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Industry players and academics voice support for flood protection recommendations
Recommendations by the panel tasked to look into solving Singapore’s flooding woes, include legislating that building owners build green roofs to improve storm water attenuation. Andy Chew, our Director for Landscape Engineering, said in a Channel News Asia interview: Read more
A New Elmich Presence in Europe
ELMICH is pleased to announce that it is now a strategic partner in the Femox group of companies through the acquisition of an equity stake in Swiss company, Femox GmbH. Femox companies currently manufactures and distributes building and landscape products in Western Europe. With this new partnership, Elmich and Femox are poised to expand their market presence in Europe to provide cost-effective and sustainable solutions to designers, builders and property owners. Read more
Seminar on Green Roofs & Green Walls in Panama
Twenty-nine architects and construction professionals at the Cámara Panameña de la Construcción, in Panamá were enlightened by a “Green Roofs and Green Walls” seminar delivered by José Magán, Elmich’s Architectural and Design Advisor at Elmich North America LLC, on 15 November 2011. Read more
Elmich VGM Green Wall @ B&B Italia Showroom
Space Furniture represents the most number of top-tier European furniture companies, including B&B Italia, using Singapore as the springboard to launch their ultra-luxury furniture products into the rest of Asia. Their new “SPACE” multiplex showcase at Bencoolen Street, Singapore, features some of the finest modern contemporary furniture pieces that top European brands have to offer. The showroom occupies an area of 4,000 sq m spanning across three distinct, yet conjoined blocks, including two retrofitted conservation buildings. Read more
Elmich VGM Green Wall @ Rendezvous Hotel Singapore
Rendezvous Hotel Singapore, a hotel known for its old-world charm and gracious style of a bygone era, has incorporated in its major makeover to be completed end November 2011, a fresh blend of the old with the new and the past with the future. Located for business and leisure travelers in the heart of the civic, cultural and commercial district, the hotel is just a three-minute walk to Orchard Road, 5 minutes from Shenton Way, and almost next door to food and shopping locations. Read more
Elmich Green Roof Systems at UTown Education Resource Centre
National University of Singapore’s (NUS), UTown (University Town), located just across the main NUS Kent Ridge Campus is set to become a vibrant intellectual and social hub for some 2,400 undergraduate students, 1,700 graduate students, and 1,000 researchers to work, live and learn together. Read more