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HDB’s eco plans to be refined

We thank Mr Yang Chun Hong for his letter, “Extend eco-features to older HDB estates” (Jan 25). The Housing and Development Board will extend the standard suite of eco-features to all new flats, including rental flats, from this month.

Larry Cheng, Director (Building Design & Standards), Housing & Development Board

We thank Mr Yang Chun Hong for his letter, “Extend eco-features to older HDB estates” (Jan 25). The Housing and Development Board will extend the standard suite of eco-features to all new flats, including rental flats, from this month.

We have also embarked on making our existing estates more environmentally sustainable. In 2012, we launched the pilot HDB Greenprint programme in Yuhua, where we seek to bring energy-efficient water management and waste management features to this estate. We will use the findings from this project to refine our Greenprint plans, before rolling them out to other estates.

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