our sustainability journey

• 2007

  green movement

  A green movement starts from the ground up to raise greater awareness of the impact of our practice on the environment.

• 2010

  environmentally sustainable design unit

  A department comprising architects, environmental engineers and analysts who work with design architects to analysts and enhance the performance of DP buildings.

• 2013

  dp sustainable design

  The ESD unit expands to become a full-fledged specialist consultancy that delivers holistic and innovative sustainable design solutions that are environmentally, socially and economically responsive to local climatic conditions, site context and needs of the end-users.

  
• 2015

  attributes of purposeful design

  A design tool and practice guide to analyse the environmental and social impact of DP projects. First launched in 2015, the APD was revised in 2021 to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the SG Green Plan 2030 and BCA Green Mark 2021. It sets eight sustainability outcomes for social, environmental and economic value, with sub-categories to guide the prioritisation of sustainability KPIs.

  
• 2021

  green-well-tech

  A whole-of-DP approach to harness DP‘s multidisciplinary strengths to adopt sustainable practices, wellbeing design and purposeful technology. Green-Well-Tech extends from our core values and strategically unifies our approach, actions and capabilities, to drive our practice towards purposeful and innovative solutions for better-than-sustainable outcomes.

  
• 2022

  smart sustainability unit

  SSU is established to develop new technology business ventures to create products, solutions and services for the BE industry that help projects achieve sustainability outcomes.

  
• 2024

  sustainability plan

  DP publishes its Sustainability Plan to communicate the practice‘s commitment to achieve net zero whole life carbon for its projects and net zero carbon emissions for its business operations by 2045. The Sustainability Plan outlines the strategy to achieve this target to reduce the impact of our actions on the environment, benefit the community and generate value.

  
• 2025

  our inaugural sustainability report

  This inaugural Sustainability Report is an act of accountability, setting out our voluntary commitment to achieving net zero whole life carbon across our projects, and net zero carbon emissions for our business operations by 2045.