Mr Oon Jin Teik, Chief Operating Officer, Singapore Sports Hub, presented the 2015 SCDF CERT Award by Mr Eric Yap, Commissioner, SCDF, at the Singapore Expo
Singapore, 14 November 2015 – The Singapore Sports Hub today received the 2015 Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) Company Emergency Response Team (CERT) Award at the Singapore EXPO, which was presented by Mr Eric Yap, Commissioner of SCDF. The award was handed to the Singapore Sports Hub in recognition of the outstanding performance displayed by a CERT of a company in an emergency.
The Singapore Sports Hub’s CERT, together with SCDF fire safety officers, located and effectively extinguished an electrical fire at level four of the National Stadium on 11 June 2015, while the stadium was being used for a track and field event during the 28th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.
Said Mr Oon Jin Teik, Chief Operating Officer, Singapore Sports Hub, who received the award on behalf of the Singapore Sports Hub: “We are honoured to receive this award by a partner we work closely with on events days to ensure the safety and well-being of our patrons. The Sports Hub’s Emergency Response Team is well trained and rehearsed to handle issues ranging in scale and complexity. This award signifies the professionalism of the Sports Hub team to manage a potential disaster in a high pressured environment.”
Prior to the SEA Games, Sports Hub and SCDF, including several other agencies, conducted a multi-agency emergency exercise at the Singapore Sports Hub to prepare, validate and update operational plans and procedures in the event of an emergency.
SCDF CERT Award is an annual award given to companies whose CERT demonstrates competence and responsiveness in mitigating real emergency and effectively avoiding a potential disaster.
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ABOUT SINGAPORE SPORTS HUB
The Singapore Sports Hub is Singapore's premier sports, entertainment and lifestyle hub with integrated community programming.
Consisting of a unique cluster development of integrated world-class sports facilities within the city, it plays a critical role in accelerating the development of sports industry, excellence and participation, and will take sports to the next level in Singapore.
Located on a 35-hectare site in Kallang, the Singapore Sports Hub will include the following facilities:
- A new 55,000-capacity National Stadium with a retractable roof and movable tiered seating
- 100PLUS Promenade that encircles the National Stadium
- A 6,000-capacity OCBC Aquatic Centre that meets FINA standards
- A 3,000-capacity OCBC Arena which is scalable and flexible in layout
- Water Sports Centre featuring kayaking and canoeing
- 41,000 sq m Kallang Wave Mall
- The iconic Singapore Indoor Stadium
- Shimano Cycling World
- Singapore Youth Olympic Museum & Singapore Sports Museum
- Sports Hub Library
- Daily community facilities and activities open for Singaporeans, including beach volleyball, hard courts for futsal, basketball and netball, lawn bowls, giant chess, skate park, climbing wall and running & cycling paths
The Singapore Sports Hub, which is managed by SportsHub Pte Ltd, is one of the largest sporting Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in the world. It is also Singapore's largest flagship PPP project of this nature, and has won the PFI award in London in 2011, World Architecture Festival Awards for Best Future Project in the leisure-led development category in 2013 and Sports Building of the Year in 2014.
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