environmental challenge organisation (singapore)

Hong Kah North

ECO Living Programme April 2011
known as ECO Singapore

Contact Person : Philipp Steinkemper

Executive, ECO Living Programme
Contact No. : (65) 8265699 Our Youth. Our Future.
Email : philipp.steinkemper@eco-singapore.org Society Reg. No: ROS326/2002
Charity Reg. No: 1739

ECO Living Programme April 2011

ECO Living Programme @ Hong Kah North

Venue: Hong Kah North

Date: 30.04.2011
Time: 8am – 12pm

Overview

ECO Living Programme is a year-long community grassroots programme

that aims to relief the burden of low/ middle-income families while
doing our bit for the Earth. Energy, water and waste audits in HDB
households are performed by volunteers in order to identify areas for
improvement.

A healthy turnout of 120 students from ITE College West volunteered to

go door-to-door to conduct the audits.

The day before the audit, a briefing was conducted at the ITE College
West campus for the new student volunteers. Most of the students had
already taken part in the previous audits. This is helpful in building up a
relationship between students and residents.

*SCAPE, 2 Orchard Link, #04-01 GRID New Media Studios, Singapore 237978
http://www.eco-singapore.org I Tel: (65) 6333 5543 I Fax: (65) 6333 5537
Registered Address: 10 Anson Road, International Plaza, #15-14 Singapore 079903
 environmental challenge organisation (singapore)

Hong Kah North

ECO Living Programme April 2011
known as ECO Singapore

Our Youth. Our Future.

Society Reg. No: ROS326/2002
Charity Reg. No: 1739

Details of Energy Audit 2

Three representatives from ECO Singapore arrived at 8 am to prepare

the necessary logistics at the RC Hong Kah North zone 6.
The first ITE students arrived at 8:45am. Totally 120 students turned up for
the second energy audit of ECO Living Programme @ Hong Kah North.

At 9 am, a final briefing was conducted to run through with the

volunteers the procedure to follow when visiting the residents.

Once the volunteers were clear on their tasks they were told to divide
into groups of 4, with a variety of language skills in each group. We had
pre-allocated the households to 15 groups of volunteers, with each
group assigned 10 to 11 households.

At 9.30pm, the volunteers collected their logistics. Each group would

get a reusable bag containing the resident info sheets, energy audit
survey, a lanyard, a clipboard, reminder medals, stickers, a help
sheet on how to conduct the audit.

By 11.45am, all the volunteers had completed their allocated units and
returned to the RC.

After all the logistics were collected, a mass debrief was conducted. At
12.30pm, the programme officially ended.

*SCAPE, 2 Orchard Link, #04-01 GRID New Media Studios, Singapore 237978
http://www.eco-singapore.org I Tel: (65) 6333 5543 I Fax: (65) 6333 5537
Registered Address: 10 Anson Road, International Plaza, #15-14 Singapore 079903
 environmental challenge organisation (singapore)

Hong Kah North

ECO Living Programme April 2011
known as ECO Singapore

Our Youth. Our Future.

Society Reg. No: ROS326/2002
Charity Reg. No: 1739

Feedback

Many residents were eager to learn the energy-saving tips, while

volunteers also saw it as a great learning experience.

We will do our best to make the forms more user-friendly for the
volunteers.

Moving forward, we are all really excited to see how much reduction
we will see in the resident’s energy consumption.

*SCAPE, 2 Orchard Link, #04-01 GRID New Media Studios, Singapore 237978
http://www.eco-singapore.org I Tel: (65) 6333 5543 I Fax: (65) 6333 5537
Registered Address: 10 Anson Road, International Plaza, #15-14 Singapore 079903
 environmental challenge organisation (singapore)

Hong Kah North

ECO Living Programme April 2011
known as ECO Singapore

Our Youth. Our Future.

Society Reg. No: ROS326/2002
Charity Reg. No: 1739

Partnering Organisations:

ECO Living Programme would not be possible without the continuous

support from our partner organisations through the opportunity and
resources they provided.

The partner organisations for this event are:

ITE College West

RC Hong Kah North Zone 6

National University of Singapore

Philips

*SCAPE, 2 Orchard Link, #04-01 GRID New Media Studios, Singapore 237978
http://www.eco-singapore.org I Tel: (65) 6333 5543 I Fax: (65) 6333 5537
Registered Address: 10 Anson Road, International Plaza, #15-14 Singapore 079903