NUS Team “7 Monkeys” supervised by Dr Yeoh Ker-Wei Justin won the Merit Award at the International Building Design Competition 2019 - Civil and Environmental Engineering

NUS Team “7 Monkeys” supervised by Dr Yeoh Ker-Wei Justin won the Merit Award at the International Building Design Competition 2019, as part of the International Built Environment Week (IBEW) held annually. The multidisciplinary team comprise 4 Civil Engineering students, 2 SDE students, and 1 ME student.

BEng (Civil) students are Joel Lee Yu En (CVE3), Teo Wei Ywin (CVE3), Tay Bing Sen (CVE4) and Ryan Leong Wei Ren (CVE 4). The International Building Design Competition 2019 is co-organised by Singapore Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and Singapore Polytechnic(SP). This event encourages students around the globe to form inter-disciplinary teams to design architectural spaces. The theme for 2019 was about creating a co-working space on Coney Island, accustomed to the needs of a millennial workforce.

36 teams participated and 8 winners were selected, with the NUS team clinching a Merit prize. The team received S$1,000 and a plaque in Sep 2019.

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