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The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development of the Government of Singapore. It was established on 1 April 1999 through the merger of the Construction Industry Development Board and the Building Control Division of the former Public Works Department.
The Progressive Wage Model is an enhancement to a basic minimum wage model to help increase the salaries of workers in Singapore. [6] NTUC secretary-general Lim Swee Say was reported saying that he believed that the shortcomings of a minimum wage system outweigh the benefits. He noted that if the minimum wage was set too low, it would not help ...
A view of a model of the land use in the Singapore city centre. Singapore's planning framework comprises three tiers, a long-term plan, the Master Plan, and detailed plans. [18] The long-term plan, formerly called the Concept Plan, [19] plots out Singapore's developmental direction over at least five decades. Intended to ensure optimal land use ...
Similarly, in India, each municipality and urban development authority has its own building code, which is mandatory for all construction within their jurisdiction. All these local building codes are variants of a National Building Code, [8] which serves as model code proving guidelines for regulating building construction activity.
In the United States, model building codes are adopted by the state governments, counties, fire districts, and municipalities.A number of federal agencies—including the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Park Service, the Department of State and the Forest Service—use private-sector model codes for projects funded by the federal government.
Building conservation in Singapore is the responsibility of URA, which issued a Conservation Master Plan in 1989. This plan laid down guidelines and processes for the conservation of culturally and historically significant buildings. [2] More than 7,000 buildings in Singapore have been gazetted as conserved buildings.
HDB residences in Bishan town. Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built, and managed by the government of Singapore.Starting in the 1930s, the country's first public housing was built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in a similar fashion to contemporaneous British public housing projects, and housing for the resettlement of squatters was built from the late 1950s.
Construction costs for 5-room, 4-room, 3-room & 2-room units respectively averaged about $160,000, $120,000, $80,000 & $40,000 (based on 2004 cost). This also include the cost of sub-contractors and construction of multistorey car parks , lifts , electrical substations (ESS), child-care centres, playgrounds, fitness corners, linkway shelters ...