City Developments Limited (CDL) is among the owners of five new and retrofit developments that have joined the Marina Bay district cooling network by SP Group. At an appreciation event held on 20 April to mark the cooling network’s expansion, Minister for National Development Mr Desmond Lee presented certificates of appreciation to the owners of the five buildings – CDL, IOI Properties, Marina Bay Sands Singapore, NS Square and Perennial Holdings. This affirms their commitment to joining the network and contributing to the sustainable development of Singapore’s city centre.

The commercial component of 80 Anson Road (formerly Fuji Xerox Towers) is one of the five developments to be added to the world’s largest underground district cooling network, bringing the total number of buildings served by SP’s Marina Bay operations to 28.

A district cooling network supplies the cooling needs of buildings using centralised chiller plants, doing away with the need for members of the network to purchase their own plants. By sharing the load of cooling and optimising energy consumption, members lower carbon emissions and save costs. The Marina Bay district cooling network will help reduce carbon emissions by 19,439 tonnes annually while providing the same cool comfort – equivalent to removing 17,672 cars off the roads.

CDL Group General Manager Mr Chia Ngiang Hong said, “This partnership reaffirms our support of global climate action and commitment to achieve net zero operational carbon emissions by 2030 for all our wholly-owned assets and developments under direct operational and management control. Our 80 Anson Road redevelopment project is a prime example of how we create environmentally-friendly developments with health and wellness at the centre of building design and construction. Apart from being CDL’s first super low-energy integrated development, 80 Anson Road has also set a new benchmark as Singapore’s first Green Mark Platinum Super Low Energy integrated development, with certifications obtained for both its residential and commercial (comprising serviced apartments, office and retail) components. Together with our partners and stakeholders in the building value chain, we will continue to push the envelope in developing innovative solutions and technologies to tackle climate change and enable a greener and more resilient ecosystem for the communities we operate in.”

In addition, SP Group is currently studying the feasibility of M Hotel Singapore – one of CDL’s hotels under Millennium & Copthorne Hotels Limited – to be the first brownfield hotel development to incorporate district cooling in its operations.