“Compared to a normal building, Gaia produces about 2,500 fewer tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. This is equivalent to more than 7,000 roundtrip flights between Singapore and Hong Kong.”

– Prof Ho Teck Hua in his first speech as NTU President at the opening of Gaia, Asia’s largest wooden building and NTU’s eighth zero-energy building

This story was published in the Jul-Aug 2023 issue of HEY!. To read it and other stories from this issue in print, click here.