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It is our responsibility to push for sustainability in architecture and all disciplines that we practice.

dp strives for our practice and projects to be better than sustainable. we are fully committed to driving postive transformation within our group to achieve the shared goal of a long-term regenerative future and better world for all.
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our sustainability journey

  • 2007
    green movement

    A green movement starts from the ground up to raise greater awareness of the impact of our practice on the environment.

  • 2010
    environmentally sustainable design unit

    A department comprising architects, environmental engineers and analysts who work with design architects to analysts and enhance the performance of DP buildings.

  • 2013
    dp sustainable design

    The ESD unit expands to become a full-fledged specialist consultancy that delivers holistic and innovative sustainable design solutions that are environmentally, socially and economically responsive to local climatic conditions, site context and needs of the end-users.

    DP Sustainable Design
  • 2015
    attributes of purposeful design

    A design tool and practice guide to analyse the environmental and social impact of DP projects. First launched in 2015, the APD was revised in 2021 to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the SG Green Plan 2030 and BCA Green Mark 2021. It sets eight sustainability outcomes for social, environmental and economic value, with sub-categories to guide the prioritisation of sustainability KPIs.

    Attributes of Purposeful Design
  • 2021
    green-well-tech

    A whole-of-DP approach to harness DP‘s multidisciplinary strengths to adopt sustainable practices, wellbeing design and purposeful technology. Green-Well-Tech extends from our core values and strategically unifies our approach, actions and capabilities, to drive our practice towards purposeful and innovative solutions for better-than-sustainable outcomes.

    Green-Well-Tech
  • 2022
    smart sustainability unit

    SSU is established to develop new technology business ventures to create products, solutions and services for the BE industry that help projects achieve sustainability outcomes.

    Smart Sustainability Unit
  • 2024
    sustainability plan

    DP publishes its Sustainability Plan to communicate the practice‘s commitment to achieve net zero whole life carbon for its projects and net zero carbon emissions for its business operations by 2045. The Sustainability Plan outlines the strategy to achieve this target to reduce the impact of our actions on the environment, benefit the community and generate value.

    Sustainability Plan
we target to achieve net zero carbon for our operations by 2045.
PRACTICE PROJECTS Net zero carbon emissions from business operations Net zero whole life carbon for all projects Commit to industry decarbonisation roadmap Track sustainability performance for Singapore projects SG Green Plan Net Zero Carbon target IPCC target year to achieve net zero emissions to avoid exceeding 1.5 degree climate threshold 50% reduction in carbon emissions from business operations Net zero operational carbon roadmap for all projects 2023 2030 2045 2050
green-well-tech extends from our core values and strategically unifies our approach, actions and capabilities to drive our multidisciplinary practice towards purposeful and innovative solutions for better-than-sustainable outcomes.
INTERNATIONALISATION SGCORE MULTIDISCIPLINARY GREEN-WELL-TECH OPERATIONALSUSTAINABILITY | PRACTICE | UPSKILLING |RESEARCH &INNOVATION PEOPLE &PARTNERS TALENT+ |DPACADEMY |DPLIFE

attributes of purposeful design

AIR QUALITY ACCESS TO HYDRATION ACCESS TO DAYLIGHT MOVEMENT THERMAL COMFORT ACOUSTIC COMFORT MENTAL & SPIRITUALWELLBEING HEALTHY MATERIALS GREEN MOBILITY WALKABLE, LIVEABLE HERITAGE/CULTURALPRESERVATION PLACEMAKING URBAN HARMONY UNIVERSALACCESSIBILITY INCLUSIVE,AGE-FRIENDLY DESIGN ONSITE & OFFSITERENEWABLES DEMAND CONTROL &SMART MANAGEMENT ENERGY MODELLING ENERGY EFFICIENTSYSTEMS MAXIMISE NATURALVENTILATION BUILDING ENVELOPEPERFORMANCE OPTIMAL MASSING &ORIENTATION OFFSET RESIDUALCARBON USE LOW CARBONMATERIALS REDUCE RECYCLEUPCYCLE BUILD CLEVER(BUILDABILITY) BUILD LESS(OPTIMISE NEEDS) BUILD NOTHING(ADAPTIVE REUSE) WHOLE LIFE CARBONASSESSMENT SMART WATERRESOURCEMANAGEMENT WATER RECYCLING WATER EFFICIENTSYSTEMS CLIMATE AND LOCALESENSITIVE LANDSCAPEDESIGN BIOPHILIA / ACCESS TO NATURE TREE CONSERVATION MAXIMISEGREEN PLOT RATIO PRESERVE ANDRESTORE HABITATS PROTECT & PROMOTEBIODIVERSITY FOOD SUSTAINABILITY FLOOD RESILIENCY URBAN HEATRESILIENCY ECONOMIC RESILIENCY FUTURE-PROOFING FORTECHNOLOGY DESIGN FORMAINTAINABILITY& SAFETY INTEGRATED DIGITALDELIVERY SMART BUILDINGSYSTEMS &MANAGEMENT - PEOPLE VALUE ENVIRONMENT ENERGY EFFICIENCY &OPERATIONAL CARBON SITE & ECOLOGY SOCIAL & COMMUNITY RESILIENCY WHOLE LIFECARBON WATERCONSERVATION HEALTH &WELLBEING INTELLIGENCE &MAINTAINABILITY H U M A N & S O C I A L S Y S T E M C A R B O N S Y S T E M E C O N O M I C S Y S T E M N A T U R A L S Y S T E M
we are committed to track sustainability performance of all our projects
  • green mark platinum
  • landscape replacement
  • abc water strategies
  • professional development programmes
  • accredited professionals
Green Mark Platinum 40%
of our completed projects in Singapore achieved Green Mark Platinum or better
Landscape Replacement
1 in 20 of our completed greenfield projects in singapore achieved >100%landscape replacement
ABC Water Strategies
1in10of our completed projects in singapore incorporated abc water strategies
Professional Development Programmes
51 professional developement programmes were conducted internally by dp academy
13
new accredited professionals
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1in10
1 in 10 Accredited Professionals
of our multidisciplinary design team members are Green Mark, LEED, Well, SmartScore accredited professionals
in 2023,