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.

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).

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.