Yeoh Ker Wei, Justin

Yeoh Ker-Wei, Justin

Senior Lecturer

Director, BTech Programme

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Biography

Dr Yeoh Ker-Wei, Justin is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Centre for Built Environment 4.0 Cluster (BE4) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). He graduated with a B.Eng (Civil Engineering), and subsequently obtained his PhD in 2012. 

Prior to his current appointment, Dr Yeoh worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at NUS, overseeing a research project involving the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) to enhance the capabilities of an A1-grade construction company. In particular, the project looks at site layout planning, equipment optimization, and cost estimation. Dr Yeoh has also worked as a project management consultant, identifying good site practices for construction.

Qualifications

  • PhD(Civil Engineering), National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2012
  • BEng(Civil Engineering), National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2006

Teaching Areas

  • Construction Project Management
  • Building Information Modelling

Research Interests

  • Applied Artificial Intelligence for Construction Management
  • Building Information Modelling for Construction Management
  • Computer-Aided Constructability Analysis
  • System Dynamics

Selected Publications

  1. D.K.H. Chua, Yeoh Ker-Wei, Y. Song (2010). Quantification of Spatial Temporal Congestion in 4D CAD, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 136(6), 641-649
  2. D.K.H. Chua, K.W. Yeoh (2011). PDM++: A Planning Framework from Construction Requirements Perspective, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 137(4), 266-274
  3. Z. Liu, D.K.H. Chua, K.W. Yeoh, (2011). Aggregate Production Planning for Shipbuilding with Variation-Inventory Tradeoffs, International Journal of Production Research, 49(20), 6249-6272
  4. D.K.H. Chua, N.T.Qui, K.W. Yeoh (2013). Automated Construction Sequencing and Scheduling from Functional Requirements, Automation in Construction (Published)
  5. J. K.W. Yeoh, and D.K.H. Chua (2017). Optimizing Crane Selection and Location for Multistage Construction Using a Four-Dimensional Set Cover Approach, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (Published)
  6. J. K.W. Yeoh, L. Peng and J.H. Wong, Integrating Crane Information Models in BIM for Checking the Compliance of Lifting Plan Requirements, Automation in Construction (Submitted)