{"id":20018,"date":"2026-07-06T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/?post_type=nus-news&p=20018"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:13:13","slug":"dual-awards-recipient-for-research-work","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/news\/dual-awards-recipient-for-research-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual awards recipient for research work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congratulations to Lee Ze Yuan, whose research work titled “Utilising Blowdown Water for Greenery on Building Facades” was awarded the College-level “CDE Innovation & Research Award 2026 – High Achievement Award”, and subsequently the University-level “NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize”. This is an outstanding achievement as the recognition is highly competitive and awarded to rigorous student work that impacts real-world practices. Furthermore, Ze Yuan is the first student in the Department to be awarded both the CDE Innovation & Research Award 2026 – High Achievement Award and the NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize.<\/p>\n

Supervised by Associate Professor\u00a0Stephen Tay, Ze Yuan’s research focuses on circular engineering solutions within the built environment, specifically the repurposing of industrial blowdown water (BDW) to irrigate vertical greenery systems. The research further evaluates the effectiveness of vertical greenery irrigated with non-chemically treated BDW in reducing solar heat ingress, demonstrating the suitability of BDW for irrigation, and contributing to the mitigation of the urban heat island effect. This work goes beyond theoretical analysis to practical deployment through the involvement of both public and private sectors: National Parks Board (NParks), JTC Corporation (JTC), and Hydroleap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

College-level and University-level Awards Recipient for Outstanding Undergraduate Research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":20011,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[118,83],"class_list":["post-20018","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-cibest_news","news_category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20020,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20018\/revisions\/20020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=20018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}