SINGAPORE – Singapore’s largest funeral parlour, which is also South-east Asia’s first solar-powered one, began operations on Saturday in Woodlands, as the Republic prepares to meet the anticipated demand for after-death facilities and services. The nine-storey Woodlands Memorial complex, located in Woodlands Industrial Park, features 14 non-denominational halls of varying sizes that can accommodate groups ranging from 60 people to...
Singapore's largest funeral parlour, Woodlands Memorial, is a nine-storey complex with 14 wake halls. It is located in Woodlands Industrial Park. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
The 24-hour facility spanning 10,000 sq m of floor space also has a roof entirely covered with solar panels that will generate 168,000 kilowatt-hours of energy – or the equivalent of enough power for 866 four-room Housing Board households for a year. Woodlands Memorial – which won a 2020 National Environment Agency tender – is the first of four funeral parlour complex sites that the agency will roll out over the next decade to cope with the ageing population, and as Singapore prepares for an expected increase in resident deaths in the near future.
“Much care has been taken in the design of the building to make it conducive for the grieving and to take away the sense of dread many associate with after-death facilities,” said Mr How in a media release on Saturday.
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