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Brown Bag Fridays - March Series
Venue: NUS Cities Office
Time: 12PM onwards

 

7 March 2025 |
Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)

by Dr. Chen Tianyi (Research Fellow, Solar Energy Research Institue of Singapore)

Hear about BIPV building design and latest research conducted by Dr Chen and his team at SERIS.
Dr. Chen is a trained architect and expert in green building, particularly in BIPV, with extensive experience in both academia and practice. He is the co-founder of Power Façade, a spin-off of SERIES and NUS and has several years of professional experience working on mixed-use complexes under firms such as Aedas and 10 Design in Hong Kong.
Dr. Chen has an international education background, holding a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) from Hunan University, a Master of Architecture (M.Arch) from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (AADRL), a Master of Advanced Studies in Computer-Aided Architectural Design (MAS CAAD) from ETH Zurich, and a PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS).

 

14 March 2025 |
Integrated Land Use and Transport Modelling

by Adjunct Associate Professor Xie Litian (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS and Senior Data Scientist (Transport), URA)

Singapore's long-term planning relies heavily on a robust land use - transport modelling framework to enable integrated planning. In this sharing session, A/Prof Xie will introduce this framework, outlining its key components and applications. He will then discuss existing gaps in the current framework and share recent advancements aimed at addressing these limitations. Finally, he will outline future directions and priorities for the modelling enhancement, ensuring its continued relevance and effectiveness in supporting Singapore's evolving planning needs.

With a PhD degree in Transport Modelling, Professor Xie Litian has more than 20 years of extensive experience working in the public and private sectors, covering key areas of Transport Planning, Traffic Study and Mobility Strategy & Solutions.
At the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Singapore, he leads to develop innovative solutions and simulation tools to enhance Land Use & Transport Integrated Planning across the government agencies.  On a part-time basis, Professor Xie has been teaching postgraduate programme at universities since Jan 2014.  In addition, he reviews technical papers for pre-eminent journals in the fields of transportation research.
From 2018 to 2021, he worked as Vice President (mobilityX) and Deputy Head (Transport Planning) at SMRT, leading divisions to develop Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) Solutions and deliver transport consultancy projects. From 2008 to 2018, Professor Xie worked at the Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) where he provided expertise advice to departments across the Authority and led specialist teams to undertake transport modelling and planning work which determined the transport network and development strategies for different districts in Singapore. Professor Xie was the Project Manager for Singapore Transport Impact Assessment (TIA) Guidelines (2011 & 2017 Editions), which set the technical requirements for transport studies towards car-lite developments. Before joined the LTA, he worked in international consultancy firms with mang projects delivered in Singapore and other countries such as China, India, UAE, etc.

 

21 March 2025 |
Sharing of Research

by Dr. Michael McGreevy (Research Fellow, NUS Cities)

Dr. Michael will be sharing on some of his latest research and reflect on the projects and their impact.

Dr. McGreevy is a research fellow and lecturer for CDE4501 Cities for Health. He has previously lectured for Liveable Cities seminars and is co-PI of Healthy Cities projects. 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.

 

26 March 2025 (Wednesday! in lieur of NUS Well-Being Day) |
Climate Change and Migration

by Associate Professor Fan Yi (NUS Department of Real Estate, Business School)

A/P Fan is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Real Estate, Business School, National University of Singapore. She is working on household sustainability, a burgeoning interdisciplinary field between sustainability and household finance. Specifically, A/P Fan is (a) investigating social sustainability—especially intergenerational mobility—from a household finance perspective, and (b) melding environmental sustainability—an important need for current and future generations—with real estate market from a lens of household.
In future, she is looking for interdisciplinary research with public health, engineering, and energy. For more information about her projects, please visit her personal website: https://fanyinus.weebly.com/.

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