Centre of Project and Facilities Management (CPFM)

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Featured Projects

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Education Technology

SafeSim Design

A digital simulation game for designers (i.e., architects and engineers) to grasp the concept of Design for Safety (DfS) by identifying design risk and mitigating them with design-related controls.

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Education Technology

Adaptive Learning

An online learning platform that provides personalised learning to learners of different academic background to achieve the same set of learning outcomes in project management.

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Machine Learning

Computer Vision

Using computer vision technologies to enhance the safety of construction sites by automatically detect hazardous activities and poor housekeeping, and alert site personnel.

PhD Scholarship

Industry Relevant Research Scholarship

  • Project Title

    Analytics-based approach to improving construction safety and health management

  • Department

    Department of the Built Environment, College of Design and Engineering

  • Period of Scholarship

    4 year full-time; Scholarship to start in August 2025

  • Industry Partner

    Changi Airport Group

Interested parties may email your resume and relevant information to the A/P Goh, Yang Miang. The position will be open until filled or 26 August 2024 (whichever is earlier).

Scholarship Overview

For all nationalities, but Singaporeans and Singapore Permanent Residents preferred.

  • Stipend per month for 4 years:
    • Singapore Citizens: S$3,500 + CPF
    • Singapore Permanent Residents (SPR): S$3,100
    • Non-Singaporeans/Non-PRs: S$2,700
  • S$500 top-up after passing PhD Qualifying Examination (applicable to all students)
  • Tuition Fee Subsidies for 4 years
  • The industry partner will provide their domain expertise, data, and access to construction sites

Requirements

  • Excellent bachelor’s (Honours (Highest distinction) or Honours (Distinction) or equivalent and above) and/or master’s degree in construction management, project and facilities management, civil engineering, computing, machine learning or related field;
  • IELTS (≥94) or TOEFL (≥7.0) is required if the medium of instruction at the university is not English (GRE is not required)

Other Requirements

  • Knowledge of Python and data analytics;
  • Willing to learn, independent and responsible; and
  • Strong English writing and communication skills.
Candidates with the following will be preferred (not compulsory)
  • Prior experience with machine learning and R,
  • Publications in peer-reviewed journals with high impact factor, and
  • Work experience in construction or other heavy industry.

IES-NUS Design for Safety (DfS) Library for Designers: Construction and Maintenance Design Risks

This DfS Library aims to assist designers in improving the comprehensiveness of their DfS review process by providing examples of construction and maintenance-related design considerations, design risks, and possible design changes and design-related controls. It is noted that as part of the DfS review process, the designers will have to consult with various stakeholders to ensure that the design changes and design-related controls are practicable and effective.

DfS Library

Journal Article

Authentic learning questionnaire for digital simulation games in higher education: A construction safety case study

Safiena, S., & Goh, Y. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2023.107420

Journal Article

An interpretable clustering approach to safety climate analysis: Examining driver group distinctions.

Sun, K., Lan, T., Goh, Y., Safiena, S., Huang, Y. H., Lytle, B., & He, Y. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2023.107420

Journal Article

Development and validation of the Design-for-Safety (DfS) climate measurement tool

Lim, M. S., & Goh, Y. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2023.2288003

Journal Article

Automated classification of “cluttered” construction housekeeping images through supervised and self-supervised feature representation learning

Lim, Y. C., Wu, J., Goh, Y., Tian, J., & Gan, V. J. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2023.105095

Journal Article

Using virtual reality (VR) to improve structural systems knowledge of project and facilities management students.

Hu, X., Safiena, S., Goh, Y., & Lin, A. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-023-10251-y

Free Seminar

Forecasting Project Duration in the Face of Disruptive Events: A Resource-Based Approach

Dr. Ashkan Zarghami