Summary: Developing Sustainable Infrastructures in New Cities

Summary:

In the article, “Developing Sustainable Infrastructure in New Cities”, Heidi Cho (2014) states that sustainability needs to be ranked first. The author mentions that “Envision Sustainability Rating System” is designed to monitor the performance of an infrastructure through the ability, flexibility and the usefulness to last from a present project. The writer states that both Mexico and Peru uses sustainable techniques to construct their highways which has served the community well by overcoming these challenges such as “rising energy prices, water shortages, traffic congestions and etc.”, in rapid urbanisation. Lastly, the author hopes that new cities around the world will use these guidelines to strategise their new infrastructures.

Source: http://www.newcitiesfoundation.org/evaluating-sustainable-infrastructure-development-new-cities/ by Heidi Cho

http://www.newcitiesfoundation.org/evaluating-sustainable-infrastructure-development-new-cities/

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The importance of English for me

English language has been widely used during lessons in school and spoken among young Singaporeans. However, Singaporeans like myself, we often combine different languages into our speech especially through verbal conversations. Only upon receiving my O’ level results, graduating with just a passing grade in English, I was hit hard by reality. I was unable to get into my desired course in polytechnic due to the inability in writing fluent English,back then.

I always believed that using the most appropriate words when we speak, defines how we carry ourselves and conduct presentations. I began observing guests speakers during talks on how they used descriptive words to explain their ideas and how we can also improve it. Because English is one of the most common languages spoken all around the world , I feel that I should learn it well. On the other hand, having a good command in English such as effectively doing report writing or conducting speeches also brings about a better career advancement at certain levels.

I  learnt how to draft proper reports for my projects in my final year in the polytechnic and realise the need to provide precise description and explanation for my readers. I have also found the importance of reading more from different resources such as magazines, biographies; listening to more speeches, English language related videos from National Geographic Channel and writings of different forms so as to improve my command in English.

Edited on 21 Sept 2015. 🙂

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