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BIODIVERSITY

As Singapore is a highly urbanised and densely populated country with a limited land space of just 710 square kilometres, the Singapore Government pays particular attention to land use planning to ensure that all land is used efficiently. As a result of prudent planning, Singapore is able to dedicate 10% of land area to parks and nature reserves and achieve green coverage of almost 50% of the total land area.

The forests in Singapore are not commercially exploited for timber or other timber products. All of CDL’s projects are not located within any protected areas. CDL has incorporated a standard practice to assess all our sites during the planning stage to determine if any existing mature trees can be conserved on-site or transplanted at a later stage to or from another CDL site.

In 2011, CDL conserved four existing mature trees on-site.

NOISE

In Singapore, NEA regulates the noise limits for construction sites, which vary depending on the time of the day and by the types of premises nearby. Construction noise limits protect nearby residents from noise impacts. CDL is committed to complying with the noise limits at all our worksites and ensures that our builders take all necessary action to address and resolve complaints due to construction noise.

In 2011, two worksites received complaints due to construction noise from the neighbourhood. One complaint was on noisy construction work being carried out at night to which the issue was immediately addressed. The other complaint was on disturbances generated from the worksite. In both cases, additional measures by the builders were put in place to mitigate further possible noise impacts.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS

CDL has been a leader of Singapore's built environment and championing the development of more sustainable buildings even before the introduction of BCA's Green Mark in 2005. CDL invests between 2% and 5% of the construction cost of a new development on green building design and features and we have raised the target of achieving a minimum BCA Green Mark Gold^Plus rating for all new developments in 2011 from a BCA Green Mark Gold.

CDL’s key BCA Awards and accolades include: