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Friday 2 October 2015, 09.00-17.00

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER

9.00 – 9.05 CIOB President 9.05 - 9.35 Smart Buildings for a Sustainable Built

Environment

Dr. Gao Chun Ping, Acting Director, Building and Construction Authority

9.35 - 10.20 Key Considerations for Smart Buildings and Smart Cities

Dr. Sekhar Kondepudi, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

10.20 - 10.45 Tea break

10.45 - 11.30 Smart Environmental Design for the Tropics

Mr. Dion Anandityo, Sustainability leader, Arup Singapore Pte Ltd

11.30 - 12.15 Plant construction technologies utilizing IT and mechatronics for ensuring quality and delivery

Dr Shinobu Yoshida, General Manager, Infrastructure Systems Company, Hitachi, Ltd.

12.15 - 12.30 Q&A

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 - 14.15 Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), the next Transformation with Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Mr. Edmund Leong , Manager (BIM), Straits Construction Singapore Pte Ltd

14.15 - 15.00 R&D in Virtual NUS Campus Development for Virtual Singapore Project

Dr. Shen Lijun, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

15.00 - 15.20 Tea break

15.20 - 16.05 Smart Preemptive Urban Planning: How Singapore can Thrive for the Next 50 Years

Mr Tan Szue Hann, Principal Architect & Deputy Head (Sustainable Urban Solutions) Surbana Jurong

16.05 – 16.50 Legal issues arising from SMART Cities Mr. Christopher Chuah, Partner, Wong Partnership LLP

16.50 - 17.00 CIOB Award Ceremony and closing address

For enquiries please call CIOB Secretariat at 9858-0400 or email mnguyen@ciob.org.sg

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CIOB-NUS ANNUAL CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE 2015

SMART NATION & SMART CITIES

Mr Edmund Leong BIM-Manager, Straits Construction Singapore Pte Ltd

An Advocate in technologies to improving quality and productivity in Building Projects, Edmund currently leads a team with a

vision to enable the organisation’s business with BIM, incorporating activities from pre-contract to post-contract, and

prefabrications. In addition, he is also working on fostering a BIM value-chain for in-house projects, beginning with a

Developer/Owner’s perspective down to Operational Management. Edmund is also an active member in several Singapore’s BIM

related workgroups and has contributed in the development of Singapore’s BIM Guides and Training Curriculums.

Dr. Shen Lijun BEng, MEng, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore

Dr. Shen Lijun is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Building, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is a

seasoned researcher and Information Technology developer of web, database and mobile systems in the building and

infrastructure domains. His present R&D areas include Building Information Modeling (BIM), CityGML, semantic search, big data,

machine learning, building performance simulation, and IT-based project and facility management.

SPEAKERS

Christopher Chuah LLB ( Hons) , Dip Surv ( CEM), FCIArb, FCIOB, Partner, Wong Partnership LLP Christopher Chuah heads the Infrastructure, Construction & Engineering Practice at Wong Partnership LLP. His main areas of

practice encompass both front-end drafting/advice and construction disputes, both litigation and arbitration. He has acted for

subcontractors, main contractors and developers in numerous arbitration disputes both domestic and international. Christopher

has also acted as leading counsel numerous reported landmark cases on construction law. Christopher has authored and co-

authored many books and guidelines in the field of building and construction law. Christopher is an Adjunct Associate Professor in

construction law at the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore. He has been identified as a leading individual in

Singapore for Construction work by The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client's Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession since 2001.

Mr. Tan Szue Hann Principal Architect & Deputy Head (Sustainable Urban Solutions) Surbana Jurong

Szue Hann is a Registered Architect with the Board of Architects, Singapore, and a Council Member of the Singapore Institute of

Architects, chairing the Institution Thrust. He has been involved in several award-winning building projects, also been an invited

reviewer at the key architectural institutions in Singapore, and a speaker and moderator at various conferences. With the

Sustainable Urban Solutions team led by Dr Uma Maheswaran, Szue Hann’s current work is in sustainable and smart urban

environments in Singapore and the region, including BCA SkyLab, a test bed for future smart and sustainable building

technologies. In September 2015, Szue Hann was awarded the BCA-SGBC Young Green Architect of the Year Award.

Dr. Shinobu Yoshida General Manager, Matsudo Research Center, Infrastructure Systems Company, Hitachi, Ltd.

Dr. Yoshida has supervised research projects for industrial plant systems such as power station, water environment, and building

air-conditioning for last 4 years and specializes in promoting plant construction technologies utilizing IT and mechatronics. He has

34 years’ experience in the research field of structural dynamics, modeling and mechatronics and has worked for the development

of mechatronics products such as hard disk drives, automated teller machines, and laser processing machines for printed circuit

boards. Dr. Yoshida has extensive experience in the setting up Research Lab in Singapore. He is a Member of the American Society

of Mechanical Engineers as well as a Fellow of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Dr. Sekhar Kondepudi Associate Professor, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore

Dr. Sekhar Kondepudi has 25 years of global business and product experience in a variety of technology verticals including Smart Buildings, Smart Cities, Internet of Things and Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment. His experience spans academia, applied research and strategic planning, product management, business development & strategic sales in cross-discipline industry. He is a much sought after speaker on the topic of smart sustainable cities and building energy efficiency with presentations all across the world. Previously, Dr. Kondepudi led Global Product Management and Business Development for Smart+ Connected Communities (S+CC) Platform & Solutions at Cisco Systems. Previously, he was a General Manager of Mobile Devices for Wind River Systems, Director of Business Development at Motorola and worked at a variety of high tech start-ups in Silicon Valley.

Dr. Gao Chun Ping Acting Director, Building and Construction Authority

As the director of the Green Buildings Innovation Clusters (GBIC) at the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), Dr Gao works on

development and deployment of innovative technologies for building energy efficiency. He and his team works with partners to

carry out R&D, testbedding and demonstration activities to translate research findings into best practices and to accelerate the

adoption of promising technologies. Dr Gao has been actively involved in several major sustainable projects in Singapore and China,

such as the Zero Energy Building at BCA Academy and the Tianjin Eco-city. Trained as an engineer, Dr Gao obtained his doctorate

from NUS and worked as a consultant, researcher and Green Mark assessor before he joined GBIC. He is a member of American

Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the China Green Building Council (ChinaGBC).

Mr. Dion Anandity Sustainability leader, Arup Singapore Pte Ltd

Dion leads the sustainability team in Singapore to deliver regional projects across Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. With a

background in architecture, Dion is passionate about passive and active design. In his role as a sustainability consultant, his

expertise is in optimising a building's architectural design passively to conserve energy consumption while enhancing the indoor

environmental quality. His early architectural projects leveraged on environmentally-conscious design approaches, advocating the

implementation of sustainability in the early design stages of the project. As a LEED Pro Reviewer for the United States Green

Building Council, Dion is one of few globally who is certified to review LEED AP’s educational materials. Dion brings a wide range of

sustainability expertise to clients.

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