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Siew Haip Yeo is chief executive, Buildings + Cities for the Surbana Jurong Group (SJ Group), a global urban, infrastructure and managed services consulting firm headquartered in Singapore. He recently cited Mohawk College's Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation as an excellent example of future-focused sustainable building.

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YSH: Carbon emissions from buildings, transportation and other industrial processes are the biggest drivers of global warming. In the face of the global climate crisis, architects and designers have a role to play in reducing global warming by decarbonising buildings through designing with renewable materials, and putting in place processes to facilitate low-carbon and carbon-neutral operations. Read more…

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