Design and Performance Assessment of Low Carbon Buildings

Dr. Lock is a Professor (Engineering) at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) and the Head of its Energy Efficiency Technology Centre. He plays an active role in energy efficiency and sustainability, 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 is an Accredited Tier Designer awarded by the Uptime Institute. He is a specialist consulting engineer in the areas of mission-critical electrical design, power quality, EMC, and safety. He conducted many power failure investigations of data centres.

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 both his B.Sc. (1975) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He was a faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore for 17 years when he left to set up his consulting practice in 1997. He returned to the academia as a professor at SIT in 2016 after 20 years in the industry.

He is a registered Professional Engineer (Electrical) and served as a Board Member of the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore for 14 years. He is a Fellow of Academy of Engineering Singapore and an Honorary Fellow of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations.

He is the co-Laureate of the 2021 WFEO Medal for Excellence in Engineering Education awarded by the World Federation of Engineering Organisations. He received the Public Service Medal (2015) and the Public Service Star (2020).

Steve Kardinal Jusuf is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Cluster, SIT. He is a Chartered Engineer (UK) and Member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (MCIBSE); a member of The Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES); and a certified LEED Green Associate (a US-based green building rating system).

He serves as the Co-Chair of the Sustainability Education Committee (SEC) at the Singapore Institute of Technology. His expertise and research interests are in green building technology and sustainability; Building Information Modelling (BIM) and building energy simulation; and neighbourhood microclimate modelling.

He is a member of several national-level working groups, setting up industry standards and guidelines. He is also a member of the Passive Displacement Coil Technical Working Group, developing TR 102:2022 technical reference, a code of practice for passive displacement cooling (PDC) systems for air-conditioning applications. He was a member of the Resource Efficiency Working Group of Clean and Green Standard for Urban Farms (Agriculture), developing SS 661:2020, a specification for clean and green urban farms — Agriculture, led by SFA.

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.