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>> My name is Alan Folks [phonetic
spelling], and I'm a Vice President of AECOM,

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which is a design planning
and engineering firm based

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in Los Angles, but I work out of Singapore.

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The job as the director of design for our
operations in Singapore, so I run the office

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of about 65 people; 30 of those are landscape
architects, 20 of them are urban designers

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and about 10 or so are economists, and we do
projects in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia,

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the Philippines, and Vietnam;
all throughout Southeast Asia.

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A typical project would be fairly large,
right now we're just starting a new project

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in Singapore for a new housing township,
and it's about 1,800 acres in size.

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It-- ultimately when it is
built out in about ten years

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from now it will include 56,000 housing units,
and a lot of job generating space and huge parks

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in open spaces, to underground
subway line, aboveground NLRT line,

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and lots of different kinds of uses
that you can find in a normal city.

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We typically partner with the clients
to find out what their needs are,

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but then as part of this large team there
has to be a transportation engineer involved,

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there's civil engineers involved,
there's economists,

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there's biologists looking at
the you know the site for us.

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Any number of disciplines that have to come
together to solve a fairly complex problem

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of how you house all these
people in one location.

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So it's a-- I call it a multi
disciplinary effort that would only succeed

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if we are all working together
and trying to get this done.