Design and Performance Assessment of Low Carbon Buildings

Professor Lock has a unique blend of practicing and academic experience acquired through a career which is equally split between the industry and the academia. He received his B.Sc. (1st Class Honours) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1975 from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He completed his Ph.D. degree at the same university in 1979 researching on the design optimization of electrical machines. He joined the National University of Singapore as a lecturer in 1980 and was the Head of its Power and Machines Division, Department of Electrical Engineering, when he left in 1997 to set up his consulting practice. He returned to the academia in 2016 as a Professor at Singapore Institute of Technology.

He is an Emeritus President and Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore. He has served as a Board Member of the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore for 14 years. He is well-versed with standards and codes of practice and was the Chairman of Singapore Standards Council for 6 years, actively contributing to the promotion and establishment of Standards and Codes of Practice in Singapore. He plays an active role in energy efficiency, being the Chairman of Accreditation Committee for Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) and the Co-Chair of Steering Committee of Singapore Certified Energy Managers (SCEM) Scheme. He received the Public Service Medal (2015) and the Public Service Star (2020). He was conferred the Outstanding Power Engineer Award by the IEEE Power Engineering Chapter in 1998. He is a Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore, Senior Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology and Honorary Fellow of ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations. He is the co-author of a book “Grounds for Grounding: a Circuit-to-System Handbook”. The 2^nd edition was published by IEEE/John Wiley in 2023.

Steve Kardinal Jusuf is an Associate Professor in Engineering Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology. He has a PhD in Building Science from the Department of Building, National University of Singapore. He received the World Future Foundation PhD Prize in Environmental and Sustainability Research for his PhD work on air temperature prediction model within urban climatic mapping method. His research interests are in the area of urban micro‐climate, building information modeling (BIM) and green building technology. He has worked in a number of research projects with various Singapore government agencies, including urban climatic mapping for sustainable urban development and BCA Greenmark. He also sits as the member of BCA’s BIM FM Workgroup who drafts BIM Guide for Asset Information Delivery. He teaches several modules in the Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering (Building Services) program, including Engineering Drawing for Building Services, Building Physics, Building Energy Simulation and Assessment; and Facility Management using BIM.

Dr. Zhao Ming-Shan obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from NTU Singapore in 2015. His research is related to high performance structural steel, steel-concrete composite construction and low embodied carbon construction materials. His teaching interests include mechanics of materials, finite element method for structural analysis, and design of steel and steel-concrete composite structures. He has been awarded a total research grant of SGD$1.9M as a Co-PI. He has published 17 international refereed journal papers and 25 international conference papers.

Chew Beng specialises in material science and defects study. He teaches in the SIE(BS), UoG programme on Advanced Materials Technology and EPE, SIT-Newcastle Electrical Power Engineering Program on Signals and Comms as well as Electrical Machines. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (ECE) and PhD (ECE) from the National University of Singapore. He has worked as a scientist in IMRE, A*STAR before his current appointment with SIT.

Dr. CHIEN Szu-Cheng is a building scientist and educator working in the fields of lighting for built environment and urban farming. He joined the Cluster of Engineering, Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) in 2017 as Assistant Professor and was later named Associate Professor in 2022. Before joining SIT, he was a visiting scholar in UC Berkeley in 2016. He had worked with Nanyang Technological University and NRF CREATE SinBerBEST Program (Singapore) as a research fellow from 2011 to 2016. Previously in Austria, he was a senior researcher in TU Vienna and visiting researcher in Austria Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2011. He has led and participated in a variety of research and design activities related to the topics of lighting, visual comfort, urban farming, sustainable/ intelligent buildings in Austria (FWF), Singapore (MOE, SFA, LTA, NRF, BCA), USA. He works closely with Singapore’s government agencies and various industry collaborators on exploring the best practices of visual performance, human-centric and horticulture lighting in tropical built environment. His research team has received NMRC Clinician Innovator Development Award (CIDA) in Singapore in 2021. He is the members of Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Committees, namely i) Daylighting and ii) Aged and Partially Sighted Lighting.He is a certified BIM professional and Green Mark Manager in Singapore. His professional affiliations include membership in several international associations, including IES, IBPSA, WSSET, and APEC Lighting Working Group. He obtained his PhD in Architecture from TU Vienna, MFA (Arch) from TNNUA, and BSc (Arch) from NCKU in Taiwan respectively.

Dr. Kang earned his First Class Honours in B. Eng (Mechanical Engineering) from Monash University, Australia (PSC scholarship). He obtained his M. Eng, MBA and Doctor of Philosophy in Building Science from the National University of Singapore.

He is the managing director of MPF Consultants Pte. Ltd. He is registered as a chartered engineer in Australia and the UK, a corporate member of the International Facility Management Association (USA)/British Institute of Facilities Management (UK) in Facilities and Project Management, and of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (USA) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (USA), Fellow of the Institute of Plant Engineers, UK, and Fellow of the Asian Concrete Institute of Singapore.

Dr. Kang founded the Institution of Facilities Management (IFM), in Singapore. He is a committee member of the “Spring Singapore Technical Committee” for building and maintenance services. He is an adjunct A/P at School of Mechanical and Aerospace, Engineering faculty, Nanyang Technological University, and adjunct A/P at the University of Manchester, UK, spanning over a period of 5 years. He was also an adjunct A/P from 2010 – 2012 in the School of Facilities and Events Management, SUSS, and Chairman of the Programme Advisory Committee.

He began his career as a design and maintenance engineer with the Public Works Department (PWD), Singapore. He acquired a wealth of knowledge spanning 25 years of work experience in corporate strategy, human resources, communications, sales & marketing, general business management, and international asset and facilities management (FM). He also served as general manager of IT Park Bangalore India, director of Wuxi Industrial Park China and general manager of CDL’s 100% owned City Building Management Pte. Ltd.

Dr. Kang is also an adjunct associate professor at the Management Development Institute of Singapore. He also lectures at the Singapore Building Construction Authority (BCA) & BCA Academy on Green Mark FM certification, construction management productivity, sustainable FM, project design planning/control and FM solutions.

He has several academic exchanges of asset and energy management with Chinese universities and industrial parks, retail malls, office/commercial and institutions on becoming green via the integration of data analytics, integrated maintenance planning with artificial intelligence, innovative technologies, BIM-FM, strategic and sustainable FM.

Ricci specialises and teaches in financial accounting and accounting standards. She obtained her PhD in Accountancy from RMIT University. Ricci is a member of Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) Australia. She is also a committee member for the Sustainability Reporting Education Working Group under the Corporate Reporting Committee of ISCA, an external reviewer for the Singapore CA Qualification (Foundation), and an examination marker for Singapore CA Qualification.