Republic Polytechnic - The Eco-Friendly Community

With environmentally friendly features such as fritted glasses, flooring made from recycled nylon and tyres, and sunshade louvres were integrated in the building design is why Republic Polytechnic is the first educational institution to win the Green Office Label Award (2009-2011). RP has also replaced the conventional air-conditioning system, the campus is equipped with tanks containing chilled water, which are recharged at night using low tariff electricity which significantly reduces overall electric consumption.

With all the eco-friendly efforts that RP has done, we should do our best to help the school uphold it’s image as well, whether or not we get awards for it.

One of our fellow RP schoolmates has done exactly this. On the 9th November 2011, the team of students from the School of Applied Science (SAS) has won the Commendation Award in the tertiary category of the Green Wave Environmental Care Project organized by the Sembawang Shipward. These students ti.led their project “Making hydrophilic reticulated ceramic using plant fibre as templates” which also happens to be their final-year-project. The purpose of their project was to find an effective method to produce clean water from sea water, through a manner similar to reverse osmosis. This is something that can be done to minimise the use of electricity as it makes use of the low-evaporation technique