Kua Harn Wei

Associate Professor

Department of the Built Environment

Current Research Interest

– Sustainable Policy
– Sustainable building and materials
– Climate change
– Sustainable Technology
– Building Integrated ecological and biological carbon sequestration
technology
– Sustainable building materials

Teaching Areas

– Research Methods
– Environmental Science in Building
– Total Building Performance
– Materials Technology

Qualification

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA PhD, Building Technology
Program. May 2006. Created a new policymaking model to explain the associated effects
of policy tools aimed at promoting sustainable building materials industries and
prescribed rectifying policy solutions.

Selected Academic Awards/Scholarship

– Carroll L. Wilson Award (2001); awarded to support development and research
work in Tanzania
– MIT Industrial Liaison Program Scholarship (2001)
– MIT Martin Family Society of Fellowship for Sustainability, 2002-2003
– NUS Oversea Graduate Scholarship (2002-2005)
– Air & Waste Management Association Scholarship (2005)
– International Society of Industrial Ecology Conference Scholarship (2005)
– 3rd Prize, Outstanding Student Poster Award, International Society of Industrial
Ecology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 12-16 June 2005
– 1st Prize, Sustainable Development/Pollution Prevention Student Paper/Poster
Competition, 98th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Air & Waste
Management Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 21-24 June 2005 (first paper
submitted for this conference)
– 3rd Prize, Sustainable Development/Pollution Prevention Student Paper/Poster
Competition, 98th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Air & Waste
Management Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 21-24 June 2005 (second
paper submitted for this conference)

Research Projects

– Principal investigator, Green Chimney. Grant: $82,789
– Principal investigator, Corporate Sustainable-developmental Responsibility.
Grant: $16,000