relationship with LIAS Mr Zainal Sapari critical levers to support the LSTP in the remaking of the sector. Mr Kenneth Er as the various LSTP initiatives take shape. The vision of the LSTP – “To be a World- Renowned Biophilic City in a Garden” will have an impact beyond our shores as other Assistant Secretary-General Recognising this importance, NTUC together with our tripartite partners in the Chief Executive Officer cities adopt Singapore’s greenery framework. National Trades Union Congress Tripartite Cluster for Landscape Industry has been pushing for the advancement National Parks Board of our landscape workforce. This includes the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) Singapore will continue to experience many challenges in the years to come. The Chairman wage enhancements from 2020 to 2025, the implementation of PWM bonus from landscape industry will play a significant role in mitigating the effects of climate Tripartite Cluster for 2020 and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for Worker 4.0 to re- change and urban heat island. We and the larger Singapore community need to work Landscape Industry affirm the commitment to upskill our workers with relevant skills. All these efforts in close collaboration to strengthen and sustain our urban ecosystems and ensure aimed to boost the wages and work prospects of our landscape maintenance that Singapore remains highly liveable. I am confident that the landscape industry employees and ultimately, to uplift the industry as a whole. will rise to every challenge and will adapt and grow. I am very pleased that you have created the new “Open” category this year and embracing the home and landscape We will continue to work with partners, especially with Landscape Industry Association owners and developers who also play an important part in the greening of Singapore. (Singapore) (LIAS) to find ways to improve the wages, welfare and work prospects of our workers and at the same time, balance the need for businesses to remain With the new Council led by industry veterans such as Mr Goh Eng Lam, Ms Jacqueline competitive and nimble to respond to the market. Allan and Mr Boo Ghim Yew, LIAS is well positioned to raise the professionalism and productivity of the industry while embracing digital and technological innovations. With this, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations and best wishes My heartfelt congratulations once again on successfully concluding yet another to LIAS on the 8th edition of its Awards of Excellence, as well as to all award winners edition of the LIAS Awards of Excellence! for their invaluable contributions to the landscape industry! “ We will continue to work with partners, I“ am confident that the landscape especially with Landscape Industry industry will rise to every challenge Association (Singapore) to find ways to and will adapt and grow. improve the wages, welfare and work ” prospects of our workers. ” 6 7 Our heartiest congratulations to the Landscape Industry Associations (Singapore) On behalf of the council and members of Singapore Institute of Landscape (LIAS) on LIAS 8th Awards of Excellence. LIAS’s unwavering effort to scale new Architects (SILA), congratulations to LIAS on the latest edition of your heights in pursuit of quality and excellence in the landscape industry is laudable. We Awards of Excellence 2019. are pleased to be on this journey with LIAS. This awards set the benchmarks for landscape design and build, implementation and Earlier this year, the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) 2028 Tripartite maintenance that all stakeholders can look up to in defining the exemplary standards Strategies Committee has recommended three key strategies to raise Singapore’s for the industry. WSH performance; and LIAS is an exemplar model for one of the key strategies - SILA and LIAS have a symbiotic relationship in the creation of the biophilic urban Strengthening WSH Ownership. environment in Singapore. We are two very distinct organisations- different in focus Mr Patrick Han Chi Kwang The proactive promotion of WSH at LIAS’s events and the incorporation