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I never imagined I’d be inspecting building facades for a living. As a young engineer, my dream was to design iconic skyscrapers—those towering glass marvels that you see in every major city skyline. But fate had other plans. One day, while on a project site, I got a little too enthusiastic about inspecting a cracked facade and, well, let’s just say I ended up hanging from a scaffold. That incident piqued my interest in facades, and years later, here I am at the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), ensuring Singapore’s buildings remain safe and sound from the outside in. Now, …



