HomeTeamNS opens new clubhouse at Bedok Reservoir, that includes Singapore’s longest indoor water slide

SINGAPORE: A brand new five-storey clubhouse for House Workforce nationwide servicemen and the general public was formally opened on Wednesday (Jan 4).
 
Positioned inside Bedok Reservoir Park, the waterfront-themed clubhouse incorporates a vary of services equivalent to an infinity pool overlooking the reservoir, two-storey villas for gatherings and staycations, in addition to a water journey centre with Singapore’s longest indoor water slide.

The brand new clubhouse, with a growth price ticket of about S$85 million, can also be geared up with “sensible” digital capabilities and inexperienced options.

Talking on the opening occasion, Regulation and House Affairs Minister Ok Shanmugam mentioned the launch of the Bedok Reservoir clubhouse concludes a year-long collection of commemorative actions to mark 55 years of Nationwide Service.

“I’ve spoken beforehand about how vital and integral our nationwide servicemen are to the House Workforce,” he mentioned, including that NS officers carry out most of the identical duties as regulars and are skilled to related requirements.

“Our nationwide servicemen and their households throughout generations have supported Nationwide Service and the nation as a complete must be grateful in your dedication and in your sacrifices.

“Through the years, we’ve tried to construct a group for our NSmen to construct bonds, to cherish recollections and as a complete … to inform you that we worth you and we recognize what you do for the nation,” mentioned Mr Shanmugam, who can also be chairman of the HomeTeamNS Board of Governors.

“And one of many methods we’ve tried to do that is thru our new community of HomeTeamNS clubhouses across the island.”

HomeTeamNS Bedok Reservoir clubhouse is a part of a long-term grasp plan first drawn up in 2016 to construct new clubhouses which might be “state-of-the-art and top quality” by way of location, design and facility. The primary of three clubhouses beneath this masterplan opened in Khatib in 2021, that includes “sensible” capabilities.