Instead of each building running its own chiller, buildings tap into a shared system that aggregates cooling demand, achieving economies of scale and improving cooling efficiency, says Mapletree in a Jan 20 announcement. “This reduces operating costs and carbon emissions, while freeing up valuable space previously used for individual cooling plants for operational or commercial use.”
Mapletree Investments and Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust (MPACT) have appointed SP Group to design, build and operate a new distributed district cooling (DDC) system in the HarbourFront Precinct, as part of Mapletree’s commitment to achieve net zero by 2050.
The project will see one of Singapore’s largest brownfield district cooling deployments, connecting five buildings — Bank of America HarbourFront, the new HarbourFront Centre, the existing HarbourFront Towers 1 & 2 and VivoCity — supplying chilled water through three injection nodes.
