{"id":20243,"date":"2026-10-16T14:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=20243"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:02:10","slug":"sustainable-infrastructure-competition-2026","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/news\/sustainable-infrastructure-competition-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Infrastructure Competition 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/10\/1.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, 10 October 2026, we hosted the Grand Finals of the Sustainable Infrastructure Competition 2026.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of research, planning and preparation, five finalist teams took centre stage to present their proposals to transform Serene Centre, a beloved landmark in the Bukit Timah community since the 1980s, into a Super Low Energy Building (SLEB). The students were challenged to develop comprehensive, practical and financially viable decarbonisation and retrofitting strategies, balancing sustainability ambitions with real-world engineering, operational, financial and regulatory considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all five finalist teams from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic!<\/p>\n<p>Our sincerest gratitude to our distinguished panel of judges for generously sharing their time, expertise and invaluable industry perspectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Professor Michael Chew, Head of Department, Department of the Built Environment, NUS<\/li>\n<li>Dr Teo Ho Pin, President, Building and Estate Management Alumni (BEMA)<\/li>\n<li>Mr Allen Ang, President, Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC)<\/li>\n<li>Mr Ho Wee Leong, President, Singapore Institute of Building Limited (SIBL)<\/li>\n<li>Ms Natalie Yong, 1st Vice President, Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (Quantity Surveying Division)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A special thank you to the lecturers, course chairs, teachers and mentors from the respective polytechnics for their encouragement and guidance for the participating teams.<\/p>\n<p>This competition offers these polytechnic students from diverse diploma programmes a meaningful introduction to what NUS Bachelor of Engineering (Infrastructure and Project Management), or B.Eng. IPM, is all about \u2013 Engineering, Management, Finance and Law.<\/p>\n<p>With so much more to discover, we look forward to welcoming the next generation of built environment leaders to NUS! If you enjoy the experience of solving real-world challenges, connecting ideas across disciplines and imagining how our buildings and infrastructure can be transformed for the future, IPM is where your journey begins!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the top five finalist teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":20242,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","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":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[83],"class_list":["post-20243","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20243","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20247,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20243\/revisions\/20247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=20243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}