THAM KWOK WAI (DR)

PhD (Architectural Science), MSc(Building Science) University of Sydney, BEng (Mech Eng)(Hons), NUS

Fellow (March 1991); Lecturer (1991-1995); Senior Lecturer (1995-2000); Assoc. Prof (2000- present) National University of Singapore
Lecturer, Ngee Ann Polytechnic (1983) Associate Professor, NUS (1983)
Administrative Officer, Singapore International Airlines Ltd (1982)

Co-Director, Building Energy Efficiency Hub@NUS, 2013 – present
Head, Department of Building, NUS, 2007 — 2013
Deputy Head (Research), Department of Building, NUS, 2002 — 2007
Deputy Director, Centre for Total Building Performance (2000-2007), NUS
Indoor Air Quality Research Group leader (1992-present), Department of Building, NUS

President (June 2006 — Sep 2009), Trustee (June 2012— 2016), International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ)
Chairman, PSB TC Environmental Standard Testing (Singapore) (2002 to present)
Chairman, Technical Expert Panel for Biological Terrain Decontamination (National Environmental Agency, MEWR) (2015 — present)
Fellow, International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) Academy of Fellows (since 2005)
Advisor, World Health Organisation, Indoor Air Quality Guidelines (2006)
Visiting Professor (Technical U of Denmark, 2015 and 2016; Czech Technical U 2008 to present)
Editorial Board Member (Indoor Air; Building and Environment; Energy and Buildings; Building Performance Simulation; Energies; Future Cities and Environment)
President, Healthy Buildings (2003)

Uichi Inouye Memorial Asia-International Award (2017)
ASEAN Energy Award (2011)
Zero Energy Building – Minister for Nat Dev R&D Award 2011 (Distinguished Award) — Team prize
The Enterprise Challenge (TEC) Awards – Public Service Division, PMO, Singapore. (2004)
Commonwealth Fellowship, 1998 — 1999 in the field of Indoor Air Quality
NUS Overseas Scholarship Award (1984 — 1990)
Singapore International Airlines Scholarship (1978 — 1982)

Single-Coil Twin Fan Variable-Air-Volume (VAV) System for Energy Efficient Conditioning of Independent
Fresh and return Air Streams
Energy Efficient Variable-Air-Volume (VAV) System with Zonal Ventilation Control
Dual Compartment Ventilation and Air-conditioning System having a Shared Heating Coil
Water Tank Storage System to Harvest Solar Energy (US patent granted (2010)
A Building Façade System
Dynamically Responsive Fan Filter Unit For Occupied Premises
Enhanced Air Quality Pte Limited (Singapore, 2004) — Founding Director

Healthy Buildings 2003; RoomVent 2004; RoomVent 2009; CLIMA 2013; 36th AIVC 2015; Healthy Buildings Asia 2017

Tham KW (2016). Indoor air quality and its effects on humans — a review of challenges and developments
in the last 30 years, Energy and Buildings, 130: 637-650.
Tham KW and MO Fadeyi (2015). Towards whom should indoor environmental quality control be
sympathetic towards – asthmatics or non-asthmatics? Building and Environment, 88:55-64.
Pantelic J, Sze-To GN, Tham K W, Chao CYH and Khoo MYC. (2009). Personalized ventilation as a
control measure for airborne transmissible disease spread. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 6, no. 6
(Supplementary) (2009): 715-726, (United Kingdom).
Tham KW (2004). Effects of temperature and outdoor air supply rate on the performance of call center
operators in the tropics. Indoor Air, 14 (S7): 119125. (Denmark).
Tham KW (1993). Conserving energy without sacrificing thermal comfort. Building and Environment 28(3): 287 299.