A strong Built Environment (BE) sector is critical to Singapore's efforts to building a more liveable and vibrant home for all Singaporeans, and to strengthen our position as a global city. It is also key to driving excellence, and innovation across our built environment, which can unlock new economic opportunities for Singapore.
A new Action Team to Improve Built Environment Productivity (“Action Team”) will be set up to study and develop measures to achieve greater savings in time, cost and manpower. Building upon the ongoing BE transformation efforts, the Action Team will consider initiatives to further drive enterprise transformation, reduce regulatory compliance burden, and develop system enablers that benefit the BE ecosystem.
The Action Team’s Main Committee will be chaired by Mr Chee Hong Tat, Minister for National Development, together with Mr Alvin Tan, Minister of State for National Development and Trade and Industry, as the Deputy Chair. The Action Team will comprise senior representatives from both the private and public sectors, allowing it to tap on diverse perspectives from industry stakeholders.
The Main Committee will be supported by two sub-committees:
- The Enterprise Transformation Sub-Committee will focus on driving firm-level transformation and will identify opportunities to accelerate the adoption and scale-up of productive technologies and progressive methods that can achieve time, cost and manpower savings.
- The Ecosystem & Regulatory Review Sub-Committee will focus on addressing system-level challenges/constraints, as well as driving system-level transformation. Its scope will include reducing regulatory compliance burden, improving procurement and contracting practices to save time, cost and manpower, and driving collaborations to address industry-wide challenges.
The Terms of Reference and composition of the Action Team are set out in Annex A.
The Action Team welcomes stakeholders to share ideas and suggestions as we chart the future of Singapore’s BE sector together.
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