We are delighted to share that on October 16, 2024, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, IBPSA Singapore, in collaboration with ASC and NUS, hosted an insightful seminar titled “Building Energy Performance – Trend and Challenge” at SDE4-05-07.
The event featured two distinguished speakers:
Dr. Jason Zhang, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, who brought academic insights into the evolving trends in building energy performance.
Mr. Praveen Hassan Chandrashekar, Director of the Sustainability & Resilience Office at Surbana Jurong, who shared practical perspectives on current challenges and sustainable solutions in the industry.
The seminar sparked engaging discussions among participants, fostering connections and the exchange of ideas aimed at improving building energy efficiency. We look forward to more collaborative events that continue to enrich our vibrant community of professionals and researchers.
Stay connected with IBPSA Singapore for updates on future seminars and activities!
We are excited to announce that IBPSA Singapore recently held its first Technical Committee meeting on October 9, 2024. This get-together marked the beginning of a new initiative to bring together professionals, researchers, and government agencies in the building performance simulation community in Singapore.
As part of the IBPSA Singapore Chapter, the Technical Committee aims to foster a vibrant exchange of ideas and innovations in building simulation. Recognizing the expertise and strong networks of our committee members, the meeting set the stage for future collaboration, with members supporting one another to organize seminars and webinars that will benefit the IBPSA community.
The committee also invited IBPSA Fellow, Prof. Lam Khee Poh to share IBPSA World background and formation. He was recently invited to Building Simulation 2023 Conference as keynote speaker. Through his sharing, we came to know that IBPSA World was formed at about the same time of Total Building Performance & Diagnostic (TBPD) concept was conceived in 1986. See Figure Below.
To all our members and the wider community, stay tuned for updates on upcoming seminars and events led by our newly formed Technical Committee. These initiatives are part of IBPSA Singapore’s ongoing commitment to advancing the field of building performance simulation and fostering professional growth and collaboration across the industry.
Thank you to our Professional Committee members for their dedication and expertise. We look forward to many productive sessions ahead!
Digitalization is a major force propelling today’s world forward. Modeling and digital services are enabling and transforming buildings into smart, efficient, sustainable, safe, and comfortable environments. In this webinar, two local experts have been invited to share their leading efforts and viewpoints about the application of CFD simulations and digitalization service towards high performance building design. Mr. Ken PO, Head for CFD team from Building System and Diagnostics Pte Ltd, will demonstrate how CFD is effectively used as “value-add” engineering tool to improve the design of complex mechanical ventilation system. Mr. DongKyun KIM, Technical Director of DLABs Pte Ltd, will then present and share their “AI-assistant Platform” for supporting automatic design interactive processes to meet various design requirement during the concept/ schematic design stage.
For enquires on program and registration matters, please feel free to contact Dr. Adrian Chong by email.
Seminar Agenda:
1:50pm
Registration
2:00pm
Welcome remarks by Dr. Adrian CHONG, President of IBPSA-Singapore
2:10pm
“Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation as engineering tool to solve complex mechanical ventilation design problem”, Mr. Ken PO, Head (CFD), Building System and Diagnostics Pte Ltd, Singapore.
2:40pm
“Riding on digitalisation to drive high performance building design”, Mr. Dongkyun KIM, Technical Director, DLABs Pte Ltd, Singapore
3:10pm
Q&A
3:30pm
Closing Remarks
To join as member of IBPSA-Singapore: CLICK HERE. IT’S FREE!
IBPSA Singapore and ASHRAE Singapore Chapter signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 16 Dec to facilitate cooperation and promote collaborations in areas of mutual interest. This includes holding joint building simulation and building engineering related activities such as conferences, symposia, seminars, technical talks, courses, networking sessions and site visits.
The MOU was signed by IBPSA Singapore President Dr. Adrian Chong and ASHRAE Singapore Chapter President Dr. Yuichi Takemasa. This collaboration will tap on the complementary strengths of IBPSA-Singapore and ASHRAE Singapore Chapter to assist in advancing the quality of engineering practice and building simulation.
Since the beginning of 2020, our daily life has been severely affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. With evidence suggesting that airborne transmission may play a larger role in the spread of COVID-19 and increasing number of publications pointing to its impacts on building energy efficiencies, a webinar on the topic might be timely.
In this seminar, Dr. KANG Chang Wei from IHPC, A*STAR and Dr. Zuraimi SULTAN from BEARS are cordially invited by IBPSA Singapore to share their recent research activities related to the pandemic. Dr. KANG will first present their R&D efforts in Assessment of Environment Transmission Risk and Future Resilience. After that, Dr. Zuraimi will elucidate Energy impact of building recommendations to reduce risk of COVID-19 transmission in Singapore. Building practitioners, policy makers, ESD consultants, architects and planners, as well as researchers and students who are interested in relevant topics, are all welcomed to participate in this seminar.
For enquires on program and registration matters, please feel free to contact Dr. POH Hee Joo by email: pohhj@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg.
Seminar Agenda:
1:50pm
Registration
2:00pm
Welcome remarks by Dr. Adrian CHONG, President of IBPSA-Singapore
2:10pm
“Assessment of Environment Transmission Risk and Future Resilience”, Dr. KANG Chang Wei, Deputy Director of Fluid Dynamics Department, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR
2:40pm
“Energy impact of building recommendations to reduce risk of COVID-19 transmission in Singapore”, Dr. Zuraimi SULTAN, Program Director, Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS)
3:10pm
Q&A, to be moderated by Dr. POH Hee Joo, Senior Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR
3:30pm
Closing Remarks
To join as member of IBPSA-Singapore: CLICK HERE. IT’S FREE!
The NSF-funded Research Coordination Network (RCN) in Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) announces its second international workshop on Putting Sustainability into Convergence: Connecting Data, People, and Systems with a special focus on social science, engineering and computer science integration. Long-term sustainability requires technology advancements, resilient infrastructure, adequate policy, and behavioral change. The main objective of a sustainable and resilient infrastructure is where a multitude of resources can be dynamically shared and individual behavior be incentivized to better meet community needs. While focusing on underserved groups, the intention is to improve overall quality of life and well-being by providing adequate access to infrastructure and services. Inspired by the NSF vision, this international workshop proposes convergence research that is built upon trans-, inter-, and multi-disciplinary concepts including two main characteristics: Challenges and opportunities from deep scientific questions and critical societal needs, and intensive integration across disciplines.
After a few year hiatus, the IBPSA Singapore Chapter has elected a new executive committee and is awaiting Registry of Society confirmation. The new executive committee members for 2018-2019 are:
Chapter President: Dr. Steve Kardinal Jusuf
Vice-President: Mr. Majid Sapar
Treasurer: Dr. Adrian Chong
Secretary: Mr. Yong Ping Quen
Memberships: Mr. Pudupadi Balachander Rajesh
Sponsorships: Mr. Praveen Anand
Training And Seminar: Dr Poh Hee Joo & George Xu Xg
Student Committee: Mr Sriman NCVK
Technical Publications: Mr Prashant Anand, Mr. DongKyun Kim
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