Lighting Systems Energy Efficient Design: Audit and Analysis

K.Seshadri (Sesh) is a veteran of Singapore’s lighting industry for the past 45 years, retiring as Vice President, Philips Lighting Asia Pacific. He now continues as their Senior Consultant. Sesh is the Convener of Singapore Standards Working Group on Lighting products and Codes of Practice SS 530 (for Work places) and SS 563 (Emergency lighting). He was Secretary General of the Lighting Association of Singapore during 2009-2018. Sesh holds a B.E (Hons) Electrical degree from Madras University (India) and a Masters from Sheffield University (UK). He is an Adjunct Lecturer at the BCA Academy for Green Mark courses and for the Certified Energy Manager program at Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore. Sesh was a Part-time Lecturer at NUS for Master’s in Building Performance & Sustainability during 2009-2017. He is a popular speaker at Regional & International forums on Lighting, Health and Sustainability topics.

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.

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.

Mr. Chris Teo started his career path from sales, then to Project Management, and now a Lighting Consultant. Driven by his passion to provide innovative & cost-efficient solutions, Lux Consultancy Pte. Ltd. was created in October 2012 and now known as Lux Consultancy Singapore Pte. Ltd. To date, he has worked with Architects like A-Dlab, RT&Q, WOW, SCDA, Woha, ECOid etc. As for Interior Designers, he has worked with Museum IDs’, ID Departments, Jane Yeo Designs etc. Through the years of having hands-on experiences, he has excelled & perfected his capabilities of lighting design to better serve his clients. Through self-taught, he succeeded in presenting his ideas through Dialux to his clients, inclusive of both architects & designers. He is also a certified Dialux trainer since August 2013 and joined the Dial trainers network from Aug 2013 to 2019.