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Singapore rolls out masterplan to cut dependency on sand, granite
By Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 23 April 2007 1809 hrs

SINGAPORE : The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has mapped out a plan to drastically cut Singapore's dependence on sand and granite.

About 95 percent of building projects in Singapore are concrete-based and highly dependent on sand.

Such drywalls are currently installed in many private residential projects, to replace conventional brick walls that separate rooms in apartments.

E.gs of such structures in replacement is the National library and part of Esplanade.
I personally feel such buildings are able to express style and infrastructure of the designers.

But my current concern is whether foreign workers are able to adapt to the change in material for buiildings. Previously, it's pure concrete, now it's drywalls.
I suspect structural unemployment will be on the rise, workers might be sent back to bangladesh as they will not be needed for their knowledge on building with concrete. Sadly, others from other countries will come to Singapore to overthrow/subvert current workers .

Authorities are also working with the National University of Singapore to process "spent copper slag", a by-product of sand blasting, to partially replace natural sand.

Hardware aside, the BCA has trained 150 practitioners on advance steel design and construction since February this year, and more courses will be introduced.

It will work with the Singapore Structural Steel Society on more training programmes, as well as local universities to beef up the curriculum on structural steel design.

Look at it on the brighter side without sand, NUS will have something to research about, new progress will be made, new developments, Singapore's aggregate supply curve will be on the extensive, getting longer and increase Singapore's potential capacity for mroe resources.

I am starting to love Singapore's brains and brawn. Go NUS!

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