PUB Awards $22M in Coastal Protection Research Grants
PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency, has marked a significant milestone in its research and development journey for coastal protection and flood management. The agency has awarded 14 projects under the Coastal Protection and Flood Management Research Programme's first Applied Research grant call, totalling $22 million.
The grant call was announced by Ms Goh Hanyan, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment and the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, at the Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute (CFI) Singapore's 2nd Annual Symposium. PUB received 47 proposals, with two-thirds involving collaborations between Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) and industry players.
The awarded projects span five focus areas, aiming to identify and plug knowledge gaps in coastal protection and flood management tailored to Singapore's context. These areas include Sustainable Materials for Coastal Protection Infrastructure, Smart Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) System for Coastal Infrastructure, Comprehensive Decision Matrix for Adaptive Coastal Protection Planning, Innovative Engineering Solutions for Coastal Protection and Flood Management, and Innovative Monitoring Techniques for Sediment Transport. Upon completion, the solutions from these projects could transition to CFRP's Living Lab programme for additional pilot testing and potential commercialisation.
Ms Hazel Khoo, PUB's Director of Coastal Protection, hailed the awarded projects as a significant milestone in PUB's R&D journey for coastal protection and flood management in Singapore. The projects, worth a total of $22 million, aim to develop innovative solutions against sea level rise and advance knowledge and skillsets of partners for adaptive, sustainable, and cost-effective solutions.
