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Roof&Facade Asia News & Events URA implements plans to link the Southern Ridges A VIEW FROM PAVILION AT MOUNT FABER LOOKING SOUTH The selected scheme for Henderson Crossing, The Surface Bridge. A VIEW FROM HENDERSON ROAD TOWARDS TELOK BLANGAH HILL PARK A VIEW FROM MOUTH FABER LOOKING NORTH THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Singapore is all set to implement plans to link up the Southern Ridges and enhance it as an attractive recreational place for both Singaporeans and tourists. It recently announced the designs selected for the two bridges, one at Henderson Crossing and the other at Alexandra Link. URA will also begin planning the construction of a foot-trail which will take pedestrians from the Harbour Front MRT station right up to the cable car station at Mount Faber. From there, the visitor can use the soon-tobe-constructed bridges to explore the hill parks or take a ride to Sentosa via cable car. By 2007, when the bridges and foot trail are completed, visitors will be able to explore the entire stretch of green from Mount Faber Park to Alexandra Park. The bridges will link the Southern Ridges to the islandwide network of connected parks, allowing more people to enjoy Singapore’s natural areas easily. The two schemes were selected by a six-member selection panel, comprising representatives from URA, National Parks Board and Building and Construction Authority. The Surface Bridge at Henderson Crossing, was the submission of RSP Architects Planners & Engineers (Pte) Ltd in collaboration with IJP Corporation Ltd (UK). The Mile-a-Minute Bridge and Walkway was the concept put forward by LOOK Architects and ECAS-EJ Consultants Pte Ltd. The selected teams will be appointed as Project Consultants for the respective bridges. The Surface Bridge will be about 274 m long, 8 m wide and 36 m high above the road carriageway. It will offer an interesting sculptural form which would be appreciated when walking on the bridge deck or when viewed from the parks and the road. The bridge will be made up of five undulating curved ribs forming alcoves that alternately rise over and under the bridge deck. The curved ribs forming alcoves will function as shelters with seats within. The bridge will not be enclosed and the views of the surroundings change as one moves along the curved bridge. The Mile-a-Minute Bridge will be about 90 m long, 4 m wide and 5.4 m high above the Alexandra Road carriageway. The meandering walkway from the bridge to Telok Blangah Hill Park will be about 2.3 km long and 2 m wide. The scheme used the metaphor of the “tile-a-minute” plant to conceptualise the design of the bridge and walkway. The bridge will relate to the topography and vegetation of the site. It will be designed to cater for mass events, with an elevated walkway for pedestrians and a ground trail for cyclists. RnF The selected scheme for Alexandra Link, The Mile-a-Minute Bridge: A rendering of the bridge across Alexandra Road (left) and the walkway to Telok Blangah Hill Park (right). Product Trademarks WITHIN its editorial sections, this publication will generally capitalise all words known to be trademarks that have been registered or that have yet to be registered. The publisher wishes to state that the use of the trademarked names within its editorial sections, is only for editorial purposes, and therefore there is no intent whatsoever to infringe on any trademark. Within its advertising and advertorial sections, this publication will use the material submitted by the advertisers without any alterations. Product First editorial Owner of trademark/ mention registered trademark Makrolon ® Page 4 Bayer MaterialScience Fluoroset ® Page 8 Orica Vulkem ® Page 8 Tremco Incorporated AcraTex ® Page 8 Orica Hylar 5000 ® Page 9 Solvay Solexis Kynar 500 ® Page 9 Arkema Tremproof ® Page 11 Tremco Incorporated EVALON ® Page 12 alwitra GmbH & Co. SilPruf ® Page 15 General Electric Company Saflex ® Page 19 Solutia The location plan for Henderson Crossing and Alexandra Link. Vanceva TM Page 19 Solutia 16 Roof & Facade Asia • October 2004
News & Events Roof&Facade Asia Laminated glass interlayers for demanding applications ROOF & FACADE ASIA met with Dr Luc De Temmerman, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Solutia Inc, manufacturers of laminated glass interlayers, during a recent trip he made to Singapore, and asked him about the company’s business prospects, product offerings and projects. R&F Asia: Briefly, what is the Dr Luc De Temmerman. strategy that Solutia has adopted for the medium-term, regarding business and product application, on a worldwide basis? Dr Luc De Temmerman: Solutia’s Laminated Glazing Interlayers business is focused globally on maintaining its role as the most reliable partner and the most innovative product and process provider in the marketplace. In short, this means both laminators and glass companies, as well as architects and designers, have complete confidence that Solutia’s interlayers are the best available in the world. In addition, they can rely on Solutia to provide the next generation of products with the benefits and enhancements they seek, to solve problems or raise the bar in design and execution. Globally, we started with safety and security products. We have in the recent past, added products with improved aesthetics including colour, acoustics, and solar and hurricane protection benefits to our range. The solar control products have been developed, particularly for customers in Asia. And more innovations are on the way. R&F Asia: From the point of view of the demand for Solutia’s products, which are the important markets in Asia? Dr Luc De Temmerman: As regards the Asia Pacific region, our focus is on increasing the penetration of PVB in emerging markets like India, ASEAN, and China, and we offer products with additional benefits for the developed markets like Japan and Australia. The Asia Pacific markets remain very important to Solutia’s overall business strategy. It is our fastest growing region. We predict laminated glass demand in Asia Pacific will be growing 6.5% to 7.5% annually over the next 4 to 5 years. Most of the growth will be in China. With respect to our growth, the Asia Pacific region has been growing close to 15% per year. R&F Asia: In this region, what specific products find application, and for what types of buildings? Dr Luc De Temmerman: Globally speaking, our architectural products are used in many different types of applications. Safety and Security are the drivers for both emerging markets such as China and India and for developed markets such as Australia and Japan, and this is mostly code driven. In the past, we had seen very high growth rates in China for use in bullet proof glass for banks. Aesthetics is an additional need and we are seeing steady growth in demand for the colour interlayers of our Vanceva range. Our high-performance Hurricane interlayers have been in great demand in the US, due to code requirements which will hopefully be implemented in other parts of the world, including the Asia Pacific region. We have seen increasing emphasis for Energy Conservation/ Green technology in the developed markets with solar being a driver and for which we have developed our Vanceva advanced solar control range of PVB products. Further, with the industry focus on protecting people and property, we have seen strong interest in our Saflex and Vanceva interlayers for security applications. Most of our Saflex and Vanceva interlayers go into facades in the commercial segment of the market – in high-rise office buildings, shopping centres, restaurants, showrooms, and in entertainment complexes, museums, airports etc. R&F Asia: Please explain how the company’s ‘debottlenecking’ efforts help to meet the needs of customers in Asia. Dr Luc De Temmerman: As a result of a seamless, collaborative effort between Solutia’s technology and manufacturing teams, the Laminated Glazing Interlayers business is now benefiting from its ongoing debottlenecking effort at plant sites worldwide. More importantly, the results are helping Solutia to provide better service to its customers. For Asia, this means our laminator partners benefit from increased overall supply, supply confidence, and greater product and process innovation as they grow and expand their product offerings in the region. One example of our efforts in Asia is the increased emphasis we have put on our Singapore Finishing Centre, which ensures supply security in the region. The efficiency of the SFC is a main reason that Solutia continues to improve its impressive 95% On Time Delivery rate and earn strong customer satisfaction ratings in that category. R&F Asia: What are some of the recent, interesting projects where Solutia products have been used? Dr Luc De Temmerman: We have been involved in almost all the major airport projects that have come up in the region – Changi Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, Shanghai Pudong Airport, Guangzhou Airport, Chong Quing Airport, and the upcoming New Bangkok Airport Project, and we hope to be involved in the new ones coming up, such as Beijing Airport and Changi Terminal 3. We have been involved in sports infrastructure, like the World Cup Football stadium in France, facilities for the Sydney Olympics, facilities for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the Flemington Race course in Australia. The Futian Sports Centre coming up in Shenzhen, China, will use Vanceva to achieve the five colours of the Olympic rings. We have seen increasing use of colour in the Asia PRODUCT ENQUIRY FORM (Information is provided free-of-charge) Roof acade Full Name: (Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms) Designation (Job title): Name of Organisation: Address: State/City: ____________________ Postal Code: ____________________ Country: __________________ Tel: ____________________ Fax: ____________________ E-mail: ________________________________ Activity of Organisation: READER REGISTRATION Do you wish to receive free copies of Roof&Facade Asia? Yes! No (Please tick ) Signature: ___________________________ Date: ____________________ PRODUCT INFORMATION I wish to have more information on the products corresponding to the following Editorial Enquiry Numbers Please list the numbers in the space below, eg. 04/101, 04/102, etc Pacific region. For East Century Park in Taipei, Vanceva color in 10 different colours was used. Other projects using Vanceva color are Dalian Commercial Centre in China, Black Pearl in Taipei, Cyber Port Project in Hong Kong, and Changi Village Hotel in Singapore. Internationally, Media Market in Holland and Maestro Nicolau Street in Barcelona are some projects which use Vanceva color interlayers for facades. Our Vanceva interlayers with enhanced solar benefits were used in the recently inaugurated Guangzhou Airport project. We are doing a number of exciting projects with solar interlayers in Australia, like the Philips Street project. Our metallic interlayers from our Vanceva range have been used in facades in Okinawa by leading Japanese architect Shin Takamatsu. A good example of a facade application, is the Palmas building in Mexico that used Vanceva metallic and Vanceva color. R&F Asia: In summary, what distinguishes Solutia as a company? Dr Luc De Temmerman: We would claim several features. Firstly, we invest to produce quality products for laminators. Secondly, in terms of customer service, we ensure on-time delivery of the products that architects, designers, facade consultants and other specifiers want, at the right price and with the highest quality. Thirdly, we employ the right people to provide technical service to customers. We also look forward to working creatively with customers, to bring out new products. They determine what they need. We are there to develop these products and develop the market with them. RnF (Photocopies may be used as additional enquiry forms. Please cut along dotted line) Fax to: (65) 6296 1719 or Mail to: Medialink Technology Pte Ltd, 39 Ubi Road 1, #06-01, World Publications Building, Singapore 408695 & Enquiry No: 10/120 F Asia Roof & Facade Asia • October 2004 17
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