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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 27): Lendlease Malaysia held a virtual media interview today to talk about the topic titled ‘How Lendlease has made resilience a key cornerstone in all its developments at The Exchange TRX’. The focus was on Lendlease’s efforts in building resilient communities with the use of extensive technologies, and the need to focus on the safety and well-being of their staff, residents and visitors.

The event was moderated by public relations firm Zeno Malaysia senior manager Asher Joan, and the speakers include Lendlease Malaysia managing director and head of country Stuart Mendel and Lendlease residential director for TRX Residences Eric Chan.

“Building resilience and thriving communities is something that we have been focusing on and we aim to highlight the importance of creating great cities and communities that can withstand the pandemic and climate change, which will in turn encourage more people to live and visit here,” said Mendel.

In this respect, he stated that the extensive use of technologies will leverage the use of cameras and thermal detectors/scanners in the short and medium term to ensure compliance with SOPs for all to continue to work, communicate and operate the business effectively.

An artist’s impression of The Exchange TRX. (Photo by Lendlease Malaysia)

“We will also foresee further acceleration on this use of technology to run our businesses and cities moving forward. The technological progress made over the past few years and our team’s environment is such that today’s media interview was done on a remote basis albeit with some occasional technical hitches. The work from home practice is also fundamentally of these platforms today. This is not something that you would want to sustain permanently, but is quite manageable in the medium term,” said Mendel.

“In terms of our master plans of integrating technology into the cities and communities that we create, the focus is on the extensive use of CCTV, the ability to program it and to detect large groups and gatherings, and to refine the AI behind the technology,” he added.

Meanwhile, Chan said: “We can also use technology to understand people and vehicle traffic flows within our developments so as to understand where people are dwelling and when they want or do not want to stay. These efforts will ultimately help to improve the security overlay.”

He explained that technology has eliminated or reduced the need to touch any surfaces. “This is where we will build applications for people to scan and access into these assets without the need to touch and open doors.

“In this case, we are in the midst of developing a smart community application, which is expected to be launched in 2021. The idea behind this app is based on the concept of ‘my home and my precinct’, whereby we want residents buying their units and living here to feel that the entire precinct is part of their home. Not only that the units will be smart home enabled, but we will also embark on various future forward technologies such as the use of robotic concierge services to assist visitors and residents,” said Chan.

Edited ByWong King Wai
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