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NTU President Prof Subra Suresh, NEA CEO
Mr Tan Meng Dui, and Minister (Environment and Water Resources) Mr Masagos Zulki i, holding up concrete cubes made from slag. Image credit: NTU Singapore.
04 Current and potential forms of NEWSandTM: Currently, MSW slag is available. Further trials are needed to determine if treated IBA could also be a form of NEWSandTM.
long-term planning that allows us to change dynamically with confidence, for most scenarios would have been taken into account during the planning process.
The long and short of it is that we prioritise the optimisation of land use. This will always be true, but increasingly, there are emerging resource constraints on construction material like sand and granite (Dumiak, 2019) that would make the construction industry sit upright at the mention of NEWSandTM. It might not be too far-fetched to imagine the ground beneath us being built from NEWSandTM in the near future.
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