The United Nations (UN) has conferred the United Nations Public Service Award (UNPSA) 2012 to the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) for the Contractors Registration System (CRS) under the "Preventing and Combating Corruption in the Public Service" category. This is the first time a public agency from Singapore has won in this category of the award. The BCA CRS won the Award (2nd place) in Asia and...
United Nations Public Service Award
TO help meet demand for flats in the northern part of the island, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) yesterday launched a: Build-To-Order (BTO) project in Woodlands town called Straits Vista @ Marsiling. The project, comprising 50 units of three-room and 332 units of four-room flats, is located near the Woodlands Regional Centre and is served by the Woodlands MRT station and bus interchange. It is...
Singapore's public housing agency - Housing and Development Board (HDB) - has been given the United Nations Public Service Award. HDB said the award is in recognition of the Home Ownership Programme, which has successfully provided over 80 per cent of Singaporeans with affordable quality flats, of them 95 per cent own these homes. Describing it as a significant milestone in its history, HDB said the...
National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said the Housing and Development Board (HDB) is containing construction costs as much as it could even though they have gone up significantly recently. HDB is doing this by simplifying some of the projects or by combining them so that there are more economies of scale. A recent example is the Punggol Sapphire project which has more than a thousand units against...