Building & Environment

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Biocatalysis and Biodegradation Database: University of Minnesota. Comprising Microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways primarily for xenobiotic, chemical compounds.

CDisc: Provides designers with a wide range of information on building products. Compiled from the CIDB Catalogue and CADBase. (Dec 2000) [CD-ROM] Please borrow CD-ROM from Reference Counter.

Construction Infonet : An on-line information service that offers subscribers fast and easy access to construction information and statistics.

EBSCOhost: Academic Search Premier searches more than 3,500 full text publications covering a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Business Source Premier almost 3,000 business and management full-text publications. Applied Science & Technology Abstracts contains more than 700 core scientific and technical publications covering engineering, chemistry, computers, physics, telecommunications and more. [Intranet] Quick Guide | Demo

Emerald Intelligence: Covers over 80 journals on management, marketing, property and operations. Titles in this electronic library covers a wide range of topics including: Property, Human Resource, Engineering, Assembly automation, Quality Management, Business Process Management, Library and Information Services, Training, Logistics. Full text articles from 1994 onwards. [Intranet] Quick Guide

Factiva: Global news and business information service that combines the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. Covers real time news from 8,000 worldwide publications, news pictures and company financials. [Intranet] Quick Guide | Demo

Industrial Projects Locator: Access information on a wide range of research, development, and demonstration projects focusing on energy efficiency technologies in industry. Project contacts, funding amount, start and end dates, participants, related industries, and project abstracts included.

INLIS: Singapore Land Authority's integrated land and property portal. Public can make online queries about land ownership and download online street maps free of charge. It provides quick information on land ownership like the name of the public agency in charge, or its managing agent and contact numbers. Whilst StreetMap@Singapore, offers basic information like buildings and road names, updated every three months.

International Standards Organisation Online: Provides all ISO International Standards and drafts, classified into fields, groups and subgroups, according to the International Classification for Standards (ICS) as well as the contact information of ISO members, the title of ISO committee procedure for ordering ISO standards and publications.

Intute: Science, engineering, technology. Search engine to find websites on various aspects of engineeing and science topics.

McGraw-Hill Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science & Technology: Includes the complete text of the new eighth ed. of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and technology; clear definitions of more than 105,000 terms from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of scientific and technical terms, and more than 7,100 articles covering up-to-date information from leading international scientists and engineers. [CD-ROM] Please borrow CD-ROM from Reference Counter. Quick Guide

Real Estate Database: An index to building briefs of the following nature held in the Buildings Collection of the Library's Reference Section: commercial buildings, industrial buildings, residential buildings, commercial-residential buildings. Both local and foreign projects are covered. It provides technical details about the building project and their prevailing sale prices. [Intranet]

REALIS: Real Estate Information System: Urban Redevelopment Authority. Includes the TIMESERIES DATABASE - price and rental indices, stock and vacancy, supply in the pipeline, sales and launches; PROJECT DATABASE - details of private residential and Executive Condominium projects and also commercial and industrial projects; TRANSACTION DATABASE - details of property transactions of private residential properties and Executive Condominiums, offices, shops, factories and warehouses; STOCK DATABASE - stock and vacancy statistics by micromarkets. [Intranet] Included: Quarterly reports from URA | Property Market Information

Singapore EHS legislation handbook: Includes wide coverage of environmental, health and safety laws and subsidiary legislation guidelines. The publication also provides an overview of the legal system in Singapore, international conventions, various incentive schemes, useful environmental contacts and emergency trends. [Intranet]

Singapore Master Plan 2003: URA Singapore. The Master Plan is the statutory land use plan which guides Singapore's development in the medium term, over the next 10 to 15 years. It is reviewed once every 5 years. In the Master Plan 2003, plans are drawn up to enhance the way we live, work and play.

Singapore Standards & Technical References: SPRING Singapore. Download or search the Singapore Standards Catalogue by Title, Product Synopsis or both.

Standards Library Document Center: A one stop site for searching all relevant industrial standards common to US and worldwide market. Document Center's database also represents organizations like the American Association for Contamination Control (AACC), Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), Elastic Fabric Manufacturers Council of Northern Textile Association (EFMC), National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) and Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI).

SurfIP: The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. A vertical portal where the world's protected ideas can be accessed easily and rapidly. Databases include the European Patent Office (EPO), UK Patent Office, and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) websites. Quick Guide

URA Land Sale and Property Market: Contains Private Residential Property transactions with caveats lodged within the last 12 months and caveats lodged by purchasers for properties after the exercise of the options or signing of Sales and Purchase agreements.

Worldwide Standards Service: Indexes more than 90% of the most commonly used international standards. [CD-ROM] Please borrow CD-ROM from Reference Counter. Quick Guide

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