Internal Structure

By Wilson Ang a.k.a ShamU on Friday, November 16, 2007 at 12:32 AM

The recent week has been very fruitful. We have managed to hook up with more sponsors here and there mainly for our materials.

With the main infrastructure safely taken care of, the internal structure required a team to look into it. We recalled the team to see whoever are still interested to drive it all the way.

Wee Chang will be leaving his job, a marketing one because he want to pursue his interest in Engineering. A true blue engineer! And he has committed to look into the internal structure using his skills to focus and actualize the ECO House. His background was an engineer from NTU. To be exact, his major is on Environmental Engineering.

LJ is currently working from home. Committed further into the project to see it come to life before flying off somewhere next year Feb.

It was only within three days after I have informed them about this plan. They quickly called in the team that are still in this to work on the volunteer involvement component. mainly the internal structure.

They came in for meeting today straight after work at about 7pm. And the meeting ended about 11.30pm. Just in the nick of time to catch their last train or buses.

A time line was fixed to concurrently run while the main infra is on the making, the internal components will be assembled by various volunteers in their field of interest.

Some snap shots:

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GOH for Ground Breaking:Confirmed

By Wilson Ang a.k.a ShamU on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 5:59 PM

Today was South West Clean & Green Singapore Lifestyle event. Mr Tharman was the Guest of Honor and Singapore Science Centre was providing the venue for the event.

Dr Amy Khor was hosting the event as the Mayor for South West CDC. Had the opportunity to correspond with Mr Tharman directly and shared with him about our ECO House. Briefly shared with him that we would love to have him as the Guests of Honor for the ground breaking/unveiling ceremony to recognize our partners in this ECO House initiative.

This is great news. We have just confirmed our GOH with him directly and he has agreed. We will be planning to have it on January 2008 so we can invite schools to be around and go through the program which we will be running upon completion of the ECO House. This would be a preview of the ECO House and also the ENRICH! Program that goes with it.

Now, we need to follow up with the specific dates to de-conflict his schedule.

Well done team!

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ECO House Model

By Wilson Ang a.k.a ShamU on Friday, November 09, 2007 at 10:34 AM

After the initial agreement with Jia Jia, our volunteer Architect from Akitek Tenggara, she has been busy putting together the mock up for the eco house. totally excited when I went to meet up Jia jia to pick it up.

Brought it back to our new office and took couple of pictures of it.

And here they are:
Our model based on the scale 1:50. Check out the welcoming doors.

Side view: You can notice the green roofs, solar panels and also the green walls.


The other side view: Check out the kitchen and composting area. You can also notice the tube to collect water from the green roofs when it rains.



With the roofs removed, you can see clearer the interior of the kitchen.



Closer view up in the kitchen. Check out the sink which will then have its grey water system pumped over to the decors on the right to process the water.


The other side of the ECO House. Mock up of a possible room. This will also be the part of the training room.


And finally, the back view of the ECO House.

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