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Research Collaboration Projects NTU & PWD
Research Collaboration Projects NTU & HDB-BRI
Research Collaboration Projects NTU & NParks
Research Collaboration Projects NTU, BCA & SLA

Research collaboration projects between NTU and National Parks (NParks)

NTU has also been actively collaborating with National Parks (NParks) to produce suitable soil mixtures for the improvement of tree stability during rainfall. The objective is to maintain high soil strength during rainfall and sufficient water retention capacity of soil for the liveability of trees during dry periods.  The principles of unsaturated soil mechanics can be used in the optimization of suitable soil mixtures. Other collaborative research with NParks and funded by the Ministry of National Development (MND) involve the developments of specialized containers for growing street trees and specialized structural cells for trees growing in constrained planting urban spaces. NTU has also partnered with NParks and DHI-NTU centre of NEWRI to study the effect of rainfall and soil properties on the stability of trees during rainfall. In this project, guidelines to minimize tree failures due to uprooting conditions under conditions of prolonged high soil water content were developed.