The update to the “Solar PV Roadmap for Singapore” is now publicly available at the website of the National Climate Change Secretariat and SERIS The original document published in 2014 has been updated through the combined efforts of a consortium consisting of (i) the National University of Singapore (NUS), representing the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS),

Congratulations to Associate Professor Goh Yang Miang for obtaining the MOE Tertiary Research Fund (MOE-TRF) Grant Call 2019 for his project titled “Intelligent Adaptive Learning Platform for Structural Systems”. He is the 1st Principle Investigator (PI) in the university to be awarded two MOE-TRF projects in two consecutive grant calls.   Details of the project

Heartiest congratulations to Ms. Cheryl Ng Wen Xuan (PFM Year 4 Student), whose dissertation work with Dr. Stephen Tay on vehicle-integrated photovoltaics (VIPV) was ranked highly by the International Scientific Committee and subsequently accepted for an oral presentation in the SNEC 2020 Scientific Conference. Her work contributes to the growing field of VIPV, which has

Professor Willie Tan is appointed as the series editor for the Book Series: World Scientific Series on the Built Environment. The aim of this series is to provide professionals, scholars, students, and other stakeholders with practical primers on key issues concerning the built environment, the engines of economic growth and development, The topics include city

The Department congratulates Associate Professor Hwang Bon-Gang, for winning the Publons Peer Review Awards 2019, for the Top 1% of peer reviewers in Cross-Field. This is based on the Publons global reviewer database, determined by the number of peer review reports performed during the 2018-2019 award year. The Top Peer Reviewer Award is part of

The Department congratulates Dr Stephen Tay, a senior lecturer at the Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, for winning the Young Green Building Advocate Award Category under the SGBC-BCA Sustainability Leadership Awards 2019. Jointly launched by Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), the SGBC-BCA Sustainability Leadership Awards

Photo: Priscilla Her (Left), Koey Tan (Right) with A/Prof Tham Kwok Wai The Department congratulates Ms Priscilla Her and Ms Koey Tan (BSc (PFM), Class of 2019) who received the NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize AY2018/2019 (Individual) for their dissertation. Priscilla Her’s Project: Integrated digital delivery: Implementation status, project performance, barriers and strategies. Koey Tan’s

The YRSB19 was held in Prague on 1st July 2019. The Department congratulates Ashan Senel Asmone (PhD, Building), under the guidance of Professor Michael Chew, for winning the best paper prize (1st Prize) for his paper “Development of a Green Maintainability Design Decision Support System”. Click on this link the full conference proceedings.

NUS Department of Building has been ranked top in the world for Green Building Project Management Research. Based on bibliometric analysis in 2019, this ranking was published in the journal, Building & Environment and spanned IRJ publications between 2005 and 2018. Associate Professor Hwang Bon Gang has also been ranked as the No. 1 top

The Department congratulates Eileen Teoh (PFM4) and Chan Kah Hon (PFM3), our NUS PFM team, who won the first prize for World Workplace Asia Student Awards 2019. The award aims to hear the best potential ideas where technology can play a part in facilities management and competes all institutions of Higher Learning and BCA Academy.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) Immersion and Competition (2018), is an annual event organized by National University of Singapore in collaboration with different universities and BIM software vendors, to enhance opportunities for students to learn and explore the real-life usage of BIM authoring tools. 14 students from Project and Facilities Management course were selected to participate

The Department congratulates Associate Professor Goh Yang Miang, Lim Zheng Yi, Hana Samad and Seah Yi Ling Eveline (Project and Facilites Management fourth year student), for winning the 42nd Australasian Universities Building Education Association (AUBEA) 2018 Best Paper (Technology) award. The conference paper co-authored by the team describes SafeSim Hazards, a simulation game which provides