Tengah Eco Town

Singapore, Singapore, Asia Pacific

Under Construction · Residential · Car-Free Public Housing Town · Tropical

Singapore's first car-free town centre, with all vehicular roads routed underground, releasing the entire surface for pedestrians and greenery. The town integrates a centralised pneumatic waste conveyance system, district cooling, and a 'forest corridor' ecological spine linking 42,000 HDB flats to Bukit Timah nature reserve.

Innovation highlights

• fully car-free town centre with all roads underground
• pneumatic waste conveyance system across entire residential town
• district cooling network serving 42,000 public housing units
• ecological corridor maintaining wildlife connectivity to existing nature reserve

Client / Developer

Housing Development Board Singapore (HDB)

Architect

HDB with multiple design firms

Engineer

Arup (infrastructure lead)

Type

Car-Free Public Housing Town

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