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EDB: Singapore tops global innovation ranking of over 70 countries   
 

Future of Jobs Reports 
World Economic Forum, Jan 2025

This year’s edition captures the perspectives of over 1,000 employers, representing more than 14 million workers across 22 industry clusters & 55 economies. Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts & the green transition are among the major drivers expected to shape & transform the global labour market by 2030:

  • Broadening digital access
  • Increasing cost of living
  • Climate-change mitigation
  • Aging & declining working age populations
  • Geoeconomic fragmentation & geopolitical tensions

Skills Demand For the Future Economy Report 2025
Skillsfuture SG, Jan 2025

SSG studied 5 years of job posting data from 2019 to 2023, to understand changes to job requirements for skills, & the use of digital applications and tools (“Apps & Tools”), focusing on the priority skills in the Green, Digital and Care Economies. It also includes a deep dive on the Creative Industries, where jobs and tasks are both reliant on human ingenuity while also profoundly affected by advances in Information Technology

SSG: SSG Launches Interactive Dashboards on Jobs and Skills Data, Spotlights Singapore’s Creative Industries in Latest Skills Report 

MOE: Opening Address by Ms Gan Siow Huang, Minister of State, Ministry of Education for the Launch of the Skills Demand for the Future Economy Report 2025, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre

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Industry News from Government & Other Agencies

BCA: Construction Demand To Remain Strong For 2025

BCA: Safe Design and Installation of Outriggers or Overhead Supports for Suspended Scaffolds

BCA: CORENET X IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

BCA: W AND Z CLAUSES FOR USE WITH NEC4 ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT (ECC) IN SINGAPORE

BCA: Notification of Changes to the Building Control Regulations 2003 - Building Control (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2024

JTC: Powering the future: How businesses can benefit from Punggol Digital District's smart grid

LTA: Ten New Friendly Streets by 2026

LTA: Three New Stations to Connect Downtown Line to North-South Line 

MND: Speech by Minister Desmond Lee at the Opening of Keppel Coastal Trail

MND: Speech by Minister Desmond Lee for the BCA-REDAS Built Environment and Real Estate Prospects Seminar

MND: Speech by 2M Indranee Rajah at the Launch of "From Rail to Trail" Exhibition

MND: Launch of Alliance for Action to help hoarders in Singapore through whole-of-society approach

MOT: Speech by Senior Minister of State for Transport, Dr Amy Khor on the Launch of 10 New Friendly Streets 

SGBC: Industry Circular on Unification of GMAP & GMAP(FM) Qualifications and Update to Green Mark Project Requirements for New GMAAP Applications

SGBC: SGBC Seminar: Rethinking Building Materials for a Low Carbon Future

SGBC: SGBC-OCBC Built Environment Decarbonisation Challenge – 2nd Edition

STB: Usher in a Big, Big Year of the Snake on Sentosa 

URA: Celebrating 14 years of transforming Singapore’s rail corridor into an extraordinary community space

URA: Speech by Ms Indranee Rajah, Second Minister for National Development, at the launch of the ‘From Rail to Trail’ exhibition

WSHC: WSH Bulletin 15 January 2025 Survey on Waterproofing Works in the Construction Industry

WSHC: WSH Insights 23 January 2025 Working Safely with Metal Scaffolds

Other Industry News