Recycling rainwater and daily rationing of aircon use are just some of the eco-friendly features at MDIS’ Stirling Road campus that helped the private school win the Best Eco Practices (Merit) Award at Eco Action Awards 2014.
With these features, MDIS currently saves 100,000kwh of energy annually, equivalent to powering over 27 three-room HDB flats a year. This translates to a total cost saving of $28,000 annually for MDIS.
Aside from harvesting rainwater to water plants, fans and lights in the campus toilets are controlled by motion sensors. At the same time, air conditioning is available to hostel residents only between 7pm and 7am on weekdays.
Solar panel roofs also help to gather energy to light certain areas and heat up water for showers at the hostel.
Chua Chen How, Assistant Secretary-General and Chairman of the Property Sub-Committee for MDIS, said: “We have reaped tremendous financial and social benefits from our sustainability efforts.
“This year, we decided to push our efforts a notch higher. We will be implementing “Lights and Computer Off Hour” at our Stirling Road campus. This will happen from 1pm to 2pm every Friday starting this week,” he added.
This is MDIS’ third green award. In 2010 and 2013, the institute won the
Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Green Mark Gold Plus Award
respectively for its students’ hostel and a revamped administrative
block.
In total, six awards under five categories were presented yesterday in a ceremony at Hotel PARKROYAL on Pickering. Other award recipients included Orchid Park Secondary School, Global Indian International School and property developer Keppel Land.
The Eco Action Awards was held as part of Eco Action Day 2014, Singapore’s largest business-led annual environmental campaign organised by Ricoh Asia Pacific in conjunction with World Environment Day which falls on June 5th.
Photo: Mr Chua Chen How, Assistant Secretary-General and Chairman of the Property Sub-Committee for MDIS receiving the Best Eco Practices (Merit) Award from Mr Nobuaki Majima, Managing Director for Ricoh Asia Pacific at the Eco Action Day awards ceremony.
Romesh Navaratnarajah, Senior Editor at PropertyGuru, wrote this story. To contact him about this or other stories email romesh@propertyguru.com.sg
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