LEE SIEW EANG (DR)

Associate Professor

Department of the Built Environment, College of Design and Engineering

PhD, Heriot-Watt University; MSc, Heriot-Watt University; BSc (Building) (Hons.), Heriot-Watt University, UK.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

  • BSc (Building)(Hons), 1977, Heriot-Watt University, UK
  • MSc, 1979, Heriot-Watt University, UK
  • PhD 1985, Heriot-Watt University, UK

EMPLOYMENT RECORD:

  • Research Associate, Science and Engineering Research Council Grant, UK; and Heriot-Watt University, UK (1981-1984)
  • Lecturer, MSc (Acoustics), Heriot-Watt University, UK (1984-1985)
  • Lecturer, Department of Building, NUS (1985-1989)
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Building, NUS (1989-1998)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Building, NUS (1988 to present)

ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP:

  • Deputy Head (Research & Laboratory Coordination), Department of Building (1986-1992)
  • Founding Director, Centre for Building Performance and Construction (1991-1992)
  • Vice Dean (Research), School of Design and Environment (1992-2000)
  • Founding Director, Centre for Total Building Performance (1999-2013)
  • Deputy Head (Research), Department of Building (2010-2013)
  • Co-Director, Building Energy Efficiency Hub@NUS, Department of Building (2013-2016)
  • Member, Board of Directors, National Environment Agency, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (2006-2008)
  • Member, Board of Directors, Singapore Green Building Council (Founding) (2009-2013)

PROFESSIONAL/CONSULTING ACTIVITIES:

  • Chairman, Advisory Committee, Singapore Environment Institute, National Environment Agency (2006-2008)
  • Chairman, HDB Committee for Environmental Sustainability (2008-201 1)
  • Chairman, R&D Work Group, Inter-Ministerial Committee for Climate Change, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (2004-2006)
  • Chairman, Board of Judges, ASEAN Energy Efficient Building Best Practices Awards, ASEAN Energy Ministers’ Meeting (Annual Awards) (2001-2003)
  • Chairman, Technical Coordination Committee, Singapore Green Building Council (2009-2013)
  • Member, Expert Member for Project Selection Committee, EU-ASEAN Energy Facility Programme (2004-2008)
  • Member, Green Mark Advisory Committee, Building and Construction Authority (2005-2016)
  • Member, Technical Evaluation Panel, L2NIC Programme, Ministry of National Development (2015-2016)
  • Chairman, Technical Sub-Committee on Acoustics, Green Mark Version 2015 Technical Committee, Building and Construction Authority (2015-2016)
  • Member, Building Energy Benchmarking Report (Annual) Technical Committee, Building and Construction Authority (2013-2016)
  • Member, Energy & Emissions Modelling and Technology Assessment Group, National Research Foundation, PMO (2013-2016)
  • Member, Technical Committee for Review of Boundary Noise Limits Regulations, National Environment Agency (2016)
  • Member, Energy Services Company (ESCO) Accreditation Committee, jointly hosted by the National Environment Agency and the Building and Construction Authority (2007-2016)
  • Consultant to the World Bank, Green and Energy Efficiency Consultant for the Chongqing Urban Renewal and Integration Programme (9 hospital developments) (2011-2013)
  • Consultant, ECO City Expert Group Keppel Corp for Tianjin Eco-City, China (2005-2007)
  • Lead Consultant, Total Building Performance Consultants for the National Library Building Development Project, Ministry of Information and the Arts (1999-2005)
  • Lead Consultant, Total Building Performance Consultants for the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Project, Ministry of Health (2006-2010)

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING:

  • PF1104 Environmental Science for Building
  • PF3302 Energy Management
  • PF4101 = Dissertation studies

GRADUATE TEACHING:

  • BPS 5111 Integrated Building Design
  • BPS 5222 Indoor Environmental Quality
  • BPS 5225 Building Energy Audit and Performance Measurement and Verification

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Building energy efficiency performance measurement, evaluation and benchmarking
  • Building and district levels energy dashboard development
  • Development of automated energy auditing system
  • Green building assessment method development
  • Green building products assessment and evaluation
  • Building acoustics and noise control for tropical cities
  • Environmental and transportation noise studies

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  • Lee, S.E., Alam, S.M., Alan, T. and Tiong, $.T. An investigation of community noise in high-rise residential
    environment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 127(6), 3511-3518, 2010, USA
  • Alam, S.M., Kua, H.W. and Lee, S.E. A total building performance approach to evaluate building acoustics
    performance. Journal of Architectural Science Review, 53(2), 213-223. 2010, USA
  • Chirag Deb, Siew Eang Lee, Junjing Yang, Mattheos Santamouris: Forecasting diurnal cooling energy
    load for institutional buildings using Artificial Neural Networks. (In Press); Energy and Buildings: Elsevier, 2015
  • Dong*, B, SE Lee and H S$ Majid, “A Holistic Utility Bill Analysis Method for Baselining Whole Commercial
    Building Energy Consumption in Singapore”. Energy and Buildings, 37, no. 2 (2005): 167-174.
    (Switzerland)
  • Dong”, B, C Cao and S E Lee, “Applying support vector machines to predict building energy consumption
    in the tropical region”. Energy and Buildings, 37, no. 5: 545-553, 2005, (Switzerland).

AWARDS:

  • Scottish Universities Research Scholarship (1977 — 1980)
  • William Watson Travel Fellowship (1979)
  • Science and Engineering Research Council Grant, U.K (1980-1984)
  • British Council Fellowship (Imperial College) (1996)
  • ASEAN Energy Ministers’ Award for Excellence in Energy Management (2006)
  • Singapore President Awards for Excellence in Design: Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Project (2011)
  • Ministerial Inaugural R&D Award (Principal Investigator for Zero Energy Building @BCA Academy) (2011)