The solar-ready roofs have essential block services such as water tanks and lift motor rooms strategically located to optimise available space for the installation of solar panels. (Photo: HDB)
SINGAPORE: All public housing blocks from May this year will be designed with "solar-ready" roofs, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) said on Thursday (Aug 31).
The blocks will come with features that enable solar panels to be easily mounted and maintained, in a move to harness solar energy to power common estate services in HDB developments, the agency said in a press release.
The initiative will apply to public housing blocks with at least 400 sqm of open roof space after setting aside space needed for essential services such as water tanks, water pumps and lift rooms.
This will enable more productive and efficient installation of solar panels on HDB rooftops, it added.
According to HDB, it takes 25 days to install solar panels on a solar-ready roof, compared to 40 days to retrofit existing blocks.
The manpower costs for installation are also more than 40 per cent lower for these solar-ready roofs, it said.
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Stand by as the government gets creative by instituting a new form of taxation based on this solar-tech implementation to suck us dry.
Ownership of HDB flats a lie, HDB is the lessor and buyers are only lessees
It’s about time HDB lessees wake up to our nightmare: we do not own our flats.
From online discourse, it is evident that there is some confusion and most flat buyers are still in denial.
The issue is not one of returning our flats to HDB after the 99-year lease, similar to private property, but rather one of having NO OWNERSHIP RIGHTS.
An owner of a HDB flat should have some say in the property, eg management, upgrading, etc. But every decision pertaining to ‘our’ asset is made by HDB.
If we are owners, why can’t we collectively initiate SERS? Why are all major decisions made by HDB?
Nicholas Mak, SLP International executive director and head of research and consultancy highlighted this interesting case which happened some 20 years ago:
Full article @ edgeprop.sg
So long as HDB flats are not privatized, they belong to HDB and not flat buyers.
This begs the question: Why do buyers of HDB flats need to pay property tax?
HDB lessees who die-die still cannot believe they are not owners should approach their respective MPs and demand proof of ownership. They could also write to Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong or even the CEO of HDB.
But be prepared for a heart attack. If the government doesn’t lie, you will be informed that HDB has always been the lessor/owner of all HDB flats.
https://likedatosocanmeh.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/hdb-flat-ownership-is-a-lie-hdb-is-the-lessor-of-all-hdb-flats/