SINGAPORE – An initiative to coat Housing Board blocks with heat-reflective paint will be rolled out to all HDB estates by 2030, after a pilot project in Tampines showed that the cool paint reduced ambient temperatures by up to 2 deg C.
The scheme will be offered to all town councils over the next five years, with the Government paying the extra costs from using the more expensive cool coatings instead of conventional paint.
Senior Minister of State for National Development Tan Kiat How said on Feb 3 that scaling up this initiative to all existing estates will cost the Government an additional $60 million.