Brown Bag Fridays - April Series
Venue: NUS Cities Office
Time: 12PM onwards5 April 2024 |
Updates on NUS Cities Advisory
by Prof. Lam Khee Poh (Director of NUS Cities Advisory Services; Provost's Chair Professor of Architecture and the Built Environment)
Prof. Lam is an educator, researcher, architect and consultant, specialising in life cycle building information modelling and computational design support systems for total building performance analysis and building diagnostics.
He has completed many major funded research projects in Singapore and the USA, and findings are widely published. A building performance consultant for several major award-winning projects and certified green buildings in the private and public sectors in Singapore, China and USA, Prof. Lam was awarded the 2013 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation from the US National Science Foundation “for exemplary research contribution to technology innovation and positive impact on technology, industry and the society as a whole”. He also received an IBM Faculty Award in 2010 and was conferred the inaugural iBuildSG LEAD Distinguished Fellow by the Building and Construction Authority, Singapore in 2020.
Prof. Lam graduated from the University of Nottingham, UK with a B Arch (Hons) Degree and holds a PhD (Architecture) from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He is a UK licensed architect, and elected Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) for his significant contribution to architecture, the profession, and the community. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University.
12 April 2024 |
Managing Socio-ecological transitions - the case of Nature-based Solutions in Singapore
by Dr. Michael McGreevy (Research Fellow, NUS Cities)
Dr. McGreevy is a research fellow at NUS Cities and is Co-PI in the Health and Ageing project. He has a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of South Australia. Prior to commencing his PhD studies, he worked as a strategic/policy planner for state and local government in South Australia. Since completing his PhD in 2016, Dr. McGreevy has undertaken research at Flinders University and the National University of Singapore into the relationship between urban complexity, population health, and systems resilience, in areas such as energy, transport, stormwater management, neighbourhood economic and social dynamics, and public policy.
19 April 2024 |
Sharing
by Dr. Olivia Jensen (Deputy Director, Lloyd's Register Foundation Institute of the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR))
Dr. Jensen is a social scientist specialising in water and environmental policy with a focus on urban Asia. She joined IPUR in 2018 as Lead Scientist overseeing the Institute's work related to the Environment and Climate, and was appointed Deputy Director last year. Before joining IPUR, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (NUS).
Dr. Jensen's research is concerned with the spectrum of urban environmental risks and the design and evaluation of policy interventions to strengthen the resilience of urban communities. At IPUR, she partners with government agencies and international organisations to develop and deliver policy-relevant research. Her current projects include collaborative assessment of urban water risks; public and expert perceptions of climate risks and responses and the design of interventions to close these perceptions gaps. Past projects have focused on flood and sea level rise risk in Asian cities and the role of citizen science in assessing and managing environmental risks.
Dr. Jensen holds a PhD and MSc in Development from the London School of Economics and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford.
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