Category: Members’ Publications
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Representative Transmission Coefficient for Evaluating the Wave Attenuation Performance of 3D Floating Breakwaters in Regular and Irregular Waves
Wave attenuation performance is the prime consideration when designing any floating breakwater. For a 2D hydrodynamic analysis of a floating breakwater, the wave attenuation performance is evaluated by the transmission coefficient, which is defined as the ratio between the transmitted wave height and the incident wave height. For a 3D…
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The Floating Island for Foreign Workers
We are thrilled to share a design concept by our President, Mr. Lim Soon Heng, in collaboration with Torrisi & Procopio Architetti. This innovative floating island is designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and community-oriented living space for foreign workers. The Concept: The floating island consists of a cluster of…
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Combating climate change: can naval architects do more?
Engineers, in the ultimate analysis, are the culprits of climate change. The industrial revolution of the last 200 years has had the unintended consequences of polluting the world with greenhouse gas. True, engineers deserve credit for inventing the steam/gas turbine and the internal combustion engine but unwittingly they also have…
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Tackling Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Ecosystem Destruction: How US-Japanese Ocean Industrialization and the Metabolist Movement’s Global Legacy Shaped Environmental Thought (circa 1950s–Present)
Over the past decade, experts have discussed the offshore technologies so closely associated with accelerating climate change—namely, offshore oil and gas drilling—as tools for climate action, as was the case at a United Nations roundtable in April 2019. Such experts have frequently used offshore technologies for the construction of flood-resilient…
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Displacing Architecture? From Floating Houses to Ocean Habitats: Expanding the Building Typology
The current research on the amphibious architecture lacks a proper, commonly shared vocabulary and typology of water-placed structures. In this paper, the state of typological works is described and a new typology based on three main distinguishing factors (relation to water, buoyancy and mobility) is given. Thanks to the different…
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Shaping the Integrated Floating Stage at Marina Bay
This paper presents the challenges faced and the systems engineering solutions implemented in developing a large floating steel platform at the Marina Bay of Singapore. The floating platform is designed to be a multi-purpose facility on the bay for mass spectator events, sporting activities and cultural performances, as well as…
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New offshore fish farm to yield up to 20 times more fish than other coastal farms
A high-tech fish farm, capable of producing up to 20 times the “minimum production level” of coastal farms, was officially opened by Senior of Minister of State for Trade and Industry Koh Poh Koon on Tuesday (Nov 19). The S$4 million farm called Eco-Ark is contained within a platform measuring…
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Appearance on MoneyMind Channel NewsAsia
This month marks the inauguration of the Society of Floating Solutions Singapore (SFSS), formed by enthusiasts who share the common interest in the concept of Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS). VLFS may help Singapore grapple with the issue of land scarcity and the impending rise of sea level by floating…
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Large Floating Structure with Free-Floating, Self-stabilizing Tanks for Hydrocarbon Storage
This month marks the inauguration of the Society of Floating Solutions Singapore (SFSS), formed by enthusiasts who share the common interest in the concept of Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS). VLFS may help Singapore grapple with the issue of land scarcity and the impending rise of sea level by floating…
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President’s Interview with Lianhe Zaobao on 18 August 2019
This month marks the inauguration of the Society of Floating Solutions Singapore (SFSS), formed by enthusiasts who share the common interest in the concept of Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS). VLFS may help Singapore grapple with the issue of land scarcity and the impending rise of sea level by floating…