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We are honoured to have been recognised as a sponsor at the Pan Pacific Congress 2025 in Singapore. Here is why this event matters, and what it has to do with the work KGS does every day.
The Pan Pacific Congress of Real Estate Appraisers, Valuers and Counsellors (PPC) is one of the most established professional gatherings in the Asia Pacific region, bringing together national valuation bodies from countries including Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, and the USA. Held once every two years, the congress serves as a platform for industry experts to exchange views on valuation practice, methodology, and professional standards.
The 32nd edition was hosted in Singapore by the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV), running from 29 September to 2 October 2025 at the Concorde Hotel. Around 30 papers were presented across topics including sustainability, digitalisation and AI, valuation law, and real estate market challenges.
Valuation and Sustainability: Embracing the Challenges in Practice. A theme that resonates deeply with what KGS does.
This year's theme, Valuation and Sustainability: Embracing the Challenges in Practice, is one that speaks directly to how KGS thinks about its own work.
Sustainability is often discussed in abstract terms. Carbon targets. Net zero commitments. Green pledges. What the Pan Pacific Congress gets right is the emphasis on practice. On what it actually takes to embed sustainability into day-to-day professional decisions, business models, and industry norms.
That is exactly the challenge KGS has been working on since 2016 in the e-waste sector. As featured in our Vulcan Post story, we started with one van and a simple question: why is so much valuable, recoverable material ending up in landfill? Nine years later, we run Singapore's most integrated e-waste recycling facility in Tuas, combining general e-waste processing, battery recycling, and solar panel recycling under one roof.
Sustainability in practice, not just in principle, is what drives every decision we make.
KGS had a booth at the congress, giving us the opportunity to speak directly with real estate professionals, valuers, and sustainability advocates from across the Asia Pacific region.
The conversations were genuinely interesting. Professionals in the built environment are increasingly grappling with questions that intersect directly with e-waste: what happens to the electronics and infrastructure in buildings at end of life? How do organisations account for responsible disposal in their sustainability reporting? What does circular economy thinking look like in property and asset management?
These are questions KGS is well-positioned to help answer, both for large organisations through our certified e-waste recycling services, and for individual residents through TakeBag, our free e-waste recycling programme that makes responsible disposal as simple as dropping a bag at a nearby PICK! locker.
Sponsoring the Pan Pacific Congress is not about branding. It is about being present in the rooms where the conversations that shape professional practice are happening.
The valuation and real estate community is one that takes long-term thinking seriously. These are professionals whose work is fundamentally about assessing value over time, accounting for risk, and making decisions that will hold up years down the line. That mindset aligns naturally with sustainability principles, and with the kind of responsible, forward-looking approach to resource management that KGS is built around.
Progress comes when professional excellence and long-term responsibility move together. Events like PPC2025 are where those two things get brought into the same conversation. KGS is proud to have played a part in that.
Progress comes when we align professional excellence with long-term responsibility for people, businesses, and the planet.
A sincere thank you to the organisers at SISV, the partners, and every participant who made the 32nd Pan Pacific Congress a success. The conversations at events like this are what keep the sustainability agenda moving from intention to action.
Our mission has always been to be the answer to the e-waste question, and to build toward a sustainable tomorrow, one device at a time. Events like PPC2025 remind us that we are part of a much larger community of professionals working toward that same future.
For business e-waste recycling enquiries, reach us at ask@kgs.com.sg. For residents looking to recycle old electronics for free, visit takebag.kgs.com.sg.
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