1. technology and computing

Co-Host:
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rd
3 Cities Roundtable
2014
Research Synopses
LIST OF PARTICIPATING INSTITUTES AND AGENCIES
ATIONS
17 Research Institutions reached out to:
- Asia Research Institute, LKYSPP (NUS)
- Botany Laboratory, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS
- Behavioural Sciences Institute (SMU)
- Centre for Infrastructure Systems (NTU)
- Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities (NUS)
- Centre for Transportation Research (NUS)
- Complexity Institute (NTU)
- Energy Research Institute (NTU)
- Environmental Research Institute (NUS)
- EXQUISITUS Centre for E-City (NTU)
- Institute of Policy Studies, LKYSPP (NUS)
- Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (SUTD)
- Living Analytics Research Centre, SMU-CMU
- Singapore-ETH Centre, Future Cities Lab
- Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
(SMART)
- SMU-TCS iCity Lab
- SMU-CMU Living Analytics Research Centre
- Sustainable Earth Office (NTU)
Agencies
and
Ministry
divisions
Research
Institutions
-
National Climate Change
Secretariat
National Population and
Talent Secretariat
PSD Centre for Strategic
Futures
Civil Service College
-
iDA
SLA
-
Min Law MCI MCCY
MND Divisions (incl.
CLC)
URA
HDB
BCA
NParks
AVA
MND
PMO
-
MOT
MEWR
-
MTI
MOT Futures Division
LTA Academy
-
-
A*STAR
EDB (SSIPO)
JTC-NUS/NTU/SUTD
Industrial Infrastructure
Innovation (I3) Centres
-
MEWR divisions
including EBERU
PUB
NEA
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LIST OF PARTICIPATING INSTITUTES AND AGENCIES ................................................................................2
SECTION 1: RESEARCH CENTRES/ INSTITUTES/ PROJECTS............................................................................5
1.
2.
3.
Asia Research Institute, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore ..6
Botany Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore .............7
Behavioural Sciences Institute, Singapore Management University ................................................8
(A)
Centre for Technology and Social-Behavioural Insights (CTSBI) ...............................................9
4.
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6.
7.
8.
9.
Centre for Infrastructure Systems, Nanyang Technological University ......................................... 10
Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities (CSAC), National University of Singapore .............................. 12
Centre for Transportation Research, National University of Singapore ........................................ 15
Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University .............................................................. 17
Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University ...................................................... 19
Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore ........................................... 22
(A)
Singapore Peking Oxford Research Enterprise (SPORE) Programme .................................... 22
(B)
Shanghai Jiaotong University and National University of Singapore Joint Programme on Energy
and Environmental and Sustainability Solutions for Megacities (E2S2) – July 2017 Singapore Peking
Oxford Research Enterprise (SPORE) Programme ............................................................................. 23
(C)
Centre for Climate Change Studies, C3S at NUS .................................................................... 23
10. EXQUISITUS Centre for E-City, Nanyang Technological University ................................................ 24
11. Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) ........................................................................................................... 28
(A)
Future Cities laboratory (FCL) ................................................................................................ 28
(B)
Future Resilient Systems (FRS) ............................................................................................... 30
12. iCity Lab, Singapore Management University –Tata Consultancy Services ................................... 31
13. Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, University of Singapore.. 32
14. Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (CIC), Singapore University of Technology and Design35
(A)
SUTD-JTC I3 Centre ................................................................................................................. 37
15. Living Analytics Research Centre, Singapore Management University-Carnegie Mellon University37
16. Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology .................................................................. 40
(A)
Future Urban mobility IRG ..................................................................................................... 40
17. Sustainable Earth Office (SEO), Nanyang Technological University .............................................. 44
SECTION 2: RESEARCH DEPARTMENTS IN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES........................................................ 45
18. Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) .............................................................. 46
(A)
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)................................................................................... 46
(B)
Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) .................................................................. 51
19. Agri-food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA)................................................................ 54
(A)
Aquaculture Technology Department ................................................................................... 54
(B)
Harvest Technology Department ........................................................................................... 55
(C)
Laboratories Group ................................................................................................................ 56
(D)
Post-Harvest Technology Department................................................................................... 58
20. Building & Construction Authority (BCA) Research Group ............................................................ 62
21. Civil Service College........................................................................................................................ 65
(A) Institute for Governance and Policy (IGP) .................................................................................... 65
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22. Economic Development Board (EDB)............................................................................................. 66
(A)
Safe and Security Industry Programme Office ....................................................................... 66
(B)
Smart-Sustainable Cities (SSC) ............................................................................................... 67
23. Housing Development Board (HDB)............................................................................................... 67
(A)
HDB Building Research Institute ............................................................................................ 67
(B)
HDB Strategic futures office ................................................................................................... 70
24. Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) ................................................................. 73
(A)
Technology and Planning ....................................................................................................... 73
25. JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation (I3) Centre ....................................................................... 74
(A)
NTU-JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation Centre ............................................................ 74
(B)
NUS-JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation Centre ............................................................ 82
(C)
SUTD-JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation Centre .......................................................... 87
26. Land Transport Authority (LTA) Academy...................................................................................... 88
27. Ministry of National Development (MND)..................................................................................... 90
(A)
Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) .............................................................................................. 90
(B)
Research and Development (R&D) Division........................................................................... 91
(C)
Research & Strategy Management ........................................................................................ 92
(D)
Strategic Planning Division, MND .......................................................................................... 93
(E)
Infrastructure Division, MND ................................................................................................. 93
28. Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) ...................................................................... 93
29. Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) ........................................................ 94
(A)
National Environment Agency (NEA) ..................................................................................... 94
(B)
PUB ......................................................................................................................................... 94
30. National Parks Board (NParks) ....................................................................................................... 99
(A)
Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology (CUGE)....................................................................... 99
(B)
National Biodiversity Centre ................................................................................................ 103
(C)
Singapore Botanic Gardens Research & Conservation Branch ............................................ 105
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National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) ............................................................................... 107
Singapore Land Authority (SLA) ................................................................................................... 110
Smart Nation Programme Office, Prime Minister Office ............................................................. 112
Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) ...................................................................................... 112
Cover photo, photos on p 3, 25: Courtesy of williamcho
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SECTION 1: RESEARCH
CENTRES/ INSTITUTES/
PROJECTS
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1.
Asia Research Institute, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National
University of Singapore
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The Asian Urbanisms Cluster (AUC) at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore
explores Asia’s diverse urban experiences historically, contemporaneously, and toward the future. It
seeks to contribute to theory and applied research on the reflexivity of society-space relationships in the
built environment and city life from local to global scales, in diverse contexts in Asia, and through
comparative studies with other world regions. The orientation of the cluster is towards research that
speaks in transformative ways to urban-related theories, debates and public policy issues in and beyond
Asia. Avenues for research include (but are not limited to): liveable cities past, present and future with
regard to vernacular urban heritages, modernization and globalization; urban discontents, insurgencies
in cities and through social media, and spaces of hope through participatory city-making; and disaster
governance in an age of urban transitions and global climate change.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
1
Brief description
Practical
Outcomes
Disaster
Governance
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
This research program brings social sciences, August 2017
arts and humanities, and physical/technology
sciences together to make Singapore a hub in Funded by
MOE Tier 2
Asia for research and training on disaster
Grant
prevention, adaptation and humanitarian
assistance.
2
Urban
Heritage and
the
Vernacular
City
This research program is concerned with both Continuing
historically inherited urban structures and
living culture as they are expressed through
place-making and local production of urban
spaces by people who reside in the city.
Conferences,
Publications,
3
Spaces of
Hope
This program covers a wide range of research Continuing
on grassroots activism for liveable and socially
just cities. It includes digital and social media
as a form of social mobilisations. It also links
with such issues as citizenship, transnational
migration, multicultural societies, and the
right to the city.
Conferences,
Publications
Conferences,
Publications,
Policy,
Networks
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
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S/N
1
Contacts
Mike Douglass
Email Address
[email protected]; [email protected]
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2. Botany Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of
Singapore
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
Our lab conducts botanical research, specifically on forest ecology and urban agriculture.
Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Research
Projects
Projects
1
2
Brief
Briefdescription
description
Urban
Greenery
Studies
Using models
developed from
actual local surveys
and consulting
published studies
elsewhere, we
develop a
quantitative
framework for
identifying
biodiversity hotspots
and setting greenery
targets.
Enhancing
the Urban
Native
Biodiversity
of Singapore
We demonstrated
how species that are
native to Singapore’s
own habitats can be
used in urban
landscaping.
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
July 2013
Completed
December
2013
Practical Outcomes
Estimated
Practical
Date of
Outcomes
Completion
& Status of
Project
 Frameworks for greenery
planning to maintain/enhance
urban biodiversity
 Greenery calculator and heat
maps for identifying biodiversity
hotspots and setting greenery
targets


Completed
Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
A/P Hugh Tan Tiang Wah
[email protected]
2
Dr. Chong Kwek Yan
[email protected]
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
Demonstration plantings for
natives-only landscaping
Propagation of Singapore’s native
plants
Growth and survival rates of
native plants post-planting
Protocols for monitoring wildlife
in parks
Other Contact details
65162717
65162708
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Behavioural Sciences Institute, Singapore Management University
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
Vision - To develop into an iconic institute in Asia that provides thought leadership and addresses
frontier topics in behavioural sciences that are of critical importance, sustained interest and practical
value in the academic, business and public policy communities.
Mission - To create, disseminate and apply knowledge in the behavioural sciences that will lead to
evidence-based solutions to practical problems facing businesses and governments, in both local and
global contexts.
Areas of Focus - The Institute focuses on the following five areas and examines their applications to
organisational practices and public policy.
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Quality of Life and Well-Being
Culture and Behaviour
Thinking and Decision Making
Work Behaviours
Methods in Behavioural Sciences
There are past and ongoing projects with several government agencies on social, health, environment
and security issues.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
1
Social
Experiments
[Channel News
Asia (CNA)-BSI
collaboration]
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
Five social experiments were conducted to Completed
demonstrate a psychological phenomenon March 2014
that explains how the way people think, feel
and behave could be affected by the situation
they find themselves in. The five experiments
conducted are as follows:
1. Bystander Effect
2. Reconstructive Memories
3. Over-Justification Effect
4. Social Facilitation/ Inhibition Effect
5. Stereotype Threat Effect
Practical
Outcomes
A 5-part
programme
series titled
“The Social
Experiment”
was shown on
CNA to share
these
psychological
phenomena
with the public.
The series was
aired on five
consecutive
Saturdays in
March 2014.
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(A) CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL-BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS (CTSBI)
On 1 July 2014, BSI jointly established the Centre for Technology and Social-Behavioural Insights with
A*STAR, to tap on high performance computing technology, big data analytics and behavioural sciences
to study people-centric issues and human behaviour including how people think, feel and act in different
settings.
The centre adopts an integrative approach drawing on the advanced computational modelling and data
analytics expertise of A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), the integrative
information technology capabilities of A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) and the in-depth
scientific expertise on human behaviours of SMU’s Behavioural Sciences Institute (BSI). Such information
can be used to enhance planning and address issues in different areas such as retail, logistics, urban
planning, education and community development
Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
1
Professor David Chan
Email Address
[email protected]
Other Contact details
6828 0300
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Centre for Infrastructure Systems, Nanyang Technological University
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
Centre for Infrastructure Systems (CIS) was established within School of Civil & Environmental
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, on 1 June 2006. The Centre conducts fundamental and
applied research led by real needs of a sustainable Singapore land transport system, and translates the
research findings as policies, programmes and countermeasures. CIS serves as a platform to provide a
sustained and collaborative industry partnership for national research-centric programmes, to pull in
campus-wide and overseas expertise beneficial in forging and harnessing multi-disciplinary research
capabilities.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
The NTU-SEO-CIS project is aimed at Completed
studying how drivers adapt behaviourally June 2013
when transiting from an open road to a
road tunnel, and when driving in long
road tunnels.
1
Driver
behavioural
adaptation to
underground
road conditions
2
Modelling
multimodal
travel behaviour
linking nonmotorised
transport with
public transport
The NTU-SEO project aims to understand
the multimodal travel preference and
requirement in the transfer section, and
propose a multimodal travel behaviour
model (mode choice and route choice.
In progress
(data
collection)
May 2015
3
Modelling,
simulation, and
travel time
prediction of a
road network
disruption
The NTU-SEO project aims:
 to model the duration and effect of
various types of road network
disruptions;
 to estimate driver behaviour and
responses due to road network
disruptions; and
 to predict time-dependent traffic
performances and travel time.
In progress
(data
collection)
May 2015
Practical
Outcomes
Insightful
knowledge is
established on
the perception
and behaviour
of drivers in
road tunnels
which is useful
for enhancing
driving
experience and
traffic safety in
road tunnels.
Not yet
Not yet
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Study into the
signage
framework for
commuter
facilities
[NTU-LTA
collaboration
on page 88]
This NTU-LTA collaborative research In progress
reviews the signage framework used to Dec 2015
assist non-motorist commuters around
and inside public transport nodes (train
stations, bus interchanges and major bus
stops), and to identify opportunities and
suitable wayfinding elements to fill in the
gaps in Singapore’s current signage
framework.
Not yet
The project is expected to propose policy
guidelines for the provision of a
wayfinding system that will complement
and value-add to the existing signage,
bearing in mind the needs and abilities of
a diverse range of users.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
Wong Yiik Diew
[email protected]
Associate Professor
Director – CIS
Other Contact details
6790 5328/5250
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Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities (CSAC), National University of Singapore
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities is a research platform to develop cutting-edge urban planning
solutions, technological innovations and design explorations, with a focus on the challenges of high
density environments. With a mission to advance knowledge in the area of sustainable cities and
liveable environments, CSAC’s research is founded on both academic rigor and practical application.
Much of its strength lies in its ability to harness the extensive faculty and intellectual resources of NUS as
a comprehensive university to ensure that research is always multi-disciplinary in nature, and grounded
in sound theoretical principles and methodological foundations. Apart from its academic collaborators,
CSAC works closely with government agencies and industry partners, consistently seeking to combine
academic objectivity with policy understanding and professional experience. The ultimate goals is to
attain robust research outcomes that are useful for urban governance, support planning practice, and
enhance urban life quality and community wellbeing.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research Projects
Brief description
1
Urban Indicator
system for high
density township
development
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
The main aim is to develop an urban Final stages
indicator system to support the
development
and
sustainability
performance of high density townships.
2
Urban
Regeneration as
a development
platform for
sustainable Asian
cities
The research creates a comprehensive
database of urban regeneration case
studies,
focusing
in
economic
restructuring
and
community
participation, with the aim to provide
lessons for developing Asian cities.
Research
completed,
book
preparation
in progress
3
Benchmarking
cities’
sustainability:
toward a
framework for
sustainable
growth
The research applies integrated and
multi-prong assessment of urban
sustainability in the context of urban
development, with a view to formulating
a framework supported with appropriate
indicators and best practices to support
sustainable growth and community wellbeing.
Completed,
book
preparation
in progress,
phase 2
being
discussed
4
Urban Space
Investigations are carried out on new and
innovative configurations of urban public
spaces integrative with high density
typologies, that are environmentally
considered and socially adaptable
Completed,
book
preparation
in progress
Practical
Outcomes
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High Density
This research applies advanced computer Completed
simulation and social surveys to explore
urban densities and typologies with a
view to better understand the multifacetted relationships between density
and environmental performance, as well
as the sociological impacts of living and
working in high density environments.
6
Township
Climatic
This research examines the relationship Completed
between urban morphology and climatic
conditions at local levels focusing on
sustainable design and energy usage
reduction.
7
Community
Bonding in dense
housing
environments
The research examines the relationship Completed
between community bonding and the
built environment and to distil design
principles that would enhance social
interaction in common spaces.
8
Community
Bonding in dense
housing
environments
(Phase 2)
Art and Culture
Focused
Community
Spaces
As above, focusing on test bedding design In progress
typologies to support community
interaction.
10
High-Rise Mixed
Use
Development
Typologies
This project studies the planning and In progress
design parameters for mixed-use supertall buildings and their relationship to the
space efficiency.
11
Urban Greenery
This project examines how the built Completed
environment affects as well as present
opportunities for the existence and
enhancement of biodiversity through
baseline greenery mapping studies
12
To Develop
Landscape
Guidelines for
Application of
Green Plot Ratio
in Singapore
Urban
This research project aims to formulate Completed
optimal levels of Green Plot Ration
(GnPR) within an urban design framework
to facilitate a sustainable landscape for
Singapore.
9
13
The research focuses on assessment tools In progress
used to evaluate culture in the city at the
community and neighbourhood level
This project study how Industrial ecology Completed
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metabolism
can be put in practice through urban
planning, focussing on the building block
as the level of analysis to estimate the
material flows and in-use stock in a
specified building block system for a
selected study area.
14
Urban Noise:
Performance and
Simulation for
Urban Typology
and Morphology
Analysis
This project aims to examine the
relationship between urban noise and
building typology and urban morphology
using integrated simulation, analysis and
visualization technologies, supported by
reliable performance metrics
15
Vision for
Singapore 50th
16
The Built
Environment and
Quality of Life of
Older Persons
The research explores planning and urban Just awarded
development scenarios for Singapore in
the future
This project is a multidisciplinary effort, Completed
where an important component is to
objectively assessed built environment
characteristics that are associated with
the aged mobility in a high density urban
environment
Implementat
ion this
academic
year
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
Dr Lai Choo Malone Lee [email protected]
2
Prof Heng Chye Kiang
[email protected]
3
Dr Cho Im Sik
[email protected]
4
Dr Kim Hyeong Ill
Other Contact details
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Centre for Transportation Research, National University of Singapore
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The Centre for Transportation Research (CTR) is a multi-disciplinary research centre established with the
aim of making productive contributions to the continued progress of the transportation industry in
Singapore by conducting applied research and development work in contemporary and future
transportation issues. The pool of expertise in the Centre comprises specialist research staff drawn from
the Department of Civil Engineering, the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering (all of the Faculty of Engineering), the Department of Decision
Sciences (Faculty of Business Administration), the Department of Geography and the Department of
Economics and Statistics (Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences).
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
Practical
Outcomes
<Transport Infrastructure>
1
Environmentally
Laboratory and field tests to design new In Progress
paving mixes that are environmentally
sustainable
Nov 2014
pavement mix for sustainable by using recycled materials.
Singapore
2
Layout Design Of
New Woodlands
Land Checkpoint
System
Proposed new design of a land In Progress
checkpoint system to incorporate the
latest technology for passenger and August 2014
freight flow control
3
Grid Frame based
Automated
Container
Terminal
Design of a new generation automated In Progress
container terminal using a grid frame
system to replace the conventional yard January 2015
cranes for container storage operations.
New mix design
for Singapore
roads
producing
reduced traffic
noise.
Concepts for
new generation
land checkpoint
system of
passenger and
freight.
Concepts for
new generation
land checkpoint
system of
passenger and
freight.
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<Traffic and Logistics>
5
Safety
Assessment
System for Ship
Traffic in Port
Waters
A formal safety assessment framework
will be developed for evaluating the
safety risks of ship movements in the
vicinity of a port, with special reference
to ports.
In Progress
June 2016
A ship
navigation
safety
assessment
system for new
port planning
and design.
6
Analysis of
Energy
consumption and
Emission by
Shipping Lines
The project aims to develop an analytic
model to predict fuel and energy
consumption of ships taking into
consideration ship speed, current, wind
speed, and cargo load.
In Progress
September
2015
7
Hinterland
Developments in
Asia-Implications
for Ports and
Shipping
Study the impacts of hinterland size, In Progress
nature of economic and industrial December
developments, land transport networks 2014
on throughput of ports and shipping
traffic calling on the ports.
A model for
shipping lines
to predict fuel
and energy
consumption,
as well as
carbon
emission of
ship voyages.
A model that
relates port
operation
capacity and
hinterland
characteristics
for port and
hinterland
development
planning.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
1
2
3
4
5
Researchers Names
Fwa Tien Fang
Meng Qiang
Lee Der Horng
Chin Hoong Chor
Ong Ghim Ping
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact details
Tel: 65162276
Tel: 65165494
Tel: 65162131
Tel: 65162550
Tel: 65162279
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Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
To conduct cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on scientific problems related to finding,
understanding and applying the underlying principles of complexity; to provide opportunities for
talented faculty and post-docs of NTU to initiate and do such research; to attract the best scientists from
all over the world to take part in it; and to establish itself as the leading Asian node in a network of
complexity institutes around the world.
Six themes in development:
1
2
3
4
5
6
Cities: understanding the complexity of cities and translate that understanding in policies
Governance and complexity
Interactions between social and ecological systems
Health systems
Brains and cognition
Innovation
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion &
Status of
Project
July 2015
1
Family and
Social
Mobility
Family background; social
values; and social and cultural
capital and their impact on
intergenerational mobility.
2
National
Service
Attitudes to National Service
Dec 2015
3
Crowd
sensing
Powering Large-Scale Mobile
Crowd Sensing through
Monetary Incentives ─
Complexity, Opportunities,
and Solutions
2015 - 2016
4
Brains and
cognition
Gene and Culture: Genetic
influences on individual’s
multicultural experience and
epigenetic changes
2015 - 2016
5
Cities
Data library of Singapore and
simulation based on
unencapsulated agents
<Chris Barrett>
-
Practical
Outcomes
Research
er incharge
Luo Jun
Urban planning
at short- and
mid-term time
scales
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Cities
Characterizing the housing bubble
in Singapore
Dec 2014
7
Cities
Early warning signals of possible
social regime shifts in Singapore
Dec 2014
8
Facebook
game as an
experimental
platform for
gauging local
sentiments
towards
foreign
labour
Using a Facebook game as an
experimental platform for gauging
local sentiments towards foreign
labour
Jun 2015
9
Modelling
the
Singapore
public
transport
network.
This project investigates how land
use in Singapore affects the human
transport patterns in our MRT
systems.
Near
completio
n.
Understandi
ng Vehicular
traffic at
various
scales using
simulations.
This project investigates the effects
of road and speed bottlenecks on
the physics of traffic jams.
On-going
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Next phase of the project will
investigate the exploitation of
efficient information sensing and
processing to manage the
complexity of vehicular traffic
Further
plans to
include
bus
system
Guide housing
policy in
Singapore
Identify hot
button issues
before they
blow up
Serious game to
survey very
large cross
section of
population on
sensitive social
issues
Cheong
Siew Ann
Cheong
Siew Ann
Cheong
Siew Ann,
Vivian
Chen,
Mark
Chavez
In
collaborat
ion with
IHPC,
under
Prof
Chew
Lock Yue
In
collaborat
ion with
IHPC,
under
Prof
Chew
Lock Yue
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
1
2
3
4
5
Researchers Names
Peter M.A. Sloot
J. Stephen Lansing
Cheong Siew Ann
Chew Lock Yue
Chris Barrett
Email Address
Other Contact details
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Vivian Chen
Mark Chavez
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N), inaugurated in June 2010, aims to be a leading research
institute for innovative energy solutions. ERI@N focuses on the areas of sustainable energy, energy
efficiency/infrastructure and socio-economic aspects of energy research. Research activities, backed by
considerable expertise in these areas, exist within NTU’s research centres and schools. ERI@N provides a
unique platform, whereby the various disciplines such as materials; power electronics and systems;
biological, physical, and social sciences; as well as humanities and business communities can interact to
explore new solutions to a host of current energy issues. Research at ERI@N encompasses seven
programmes, namely, fuel cells, energy storage, sustainable buildings technologies, solar cells and solar
fuels, maritime clean energy, wind and marine renewables, and electromobility.
In partnership with EDB and JTC, the EcoCampus Initiative, launched on 30 April 2014, aims to develop a
novel campus-wide sustainability framework with demonstration sites to achieve 35% reduction in
energy, water and waste intensity by 2020, encompassing NTU’s 200 hectare campus along with an
adjoining 50 hectares of JTC Corporation’s CleanTech Park, which is Singapore’s first eco-business park,
hosting companies and institutions in the Clean Environment Technology domain. CleanTech Park
started construction in 2010, with one building in operation since early 2012, and will have 25 buildings
upon completion in 2030.
The three underlying thrusts for EcoCampus are:
1.
Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment for innovative technologies in the
energy efficiency and sustainability domain
2.
Living lab philosophy using own buildings and infrastructure for technology test-bedding
3.
Industry collaboration as a corner-stone for green-growth and sustainable development.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
1
Liquid
Use di-electric fluid at its boiling
Immersion
temperature to immerse and cool IT
Cooling for Data equipment in data centres.
Centres
2
Demand
Control
First application of a multiplexed
(centralized) sensing system for demand
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
In Progress
2016
In Progress
2016
Practical
Outcomes
Technology can
be specifically
applied to data
centres located
in tropical
environments.
Highly efficient
cooling of data
centres to
achieve PUE of
1.1 or lower.
Energy savings
through
ventilation
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Ventilation in
Laboratories
control ventilation in Singapore
reduction
strategy
3
Demand-Based
Algorithmic
Chiller
Optimization
Uses automatic control via algorithms
based on operational temperature and
pressure readings to reduce chance of
error. Proven in temperate climates, not
tested in tropical climates.
In Progress
2016
4
Campus-WideConnected
Monitoring and
Analysing
System
A Wireless/PLC based integrated
information and energy management
platform for remote and intelligent control
of devices
In Progress
2016
5
Smart AC and
DC
Management
Systems
Highly efficient SEMS, Seamless
integration of AC/DC building grid
In Progress
2016
6
Development of
a VRB-ESS
Based Clean
Energy System
Redox flow battery based Energy
Management System integrated with
renewable energy sources such as Solar
PV
In Progress
2016
7
Sustainable
Treatment for
Solid Organic
and Liquid
Wastes from
NTU campus
1) Low carbon footprint used water
reclamation 2) Technologies enabling
alternative, low-energy water supply 3)
Closed loop energy from waste system
In Progress
2016
Improve chiller
plant
operational
efficiency,
which is
important
because chiller
plants typically
consume 50 –
60% of
building’s total
electricity
Enable deep
insights into
energy
consumption of
facilities to be
able to take
control actions
to reduce
energy use by
20% or more
Achieve energy
efficiency (EE)
and energy
conversation
(EC) > 30 % by
novel Smart
Energy
Management
System (SEMS)
Enhancing
impact of
renewable
energy through
load levelling,
and grid
stabilization of
power derived
from renewable
energy sources.
1) First pilotscale
mainstream
Anammox
process in Asia
2) Completely
original
bioprocess
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enabling
coupling of saline
waters to
nutrient
8
Self-Aligning
Wireless
Charging and
Infrastructure
for buses
Self-aligning wireless power transfer
In Progress
2016
On road CO2
reduction by
replacing
traditional
diesel powered
buses with
clean electric
vehicles
9
Electric Public
Transportation
based on Super
capacitors
24/7 sustainable transportation utilizing
ultra-fast flash charging at bus stops
In Progress
2016
10
Interactive
Solution to
Improve the
Energy
Efficiency at
EcoCampus
Application of a complete technical and
sociological approach in order to match
with resident/occupant’s expectations
and uses
In Progress
2016
11
High Energy
Performance
Façade Testbed
Energy saving through eco-friendly
construction material for building
envelopes.
In Progress
2016
On road CO2
reduction by
replacing
traditional
diesel powered
buses with
clean electric
vehicles
Energy, carbon,
water, and
waste savings
through
changing and
improving user
behaviour and
coordination
First test
bedding project
of reducing the
thermal
conductivity of
construction
material on
building
envelope in
Singapore
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
1
Nilesh Jadhav
2
Marla Goodman
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact details
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9.
Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
NERI was established in 2007 with a vision to establish NUS as a leading global center of interdisciplinary
research, education, and expertise in the Environment field, particularly in issues affecting Singapore and
Asia.
NERI's mission is to coordinate, integrate, and facilitate research and educational initiatives across NUS.
Building on the strengths of NUS Faculties, Schools and Research Centers and Institutes, initiatives are
formulated to address critical environmental topics. NERI coordinates focused recruitment of eminent
scholars, faculty, fellows, and graduate students to expand NUS' capabilities in key environmental areas.
Through interactive pursuit of excellence in initiatives across the University, NERI conducts cutting-edge
research in a range of high impact areas, from fundamental to applied levels. NERI engages strategic
partners within NUS' global networks, with government agencies, and industry.
NERI is actively engaging in research contributing towards sustainable environment and approaches.
The current key research tracks are:
• Environmental Surveillance and Treatment
• Environmental and Human Health
• Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy
• Impacts of Climate Change on the Environment
Strategic Research Programmes and Centres
(A) SINGAPORE PEKING OXFORD RESEARCH ENTERPRISE (SPORE) PROGRAMME
- Feb 2015
SPORE is an initiative to promote research, education, and commercialisation of environmental and
water technologies. Established in 2010, the initiative is supported by Singapore’s National Research
Foundation through the Environment and Water Industry Programme Office (EWI), National University
of Singapore, Peking University, University of Oxford, competitive research grants and industry
partnerships.
The four research clusters under SPORE are as follows:
• Development of advanced drinking water purification methods and analytical techniques for water
quality monitoring;
• Development of integrated technologies based on “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3Rs)”;
• Development of enhanced biological-based technology;
• Development of river ecological rehabilitation technologies.
The practical outcomes of the programme are achieved through three integrated thrusts:
1. Disciplinary development (SPO‐D): Training of manpower through postgraduate degree programs and
executive programs.
2. Technology transfer (SPO‐T): Research programs on developing technologies for the environmental and
water industry.
3. Market‐oriented technology exploitation (SPO‐M).
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(B) Shanghai Jiaotong University and National University of Singapore Joint
Programme on Energy and Environmental and Sustainability Solutions for
Megacities (E2S2) – July 2017 Singapore Peking Oxford Research Enterprise
(SPORE) Programme
This Programme, hosted by NERI and supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation under
the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) scheme, focuses on the
challenges facing megacities. This programme aims to develop a platform to facilitate the
understanding, design and implementation of sustainable solutions for coupled problems in future cities,
starting with megacity Shanghai and land scarce Singapore.
(C) CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE STUDIES, C3S AT NUS
C3S also coordinates activities such as seminars, trainings and workshops to increase awareness and
NUS, through NERI, is currently establishing the Centre for Climate Change Studies (C3S), aiming to
undertake multidisciplinary research on vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation of the effects of climate
change in Singapore and the region, with emphasis on land-air-climate relationships.
The Centre is envisioned to work closely with relevant faculties and research institutes within NUS, as
well as regional and international agencies, institutions, and industries.
C3S focuses on understanding the relationships of land-air-climate interactions in the region. Specifically,
this initiative will support research undertakings to address the following:
1. Identification of fingerprints of peatland emissions, in particular biomass burning during
smoke, to apportion the impacts of trans-boundary aerosols on Singapore urban
environment;
2. Estimation of impacts of aerosols on the atmosphere over the SE Asian region, including
Singapore;
3. Biogeochemical basis of peat oxidation using modern life sciences and computational
approaches;
4. Computation modelling of regional and global radiative forcing, atmospheric burden
imposed by these emissions, and effective impacts on associated global climate response;
5. Estimation of how carbon credits (for carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O)) can be
harvested, as well as how actual climate impacts (next generation carbon credits) can be
harvested from mitigating peatland emissions.
Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
Prof Ong Choon Nam
[email protected]
2
Dr Peter Kew
[email protected]
Other Contact details
Director
Senior Associate Director
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10. EXQUISITUS Centre for E-City, Nanyang Technological University
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The EXQUISITUS (Latin for Superb) is a Centre of Excellence to advance research and development (R&D)
in electrical systems for future cities. It was established in June 2011 through the merging of Smart
Energy Research Centre, Centre for Intelligent Machines and Centre for Modelling and Control of
Complex Systems. It aims to develop key technologies in power electronic devices, intelligent control and
optimization, and autonomy for applications in environmental monitoring, sustainability, renewable
energy systems, transportation systems, aerospace engineering, maritime engineering, and defence. The
centre’s research activities are organized into three research programmes: E-Sensing, E-Sustainability
and E-Mobility and can be broadly divided into the following major areas, energy conversion devices,
clean and renewable energy systems, energy storage, smart grids, energy efficient buildings, control
system technologies, mobile robotics, and intelligent transportations.
EXQUISITUS, Centre for E-City harnesses and synergises the research expertise of the School of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering in the areas of power electronics, energy systems, sensing and information
processing, modelling and control, and robotics and transportation systems. The centre also explores
collaborations with other schools and research centres within NTU such as School of Computer
Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and School of Chemical and Biological
Engineering, and Energy Research Institute @NTU (ERIAN) and Nanyang Environment & Water Research
Institute (EWRI).
The centre has established close collaborations with Defence Science Organization of Singapore and
research institutes under A*STAR such as Singapore Institute of Manufacturing (SIMTech), Data Storage
Institute (DSI) and Institute for Info-Comm Research (I2R). We have also collaborated with SingaporeMIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) through the SMART programmes on environmental
sensing and modelling and future mobility.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research Projects
Brief description
1
The SingaporeBerkeley Building
Efficiency and
Sustainability for
The
Tropics
The
Singapore-Berkeley
Building
Efficiency and Sustainability for the
Tropics (SinBerBEST) is an NRF-funded
CREATE program which is hosted by
University of California Berkeley with
Nanyang Technological University as its
main partner. The holistic research
methodology is driven by six major
research thrusts
(1) Sensing, data
mining and modeling;
(2) Multi-level optimal control;
(3) High confidence building operating
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
In Progress:
theory, data
analysis and
Prototype
development
March 2017
Practical
Outcomes
Technologies
for intelligent
building
and
air-conditioning
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system;
(4)Human-building
interaction
and
emissions;
(5)Material, design and life cycle; and
(6) Integration and test bedding.
2
3
4
5
Optimization And
Control Of Vapor
Compression
Cycle
Development of a systematic methodology
for optimizing and controlling vapor
compression air conditioning systems. The
vapor compression refrigeration cycle is
used to remove heat from a space of lower
temperature (cold reservoir) to an
environment of high temperature (hot
reservoir).
In Progress:
theory, data
analysis and
Prototype
development
July 2017
(led by
Assoc. Prof.
The team will use hybrid modeling
Wenjian Cai,
approach to model cooling coils,
with a grant
condensers, evaporators. In addition, they
from NRF)
will extend the component hybrid
modelling approach to active devices such
as compressors.
Development of new identifier-based In progress
Identifier-Based
consensus algorithms and convergence August 2014
Consensus for
analysis methods that can be applied to
Multicooperative control of autonomous robot
Agent Systems
with Applications networks. This is to bridge the lacuna
between existing multi-agent system
to
theory (e.g., consensus) and the application
Cooperative
requirements of real-world autonomous
Control of
robot networks, this project investigates
Autonomous
the
constraints
and
uncertainties
Robot Networks
associated with these systems and their
corresponding dynamic system behaviours
Fusion and Sense Sense making is the process of working
In progress:
Making of
with a collection of data to create a
prototyping
Heterogeneous
deeper understanding of the scenario
and
Sensor Network
that generates the data. A sense-making
implementat
and
system can be used to make sense of
ion
Other Sources
situations such as terrorist attacks and
August 2014
riots, and identifies changes of situations,
which helps to speed up decision process
and actions.
Autonomous
The development of such a fleet of
Completed
Mobile Robots
autonomous robots includes the
Oct 2013
For
following main work packages:
Outdoor
and (1) design and building of two platforms:
one track robot and three wheel robots;
Urban
(2) sensor selections
Environments
and sensor-suit designs;
(3) communication system
and protocol designs;
(4) GPS data processing and
waypoint navigation;
Technologies
for intelligent
building
and
air-conditioning
Robotics
technologies
Sensor
networks and
distributed
systems
Urban robotic
automation
and
defence
industry
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(5) Operation Control Unit;
(6) Safety system and tele-operation;
(7) Static and dynamic obstacle
avoidance;
(8) G-mapping and
localization;
(9) Target searching;
(10) Door entry and exit;
(11) Stair climbing and descending;
(12) Vision-based target identification;
(13) Vision-based odometry;
(13) Mission control and integrated
testing.
6
7
PV/Battery
Hybrid Power
Supply with
Discrete Ripple
Correlation
Control
and Advanced
Time-Sharing
Switching
Technique
In solar power applications, it is often
desirable to track the maximum power
point (MPP) of the photovoltaic (PV)
array. When the load demand is higher
than the power capability of PV, a hybrid
power supply (HPS) system is required to
realize output voltage regulation and
MPP tracking (MPPT). The second source
besides the PV array may be an AC-line
supply or an energy source device such as
battery.
In progress: Renewable
analysis and energy
prototyping
July 2017
In this project uses a double-input buck
converter (DIBC) topology with
interleaved dual-edge modulation and
advanced time-sharing switching (ATSS)
strategy to complete this control target.
Indoor
To develop the capabilities of
Completed
Quadrotors
quadrator formation flight with the Vicon March 2014
Formation Flight
Bonita system in the Internet of Things
with
Lab. The superior accuracy of the system
Vicon
Motion will also provide a good benchmark for
algorithm testing or to evaluate other
Capture System
technologies such as vision-based
navigation.
Logistics
defence
and
The main technical challenge in this
research is the real-time control of the
quadrators. As the latency of the Bonita
system is minimal at 2ms, the bottleneck
is the computing power of the
workstation to post-process the optical
data, and to execute the Simulink at near
real-time. Telemetry is another main
challenge.
8
Investigation on
Vanadium-Redox
In this project, the feasibility and Completed
operational characteristics of VRB-ESS for May 2014
Energy storage
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Flow
Battery Energy
Storage System
(VRB-ESS)
tropical applications will be evaluated.
The temperature control strategies will
be investigated. Both the experimental
tests and the mathematical modelling
and simulations will make significant
contributions
to
the
VRB-ESS
implementation in the tropical weather
conditions.
9
Traffic
signal This project aims to develop a new set of
control for urban traffic signal control algorithms to
improve the efficiency of the urban road
road networks
networks.
In progress,
data
collection,
analysis and
testing
Current traffic signal control technologies Dec 2015
were matured in 1980s and they are
mostly junction based. Sensing, networks
and
communication
technology
development in the past few decades
have readied a new generation of traffic
signal control systems with new ideas and
using new technologies for new traffic
demands.
New
generation of
traffic
signal
control
for
megacities with
heavy
traffic
demands
10
Smart Phone App The goal of this project is to provide best
– predictive route routes to drivers by taking future
(predicted) traffic conditions into
guidance
consideration.
In Progress: A mobile app
Prototype
for drivers and
development commuters in
Sep 2015
Singapore.
11
Modelling road We are currently modelling traffic
networks
as parameters as signals residing on a graph
signals on graphs (spatial variable) instead of time series.
Such analysis can potentially provide us
with better mechanisms to model and
limit traffic congestion in road networks
in comparison to typical studies which
analyse traffic parameters like speed and
flow as time series. These models lack the
ability to provide inference about spatial
interactions.
In Progress:
Data analysis
and model
development
Sep 2016
Visualization
tool
for
transportation
and
logistics
companies.
12
Commuter
patterns in public
transport
systems
In Progress:
Data analysis
and model
development
Sep 2016
An
advisory
system
for
public transit
companies.
Smart card data (such as EZ-link in
Singapore) contain wealth of information
about the mobility patterns of
commuters. We are developing systems
that utilize this information for adaptive
allocation of transportation resources
(buses and trains).
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
1
Wang
Danwei/Professor
2
Xie Lihua/Professor
3
Justin Dauwels /Asst
Prof
Email Address
[email protected]
Other Contact details
67905376
[email protected]
[email protected]
67904524
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11. Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)
(A) FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY (FCL)
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
Challenge addressed - How cities can be designed, produced, managed, maintained, and inhabited in a
way that supports global sustainability
Urban Metabolism - In order to address this challenge, the idea of ‘urban metabolism’ is adopted as a
conceptual framework. This framework helps consider the city as a complex system that calibrates,
manages and configures various stocks and flows of resources, such as energy, water, capital, people,
space and information.
Multiple Scales - Urban sustainability is examined at the level of the city as an entity, at the level of
urban ensemble or neighbourhood, and at the level of architectural fabric. Communication between the
various scaled projects and how urban design is the intermediate bridge between regional planning and
architecture is explored.
Approaches to make Singapore future-ready



Develop guidelines for sustainable development of buildings, districts, and regions
Generate concrete projects, technologies and instruments
Design and develop a new curriculum of urban science
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
1
Rochor+
A multidisciplinary research platform that
brings together researchers with expertise
in the fields of Urban Planning, Transport
Planning, Historical Analysis, Building
Estimated
Date of
Completion &
Status of
Project
In progress,
on-going
research
Practical
Outcomes
1. FCL and SUTD are
jointly holding a
public exhibition on
Rochor+ at the URA
Gallery (URA
Centre), starting in
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Technology and Simulation based research.
Aug 2015
2. FCL is in contact
with Singapore
River One to study
the feasibility and
energy-saving and
financial benefits of
implementing the
Heat Bus System,
developed as part
of the Rochor+
project, in shop
houses along Boat
Quay.
Together, the team displays how different
focal points have analysed, interpreted and
emphasised selected crucial elements of
city life in different scales.
2
On-site
Robotic Tiling
Machine
FCL is developing a robotic tiling machine in
collaboration with industry partner ROB
Technologies.
In progress,
prototype
development
The current prototype is able to lay tiles
two to three times faster than a human
worker while maintaining high precision
and consistent quality.
Dec 2016
The next stage of the project involves
working with contractors on small tiling
projects to prove the value of the robotic
tiling machine and incorporate user
feedback on features that can be
enhanced.
3
4
3for2 –
Beyond
Efficiency
Advanced
Fibre
September 2014.
The FCL Low Exergy module has begun
implementing its low emissions building
concepts in an actual building project - a
new office building of the United World
College of South East Asia (UWCSEA). Office
space in an otherwise conventionally
designed and operated multipurpose
building will be equipped with Low Exergy
technology, consisting of radiant cooling
panels, distributed ventilation units
combined with under floor air distribution
networks and new control systems.
In progress,
implementatio
n of research
in an actual
building
project
This research project taps bamboo’s
potential by exploring new types of
In progress,
material
With over 40
million tiles laid in
new construction
projects each year,
the FCL robotic
tiling machine
could help address
capacity and quality
bottlenecks.
This project brings
together interested
industry partners
and will help to
identify costs and
economic benefits
of the Low Exergy
approach.
After completion,
the office space will
serve as test
environment and
act as a showcase
of high
performance
building systems in
Singapore.
Alternative building
material to steel
and timber.
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Composite
Materials
composite bamboo material, transforming
organic material into a manageable
industrial product and introducing it as a
viable building material, an alternative to
steel and timber.
testing
Bamboo is found
naturally in many
developing
countries, and
production of the
composite material
could strengthen
local value chains,
bring jobs and
trade, and lower
dependency on
international
markets.
Bamboo is also a highly renewable and ecofriendly material. It grows much faster than
wood and has unrivalled capacity to
capture carbon.
Multi-Agent
Transport
Simulation
(MATSim)
Singapore
5
MATsim is a large-scale, agent-and-activity
based transport demand simulation for
Singapore.
In progress,
on-going
research
The range of application stretches from
predicting the ridership and reliability of
new public transport services to various
effects that an alternative road-pricing
scheme might evoke.
Enables researchers
to address various
transport and
urban planning
related questions.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
1
Prof. Dr. Kees
Christiaanse
2
Prof. Dr Stephen Cairns
Email Address
[email protected]
Other Contact details
[email protected]
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(B) FUTURE RESILIENT SYSTEMS (FRS)
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
Both Singapore and Switzerland are small, well-organized, prosperous (SWOP) countries that are
densely populated, and whose well-being and development depend upon critical infrastructure systems.
This type of "backbone" provides a reliable energy supply, plus transportation, communication, banking
and finance, emergency, and other services that are essential for maintaining the "metabolism" of
urbanized societies, the disruption of which would have far-reaching consequences. The FRS establishes
a research platform based on cutting-edge expertise from the Swiss ETH Zürich and PSI (Paul Scherer
Institute), and from Singapore's NUS, NTU, and SMU. Its main objectives include:
•
increasing our understanding of the behaviour of complex systems;
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•
devising levers that concurrently improve the robustness and resilience of socio-technical
systems;
•
designing institutions ("rules of the game") and approaches that purposefully influence and
shape decision-making; and
•
educating a cohort of approximately 40 PhD students and 25 postdoctoral fellows.
Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
1
Prof. Hans-Rudolf
Heinimann
Email Address
[email protected]
Other Contact details
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12. iCity Lab, Singapore Management University –Tata Consultancy Services
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The SMU-TCS iCity Lab is a joint research facility set up through a partnership between Singapore
Management University (SMU) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to develop industry standards and IT
frameworks for the emerging intelligent city (“iCity”) model of urban development. The partnership
combines TCS’ industry leading IT services expertise and culture of innovation with SMU’s globally
recognized excellence in research and education and for the world of business and management in both
the public and private sectors. The iCity Lab takes a very people centric approach in designing solutions
for future city; we put the residents as the central focus. We believe that their behaviour, knowledge and
needs determine the priority that the city leaders, government agencies and service providers need to
consider while allocating urban resources toward the needs of residents.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
1
CommunityBased Case
Management
System for the
Neighbourhoo
d for Active
Living (NodAL)
Project
A community care project which aims to
provide a community-based case management
system for the Neighbourhood for Active Living
(NodAL) project of the Eastern Health Alliance
that focuses on providing social and medical
care for the elderly in the eastern part of
Singapore.
Collaborative
Care Project
for the
National
A collaborative disease monitoring system for
kidney patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis
at the National University Hospital System
(NUHS) Renal Center. This system allows
2
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
Deployed in
May 2015
March 2015
Ready to
deploy since
March 2014
Practical
Outcomes
10 Community
Patient
Coordinators
are using the
tools to
conduct their
operation in
the field.
NKF and NUHS
are considering
pilot or full
scale clinical
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University
Hospital
System (NUHS)
Renal Center
patients to record health indicators, such as
blood pressure, through a mobile phone while
doctors and nurses are able to view patients’
health status in real time.
October 2014
trial for the
solution
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
1
Alfred Wu
2
Elina Yu
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact details
92239814
68085265
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13. Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
University of Singapore
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) was established in 1988 as an independent think-tank to study and
generate public policy ideas in Singapore. IPS became an autonomous research centre of the Lee Kuan
Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore in 2008. Today, IPS continues to
analyse public policy, connect key thought leaders, and communicate its findings to a wide audience. The
Institute examines issues of critical national interest across a variety of fields, and studies the attitudes
and aspirations of Singaporeans through surveys of public perception. It adopts a multi-disciplinary
approach in its analysis and takes the long-term view in its strategic deliberation and research. For more
information about IPS, visit www.lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/ips/
IPS research focuses on: Arts, Culture and New Media; Demography and Family; Economics and
Business; Politics and Governance; and, Society and Identity. In addition, the Institute also has the IPS
Social Lab which is launching a panel study of 5,000 households to track the impact that changes in their
lives have on family dynamics and their attitudes and values.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
Practical
Outcomes
<Arts, Culture and New Media Cluster>
1
Civility in
Cyberspace
The cyberspace has become a challenge to
all users -- from children to adults -- in
terms of norms of civil and civic behaviour.
The central question of this research
project is “How do we establish and sustain
civility norms in a space that doesn’t easily
lend itself to government regulation nor
Ongoing.
Several
projects
address the
same theme.
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collective moderation?”
2
New
Developments
in the Arts
Government’s
new
initiatives
in Ongoing
community arts and new emphasis in
traditional arts pose several developmental
questions to both practitioners and
Government. This project explores those
questions.
3
Singapore as a
Digital Village
A research project on how everyone,
especially policymakers, can rethink not
only technology’s role but more
importantly, individuals’ capacity to
organize themselves and solve problems
on a nation-wide scale.
<Demography and Family Cluster>
4
Population
Outcomes:
Singapore 2050
Multi-disciplinary study on the implications
of Singapore’s demographic trajectory
through to 2050.
Completed.
5
Changing
Nature of
Longevity in
Singapore
How trends in ageing, morbidity and
disability may affect labour force
participation, retirement and healthcare
funding, and the quality of life of senior
citizens in Singapore.
In progress –
expected
completion
in end-2015
<Economics and Business Cluster>
6
SMEs
Several closed-door discussions will be held Ongoing
through 2014 to analyse the constraints
SMEs face and examine what is needed to
help them. Discussion topics include
financing and human capital development
for the SME sector.
6
Singapore
Economic
Roundtable
(SER)
The 21st SER was held in May 2014 and Ongoing
focused on innovation policy in Singapore.
The 22nd SER will be held in November
2014
<Politics and Governance Cluster>
7
Civil Society in
Singapore
A national conference will be held on 11
November 2013 to discuss the trends in
and suggestions for the development of
civil society. The papers from the
conference will be published.
Completed.
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8
The Politics of
Sustaining
Inclusive
Growth and
Social Inclusion
This research seeks to understand the Publication
reforms that are taking place in the Danish in 2014.
and Finnish welfare state to understand
the political support for the systems and
make comparisons to the Singapore where
policymakers and the public seeks to
strengthen social safety nets and create a
more inclusive society here.
<Society and Identity Cluster>
9
IPSOnePeople.sg
Indicators of
Racial Harmony
project
IPS is collaborating with OnePeople.sg to
hold dialogues with educators, employers,
unionists, students and community leaders
to provide insight into issues that surfaced
from the project
Ongoing
10
IPS Community
Leaders
Integration
Conference
The conference brings together immigrant
association leaders and local community
leaders to discuss issues surrounding
integration in Singapore and how
immigrant associations play a part in this.
Completed
11
NCSS-IPS Social
Service
Research
Network
This forum consolidates discussion on the
appropriate forms and strategy for
research in the social service sector.
First SSRN
Forum held
in March
2014
12
Perceptions and
Attitudes
towards Ageing
Survey 2012
This survey commissioned by Council for
the Third Age examines perceptions and
attitudes towards ageing including quality
of life, attitudes towards lifelong learning,
employability and social gerontology.
Completed in
third quarter
of 2014
13
The Education
Study Team
Report
This study examines the formulation of the
Goh report which had major implications
to Singaporean educational policy.
Ongoing
14
Integration
IPS-Konrad Adenauer Stiftung public
lecture on integration
November
2014
<IPS Social Lab>
15
Singapore Panel
Study on Social
Dynamics
(SPSSD)
Family structure, background,
relationships, and resilience; aspirations
and social mobility; social capital; and
perception of governance.
November
2014
16
Changing Values
Tracking social, cultural, and political
Jul 2015
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values in Singapore
17
National Service
Attitudes to National Service
Dec 2015
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
Mr Tan Tarn How
[email protected]
2
Dr Yap Mui Teng
[email protected]
3
Mr Manu Bhaskaran
[email protected]
4
Dr Gillian Koh
[email protected]
5
Dr Mathew Mathews
[email protected]
6
A/P Tan Ern Ser
[email protected]
7
Dr Leong Chan Hoong
[email protected]
Other Contact details
Arts, Culture and Media
Demography and Family
Economics and Business
Politics and Governance
Society and Identity
IPS Social Lab
IPS Social Lab
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14. Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (CIC), Singapore University of
Technology and Design
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKY CIC)’s mission is to
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Become a thought leader on these critical issues of cities and urbanisation;
Provide breakthrough urban solutions; and
Better understand the necessary accompanying governance and social frameworks.
Officially established in September 2012, the research strength of LKY CIC is drawn from the multidisciplinary faculty in the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) who collaborate and
partner with a core team at the Centre. The Centre’s research areas include:
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
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
Design for Demographics;
Design for Density;
Design for Connectivity;
Design for Resource Scarcity;
Design for Resilience;
Design for Social Capital.
These areas will be examined together with the leadership and governance of cities.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
Practical Outcomes
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1
Asian Port
Cities
Aims to provide a more complete In progress
picture of the broad interlinking
structures, governance, networks and 2015/2016
technological innovations of Asian
port cities. It will contribute to a
critical field, and is of relevance to
Singapore, the region, and globally.
2
Ageing
Urbanism
Aims to enhance the current
understanding of older people’s
appropriation and needs, to develop
innovative designs to meet those
needs, and to disseminate frameworks
for action.
Data
collection
started
Provide insights into
how port operations,
administration and
governance impact the
successful development
of a port-city and how
these inform port-city
linkages. Lessons will be
drawn from the seven
cases to provide
recommendations for
Singapore’s future
development as a portcity.
Contribute findings for
rethinking urban
planning and design for
a age-friendly city
2016
3
Dense +
Green
Explores the integration of green In progress
spaces in buildings that could
potentially lead to entirely new 2015
building typologies for future cities,
especially for high-density ones like
Singapore.
4
Future of
Cities
This project examines what Singapore Finalizing
will be like in 25-50 years along the scope
dimensions of Economy, Managing
Diversity, Big Data Governance – 2014-2016
Realizing
the
Data
Economy,
Sustainable Futures, Transportation,
Urban Form and Redesign, and Living
with Technology
1. Contribute knowledge
about how dense and
green building
typologies can improve
Singapore’s
environment by
mitigating negative
effects of high density.
2. Capture
environmental, social,
urban/architectural,
economic and aesthetic
benefits of dense and
green building
typologies
systematically.
3. Help formulate
strategies in that the
integration of green
spaces is integral to the
design and form of
buildings.
Findings will point to
implications for the
future and
possible policy
directions.
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(A) SUTD-JTC I 3 CENTRE
Multi-disciplinary centre co-located with and managed by the LKY CIC. It will develop sustainable hard
and soft infrastructure innovations that are also relevant for the urban context. Research projects will
contribute to the long-term sustainable development and transformation of integrated work-live-playlearn developments.
Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
Prof Chan Heng Chee
[email protected]
2
Dr Lim Wee Kiat
[email protected]
3
Debbie Loo
[email protected]
4
Poon King Wang
[email protected]
5
Assoc Prof Thomas
[email protected]
Schroepfer
6
Dr Sharon Siddique
[email protected]
7
Dr Belinda Yuen
[email protected]
8
Dr Woo Jun Jie
[email protected]
Other Contact details
6499 4581
64994905
64994053
6303 6615
6303 6675
6303 6882
6499 4769
64994053
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15. Living Analytics Research Centre, Singapore Management UniversityCarnegie Mellon University
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC) is a joint research initiative between the Singapore
Management University (SMU) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). It is a pioneering effort to create
ways of understanding consumer and social behaviour by combining advances in computing, social
science and management. LARC combines the key technologies of Big Data (large-scale data mining,
statistical machine learning, and computational tools for the analysis of dynamic social networks) with
analytics focused on consumer behaviour and social media, with an emphasis on near real-time analysis
of streams of information that are continuously evolving.
LARC seeks to make Singapore one of the world’s premier locations for the development and applied
use of real-time consumer and social analytics, as well as one of the world’s leading centres for
computational social science related R&D and education. The setting up of the centre will rapidly
establish Singapore as one of the world’s pre-eminent centres of excellence in computational social
science.
The LARC’s unique ability to create and manage its own Living Analytics testbed at SMU and to team
with private and public sector organizations in Singapore to obtain access to real-time digital traces of
individual, organizational and societal data in acceptable, legal and privacy preserving ways will give
Singapore a substantial advantage in the global race to define and extend the frontiers of computational
social science. This will enable Singapore to reap the commercial and economic benefits that will be
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associated with having the superior methods, tools and insights that will be the natural by-products of
the research effort and demonstration projects.
LARC aims to bring together i) data mining and machine learning, ii) statistics, iii) social and behaviour
science, iv) management science, and v) the science of social and behavioural networks, in ways that
can transform and expand computational social science so as to develop new applications that benefit
individual consumers, private sector organizations, and the public sector. LARC is working towards
realizing a Closed Loop Living Analytics paradigm which involves two closely related key contributions:
(a) Development and validation of novel analytics models and algorithms for large scale user
behaviour and social data so as to gain insights into consumer/user interests and to improve
user experience with businesses and applications. This requires access to real-world users and
their behavioural data observable through digital traces, either using data sets accessible
through our collaborating external partners, or through data from our own testbed of users.
(b) Design of experiments, and realization of systems, tools and applications for analysing
consumer and social behaviour when individuals are connected through various types of
interaction networks, with vastly improved ability to observe and quantify various types of
interaction effects.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
1
Social Media
Analytics on
Microblogging
Data
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
This project focuses on sensing and analytics Ongoing
of social media data traces, particularly in Dec 2015
Twitter, to derive useful consumer and social
insights about users. To achieve the
objective of performing societal-scale social
and consumer analytics, we gather social
media data both in depth and breadth so as
to support data analytics research at user,
tie and community levels.
Practical
Outcomes
Suite of Social
Media Analytics
Software
Systems, and
Publications
Some of types of analytics performed
include
modelling
user
behaviours;
relationship mining to discover offline
relationships or predict missing or future
relationships; gathering user sentiments and
opinions; and event mining to detect social
media events at early stages for real time
response.
2
Mobile
The Mobile Analytics research in LARC Ongoing
focuses on developing analytics-based Dec 2015
Software and
Publications
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Analytics
3
Online
Experimentati
on
insights (and using such insights in
compelling new applications) based on
usage and sensor data from personal mobile
devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.). The
research group works synergistically with the
LiveLabs research center at SMU (which
provides a real-life experimentation platform
involving thousands of opt-in participants)
to:
a) Provide enhanced and novel analyticsbased contextual insights for LiveLabs
applications;
b) Provide advanced analytics-based
advanced wireless network and indoor
location capabilities on the SMU campus;
and
c) Enable closed-loop experimentation and
services that utilize the LiveLabs tested.
LARC spearheads a new Living Analytics
Ongoing
Experimentation (LASER) project which aims Dec 2015
to realize a system platform for designing,
conducting, tracking and evaluating online
experiments. The research highlights to be
demonstrated in this project are the
capabilities of network experiment design,
minimal intrusive user treatments, user
response tracking, and analysis of
experiment results.
Software and
publications
This project will
enable LARC to
conduct
evaluation of
user behaviours
in online
recommendati
ons, target
marketing and
other
applications.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
1
2
3
4
Researchers Names
Prof Lim Ee-Peng
A/Prof Archan Misra
Asst Prof Jiang Jing
Asst Prof Zhu Feida
Email Address
[email protected]
Other Contact details
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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16. Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
(A) FUTURE URBAN MOBILITY IRG
Synopsis of Department’s Work and Agenda
Future Urban Mobility (FM) IRG is one of the five IRGs in the Singapore- MIT Alliance for Research and
Technology (SMART) Centre. FM IRG started in July 2010 and is a research programme funded by the
National Research Foundation (NRF), under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological
Enterprise (CREATE) programme.
Mission
Develop, in and beyond Singapore, new paradigms for the planning, design and operation of future
urban mobility systems.
Innovative urban mobility systems, aimed at both passengers and freight, will materially enhance
sustainability and societal well-being on a global scale. The FM IRG will:

harness and enhance promising networked computing and control (NCC) technology-enabled
innovations that may contribute to improved future urban mobility;

develop decision models that can be applied to support various novel mobility concepts, such as
the pervasive use of real-time information, mobility-on-demand services and green logistics;

investigate the potential and impacts of these innovations and decision models; and assess their
implications for urban development and urban planning organisations and institutions.
FM IRG will adopt approaches that integrate information on human and commercial activities, land use,
transportation, environmental impacts, and energy use.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
2
Autonomy in
Mobility-onDemand
Assess and demonstrate the role of
autonomy in mobility-on-demand and its
impact in terms of feasibility, safety, and
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Estimated Date Practical
of Completion
Outcomes
& Status of
Project
Pillar 1: Networked Computing and Control (NCC) will seek to develop a framework of common, reusable services and algorithms, packaged as software libraries and run-time software infrastructure
for urban mobility systems.
1
ApplicationDesign new programming models and
Guided
middleware, along with novel applications,
Network
that can harness many phones as a
collaborative computing platform for directly
Design
hosting transportation services.
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Systems
efficiency through modelling and simulation,
algorithm development and experimental
demonstration.
3
Real-Time
Control and
Learning for
Urban
Transportatio
n Systems
4
CarSpeak: A
Communicatio
n System
Customized
for
Autonomous
Driving
Development of new tools, combining realtime, distributed control techniques,
systems and control theory, and machine
learning to develop new approaches to the
design of urban transportation systems.
Examples include traffic signal control and
scheduling, road pricing, and resilience
analysis under disruption.
Enable a car to query and access sensory
information captured by other cars in a
manner similar to how it accesses
information from its local sensors.
5
CongestionAware
Routing for
Urban
Mobility
Develop, implement, and evaluate novel
decentralised control algorithms for
individual participants in urban traffic;
algorithms should provide stability and
global behaviour guarantees under different
types of traffic scenarios, by combining
machine learning and control techniques.
6
Data Collider
A platform for the collection, fusion,
and LIVE
distribution and visualization of real-time
data from different sources in Singapore that
Singapore!
can serve as the active application of a
semantic web platform to the management
of the city, and form the basis for crowd
sourced open application development.
Pillar 2: Integrated modelling of mobility, land-use, environmental, and energy-use impacts will
develop a suite of powerful demand estimation, performance prediction, and operation optimization
tools, drawing on the availability of NCC-enabled information.
7
Integrated
Integrate and link together various mobilitySimulation
sensitive behavioural models with state-ofPlatform:
the-art simulators to predict impacts of
mobility demands on transportation
SimMobility
networks, services and vehicular emissions.
Integration will make it possible to simulate
the effects of a portfolio of technology,
policy and investment options under
alternative future scenarios.
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Real-Time
Model System
for Network
Management
and
Emergency
Response
Develop an Integrated suite of models to
estimate the impact of alternative
interventions and support the real-time
deployment of such interventions to
mitigate urban mobility problems as they
occur on a daily basis.
9
Real-time
Path Tracking/
Predictions
and OnDemand
Route
Guidance
Under
Uncertainty
Algorithms that use real-time data from
many heterogeneous sources in order to (i)
track and predict paths in dynamic
transportation networks, and (ii) provide
on-demand
route
guidance
under
uncertainty, based on a combination of
optimization,
data-fusion,
machine
learning, and novel behavioural techniques.
10
Mobility on
Demand:
Dynamic,
DemandResponsive
Transportatio
n Service
Network
Design
Design of models and algorithms to
configure dynamically portions of the
public transportation service network to
meet mobility demands in real-time; the
objective is to provide passenger-centric,
timely service while minimizing costs and
maximizing system efficiency. (b) The Last
Mile Problem: Explore innovative ways for
transporting travellers between home or
work and a preferred node of the public
transportation system, taking advantage of
information
and
communications
technologies, real-time route planning, and
light (possibly semi-autonomous) urban
vehicles. (c) Examine impact on MRT users
of disruptions at different parts of the
network. Design recovery from MRT
disruptions that minimize inconvenience to
MRT users.
Pillar 3: Performance assessment and implementation will enable more meaningful evaluation of
alternative sustainability mobility systems and the development of institutional, regulatory, and
pricing mechanisms to support them.
11
Behavioural
To plan sustainable future urban mobility
Models for
systems, we need a set of forecasting tools
Land Use,
to help make well-informed, consistent
Mobility and
assessments of future conditions under
Energy and
various scenarios. Behavioural models are
at the heart of the approach. The objective
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Resource Use
12
Development
and Testing of
NetworkEnabled Data
Collection
Techniques
13
Real-Time
Regulation of
Mobility
Services
is to develop state-of-the-art models to
understand
and
forecast
different
behavioural rationales of households and
firms.
The ubiquity technologies related to
Networked Computing and Control (NCC)
provides a range of new close-to-real-time
data for urban mobility planning and
management. The challenge rests in
capturing and deploying the relevant
information, using it for real-time control,
improved user service, and longer-term
strategic planning. The objective here is to
implement a broad data collection effort
using smart phones matched with webbased surveying tools to infer (through
machine learning) household and firm
activities, including mobility and location
choices.
Cheap and abundant data streams
generated by modern mobility systems
hold the promise of changing regulatory
and policy making frameworks to enable
more efficient, effective, intermodal
mobility services, with greater transparency
and accountability. The potential uses of
ITS automated data in regulators, transport
operators, planners, and the public raise a
number of questions related to: data access
and ownership, new types of performance
measures,
contractual
relationships,
appropriate regulatory structures, and
structuring
incentives
for
mobility
innovations.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
Emilio FRAZZOLI
[email protected]
Lead Investigator
2
Bingran ZUO
[email protected]
Programme Manager
Other Contact details
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17. Sustainable Earth Office (SEO), Nanyang Technological University
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The Sustainable Earth Office shapes leaders and support solutions to address some of the major
sustainability challenges facing Singapore and the entire world. The SEO aspires to make sustainability
sustainable at NTU. And sustainability in research, education, collaborative projects, commercialization,
and outreach will thrive and endure if undertaken voluntarily by coalitions of the willing, enthusiastic,
and most capable within a supportive administrative and departmental environment. The moral
authority for our sustainability programming and efforts comes through the creation of cooperation,
consensus, and a sense of shared mission among out departments, divisions, administrative offices,
students, and residents. As such, the SEO is not building a new centre, and not trying to replace or
duplicate NTU’s substantial multidisciplinary and administrative capacities.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
1
Assessment Of Urban Flood Resiliency Under Present And
Future Scenarios
(Lo Yat-Man, Edmond), NTU
2
Rainfall, Mesoscale Weather, Climate Change And Urban
Boundary Layer
(Koh Tieh Yong), NTU
3
Towards Green Datacenters As An Interruptible Load For
GridStabilization In Singapore
(Wen Yonggang), NTU
4
Innovative Use Of Underground Space In Port
(Soh Chee Kiong), NTU
5
The Missing Ecosystem – Sources, Function and Ecology of
Urban, Airborne Microbes
(Stephan Schuster), NTU
Practical
Outcomes
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
1
Professor Alexander Zehnder
Chairman, Sustainable Earth Office
2
William Clune
Asst Dir, Sustainable Earth Office
Email Address
[email protected]
Other Contact details
[email protected]
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SECTION 2: RESEARCH
DEPARTMENTS IN
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
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18. Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
(A) INSTITUTE FOR INFOCO MM RESEARCH (I2R)
Synopsis of Department’s Work and Agenda
The institute hosts A*STAR’s Urban Systems Initiative, which seeks to develop technologies and
capabilities to:
a) address the technological needs of the rapidly urbanising world; and to
b) enable the development of solutions for complex urban challenges to enhance Singapore’s
competitiveness
The Initiative aims to address real-life urban challenges, through active partnerships with various public
developmental agencies and private sector players. We leverage on our infocomm and engineering
capabilities to address challenges under the prevailing themes of big data, complexity and intelligence.
Started in 2012, the 5-year initiative currently consists of five R&D programs led by various research
institutes and IHLs:
1) A*DAX – A*STAR Data and Analytics Exchange Platform (Lead RI: I2R)
2) S&S – Sense and Sense-abilities Program (Lead RI: I2R)
3) Complex Systems Program (Lead RI: IHPC)
4) Integrated City Planning (Lead RIs: I2R & IHPC)
5) City Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Lead IHL: NUS-TLIAP)
In addition to the A*STAR Urban Systems Initiative, the institute has the following research programmes
that are relevant to smart city research:
6) Demand Side Management - Smart Grid Programme (SGP)
7) Intelligent Transport Systems – Smart Junction (ITS)
Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated Date
of Completion &
Status of Project
Practical Outcomes
1
A scalable platform for urban
systems innovations via the
availability and integration of
static and live public and
commercial data that:
 Stores and exchanges
data in standardised
formats with privacy and
security considerations
 Translates city data into
actionable information
using data analytics and
visualization
A unified and sustainable
sensing
and
transport
31 Oct 2014
(phase 1)
A Whole-of-City
dashboard with which
public agencies,
businesses, and people
are able to make
informed decisions and
respond to dynamic
conditions in the city
through real-time
sensing and data
analytics.
2
A*STAR Data
and Analytics
Exchange
Platform
(A*DAX)
Sense and
Sense-abilities
In Progress.
Preparing for
production and
deployment at
the Smart and
Connected Jurong
Lake District (JLD)
Test-Bed
21 May 2015
Hardware and software
components that will
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3
4
Program Unisense
architecture for large scale
and heterogeneous sensor
networks. The project uses a
modular approach to realize
the architecture and is driven
by the actual sensing needs
from
several
targeted
government agencies for
urban sustainability.
In Progress.
An end-to-end
heterogeneous
architecture
comprising three
main components
namely, sensing,
sense-making and
network
management has
been completed.
Prototypes have
been developed
and deployed in
real testbeds and
are currently
being enhanced
and evaluated.
Sense and
Sense-abilities
Program SPARK
A Security, Privacy and Trust
Framework for Large-scale
and Heterogeneous WSNs
14 November
2015
Sense and
Sense-abilities
Program - gPS
Citizen-centric sensing: collect
sensor data and humangenerated data (observations,
opinions, ideas) through
personal devices such as
smartphones.
Main focus of the project is
incentive mechanism design.
In Progress.
Security needs
derived from IDAJLD pilot testbed
and the following
components have
been completed:
- Node and
gateway
registration
- Key
management/upd
ate with forward
and backward
secrecy
- Dynamic key
request protocol
- 2FA for OTA
update
-Secured OTA
firmware update
14 Aug 2016
In Progress.
Blueprint design
has been
completed;
currently at
model
improvement and
facilitate the sharing of
sensor networks at the
node level, network level
and data level. Such
sharing will reduce waste
due to deployment of
redundant resources.
The data gathered by the
sensing architecture and
the deep insights
provided by the sensemaking architecture can
help government
agencies and policy
makers to make more
informed decisions on
how to improve the
quality of life of its
citizens.
An urban large-scale and
heterogeneous wireless
sensor network that is
Secure:
tamper/corruption/eave
s-drop-proof
Trustworthy: dependable
data, for which
knowledge and wisdom
can be built
Privacy-preserving:
protection of individual
identity and location
A generally applicable
incentive mechanism to
promote large-scale
citizen-participated
sensing campaigns which
collect useful data (e.g.,
environmental,
transport, ICT
infrastructure, HDB
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6
7
Sense and
Sense-abilities
Program Reliable
Information
Delivery in
Heterogeneous
Sensor
Networks (RID)
Sense and
Sense-abilities
Program Heterogeneous
Sense-making
and Learning
Networks
(HELEN)
Sense and
Sense-abilities
Program WSNoise
Explore various coding
techniques (e.g., network
coding, distributed storage)
to improve the reliability of
information delivery in sensor
networks (e.g., sensor
data collection, code update
dissemination, data storage
at gateway nodes).
The vision of this project is to
design heterogeneous sensor
networks that adapt
intelligently to environmental
factors and to demands and
constraints in high quality
urban living. We investigate
how enormous amounts of
sensor data can be processed
and analysed in a timely
adaptive manner using deep
learning, and we study
several critical issues like the
coexistence of heterogeneous
sensor and communication
devices sharing finite
spectrum resources and the
scalability of backhauling
networks in efficient data
delivery. Resulting design
insights will be transferred to
commercial and public
sectors.
Real-time and Continuous 2-D
Ambient Noise Mapping using
wireless sensor networks
prototype
development.
facilities) for government
and companies
A high-utility prototype
that incorporates the
incentive engine and
demonstrates the
usefulness of
participatory sensing.
14 Aug 2015
Protocols and algorithms
to be implemented in
real-world sensor
networks to improve
their reliability.
In Progress.
Protocol and
algorithm design
14 Aug 2016
In Progress.
The following
tasks were
completed:
literature review;
simulations and
early prototyping
for basic tasks;
problem
statement and
algorithm design
for advance
ed tasks.
3 Jun 2014
Completed.
Preparing final
report and
project review.
Exploring
Fast, low-complexity,
accurate algorithms for:
data compression,
missing data imputation,
outlier detection,
multimodal data fusion,
smart sensors, predictive
maintenance, intruder
detection.
Practical urban testbed
of 150 solar-powered
noise sensors in 3
separate test sites.
Plug and playable
hierarchical network and
management
architecture
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Sense and
Sense-abilities
Program Smartbin
Real-time monitoring of bin
fullness and location using
wireless sensor networks
extensions with
IDA, NEA, HDB
31 July 2014
Towards the end
of the project
(closing).
Test-bedded with
11 Smartbins
prototype in
Geylang. Data of
bins' fullness has
been collected
and analyzed.
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10
11
Sense and
Sense-abilities
Program Skysense
Perform sense-making for
vertical farming greenhouse
prototype
Sense and
Sense-abilities
Program IDAJurong Lake
District (JLD)
test bedding
Realization and validation of
S&S Unisense architecture for
multi-modal shared sensor
network at JLD
Integrated City
Planning (ICP)
Harness capabilities in BigData & Geospatial Analytics
as well as Complex System
Modelling, to enhance the
key
tasks
needed
to
formulate the Concept Plan –
Singapore’s long-term land
use and infrastructure plan.
The ICP phase-1 involves
work in collaboration with
URA, HDB and LTA, and
focuses on 4 key components
of the Concept Plan process,
namely:
1) Projecting Land Use to
support housing demand,
2) Developing land use
staging plans,
3) Translating land use
30 Sep 2014
In Progress.
Final round of
data collection
for greenhouse
profiling.
29 July 2015
In Progress.
31 Jul 2015
Data collection &
analysis,
Model design
A back-end learning and
map generation suite.
Identify daily seasonality
of bins' fullness as
guidance for city
planners in making
decisions for optimal
placement of bins.
Cleaning operators can
be alerted when the bins
should be
cleared/emptied,
resulting in more
effective planning of
cleaning route, thus
achieving better
productivity and reduced
carbon footprint.
Achieved higher crop
yield from improvements
to greenhouse design.
Ultimately, project will
contribute to Singapore's
food resilience efforts.
Realization and
validation of S&S
Unisense architecture for
multi-modal shared
sensor network at JLD
Contribute to the
planning analysis needed
to formulate plans for
land uses, facilities and
infrastructure provision,
as well as evaluate
resilience and interdependencies of urban
systems.
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13
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City Logistics
and Supply
Chain
Management
(SCM, part of
the Urban
Systems
Initiative, led by
NUS-TLIAP)
Demand Side
Management
(DSM, I2R’s
Smart Grid
Programme)
Smart Junctions
(ITS, I2R’s
Intelligent
Transport
Systems
Programme)
distribution
into
travel
demand, and
4) Projecting transport flows
and network performance.
Develop
computational
platforms based on complex
systems approach and data
analytics for city logistics and
supply chain management
for:
 Coordinating
multiple
parties for overall system
efficiency
and
cost
effectiveness
 Mitigating supply chain
risk
for
business
continuity
Intelligent
platform
to
manage and control time
pattern and magnitude of the
electricity demand. 2 types of
algorithms will be developed
namely:
1. Price-driven DSM
2. Welfare-driven DSM
 Capabilities
- Intelligent control of
interruptible
and
deferrable loads
- Optimisation on real-time
load scheduling
- Intelligent management
of renewable energy and
storage
Intelligent
platform
to
manage safety and navigation
at intersections. The system
fuses data from a multitude
of
sensors
such
as
infrastructure laser scanners,
GPS, traffic light phasing, etc.
and analyses the trajectory of
vehicles
and
predicts
impending accident. The
system also provides other
traffic data such as speed and
flow which can be used to
traffic
control
and
enforcement.
30 Jun 2015
In Progress
31 Jun 2016
Improve energy
efficiency
In Progress
High energy and cost
savings potential
Reduce greenhouse gas
emissions
Dec 2015
Provide safety to drivers
and vulnerable users.
In Progress
Optimize Traffic control
Enforcement for illegal uturns and speeding.
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Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
2
Dr Ng See Siong (Urban Systems Initiative)
Dr Ng Wee Siong (A*DAX)
Dr Tan Hwee Pink (S&S)
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact
details
6402118
64082149
64082238
3
Dr Goh Shen Tat (ICP)
[email protected]
64082037
4
[email protected]
65165179
5
Dr Bob De Souza (SCM, based at the Logistic
Institute, NUS)
Dr Henry Wong (DSM)
64082402
6
Dr Jaya Shankar (ITS)
[email protected]
[email protected]
64082239
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(B) INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (IHPC)
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
IHPC is a Research Institute under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). The
institute promotes and spearheads scientific advances and technological innovations through
computational modelling, simulation and visualization methodologies and tools. Research foci are in the
realm of large and complex-­­coupled systems, mechanics and fluid dynamics, computational electronics
and electromagnetics, computational material and chemistry, scientific computing and software
development, high performance and distributed computing, large-scale data mining and analyses,
digital modelling and knowledge based tool designs.
Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Brief description
Projects
1
Complex
Systems
Program
[IHPC-LTA
collaboration]
Creation of an interactive
platform for evaluating train
schedules and their impacts on
passenger experiences is being
pursued with LTA. Previously
we have developed and
deployed platforms and
models for LTA that allows
them to probe/understand
route choices of commuters
and the crowdedness of train
stations/carts.
Estimated
Date of
Completion
October 2015
Practical Outcomes
Our transport works are
useful in studying
overloading, overcrowding,
and travel delays resulting
from disruptions, train or
bus deployment
frequencies, and/or various
other population growth
dynamics. With all the data
combined into a single
model transport planners
can now more accurately
enhance their responses to
disruptions as well as plan
for future frameworks to
cater to a growing rapid
transit system. The team
has been involved in the
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Complex
Systems
Program
Scoping of areas for
collaboration with SMRT has
been completed with NDA and
MOU now in the final stages.
October 2015
A mutual NDA has been signed
with Baseride Technologies,
Inc., an international company
that provides transport
solutions with clients from
New York, Russia, Netherlands,
among others.
CPF Board has approached us
to explore the use of
complexity science to study atrisk CPF members with respect
to economic conditions, CPF
policies etc.
October 2015
[IHPC-SMRT
collaboration]
3
4
Complex
Systems
Program
Complex
Systems
Program
Specific scope
of the
collaboration
is still under
discussion.
October 2015
Project signed
and has
started.
roadmapping activities of
LTA.
The collaboration will
initially focus on quantifying
and creating a visualization
of the spatiotemporal
variations in speed and
capacity of Singapore buses
using the ticketing data and
other bus transition data.
The results will then be
leveraged in building
efficient, adaptive, and
optimal bus route
strategies.
We agreed to share
expertise in the
development of transport
optimization solution by
looking at human mobility
data.
Work will impact in the long
term planning of CPF on
how to deal with its
members.
5
Complex
Systems
Program
The team has been
working/exploring with the
College of Civil Service to
create a web-based platform
to serve the Complexity
Interest Group in Singapore.
October 2015
The platform is aimed at
bringing the community
together and to share
knowledge and applications
of complexity science.
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Complex
Systems
Program
The collaboration will build
a strong community of
world class researchers in
Singapore on urban
complexity. Such reputation
will allow Singapore to fully
realize its goal of becoming
at the forefront and the hub
of innovation in smart cities
initiatives.
7
Complex
Systems
Program
Collaborations with Complexity October 2015
Institute under Professor
Peter Sloot to create an
international pool of
collaborators in our urban
complex modeling efforts.
Among the activities include:
1) co-organise ECCS
conference: Transitions in
Discrete Choice (Sept 2014,
Lucca Italy); 2) NRF proposal
on understanding hidden
connections of criminal
networks (8 universities)
Development of a network
October 2015
science based model that can
assist humanitarian
The work will result to fast
assessment of the flow
dynamics of goods and
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organisations in devising
strategies for various response
and relief operations.
Based
on OpenStreetMap (OSM)— a
collaborative project that
provides open geodata, we
developed an algorithm that
automatically converts an OSM
system of roads and amenities
into a road network of nodes
and edges. The work is in
collaboration with other
groups from IHPC and the
logistic Institute, Asia.
other relief efforts. The
proposed system also allows
users to quantify the
reachability of critical loci
within a disaster-struck
area.
The procedure is
highly-flexible— allowing
further inclusion of
additional geographic
information in the analyses.
The paradigm developed
also has a predictive nature
as it allows stakeholders to
assess a range of possible
destruction scenarios predisaster, and subsequently
evaluate the impact of these
scenarios to humanitarian
relief operations.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
[email protected]
Dr Christopher Monterola (Complex
Systems)
Other Contact
details
64191554
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19. Agri-food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA)
(A) AQUACULTURE TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Synopsis of Department’s Work and Agenda
The ATD Carries out R&D, including collaborations with external partners; Provides training, extension
services/technology transfer and other aspects of development in area of expertise; Auditor for
voluntary quality assurance schemes
Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Projects
1
To enhance
selfsufficiency of
safe seafood
supply for
Singapore
through the
development
of aquaculture
genomic tools
for markerassisted
selective
breeding of
tropical
marine
foodfish
[Joint Project
with Temasek
Life Sciences
Laboratory]
Brief description
This Project aims to enhance self-sufficiency,
food safety and affordable tropical marine
foodfish supply for Singapore by developing and
applying cutting edge selective breeding tools
(molecular biotechnology) to develop fastgrowing species to overcome a very critical
bottleneck in enabling intensive aquaculture
farming of tropical marine food fish viz., a
sustainable and adequate supply of good quality
faster growing frys. The projects will fast track
the selection programme for Asian seabass and
Mozambique tilapia (a sustainable omnivorous
species).
The project aims to generate Asian seabass with
growth rates of 30% higher and Mozambique
tilapia with growth rates of 15% higher.
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
31
December
2014
In Progress
(Superior F2
Asian
seabass and
F3
Mozambique
tilapia have
been
generated
and are
undergoing
field trials.)
Practical
Outcomes
Increased
productivity
of local
farms with
availability
of faster
growing
frys.
Under the project, marker-assisted selection
(MAS) will be employed in conjunction with
classical selective breeding methods to select for
faster growing brooders.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
1
2
3
Researchers Names
Mr Lim Huan Sein (AVA)
Prof Laszlo Orban (TLL)
Dr Yue Gen Hua (TLL)
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact details
6325 7323
6872 7413
6872 7407
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(B) HARVEST TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Synopsis of Department’s Work and Agenda
The Horticulture Technology Department facilitates the development of horticulture industry through
technology development, promotion and transfer as well as through collaborations with relevant
external partners. Research focus on developing farming systems for both outdoor and indoor farming
as well as mechanisation and best agronomy practices to boost productivity and sustainability of local
vegetable farms in order to meet Singapore’s self-sufficiency targets.
S/N Research
Projects
1
Increased
Productivity
with
Sustainable and
Intensive
Farming System
and
Mechanisation
Brief description
Singapore imports most of its food and is
vulnerable to food supply and price
disruptions. AVA has identified leafy
vegetables to be a key food item where local
production can be supported to provide some
mitigation of supply shocks and as
psychological buffer in times of crisis. AVA has
set internal targets to raise the self-sufficiency
level of vegetables from the current 12% to i)
20% by year 2020 and ii) 30% by 2030, so that
these can be ramped up further in times of
crisis.
As land for farming is limited, one way to meet
the new self-sufficiency targets is to develop
novel, innovative, economically, highly
productive and sustainable outdoor and
indoor farming systems to produce leafy
vegetables.
Estimate
d Date of
Completi
on &
Status of
Project
Dec 2017
In
progress
Practical
Outcomes
Develop and
promote
highly
productive
and
sustainable
outdoor and
indoor farming
systems as
well as
mechanisation
solution to the
local vegetable
farming
industry.
Labour shortage is one of the biggest
challenges faced by local farms. It is foreseen
that labour shortage problems will get more
serious with time. Furthermore, demands for
labour will also rise with increased production.
Most of commercial machines for farm field
processes are not suitable for local use largely
due to fragile characteristics of leafy
vegetables grown locally, agronomy practices
and environment conditions. Due to the
economics and size of our local farming
industry, it is unlikely that the solution will be
developed by the private sector. Hence, it is
essential to develop mechanisation solutions
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to improve productivity (manpower hours)
within the vegetable farming industry to
ensure that farms remain sustainable in face of
future challenges.
Sustainable
Vegetables are grown in an intensive cropping
Farming
system to maximise vegetable yields. High
through
fertiliser application rates are used to boost
Integrated and early growth and yields. Continuous intensive
Balanced
applications of fertilisers will lead to salt buildFertilisation
up in the soil affecting soil health and fertility,
and consequently vegetable yields in the long
term.
Good nutrient management practices are
important for long term sustainability of the soil
for growing vegetables, and to increase
fertiliser use efficiency and reduce nutrient
leaching. Furthermore, balanced fertilisation
ensures optimum plant nutrient uptake thereby
reducing accumulation on plant tissues at levels
that may be harmful for human consumption.
Sept 2015
In
progress
Develop
balanced and
sustainable
fertilisation
practices and
promote to
farmers for
sustaining high
productivity
with reduced
inputs and
sustainable
good soil
quality.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
1
2
Researchers Names
Fadhlina Suhaimi
Fong Siew Lee
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact details
67519821
67519821
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(C) LABORATORIES GROUP
Synopsis of Department’s Work and Agenda
The Laboratories Group encompasses all laboratory functions in AVA and are located within the Animal
and Plant Health Centre (APHC) and Veterinary Public Health Centre (VPHC).
The APHC carries out laboratory diagnostic support for national surveillance and monitoring
programmes to prevent the establishment of important animal and plant diseases in Singapore. The
Centre also provides animal and plant health diagnostic services to the public.
The VPHC houses all the food safety testing laboratories which offers a comprehensive range of
analytical services covering a wide spectrum of chemical and microbiological hazards. Its capabilities
cover tests for disease, food poisoning and spoilage organisms, harmful chemicals, toxins and economic
fraudulence.
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Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Projects
1
2
3
4
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
2014
Avian flu
vaccine and
diagnostic
test kits
The project intends to develop (1) a multicomponent H5N1 vaccine and (2) a
universal detection method for the various
strains of H5N1 as well as other significant
avian influenza subtypes such as H6, H7
and H9 viruses circulating in the SE Asia
and East Asia region. Such types of
vaccines and diagnostic kits are currently
not commercially available.
Animal
Disease Chip
This project intends to develop an “Animal
Disease Chip”, with the capability of
detecting 10-15 targets of significant
animal diseases from one sample, on one
test.
2014
Development
of Multiplex
high
resolution
melting
(HRM) assay
for Shrimp
Pathogens
The project intends to develop a rapid,
specific, sensitive and cost-effective assay
for simultaneous detection of multiple
shrimp pathogens (WSSV, IHHNV, MBV and
NHPB) and has a great potential for high
throughput screening assay for shrimp
aquaculture industry.
2014
Study on
behaviour of
nanoparticles
in various
food matrices
and
conditions
To better understand the dynamic
interaction between the nanoparticles
and other common food ingredients, with
the aim of allowing AVA to build up
expertise in applicable sample
preparation procedures and develop
suitable detection methodologies of
nanoparticle presented in food matrices.
2016
In progress
In progress
In progress
In progress
Practical
Outcomes
This project is
intended to
provide more
effective tools
to help keep
Singapore free
from bird flu to
safeguard
Singapore’s
public and
poultry farms
from the
disease.
The “Animal
Disease Chip”
provides rapid
detection for
many target
diseases at the
same time, thus
providing
substantial
savings on time,
manpower and
material costs.
To build up
resiliency in
local shrimp
aquaculture
industry
To safeguard
Singapore’s
food supply
from potential
risks associated
with
nanoparticles in
food technology
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Non-targeted
food safety
testing
The traditional approach for food safety
testing and assessment is limited to
testing for specific food contaminants and
pathogens known to regulatory bodies
and potentially missing out unanticipated
contaminants. A ‘non-targeted’ analytical
approach is explored for its feasibility in
identifying uncommon/unanticipated
contaminants in agricultural commodities
and foodstuffs.
2015
In progress
To safeguard
Singapore’s
food supply
from
unanticipated
risks
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
1
Researchers Names
Dr Chua Tze Hoong
Email Address
[email protected]
Other Contact details
67952832
2
Dr Chng Ai Lee
[email protected]
67952813
3
Dr Foo Chin Lui
[email protected]
6659 6700
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(D) POST-HARVEST TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Synopsis of Department’s Work and Agenda
AVA’s Post-Harvest Technology Centre (PHTC) embraces technology innovations to reduce and reuse
food waste along the food supply chain. This is in line with AVA’s aim to ensure food security under the
food waste reduction R&D strategy. Tapping on emerging technology and through collaborative applied
research and extension services, PHTC focuses on improving the food supply chain efficiency, reducing
waste in farm post-harvest, food manufacturing and distribution, and developing value added products
to ensure an innovative, integrated and sustainable food supply chain. These technology development
and transfer programmes is aimed at assisting stakeholders of the food supply chain to remain costeffective and sustainable in maximizing their resources and profits, and enhancing their competitiveness.
Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Projects
1
Okara and Fish
Trimmings as
Alternate Feed
for Food Fish
Brief description
In FY 2012, AVA embarked on a
project to develop an optimal
processing protocol for the
production of cost effective and
high quality fish feed from fish
trimmings and okara (Soy Milk
by-products), in collaboration
with Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP)’s
Environmental and Water
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
June 2013
Completed
Practical Outcomes
The project concluded
with a fish feed that can
be produced
economically as an
alternative to
commercial fish feed as
the key research
outcome. One
participating fish farm
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Technology Centre of Innovation
(EWTCOI) and the aquaculture
industry. The fish feed
formulation was jointly
developed on AVA pilot scale
processing facility. The feed
performance was evaluated
through the feeding trials in the
three participating farms over the
nine-week test period.
2
3
Development of
semi-moist fish
feed partially
derived from fish
trimmings
AVA collaborated with Apollo
Aquarium Pte Ltd to develop a
nutritional, semi-moist fish feed
that is partially derived from fish
trimming as an alternative to
existing formulated dry pellet fish
feed. The project aims to improve
the quality of aquaculture feed
for marine food fishes, which in
turn can increase fish survival
rates and farm productivity, thus
reducing the production costs.
April 2014
Biofermentation
of okara
AVA collaborated with
Wageningen University (WUR),
Netherlands, and NTU on the
research project which aims to
bioferment okara into a valuable
ingredient for poultry feed.
November
2013
AVA is currently collaborating
with NTU further to optimise the
biofermentation system and testbed the end products with the
layer farms.
4
has continued to test
out this novel fish feed
concept, which
comprised okara and
fish trimmings, in his
fish farm.
Utilisation of byproducts from
food and
AVA explored the utilisation of
other food by-products by
engaging Massey University, New
Completed
Completed
The fish fed with the
formulated semi-moist
fish feed was found to
have comparable
weight gain in
comparison to fish fed
with commercial dry
pellet feed. An industry
seminar was conducted
at the end of the project
to share the output of
the research i.e. The
encasing technique
minimises nutrient loss
in the feed and enables
the addition of growth
promoting additives to
be added to the fish
feed.
The results have
demonstrated the
potential of
biofermentation in
increasing the
bioavailability of free
amino acids and
improving protein
digestibility of okara.
December
2015
In progress
(laboratory
trials)
August 2013
Completed
Both research projects
showed that there is
potential for these byCITIES ROUNDTABLE | 2014
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5
6
beverage
companies
Zealand, on two research
collaborative projects: 1) To
evaluate the functional
properties of brewery spent
grains from the local food and
beverage processing industries
were also 2) To recover functional
ingredients from fruit wastes
such as durian husks generated
by fruit processors.
products to be
converted into food
ingredients as well as
biodegradable
packaging. In the
coming years, AVA will
engage the food
companies to test-bed
these novel recycling
concepts.
Value adding to
Soy Milk byproducts into
Okara Floss
A two-year research project
aimed to develop a high-value
novel product from low value
okara which is a high fibre byproduct from soya bean milk
processors
November
2013
Development of
high value food
from fish
trimmings
(mullet fat)
The mullet production in
Singapore was approximately 6%
of the total local food fish
produced in 2012. The
aquaculture industry faced
challenges of high production
cost in the mullet filleting
process, which is attributed to
the low production yield
(approximately 70% loss by
weight). The edible mullet fats
with potential health benefits
contribute 10% of the fish mass
and it is currently discarded as
part of the mullet trimmings.
Metropolitan Fishery Group, a
local fish farm, has requested
research collaboration with AVA
to recycle the mullet fats derived
from its filleting process.
March 2015
Completed
In Progress
The project raised
awareness of food
waste reduction
amongst the local food
processing industry and
end-users. The
commercialised product
enables soybean
processors to maximise
returns on their byproducts. A local
company, Cecilia
Minced & Dried Pork
Food Trading, adopted
AVA’s food waste
recycling concept and
has commercialised the
okara floss formula and
process.
The development of
food products with
health benefits from the
mullet fat would create
another source of
revenue in the
production of mullet
fillets. This enables the
local aquaculture
industry to remain costefficient and
competitive in the
market. It also
promotes the
consumption of local
food fish and fish
products, which in
return, improves farm
productivity and
strengthens resilient
food supply to meet
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today’s changing
consumer trend.
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Development of
a novel energyefficient drying
system for food
by-products
The project aims to resolve the
key challenge for recycling byproducts (i.e. stabilising the food
by-products for further product
innovation). AVA will embark on
a collaborative research project
with NUS to develop a dryer
that can dry food by-products in
an energy-efficient manner.
January 2016
In progress
for grant
application
Through this project,
industry players will be
encouraged to install
energy-efficient drying
systems that can
stabilise and value-add
the by-products of food
processing, thus
reducing waste and
opening up more
possibilities for their byproducts to be returned
into the food chain.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
Researchers Names
Email Address
1
2
Khoo Gek Hoon
Alice Tan Swee Chuan
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact
details
67907968
67907973
3
Felicia Loh
[email protected]
67907973
4
Teng Yi Sin
[email protected]
67907973
5
Ong Yihang
[email protected]
67907973
6
Liu Yankai
[email protected]
67907973
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20. Building & Construction Authority (BCA) Research Group
Synopsis of Department’s Work and Agenda
The Building and Construction Authority’s (BCA) Research Group’s key function is to drive research and
development initiatives through local and international collaborations in support of BCA’s strategic policies and
directions on green building and sustainable construction.
BCA’s Research Group has 3 setups as follows:
Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Projects
Brief description
1
Joint study with Solar Energy Research
Institute of Singapore as part of
international effort to develop a
standard metric and protocol to analyse
and compare such buildings in different
climates.
Performance
Metrics of
Plus/Zero/Low
Energy Buildings
in Singapore
through
Advanced
Energy Audit
[Joint study with
ERI on page 19]
Officer in charge: Alice Goh
Completion
Date & Status
of Project
Jan 2015
In progress
Practical
Outcomes
To develop
methods and
tools to enable
standardised
holistic audits
to evaluate the
performance of
energy efficient
buildings in the
tropics.
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2
3
4
Development of
BCA User Test
Bed Facility
(UTBF)
Alternative to
Hardcore
Aggregates for
Construction of
Temporary Site
Access or
Ground
Preparation
Works
(BCA-HDB CIPF
Project)
Use of
Sedimentary
Rock for
Concrete
Production
[JTC-BCA CIPF
Project]
The BCA UTBF is a rotatable test facility
for building technologies and research,
modelled after the US Lawrence Berkley
National Lab’s FLEXLAB. It will be located
at the rooftop of the new BCA Academy
building that is under construction. The
UTBF allows building systems and
components to be tested in real world
conditions, enabling researchers to study
the actual performance through a
configurable test setup and at difference
orientations relative to the sun.
Construction of the facility is expected to
be completed in the 2nd half of 2015.
The first tests will begin shortly after
commissioning and calibration works.
Officer in charge: Alice Goh; Kelvin Han
To develop an environmentally friendly
and non-toxic soil hardener/ stabiliser
yet commercially viable to replace
hardcore for construction of temporary
site access or for ground preparation
works.
Sep 2015
In progress
Q2 2015
In progress
Current stage:
Proof of
concept stage.
Officer in charge: Low Giau Leong; June
Bek
To develop a cost effective and
productive solution to enable
sedimentary rocks excavated from the
Jurong Rock Caverns (JRC) to be used in
the production of concrete that satisfies
both short-term and long-term strength
and serviceability requirements.
Officer in charge: Jeffery Neng; June Bek
Q4 2015
In progress
Current stage:
Evaluation
stage.
UTBF is an
avenue for
industry and
researchers to
test-bed
building
systems and
components in
the actual
office
environment.
Cost-effective
solutions for
construction of
temporary site
access to
reduce usage of
hardcore /
crushed
concrete used
at construction
sites.
Cost-effective
solutions to
offer higher
value
application for
JRC
sedimentary
rocks and
reduce the
reliance on
imported
granite
aggregates.
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A Novel
Approach to
Reutilize
Incineration
Bottom Ash
(IBA) for Civil
Engineering
Applications:
IBA Aerated
Concrete
The proposed project utilizes the metallic
aluminium in IBA as the gas foaming
agent to replace costly aluminium
powder in the production of aerated
concrete. The pozzolanic properties of
IBA make it a potential supplementary
cementitious material to partially replace
cement in the production of aerated
concrete to further reduce the cost. It is
estimated the resulting IBA aerated
concrete has a cost advantage over the
existing aerated concrete by at least
20%.
2016 Q4
In progress
Alternative
material for
aluminium
powder
Current stage:
Literature
review &
characterisation
of the nature of
metallic
aluminium in
IBA.
Officer in charge: June Bek
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Contact Details
S/N
1
2
3
4
5
6
Researchers Names
Ang Kian Seng
Jeffery Neng
Low Giau Leong
Kelvin Han
Alice Goh
June Bek
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact details
62489988
62489910
62489898
67304461
67304450
67304441
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21. Civil Service College
(A) INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE AND POLICY (IGP)
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
IGP aims to develop thought leadership, enhance the understanding and advance the practice of public
policy in Singapore. Through its programmes and courses, IGP connects and facilitates the exchange of
ideas between thought leaders and public officers. IGP codifies, articulates and provides fresh insights on
the principles and practice of governance and public policy with its research and publications. Through
these channels, IGP hopes to enhance the level of inquiry, foster critical thinking and inspire innovations
in areas including but not limited to governance, public economics, public communications and
engagement, international relations, and social policy.
Current Research Projects
S/N Research Projects
1
2
Brief description
A Framework for This is a book project in collaboration
Liveable and
with CLC to document Singapore’s
Sustainable Cities experience in urban planning and
development over the last 50 years.
[CSC-CLC
The book has identified 10 principles
collaboration]
that form a framework for liveable
and sustainable cities.
SG50 Book on
the Public
Service
To commemorate SG50, CSC will be
publishing a book on the Public
Service’s achievements over the last
50 years. A chapter, “Building a City,
Housing a Nation” will be written to
summarise Singapore’s urban
planning and development
experience.
Estimated Date
of Completion
& Status of
Project
1 June 2014
Completed
Practical
Outcomes
Book has been
published and
used in CSC
training
programmes.
May 2015
Drafting of
chapter is In
progress
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Contact Details
S/N
Researchers Names
Email Address
Other Contact details
1
Toh Boon Kwan
[email protected]
68747524
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22. Economic Development Board (EDB)
(A) SAFE AND SECURITY INDUSTRY PROGRAMME OFFICE
Synopsis of Division’s Work and Agenda
The Safety and Security Industry Programme Office (SSIPO) is a strategic alliance between the Economic
Development Board and the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) formed to promote the industry
in Singapore. MHA, as a lead demand driver, will identify challenges to homeland security and
urbanization, and work with the safety and security industry to co-develop solutions. Through our
partnership with MHA, EDB will create platforms whereby companies can work with the public sector
through Public-Private partnerships to testbed companies' innovative solutions in a live operational
environment in Singapore. Companies will have access to a diverse Asian environment to develop
solutions, customise and calibrate for unique Asian needs. At the same time, Singapore can also benefit
from the innovations in safety & security technologies to make our home safer to live and conduct
business.
Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Brief description
Projects
1
Safe City
Test Bed
The Safe City Test Bed aims to
enhance innovation capacity in
industry to create new solutions which
enable government agencies to
integrate information and sensors in
an automated manner, and derive
analytical insights all in real-time.
These capabilities, built on top of
existing operating systems, are
expected to improve situational
awareness, inter-agency coordination
and anticipation of security threats
while optimising the use of
manpower.
Estimated
Date of
Completion
&
Status of
Project
July 2014
Completed
Practical Outcomes
The Test Bed brought
together 6 government
agencies and 4 industry
consortia to develop
and validate new safe
city solutions in a live
environment. Solutions
developed include
crowd modelling
technology, analytics
tools to detect
anomalies and
behaviour and
information governance
and sharing platform to
allow agencies to share
information and better
visualise the situation.
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Contact Details
S/N Contact Person
1
Mak Kien Hui
Email Address
[email protected]
Other Contact details
6832 6312
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(B) SMART-SUSTAINABLE CITIES (SSC)
The Smart-Sustainable Cities (SSC) is a strategic horizontal growth theme within EDB. The SSC team in
EDB seeks to position Singapore as a “Living Laboratory,” where urban challenges are transformed into
valuable business opportunities through the cross-sharing of best practices and identification of
synergies across different stakeholders. EDB has established innovative platforms in partnership with
public agencies, such as NTU’s EcoCampus & HDB EcoTowns, where companies can partner with
agencies and research institutions to develop, test, and deploy smart and sustainable urban solutions in
Singapore, before scaling up for the region and beyond. Companies will have access to not only the
Asian setting, but also the tropics as context. This provides industries with the framework to develop
customised solutions to meet the specific needs of the region. As the country develops to be the global
leader in innovating and commercializing solutions for the region, Singapore will evolve to become the
leading, smart, sustainable, and liveable city in Asia.
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23.Housing Development Board (HDB)
(A) HDB BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The Centre of Building Research (CBR) is HDB’s master laboratory. Set up in 2009, it spearheads research
and development (R&D) efforts in building and environmental sustainability, as well as nurtures new
technologies for future generations of public housing. The CBR focuses its R&D initiatives in 5 areas –
Energy, Urban Greenery, Living Environment, Waste & Water, and Building Technology. CBR drives R&D
on Sustainability, Biophilic and Smart Towns to help make our towns more Liveable, Efficient,
Sustainable and Safe and this is aligned with HDB’s Roadmap to Better Living in HDB Towns. Prototypes
of new technologies are developed and test-bedded at the CBR before implementation in HDB estates.
The CBR brings to fruition, HDB’s vision to be a leader in research, innovations and solutions in
developing quality homes, and creating a sustainable, liveable and smart living environment for its
residents.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
1
Development
of Punggol
Eco-Town“The
Sustainable
Waterfront
HDB is developing Punggol
Town into Singapore’s first
Eco-Town - ‘The Sustainable
Waterfront Town in the
Tropics’. A holistic and
comprehensive framework
Estimated
Practical Outcomes
Date of
Completio
n & Status
of Project
To progress a) Clean, Healthy and
with HDB
Comfortable Living
building
Environment
programme
b) Enhanced Greenery and
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Town the
Tropics”
2
Greenprint
that covers social, economic
and environmental
considerations was developed
to steer the development of
Punggol Eco-Town. Punggol
Eco-Town is positioned as a
'living laboratory' to test-bed
urban planning, sustainable
design and green building
solutions. It is an excellent
platform to build capabilities
and develop new solutions
while providing a quality living
environment.
In progress
As part of the 'Roadmap to
Better Living in HDB Towns,
HDB’s Greenprint aims to bring
sustainable living into existing
HDB estates.HDB's Greenprint
is a comprehensive and
integrated framework of goals
and strategies to guide greener
HDB town development and
create sustainable homes. In
the Greenprint framework,
HDB is extending the concept
of green and sustainable
lifestyles beyond Punggol, so
as to build Green
Neighbourhoods, Green Flats
and Green Communities.
2015
Biodiversity
c) Greener Transportation
d) Adequacy of Water
e) Reduced Waste
f) Low Carbon Development
In Progress
The findings from this pilot
project will be used to refine
the Greenprint model, before it
is rolled out to other HDB
towns. Residents can look
forward to sustainable and
green initiatives such as solar
panels, sensor-controlled LED
lightings, pneumatic waste
collection system, enhanced
pedestrian networks, and
extended cycling networks.
Bicycle and car sharing
schemes will also be
introduced as part of the
Greenprint.
HDB will pilot the Greenprint at
Yuhua estate in Jurong. Thirtyeight blocks of flats in Yuhua
will be the first to be
transformed into a “Green
Neighbourhood”.
3
Solar
Capability
Building
Programme
4
Energy
Efficient
Under the IMCSD Sustainable
March
a) To determine the
Development Blueprint, the
efficiency of solar power
2017
key strategies on energy
generation with respect to
In-progress
conservation focus on energy
location, block type and
efficiency and test-bedding of
technology
renewable energy. Solar PV
b) Reducing costs for
has the greatest potential and
implementation of solar PV
HDB has been identified as a
systems
key agency to building up solar
capabilities.
Lighting contributes to 50% of Completed a) Reduce energy
the energy consumption of a
consumption of lighting
HDB block. Energy efficient
needed for common
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Lighting
5
6
Centralized
Remote
Monitoring of
Building
Systems
(CRMS) for
Public Housing
District level
Pneumatic
Waste
Conveyance
System(PWCS)
test bed
solutions and technology are
being
studied
for
implementation
and
its
applications in public housing.
HDB Residential blocks have
many buildings systems such as
lifts, pumps, common lightings,
and
structural
health
monitoring and slope stability.
These systems would need to
be remotely monitored on a
real-time basis through the
CRMS.
The PWCS is an automated
waste collection system. It
conveys waste by air suction
from individual buildings
through a network of pipes to
a central location for
collection. HDB will carry out
district level PWCS test bed at
HDB GreenPrint project at
Jurong East Street 21 and
upcoming new towns such as
Tampines North, Bidadari and
Punggol North Shore will also
involve PWCS.
services
b) Reduce cost of electricity
required to power lighting
March
2015
In progress
2022
In progress
a) Productivity improvement
in building systems
management and response
b) Reduce data transmission
and remote monitoring
costs
c) Implement a robust and
reliable remote monitoring
system
a) Enhance the living
environment of the
residents through
eliminates the need for
waste collection truck to
travel to every block to
collect waste, thus allowing
for more efficient use of land
b) Hygienic and enclosed
waste collection system
helps to reduce vector
problem and the odour
from waste collection
c) Ease labour shortage.
7
Automated
precast
production
system(APPS)
To enhance efficiency of
precast production, an
automated precast production
system at our Centre of
Building Research to carry out
R&D in automated precast
production.
Completed
APPS setup
at CBR.
a) Increase existing factory
production capacity by 45%
b) Improve production
productivity by 35%
Production
in progress
9
Township
Climatic
Modelling
Wind flow and temperature
are two key factors affecting
human comfort in a built
environment. Modelling
studies were conducted at
Punggol to study the effects of
wind, greenery, and building
forms and their impact on the
thermal comfort of residents.
Completed
A baseline wind and
temperature map was
developed to guide planning
and urban design of Punggol
town
10
Urban Systems
Model(USM)
USM is a set of software tools
that captures the complex
interdependencies between
the various systems in an
urban environment. The tool
End 2014
A detailed and holistic
sustainability assessment of the
urban design plans for Punggol
In progress.
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GeoBarrier
System for Use
in
Underground
Structure
(Funded by
MND SUL)
aims to help quantify the
sustainability performance,
indentify the trade-off involved
in planning and design of town
The GeoBarrier System (GBS)
utilizes hydrophobic and
hydrophilic materials, to
minimize rain water infiltration
and hence maintain existing
level of soil suction which
contributes to the stability of
slopes.
2017
In progress.
a) Provide viable alternatives
to Reinforced Concrete wall,
b) Temporarily detain
stormwater to reduced peak
flow rates and contribute to
mitigating against flash flood
and
c) Enhance greenery and
improve ventilation/
acoustics within basement
car parks
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
Alan Tan Hock Seng
[email protected]
2
Teh Poh Suan
[email protected]
3
Larry Cheng
[email protected]
Other Contact details
64902680
64902601
64902600
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(B) HDB STRATEGIC FUTURES OFFICE
Synopsis of Institute’s Work and Agenda
The Strategic Futures Office (SFO) is a foresight outfit set up in 2011 within HDB to strengthen
capabilities in the anticipation of future issues to strengthen long-term and medium term planning for
public housing programme. The SFO’s focus is conducting international scan to pick up public housing
related trends and examine the impact of these developments. The whole intent is to better sense-make
complex issues – in particular HDB’s policy dilemma and dichotomy – with a deeper appreciation of
ground sentiments and how public perceive public housing policies and programmes.
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Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Projects
Brief description
1
In Part 1 of the Post-Bureaucratic Age, we
had explored the key ideas and principles
of a Post-Bureaucratic Age through Don
Tapscott’s concept of Government 2.0.
Central to this concept is openness and
transparency. Democratic governments
who subscribe to Government 2.0 believe
that openness enables transparency
which then fosters trust between the
state and the society.
Post
Bureaucratic
Age
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
Completed
Today, our society is more democratic
and open than before but that has not
translated into greater trust as a whole.
Paradoxically, the democratization of
society has led to an erosion of trust in
democratic governments. Why?
Practical Outcomes
The insights drawn
provide a better
understanding of
the relationship
between
government and
society by focusing
attention on the
complex interplay
between
transparency, trust
and technology.
In Part 2 of the Post-Bureaucratic Age, we
examine the risks and implications of
openness and transparency, drawing
insights from Ivan Krastev’s critique “The
Transparency Delusion”.
2
The Long Tail
of
Quantitative
Easing
After 5 years of accommodative Completed
monetary conditions, the Federal
Reserve has recently announced its
intention to end QE in October 2014,
which brings the important questions
looming near – how will the Fed off-load
an unprecedented expansive balance
sheet and how will financial markets
react after a prolonged period of binging
on abundant liquidity?
This paper seeks to
inform HDB’s
Senior
Management on
the shift in
operating
landscape, in
particular, the
transition from an
accommodative
monetary
environment to the
United State’s
planned exit from
their Quantitative
Easing program this
October.
In anticipation of
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the Federal
Reserve’s exit
from its most
aggressive
stimulus
programme
known, The Long
Tail of QE traces
the developments
that have occurred
since the start of
the tapering
journey and
examine its
implications to
HDB going forth.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
1
2
3
Researchers Names
Mark Chen
Tay An Li
Hwang Wei Ting
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact details
64901174
64901173
64901172
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24. Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)
(A) TECHNOLOGY AND PLANNING
Synopsis of Department’s Work and Agenda
As the ICT master-planner for the nation, IDA aims to provide foresight on the state of ICT developments
from within and outsides of Singapore, propose strategic directions for way ahead and to conduct pilot
trials and deployments of emerging technologies that have strategic impact to Singapore's development.
Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Projects
Brief description
1
Green Data Centre Research to
seek innovative and pioneering
solutions that will significantly
improve the energy efficiency of
data centres.
Energy Nation
Innovation
Challenge
Estimated
Date of
Completion &
Status of
Project
2020
Practical Outcomes
The first call
for research
proposals is
expected to be
made during
3QFY2014.
The Green Data Centre
Research Hub
Programme will
support multidisciplinary research to
develop and
demonstrate green
data centre
technologies and
solutions. The research
program will drive
improvements in
cooling systems, IT
systems and data
centre as a whole
system. The
programme would be
run in collaboration
with industry to ensure
effective downstream
translation.
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Contact Details
S/N
1
Names
Ronnie Lee
Email Address
[email protected]
Other Contact details
6211 0616
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25. JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation (I ) Centre
(A) NTU-JTC INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION CENTRE
Synopsis of Project’s Work and Agenda
With the objective to promote growth and development of economically viable and sustainable
industrial infrastructure solutions in Singapore, the NTU-JTC I3 Centre is set out to expand Singapore’s
research and development scope in diverse fields such as land reclamation and specialized marine
infrastructure, energy and water recycling, underground infrastructure design and construction, and
novel construction methods and systems. The Centre’s research thrusts are focus in four areas, namely
reclamation & marine infrastructure, sustainable infrastructure, underground infrastructure, and
infrastructure systems & materials. It also aims to build new capabilities and to scale up technical
leadership competencies in the area of industrial infrastructure development that mirror Singapore’s
needs for sustainable development and the imperative to keep Singapore as a viable choice investment
location for businesses.
Current Research Projects
SUTD and JTC are exploring a range of projects to be funded under the Centre as listed below:
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
1
Empirical
Study of Tidal
Backwater
Effects on
Drainage
Design at
Jurong Island
Ayer Chawan
Basin
This study is to determine the
capacity and flow in the
relevant existing main channels,
taking into account, the terrain,
land use, rainfall, design flow
rate of process water, channel
configuration, tidal water level,
and to establish an empirical
relationship for realistic
estimation of the service flow
rate for these channels.
Feasibility
studies on
vanadiumredox flow
batteries for
energy
storage in
building
A one-kilowatt all-vanadium
redox flow battery energy
storage system (VRB-ESS) will
be purchased and installed in
the laboratory at NTU. The
operational performances of
the VRB-ESS system will be
tested to evaluate the feasibility
on the building applications.
The VRB-ESS system will be
2
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
31 March
2014]
Completed
31 March
2015
In progress
data
collection,
testing, data
analysis
Practical Outcomes
Through the established
empirical relationship, this
study seeks to derive a
permanent solution to
address the tidal backwater
issue for the drainage
discharge along Pulau
Merlimau. The study can
extend into the realistic
estimation of the service
flow rate for the drainage
network around Ayer
Merlimau, Ayer Chawan and
Ayer Merbau.
The limited self-discharge
characteristics of vanadium
redox batteries make them
useful in applications where
the batteries must be stored
for long periods of time with
little maintenance while
maintaining a ready state.
Their extremely rapid
response times also make
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3
4
Food Wasteto-Energy
Biodiesel
(FWEB)
System:
Towards
"Zero"
Organic Waste
and Energy
Sustainability
coupled with the renewable
energy resources, such as wind,
photovoltaic or wind-solar
hybrid power sources, to
evaluate the overall system
performances on the
eliminating the intermittent
manner of the renewable
resources and the delivery of
stable electricity for the
buildings. The mathematical
modelling and simulation will be
conducted and the results will
be compared with those from
the experimental tests. A cost
analysis will also be performed
to evaluate the economical
feasibility of the building
applications.
This project aims to achieve an
instant removal of food waste
generated from Industrial &
Residential Estates, using a
mini-pilot at CleanTech One
(CTO) for proof of concept, to
concomitantly covert the food
waste into useful resources for
Clean Tech Park’s (CTP’s)
benefits. The novelty of the
FWEB system comes from a
synthetic system that consists
of hydrothermal treatment and
biodiesel upgrading system.
Methods used in the FWEB
system consist of five steps:
1) hydrothermal treatment of
food waste;
2) bio-oil upgrading to biodiesel;
3) biodiesel potential
application for power
generator;
4) cost-benefit evaluation on
the biodiesel production and
downstream application.
Integrated
Due to increased power
Structures and requirements, providing 66kV
substations has become the
Materials
norm for developing many new
Design
for
industrial estates. The physical
Precast
construction work of a typical
Concrete 66kV 66kV substation takes 15 to 18
them superbly well suited to
uninterrupted power supply
(UPS) type applications,
where they can be used to
replace lead–acid batteries
and even diesel generators.
31 March
2015
In progress
data
collection,
model
design,
testing, data
analysis
31 March
2015
In progress
data
collection,
Through the FWEB system,
food
waste
can
be
converted into valuable
resources, devoting to the
energy and materials input
for CTP towards selfsustainability. The proposal
aims to achieve a 100%
removal of wastes (i.e., food
waste, paper waste, and
plastics waste) generated
from Clean Tech Park (CTP),
and concomitantly covert
the wastes into biodiesel as
well as useful products such
as hydrochar and reclaimed
water.
The proposed research is to
study the performance of
precast concrete beamcolumn connections under
missing column scenarios
and to develop high
performance precast
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Substation
against
Progressive
Collapse
5
6
Application of
Engineering
Cementitious
Composites
(ECC)
and
blast detailing
on
national
critical
infrastructure
s against blast
loading
Study
Bendable
Concrete
Precast
Pavement
of
months.
Precast
concrete
technology provides possible
solution to shorten the physical
construction time of 66kV
substation. However, current
precast concrete building design
approach may not be adequate
for the development of precast
66kV substation due to the
additional
requirement
of
security against threat and
vulnerability
as
66kV
substations are usually regarded
as
National
Critical
Infrastructure by the Ministry of
Home Affairs.
The project is to numerically
investigate the blast resistance
of reinforced concrete (RC)
elements used in national
critical infrastructures. The
investigation includes the
structural behaviour of RC
walls, beams, columns and
joints
with
conventional
detailing under blast loading.
The numerical simulations will
then be further extended to
study the blast resistance of RC
elements with employing blast
reinforcement
detailing
techniques
into
normal
concrete
and
using
engineering
cementitous
composites to replace normal
concrete.
Precast construction provides
faster construction as well as
higher quality. Similar to many
precast elements, the precast
pavement
panels
are
fabricated
off-site
and
assembled on-site in order to
reduce construction time. In
practice, the precast pavement
systems are often pre-stressed
both in the longitudinal and
transverse
directions.
Individual precast panel is pretensioned in the transverse
direction (long axis of the
panel) during fabrication. After
model
design,
testing, data
analysis
concrete joints to mitigate
the danger of progressive
collapse through an
innovative integrated
structures and materials
design (ISMD) approach.
30 Sept 2015
Based on the comparisons
of numerical results, a new
concept will be
recommended for future
infrastructure design against
blast loading so as to
enhance structural safety in
Singapore.
In progress
data
collection,
model
design,
testing, data
analysis
Completed
The proposed research is on
the development of an
innovative precast
pavement system which
does not require any prestressing, thus further
reducing construction time
with improved productivity
to meet the industrialists’
needs.
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Customization
of
Decision
Aid
for
Tunnelling
(DAT)
Software for
Construction
Risk
Assessment
Studies for the
Underground
Science City
(USC) at Kent
Ridge
and
Underground
Warehousing
&
Logistics
Facility
(UWLF)
at
Tanjong
Kling/Jurong
Hill
the panels are installed, the
pavement system is posttensioned in the longitudinal
direction (the traffic direction).
However, pre-stressing is both
time and cost consuming.
Underground facilities have
been widely used for urban
transportation (e.g. subway
and MRT) and storage facilities
for oil, chemicals, etc. over the
world, because they result in
land savings and offer benefits
of enhanced safety and
security. Due to limited land
available
in
Singapore,
underground facilities shown
high potential values. Since the
construction of underground
facilities is costly and exposes
to various types of risks
throughout the development,
which must be identified,
assessed and managed.
In order to manage risks
associated with underground
facilities construction, risks will
be identified according to
phases of project life-cycle.
The identification of risk will
be carried out through
reviewing existing literatures,
interviewing experts, and
studying actual projects. Then,
they
are
assessed
quantitatively, qualitatively or
the combination of both,
particularly using computer
simulation on the impact of
risk factors. These risk analysis
will lead to a higher confidence
in
the
estimation
of
construction duration, project
investment
cost
and
contingency budget required.
Based on the results of risk
In progress
- data
collection,
model
design,
testing, data
analysis
The research findings will
enhance the project’s
constructability and viability
and will bring about a higher
level of certainty in the
successful implementation
of the underground project.
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8
9
Post-mortem
Assessment of
Beaudrain-S
Site Trial
Pilot field trial
on application
of
soft
materials for
reclamation
fill
using
menard
vacuum
consolidation
assessment, risk management
strategies will be suggested.
Beaudrain-S system is a
vacuum
consolidation
technique that is used for the
compression
and
strengthening of soft clay
material.
In
Beaudrain-S
system, a vacuum pressure is
applied to the pore void of soil
so that pore water can be
drained out and soil can be
compressed. Compared with
the
other
vacuum
consolidation
technique
Menard Geo-system, PVD in
Beaudrain-S
system
is
connected directly to the
tubing system instead of using
a membrane-covered sand
layer to transfer the vacuum
loading.
Land reclamation in Singapore
now meets severe shortage of
sand and gravel as filling
materials. On the other hand,
the disposal of soft cohesive
soil (SCS) generated through
infrastructure
development
and maintenance dredging
works becomes a problem in
the land-scarce Singapore
Island. These two problems
can be overcome if an
innovative method can be
developed to use these
abundant soft materials to
replace the acute shortage of
granular fill material for land
reclamation works.
However, when these soft
materials
are
used
as
reclamation
fill,
soil
improvement is required.
Because of stability issue, the
In progress
- data
collection,
testing, data
analysis
In progress
-data
collection,
model
design,
testing, data
analysis
In order to evaluate the
quality of soil treatment and
the post-construction field
performance, a postmortem assessment should
be carried out. Besides, the
field instrumentations are
untouched after the soil
improvement which can be
made use of to reduce the
cost of the experimental
work. Field data, such as
post-construction
settlement, pore pressure
re-distribution, strength
enhancement/reduction,
and field deformation, will
be valuable information for
evaluating the effect of
Beaudrain-S system.
This project is intended to
adopt MVC system for the
treatment of soft cohesive
soil as a fill material in the
land reclamation of
Singapore.
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effectiveness of conventional
methods of soil improvement
such as using vertical drains
with fill surcharge is limited.
Meanwhile,
the
Menard
Vacuum Consolidation (MVC)
method is a proprietary system
which was developed for
preloading and consolidating
soft and very soft saturated
fine grain soils. The procedure
consists of installing vertical
and
horizontal
vacuum
transmission pipes under an
airtight impervious membrane
producing an atmospheric
pressure on the soil.
Smart Building As a city-state with 100%
Management
urban population, occupant
System with conduction
such
as
Dynamic
comfortability and safety in
Indoor
large commercial buildings is
Occupant
of particular importance to
Positioning
Singapore.
During
System
circumstances
such
as
emergency evacuations of
(DIOPS)
underground
building,
occupants may face difficulties
to find their way out. In such
situations, a system that
enables
localization
of
stranded occupants in large
buildings with broadcasting of
emergency information would
be critical. Such system should
be able to communicate and
disseminate
important
information to occupants for
further actions. In addition,
energy consumption of largescale buildings may not be
efficient due to underutilization of basic facilities
such as air-conditioning and
lighting. As a result, energy
In progress
The detected occupant
information will be utilized
- literature
in the emergency handling
review/scan,
And energy management.
model design
The proposed research
involves wireless sensing
equipment,
occupancy
detection algorithm, hand
phone application program
based on the iOS/Android
platforms,
and
computational
building simulations. This
system will adaptively
adjust to the occupant
behaviours with detection.
Emergency alarm systems
will be integrated and
configured into DIOPS and
test bedded in an
appropriate space at one
of the JTC buildings. The
sensor data obtained from
the system will be used to
study
the
potential
application of such system
in tropical environment for
energy saving. Finally,
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DC Renewable
Connected
Building Grid
for Wireless
intelligent LED
Lighting
wastage and unnecessary
additional costs will be
incurred. Such cost can be
obviated
with
the
development of an efficient
energy management system,
which needs to be integrated
to the building management
system as well.
The proposed research effort
in this project aims to develop
a dynamic indoor occupant
positioning system (DIOPS)
that can both monitor
occupant
and
building
wellness. DIOPS will be able to
identify, supervise, monitor,
track, and locate occupants
within an enclosed space in
real time. The detection can be
based on the hand-phone
signal detection system such
as WiFi and RFID.
Built environment and city
management are identified as
one of the main focus areas of
Singapore
sustainable
blueprint. Many opportunities
exist to save excessive wastage
of electricity in building
environment. Given today’s
typical building AC power
distribution
infrastructure,
there is not much choice; large
wave of DC renewables like
the
upcoming
SolarNova
programme to be widespread
in Singapore. To overcome the
drawbacks of using the
conventional
DC-AC/AC-DC
power conversion approach, a
direct low voltage (LV) type of
DC building grid emerges. The
LV DC grid is a more efficient
way to provide DC power for
different
strategies
suitable
for
different
conditions in buildings will
be developed.
In progress
-data
collection,
model
design,
prototype
testing, data
analysis
The project aims at
developing an energy
efficient low voltage DC
grid to power a smart LED
lighting system as well as
digital devices so as to
reduce
the
building
electricity
used while
maintaining the quality of
light and human comfort
thru smart ICT technology.
We want to achieve 20%
energy savings by having
an energy efficient DC grid
transmission
and
distribution. With state-ofthe-art driverless LED
luminaires, we aim at
reaching
50%
energy
savings. Wireless lighting
controls will add 30% more
of energy savings. All this is
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the electrical LED lighting
system and all digital devices
used in the buildings like
computers,
printers,
cell
phone chargers and assorted
other personal use devices, as
well as basic building controls,
sensors, HVAC actuators,
security systems and A/V
systems – they are DC in
nature.
In this project, the objectives
are (1) to conduct a feasibility
study on fully DC powered
building, (2) to develop
strategies to harmonize with
the AC world and (3)
opportunity for implementing
the study and proposed
strategy in the ongoing
testbed in Clean Tech One
(CTO).
done while ensuring user
safety and automated
personal control. In our
demo, we want to present
the work done in DC
powering
a
typical
personal space in an office
setting. We have employed
a 380V DC source to
emulate the solar panels
and fuel cells. This is then
stepped down in single
conversion
stages
to
obtain low voltages of 5V,
18V and 24V which then
directly
power
our
appliances without the
need for bulky drivers and
adapters. Currently, the
team
are
developing
converters to give multiple
DC output voltages with
just one power stage
conversion
and
to
demonstrate the feasibility
of LVDC powered systems
as a standard for buildings.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
1
2
Researchers Names
Tan Soon Keat (Assoc Prof)
Zhao Jiyun (Asst Prof)
Email Address
[email protected]
JYZHAO@ ntu.edu.sg
Other Contact details
[email protected]
[email protected]
3
Wang Jing-Yuan (Assoc Prof)
[email protected]
[email protected]
4
Tan Kang Hai (Prof)
[email protected]
[email protected]
5
Tan Kang Hai (Prof)
[email protected]
[email protected]
6
Yang En-Hua (Asst Prof)
[email protected]
[email protected]
7
Robert Tiong (Assoc Prof)
[email protected]
[email protected]
8
Chu Jian (Assoc Prof)
[email protected]
[email protected]
9
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
10
Tan Soon Keat (Assoc Prof) and
Chu Jian (Assoc Prof)
Yu Hao (Asst Prof)
11
Marcus Koh Leong Hai
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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(B) NUS-JTC INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION CENTRE
Synopsis of Project’s Work and Agenda
The vision for the NUS-JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation Centre is to create a vibrant industrial
infrastructure research ecosystem. The mission of the centre is to carry out Research, Development and
Demonstration (RD&D) projects to support Singapore’s dynamic industrial landscape, and to create a
systematic and structured platform to conduct RD&D projects to expand JTC’s innovation capacity and
build up our technical bench strength in specialized and complex projects over time.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
n/a
Completed
1
Singapore
Industrial
Property Price
Index
Construction
2
Automatic
Carbon
In the past few decades, the demand
for Singapore industrial real estate
space has evolved from labour intensive
industries, to capital intensive
industries, to the current knowledge
intensive industries, which dynamics is
in tandem with the movements of other
industrial real estate markets in many
advanced countries. However, the
current demand and supply profiles are
not clear. A survey is therefore
necessary to understand the current
industrial demand and supply profiles in
Singapore, which will aid us to derive
industrial real estate submarket
definition and lay a foundation for the
work in the subsequent years, especially
for submarket index construction. To
capture industrial real estate price
movements, an aggregate industrial real
estate price index will be constructed.
Compared with residential housing,
industrial properties are more
clustered, more heterogeneous and
much less frequently transacted which
challenge index construction
methodology.
This is Phase 2 of research funded by
31 Oct 2015
JTC to develop an automatic carbon
In Progress
Practical Outcomes
To develop a model
that can better fit into
industrial property
transaction data.
(i) The new calculator
will allow JTC to set
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Calculator
Phase 2
3
Firms
Preferences for
Industrial Space
calculator for the assessment of highdensity, sustainable JTC developments
including both estates and buildings.
The goals of this research are:
1. Single carbon tool applicable for all
stages of development, interoperable
with other tools
2. Consistent carbon model for all
stages of development
3. Design-support – carbon
benchmarking, performance tracking,
automatic carbon calculation,
design synthesis
The new carbon calculator will facilitate
carbon budgeting and tracking in the
planning and design of JTC
developments. The new calculator will
work with prevalent design tools, and
use a high-quality, consistent
carbon calculation methodology
throughout all stages of development.
The carbon calculation will be
automatic, thus allowing generative
algorithms to be used to synthesize
high-density solutions.
To examine how firms form their
preferences of industrial space for their
operations. The rapid evolution of
industries, technology advancement in
telecommunications and logistics and
the pressure on environment have
altered most of the theories in
economic development and firm
location. This project aims to develop
new theories to better understand the
spatial needs of the companies and how
to encourage their success. These
theories are further tested using a data
set compiled with surveys, rental and
firm data.
- Data
Collection
carbon performance
targets at the
planning level, and
manage the targets
efficiently even as
more stakeholders
get involved in
subsequent
development stages.
(ii) The
stakeholders will also
be able to use the
new calculator and
technologies to
quickly and
automatically
ensure that carbon
targets are adhered
to.
30 Nov 2014
In Progress
- Data
Collection
(i) To examine
location choice of
manufacturing firms,
in terms of
transportation costs
of inputs and outputs,
prices of their
outputs, equilibrium
market share, and
increasing returns
from agglomeration
economies .
(ii) The results will
shed light on how
firms perceive
publicly managed
industrial estates
compared to privately
managed estates.
(iii) The study will
examine the factors
that drive SME’s
demand for Green
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4
5
Optimising
Estate Space
Needs through
centralisation
and
consolidation
Cloud
Architecture:
Innovative EPS
Composite for
To further the understanding of and
examine the potential for deeper land
intensification in densely built up areas
such as Singapore and the prudent
application of the use of industrial
warehouse clustering for the
synonymous optimization of logistics
operation (comprising largely storage
and transportation), and the saving of
prime estate space, to ensure
Singapore’s sustainable development in
the future.
The specific aims of the research project
are as follows:
1)
To review existing methodology
for freight distribution and industrial
warehouse clustering;
2)
To generate cluster options and
rank these in the context of Singapore;
3)
To review the analysis
methodology for the as-is performance
of the envisaged clusters;
4)
To perform a gap analysis for
the two clusters of precision
engineering and medtech, of which one
is located on a single estate and one is
dispersed over several estates;
5)
To compile the general
specifications and KPI sets for the two
selected clusters, with a sound business
case for each of them;
6)
To define ranked criteria,
including those of risk and
sustainability, for the cluster facility
design that can be used to transfer the
general specifications to a third-party
logistics provider for detailed analysis,
design and implementation.
To develop an alternative to the
conventional construction systems such
as in concrete, or steel, both of which
are heavy, labour-intensive, time-
14 Jan 2015
In Progress
- Model
design
9 Mar 2016
In Progress
- Model
design
Mark Certified
Buildings
(i) To develop Cluster
methods for freight
distribution in cities
with limited land &
gap analysis review in
supply chain
performance
(ii) To develop
Business feasibility
model for sustainable
urban logistics system
with general
specifications &
configuration criteria
(i) The proposed EPS
composite
construction methods
will reduce both
construction cost &
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Ultra
Lightweight
Long Span
Sustainable
Structure
6
Proposed
Methodology
for the
Determination
of Waterfront
fee for JTC
Industrial
Properties
7
Optimal Design
of Systems in
Chilled Water
Plant Rooms
8
Case Study for
one north
development
consuming and requiring form-work
and scaffolding on site for the erection.
The research is to test scaled and fullscale prototypes both in computer
simulation and physical buildup. The
computer-aided-design (“CAD”)generated self-supporting large-span
forms in EPS composite will be
structurally optimized with Finite
Element (“FE”) structural analysis and
digitally fabricated by Computer
Numerical Controlled (“CNC”) hot-wire
cutting to establish the sustainable
construction method which is material,
time and cost-efficient.
Waterfront industries contribute
significantly to Singapore’s economy.
Petrochemical and marine industries
form the bulk of these industrial
waterfront land users and together
contribute close to 17.4% of our total
manufacturing output and provide jobs
for more than 92,000 workers. Given
the small size of Singapore and its
limited waterfront land for industrial
uses, it is important for JTC to
ensure that the industrial waterfront
fee is determined through a robust
methodology.
To develop a methodology to design
highly efficient chilled water systems by
developing an in-depth understanding
of the system & subsystem level
characteristics of existing chilled water
systems.
To identify and document the
challenges faced by JTC in developing
one-north and how the challenges were
successfully addressed. The study will
allow readers to comprehend the
complex nature & engineering problems
of one-north that demanded technical,
social and political considerations for
such mixed development.
time of long-span
structure, especially
for roofing, which is
essential for industrial
buildings.
(ii) It will also
contribute to enhance
sustainability of
industrial buildings
demonstrating high
recyclability of the
advanced EPS
composite.
31 Mar 2015
In Progress
- Initiation
(i) To Identify the
factors affecting the
determination of fair
market waterfront
fees.
(ii) To identify,
evaluate and
recommend a robust
methodology to
determine the Fair
Market Waterfront
Fee for industrial
properties that enjoy
direct water frontage
access.
30 Jun 2015
In Progress
- Initiation
(i) To develop a set of
Design Parameters for
a Chilled Water Plant
(ii) To develop
Guidelines for Chilled
Water Plant Room
Configuration.
To identify the
lessons learned from
a large-scale mixed
project, probably the
first of its-kind in
Singapore. The
lessons learned will
be important to JTC
for future planning
and implementation
of other mixed
15 Jan 2015
In Progress
- Initiation
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Study of
customised
vibrationmitigation
infrastructure
systems for
multi-tenanted
cleanroom
(MTC)
To advance the current level of
knowledge on the transmittance &
dispersion of vibration through
structural members of multi-level
buildings, so as to mitigate vibration &
improve the design efficiency and
productivity of high-tech industrial
buildings, such as for semi-conductor
manufacturing, precision engineering &
nanotechnology research, particularly in
today’s densely built environment
where vibration sensitive buildings are
often inevitably close to highways &
subways in land-scarce Singapore.
13 May 2016
In Progress
- Model
building
development
projects.
(i) To improve the
efficiency &
robustness of MTC
design
(ii) To provide useful
generic guidelines fo
similar vibrationsensitive buildings in
mitigating vibration
problems &
improving the
productivity of
Singapore industry in
general
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
Researchers Names
Email Address
Other Contact details
1
Prof Tu Yong
[email protected]
NUS, Sch of Design &
Environment, Dept of Real Estate
2
3
TBC (previously Dr Huang
Yi Chun )
Dr Lee Nai Jie
[email protected]
4
Prof Mark Goh
[email protected]
5
Prof Shinya Okuda
[email protected]
6
Prof Yu Shi Ming
[email protected]
7
[email protected]
8
Assoc Prof Sekhar
Narayana Kondepudi
Dr Chai Kah Hin
9
Prof Koh Chan Ghee
[email protected]
NUS, Sch of Design &
Environment, Dept of Real Estate
NUS, Sch of Business, Dept of
Decision Sciences
NUS, Sch of Design &
Environment, Dept of
Architecture
Department of Real Estate,
School of Design and
Environment
NUS, Sch of Design &
Environment, Dept of Building
NUS, Faculty of Engineering, Dept
of Engineering & Technology
Management
NUS, Faculty of Engineering, Dept
of Civil & Environment
Engineering
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(C) SUTD-JTC INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION CENTRE
Synopsis of Project’s Work and Agenda
The SUTD-JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation (I3) Centre is a joint research centre established
between JTC and SUTD to spearhead research efforts in design, architecture, engineering, and social
science and develop innovative and sustainable industrial infrastructure and industrial real estate
solutions that will create value for industry, investors and Singapore. The Centre’s vision is to create a
vibrant industrial infrastructure research ecosystem. Its mission is to carry out research, development
and demonstration projects to support Singapore’s dynamic industrial landscape.
The Centre will receive from JTC S$1.5 million per year in funding, for the next five years. The Centre will
be co-located with and managed by the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKY CIC) in SUTD. The
Centre will focus on three research thrusts such as Urban Innovation; Integrated Architecture and
Engineering; and Design and Technology
Current Research Projects
SUTD and JTC are exploring a range of projects to be funded under the Centre as listed below:
S/N
1
2
Research Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
Sustainable High To develop a suite of technologies for the Project
Performance
manufacturing
of
building
and under
Building
& infrastructure materials that possess the evaluation
Infrastructure
smallest carbon footprint of any massMaterials
produced material.
Practical
Outcomes
Robot Inclusive To develop service robots for cleaning Project
Urban
and logistics tasks within an industrial under
Infrastructures: A building where the design of the space evaluation
Design Initiative
accounts for robots as stakeholders.
Target
productivity
improvements
in industrial
infrastructures
Cut CO2
emissions,
energy-savings
and
sustainable
materials with
better
performance
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
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S/N
Researchers Names
Email Address
Other Contact details
1
Tan Mei Chee
[email protected]
SUTD
2
Mohan Rajesh Elara
[email protected]
SUTD
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26.Land Transport Authority (LTA) Academy
Synopsis of Centre’s Work and Agenda
The Academy aims to be a global knowledge hub in urban transport. It provides a one-stop platform for
government officials, professionals and practitioners from around the world to tap on Singapore’s
experience and expertise and exchange knowledge and best practices in urban transport management
and development. The Academy takes on three key roles: Learning Enabler, Research and Public
Education. It publishes JOURNEYS, a professional publication on land transport issues.
Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Projects
Brief description
1
Analysing the
Impact of
Integrated Fare
Structure on
Travel
Behaviour
This study examined the impact of the
integrated distance-based fare
implemented in 2010, through mining
the ticketing data before and after the
implementation.
The study found that distance-fare
increased bus to bus transfers yet
reduced the travel time and average
fares paid by the commuters who
enjoyed the schemes.
Study into
Commuters’
Travel Choices
Between Aug 2012 and Sept 2013,
LTA worked with the Institute of
Systems Science (ISS), NUS, to study
the commuters’ travel choices.
Through a series of Focus group
discussions, field observations,
interviews with service providers, and
surveys of 1,500 commuters, the
study has identified factors which
affect commuters’ travel choices in
Singapore’s context.
Through the Travel Smart pilot
launched in October 2012, LTA has
been working with 12 organisations,
from both the private and public
sectors, to help their management
further understand the travel needs
and attitudes of their employees, and
put in place the necessary workplace
practices to encourage off-peak travel
and/or reduce travel demand of their
2
3
Travel Smart
pilot
Estimated
Date of
Completion &
Status of
Project
July 2013
Practical Outcomes
Providing insights for
future policy making
Completed
Sept 2013
Completed
Aug 2014
In Progress
(Completed
field work;
Drafting final
report)
Further collaborative
studies will be
conducted to
influence the
commuters’ travel
choices based on the
findings.
Preliminary results
have shown that
there is a close to
12% shift out of the
morning peak hour.
Plan to launch the
Travel Smart
Programme
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Study into the
Signage
Framework for
Commuter
Facilities
[LTA-NTU
Collaboration on
page 10]
employees.
Shifting travel demand will help
spread out the morning peak hour
crowds to the off-peak periods, and
ease crowding during the morning
peak period to improve commuters’
travel experience. At the same time,
the Government is actively increasing
public transport capacity through
building new rail lines, buying
additional trains, as well as putting
more buses on the road. LTA will be
monitoring the progress of the
implementation of these practices in
all pilot organisations and will
consider rolling out workplace-based
travel planning beyond these pilot
organisations after reviewing the
results.
This collaborative research with NTU
is to review the signage framework
used to assist non-motorist
commuters around and inside public
transport nodes (train stations, bus
interchanges and major bus stops),
and to identify opportunities and
suitable wayfinding elements to fill in
the gaps in Singapore’s current
signage framework.
The project is expected to propose
policy guidelines for the provision of a
wayfinding system that will
complement and value-add to the
existing signages, bearing in mind the
needs and abilities of a diverse range
of users
Dec 2015
Not yet
In Progress
(Getting
started)
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Contact Details
S/N
Researchers Names
Email Address
Other Contact details
1
Looi Teik Soon
[email protected]
6396 1755
2
George Sun
[email protected]
63961861
3
Evan Gwee
[email protected]
63961866
4
Pan Di
[email protected]
63961863
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27. Ministry of National Development (MND)
(A) CENTRE FOR LIVEABLE CITIES (CLC)
Synopsis of Centre’s Work and Agenda
Set up in 2008 by the Ministry of National Development and the Ministry of the Environment and Water
Resources, the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) has as its mission “to distil, create and share knowledge
on liveable and sustainable cities.” CLC’s work spans three main areas - Research, Training, and
Promotions. Through these activities, CLC hopes to provide urban leaders and practitioners with the
knowledge and support needed to make our cities better.
Research – Addresses two key thrusts of distilling knowledge on Singapore’s transformation into a highly
liveable and sustainable city within the last five decades, and building upon this experience through
applied research on urban solutions relevant to current and future challenges Singapore and other cities
face.
 Urban Systems Studies are scoped to venture deep into the key domain areas and urban systems
CLC has identified under its Liveability Framework, and involves close and rigorous engagement
of the CLC with our stakeholder agencies, and oral history interviews with Singapore’s urban
pioneers and leaders to gain insights into development processes and distil tacit knowledge that
had been gleaned from planning and implementation, as well as governance of Singapore.
 Forward-looking research projects arise out of findings from the Urban Systems Studies, and
seek to address new challenges through solutions-oriented outcomes, such as implementable
governmental policies and integrated urban projects. The applied research includes inter-agency
collaborations, and draws expertise from CLC’s Panel of experts and Knowledge Partners.
 Case studies on cities arising out of capability development programmes and engagements with
Mayors help to build up knowledge on urban development and management
Training – Seeks to foster capability development, drawing on knowledge built from research and
partnership exchanges. Programmes are practitioner-oriented and share on Singapore’s experience in
urban development and governance. The two flagship programmes are the Leaders in Urban
Governance Programme for local public servants; as well as the Temasek Foundation Leaders in Urban
Governance Programme, which is aimed at international city leaders.
Promotion - Shares knowledge through international events, publications and partnerships with
international organisations. The biennial World Cities Summit, the World Cities Summit Mayors Forum,
Young Leaders and the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize are flagship platforms for sharing knowledge
internationally, whereas the CLC Lecture Series is a local platform for thought leaders and experts to
exchange ideas and share knowledge. The Centre also develops print and digital publications for global
audiences, to share its research as well as the knowledge of its partners, through the biannual Urban
Solutions magazine as well as the monthly CLC e-Newsletter.
For more information, please visit: http://www.clc.gov.sg/.
Current Research Projects and Contact Persons
S/N Research Brief description & Project status
Projects
1
Urban
Urban System Studies (USS) captures knowledge on
System
‘horizontal integration’ through engagement of our
Studies
stakeholder agencies, and through oral history
interviews with Singapore’s urban pioneers and
Practical outcomes
USS distils the experience
of urban pioneers and
leaders and shares how
Singapore has
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leaders, addresses
2
Urban
Solutions
research
Research on urban systems cover the key domain
areas the CLC has identified under its Framework for
Liveability and Sustainability and topics include:
Water,
Transport,
Industrial
Infrastructure,
Integrated Master Planning, Urban Governance,
Sustainable
Environment,
Housing,
Built
Environment, Eco-city, Infrastructure financing,
Quality of Life, Society and Culture, etc.
Urban Solutions Research – practical research that
will meet future challenges that Singapore faces;
solutions-based
research
with
inter-agencycollaborations. Projects include
 10 Principles for Liveable, Highly Dense Cities:
Lessons from Singapore (with ULI)
[completed]
 A Framework for Liveable and Sustainable
Cities [with CSC] [Completed]
 Energy Trends for Singapore (With Shell)
[completed]
 Creating Healthy Places through Active
Mobility [collaborations with ULI] [completed]
 Re-Imaging Tampines [ongoing; to be
completed by Nov 15]
implemented its urban
systems and enhanced
her liveability.
The outcomes of these
projects are in the form
of implementable
government policies,
integrated urban projects
as well as business
innovations.
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Contact Details
S/N
Contact Person
Email Address
Other Contact details
1
Dr Limin HEE
[email protected]
66459594
2
Sophianne ARAIB
[email protected]
6645 9618
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(B) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D) DIVISION
Synopsis of Division’s Work and Agenda
The MND Research and Development (R&D) Division drives R&D policies and funding programmes for
the MND Family, and co-leads the Land & Liveability National Innovation Challenge (L2 NIC) with the
National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore. The MND R&D Division engages key
stakeholders across government agencies, research institutes and the industry to bring about
collaboration and synergies in R&D through various platforms such as the biennial Urban Sustainability
R&D Congress. Two funding programmes are currently overseen and administered by the MND R&D
Division:
(a) Land and Liveability National Innovation Challenge (L2 NIC)
A multi-agency effort leveraging R&D to develop innovative technological solutions in two
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existing space while keeping Singapore liveable. These are supported by an enabling thrust
focused on Info-Communication Technologies (ICT), and social behavioural sciences.
(b) MND Research Fund (MNDRF)
To support the R&D efforts of the MND Family contributing to MND’s mission and policy
objectives.
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(C) RESEARCH & STRATEGY MANAGEMENT
Synopsis of Division’s Work and Agenda
The Research & Strategy Management Division provides insightful research on areas such as the
property market, land use planning, public housing, parks development, food safety and the construction
industry. It drives and coordinates the MND Family’s corporate planning process, and coordinates
various cross cutting initiatives within the MND Family and the Whole-of-Government level. In line with
its planning role, the Division also plans and implements strategies and programmes to facilitate entry
and expansion of MND agencies into overseas markets.
The research and data analytics resource unit, or RADAR for short, supports MNDHQ’s policy formulation
through timely, relevant, and robust economic and social research while exploring alternative research
viewpoints to advance thinking on housing.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
1
Ageing in
Place
2
Profile of
Studio
Apartment
(SA)
Applicants
3
Profile of
Executive
Condominiu
m (EC)
Buyers
This is an international scan on the
ageing-in-place (AIP) initiatives that were
undertaken by four economies - Hong
Kong, Japan, South Korea and the UK particularly focusing on housing models
which integrate care.
The study examines the profile of
households who applied for an SA flat
and their housing preference for
example, location of SA flat. The study
also looks at the net equity unlocked
from right-sizing to a SA flat.
This study examines the profile of EC
homebuyers in recent years with a focus
on second-timers and by income groups.
The study also looks at the change in
buyers’ profiles after the income ceiling
adjustments in 2011.
Estimated
Date of
Completion &
Status of
Project
Completed
Practical
Outcomes
Completed
Completed
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Contact Details
S/N
Contact Person
Email Address
Other Contact details
1
Tan Kai Juay Derek
[email protected]
69087164
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(D) STRATEGIC PLANNING DIVISION, MND
Synopsis of the Division’s Work
The Strategic Planning Division works with the URA and relevant agencies on land use planning, housing
issues, and strategies to enhance the quality of the living environment, and create and optimise land use
in Singapore.
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(E) INFRASTRUCTURE DIVISION, MND
Synopsis of Division’s Work and Agenda
The Infrastructure division works with BCA, AVA, and NParks to oversee the development and regulation
of the construction industry, to ensure food safety and animal control, as well as to create and maintain
Singapore’s green spaces. The Division also manages the Estates Upgrading Programmes (EUP), an
upgrading programme for private residential estates.
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28.Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY)
Synopsis of division’s research work
The Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) aims to bring into sharper focus the efforts to
build a more cohesive and vibrant society, and to deepen a sense of identity and belonging to the
nation.
The Research Unit within the Strategic Planning and Finance Division in MCCY supports informed policymaking and planning through research and analysis. This involves
 Undertaking environmental scanning
 Conceptualising research studies
 Interpreting quantitative and qualitative data to derive policy recommendations and
 Working closely with other divisions to identity research priorities as well as with domain experts
and researchers on collaborative study
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion &
Status of
Project
Practical
Outcomes
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This study attempts to develop a
conceptual framework that addresses
whole-of-government (WOG) policy
interests and articulates the desired
outcomes for social capital development in
Singapore from a WOG perspective. The
framework distinguishes between
individual and collective social capital,
provides the context by which social capital
comes about, and identifies the
consequences/outcomes of the social
relations.
1
A conceptual
study on
social capital
in Singapore
S/N
Researchers Names
Email Address
1
Yeo Pei Ling
[email protected]
Other Contact
details
68379721
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29. Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR)
Synopsis of Centre’s Work and Agenda
MEWR is committed to providing Singaporeans with a quality living environment. Having achieved a
clean and green environment and a system in place to maintain and safeguard it, our ultimate goal is
long-term environmental sustainability.
Together with its two statutory boards, the National Environment Agency (NEA) and PUB, the national
water agency, MEWR continues to manage Singapore's limited resources and address Singapore's
environmental sustainability challenges through innovation, vibrant partnerships and co-operation
across the 3P sectors - private, public and people.
(A) NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (NEA)
As the National Environment Agency, NEA is responsible for maintaining high standards of public health,
improving and sustaining a clean environment, providing timely and reliable weather information
services as well as promoting resource efficiency and conservation in collaboration with our partners and
the community. Our R&D approach is to seek solutions to meet the multiple objectives of (1) sustaining
the low endemicity of vector borne diseases, (2) achieving higher standards of public cleanliness and
hygiene, (3) sustaining a cost-effective waste-to-resource management system, (4) managing
construction noise and air pollution, (5) advancing the understanding and prediction of the weather and
climate in Singapore and the region, and (6) enhancing energy efficiency in homes and industries.
(B) PUB
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As the national water agency, PUB is responsible for the collection, production, distribution and
reclamation of water in Singapore. PUB’s mission is to ensure an efficient, adequate and sustainable
supply of water. Our R&D approach is to seek solutions to meet the three-fold objectives of (1) increasing
and managing water resources, (2) ensuring water quality and security, and (3) reducing production
costs by tapping on new technologies or the energy-water-waste nexus.
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Current Research Projects - Environment
S/N Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion &
Status of
Project
Practical
Outcomes
MND’s SUL Funding
1
Engineering
Applications of
New
Reclamation
Technology
with Singapore
NewSoil at
Semakau
Landfill (SUL)
To develop new process for mixing and 14 Jan 17
stabilising marine clay and incineration
bottom ash and to test-bed the In progress
developed matrix and reclamation
technology in Semakau Landfill.
A new process in
utilising IBA and
marine clay as
alternative
reclamation
materials
Potential
diversion of IBA
The findings
would allow for
the proper use of
IBA for land
reclamation,
thereby turning
waste into a
resource.
Urban Habitat
2
Abating urban
noise through a
holistic
approach of
noise
monitoring,
analytics and
active noise
control
To develop an active noise control
system for the residential household
to mitigate external environmental
noise pollution
31Aug2017
The aim of the project is to leverage on
the AG boxes for the deployment of
31Aug2014
In progress
(pending L2
NIC result)
The active noise
control system
helps to mitigate
noise level
without the need
to build
expensive sound
barriers. It also
allows residents
to open their
window for
ventilation.
Municipal Services
3
Smart Bin
Deployment
(SSIPO)
The system would
allow an alert of
sudden high bin
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smart bins. The smart bins would also
be coupled with ultrasonic sensors
which could alert on the sudden high
usage and helps to recommend
frequency and schedule for clearing
the bins
In progress
usage and to help
recommend
frequency and
schedule for
clearing the bins
The study aims to achieve the following 2009
objectives :
Completed
To have a better understanding of the
behavioural and sociological factors
which motivate people to bin their
rubbish or to litter
Findings were
used to improve
the current
strategy for NEA’s
anti-littering
campaigns
Behavioural Sciences
4
Sociological
Study on
Littering
To review existing outreach /
communication strategies and physical
measures to tackle littering
5
Study on
Household
Recycling in
Singapore
The aim of the study is to determine the 2012-2013
extent of household recycling practices
and to understand the motivations and
barriers towards recycling in the
household.
The study
highlighted
several
opportunities to
improving
household
recycling
performance in
Singapore which
would allow the
MEWR family to
better design
recycling
initiatives.
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Current Research Projects - Water
S/N Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated
Date of
Completion
Practical Outcomes
1
Automated
Meter Reading
Pilot Initiatives
(PUB funds)
The key objective of these projects is
to evaluate technically feasible
solutions that are cost viable for full
scale rollout.
end-2015
Water conservation
and demand
management,
network analysis,
billing
Islandwide
The project aims to set up a real-time
Q4 2015
2
In progress –
multiple
project in
various stages
of evaluation/
installation/
exploration
Maintain water
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Deployment of
Wireless
Network for
Real-Time
Monitoring of
Water Network
(PUB funds)
3
4
5
6
Development of
rainfall
monitoring and
urban flood
management
system for
Singapore
(PUB funds)
Solar Pilot
(RF)
Developing
mobile apps –
MyWaters
(PUB funds)
Urbanised
Catchment
Management
and
Development of
Geographical
Information
System (GIS) for
the Management
of Urbanised
Catchment
hydraulic and water quality
monitoring system known as Smart
Water Grid (SWG) comprising of multiparameter sensor probes across the
island. The system will provide the
operator with real-time data to enable
better water quality control, leak
detection, forecast demand, manage
water assets, and minimise
disruptions across the network.
This project involves the installation
of a local area weather radar for
improved rainfall monitoring and
forecasting.
The pilot project assesses the
feasibility of installing floating solar PV
systems on water, as an alternative to
rooftops.
The objective is to inform
public/drivers about flooded
areas/roads, water leaks and to
harness the power of crowd-sourcing
by encouraging users to report
incidents and post photographs of
flooding.
The GIS/GPS system will allow
waterways and cleansing work to be
monitored remotely, provide
geographical maps and trends on
hotspots. This allows quick responses
to problems and the tools for
resource optimisation.
The project involves GIS mapping of
drainage profiles and includes
scanned as-built drawings which are
used to develop an information
database.
In progress –
installation
Phase 1
(completed)
Phase 2
(Dec 2014)
In progress collection of
data and
training of
operators
Q1 2016
To
commence
in Q1 2015
First version
completed in
July 2012.
Improvemen
ts are
ongoing
To be
completed in
Jan 2016
In progress –
tender
awarded in
Jan 2014
quality; augment
Singapore’s water
resources (leak
detection)
Enhance
Singapore’s flood
resilience
Land optimisation
and reduction in
carbon footprint
Encourage public
feedback and
harness crowdsourcing
- Real-time
monitoring of total
suspended solids at
the drainage
outlets of water
bodies
- Implementation
of waterways
maintenance
quality control
system using GPS
- Integration of
cleansing work
tracking system
with GIS and
development of
iPhone App
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- Scanning of about
40,000 hardcopy
drainage drawings
into softcopy
7
Kolam Ayer ABC
Waterfront
Visitor Survey
To understand the visitors’
2008
expectations and needs To identify the
key drivers and key deterrents or turn- Completed
offs for park and waterfront visits. To
quantify the change in visitorship as a
result of the ABC Waters
demonstration project at Kolam
8
Evaluation of
ABC Waters
Programme
To provide a qualitative evaluation of
the eco-efficiency of ABC Waters
Programme.
2009
Completed
The survey
affirmed that the
Kolam Ayer ABC
Waterfront can act
as a medium which
enables the public
to connect with
nature, appreciate
the clean, green
surroundings, and
value water as a
precious resource.
The study
concludes that ABC
Waters programme
has indeed brought
forth an innovation
and transformation
that entails a
positive change in
society, with
overall
improvement to
quality of life of the
people.
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9
Evaluation of
Singapore’s ABC
Waters
Programme –
Bedok Reservoir
A sociological and economic study of
the ABC Waters Programme in
Singapore on “How does ABC Waters
programme bring people closer to
water and how successful has the
programme been in its attempts to do
so?”.
2012
Completed
The study outlined
some suggestions
to be taken into
consideration for
current and future
ABC water projects.
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Contact Details
S/N
Researchers Names
Email Address
Other Contact
details
Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources
1
Wong Xin Wei
[email protected]
67319282
1
Chong Mien Ling
[email protected]
63262974
2
Lee Zhang Er
[email protected]
-
3
Soh Yeow Chong
[email protected]
67313363
Lim Siak Heng
(SUL project)
Ang Boon Wee
(Active noise project)
Chia Hong Ling
(Smart bin deployment)
Rachel Ng
(Littering study)
[email protected]
67086065
[email protected]
67319702
[email protected]
67319528
[email protected]
67319148
PUB
NEA
1
2
3
4
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30. National Parks Board (NParks)
Synopsis of division’s research work and agenda
NParks’ research work is carried out by (A) the Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology (CUGE) Research
Branch, (B) the National Biodiversity Centre, and (C) the Singapore Botanic Gardens Research &
Conservation Branch.
(A) CENTRE FOR URBAN GREENERY & ECOLOGY (CUGE)
CUGE Research engages in multidisciplinary research on the greening and ecology of cities. Through its
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cities. It provides research support for NParks’ role as the authority over Singapore’s urban forest and
greenery, and the landscape industry.
CUGE Division headed by Mr LIM Liang Jim, Director/Industry & CUGE
CUGE Research Branch headed by Ms. Kim Goh, Senior Deputy Director/CUGE Research
CUGE Research comprises four research sections:
Arboriculture and Plant Health Section
The Arboriculture & Plant Health team carries out research that relates to the performance of trees in
the urban environment. Study topics include:
(i)
(ii)
S/N
1
2
3
4
Arboriculture: Minimizing tree failure and hazards, improving tree management practices and
overcoming tree-planting space limitations.
Plant health: Monitoring the health status of trees, selection of disease resistant trees using
molecular kits and integrating biological control measures to prevent any outbreaks from
weakening the vigour of our urban forest.
Study Topics
Arboriculture
Plant health
Researchers
Dr Fong Yok King
Daniel Christopher
Burcham
Dr Genevieve Ow
Currently vacant
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other details
64719904
64717393
[email protected]
64719960
Horticulture and Built Greenery
The Horticulture & Built Greenery team undertakes research that includes other key horticultural
elements such as healthy soil, ground cover, as well as skyrise, vertical and indoor greenery. Study topics
include:
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
S/N
1
2
3
4
Urban Soils: Improving soil mixes for diverse uses, development of productive soils and
development of alternative soil components.
Turf and ground cover Science: Improving construction and management practices, and
diversifying plant material, sustainable and productive ground cover management best
practices; weeding, aeration and fertilizing regime
Built greenery: Integrated design for safety, maintenance, and ecological connectivity; Optimal
plant selection for the creation of an elevated green infrastructure
Study Topics
Urban Soils
Turf Science
Built Greenery
Researchers
Dr Subhadip Ghosh
Dr Chin Siew Wai
Vivek Govindasamy
Poh Choon Hock
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
g
[email protected]
Other details
64717391
64717365
64717396
64626953
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Urban Ecology Section
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The Urban Ecology team carries out research on the application of ecological principles in developments
to promote sustainability in cities. The study topics include green cover mapping, urban heat island
mitigation, water sensitive landscaping, carbon sequestration studies, ecological restoration of impacted
sites and enhancing biodiversity in urban environment.
S/N Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated Date
of Completion
Practical Outcomes
1
The Urban Ecology team seeks to
understand the key ecosystem
services that greenery provides in
tropical urban environments, and
to use this knowledge to guide
Singapore’s development as a
sustainable socio-ecological
system. In the context of a
burgeoning population density
and increasingly rapid rates of
urban re-development, it is
critical to understand how the
provision of green infrastructure
in Singapore should be planned,
designed and managed
holistically so as to maintain the
livability of the urban
environment.
Initiating
Broadly, our research is
framed by the accurate and
robust monitoring of urban
vegetation cover, which is
the necessary foundation
for understanding how
vegetation interacts with
other environmental
phenomena in urban areas,
as well as for incentivising
and/or regulating greenery
provision once ecosystem
services of green
infrastructure have been
satisfactorily quantified.
With this tool, we focus on
understanding and
managing three key
ecosystem services,
investigating the role of
vegetation in urban
biodiversity, stormwater
management, and urban
heat island mitigation.
Urban
Ecology
By quantifying and integrating the
tangible contributions of urban
greenery to quality of life, we aim
to empower natural resource
managers at all levels with the
scientific evidence necessary to
secure and maintain adequate
and equitable greenery provision
in urban landscapes.
S/N Researchers Names
1
James Wang
Email Address
[email protected]
Other Contact details
64719965
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Social & Sustainability Studies Section
The team carries out research on the social values and sustainability aspects of greenery in the built
environment. The social component considers the various benefits, such as social capital and other
intangible values that arise from NParks’ greenery provision. In tandem, we also study fundamental park
planning issues that include, inter alia, park use patterns, distribution, and provision ratios to better
serve public need, as well as human-wildlife conflict.
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The sustainability part broadly covers topics such as the social capital of green spaces, cycling of
horticultural wastes collected in the maintenance of parks and streetscapes and energy efficiency of park
infrastructure.
S/N
1
2
3
Researchers Names
Victor Tan
Ling Seow Kang
Cybil Kho
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact details
64717836
64719906
64626958
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Current Research projects -CUGE
S/N. Research project and brief description
1
2
3
4
5
6
Arboriculture
Development of containerized technology for
growing street trees - Phase 2 Field Trials
The application of ground penetrating radar for
tree root mapping - Phase 2 Field Trial
Development of test methods and advance insitu
instrumentations for measuring green wood
strength of trees
Development of structural cells for growing trees
under constrained conditions
Biological control of soil-borne wood decay fungi
affecting
ornamental palms and wild cinnamon with
Trichoderma spp.
EOT- eye on trees
timated
Date of
Completion
& Status of
Project
Practical Outcomes
Mar-15
The developed technology
can be used to grow trees
in constrained and
carriage way conditions
Current
status: Field
trials
Mar-15
Current
status: Field
trials
Mar-15
Current
status: Field
trials
Jan-16
Current
status: Field
trials
Jun-16
Current
status: Field
trials
Mar-17
This allows us to map tree
roots in a non-invasive
manner
Improves understanding of
tree strength relating
ultimately to safer tree
infrastructure
The developed technology
can be used to grow trees
in constrained conditions
The developed technology
can be used in the industry
and situations where both
categories of plants are
used
High fidelity data on tree
stability
Current
status: Field
trials
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7
8
9
10
11
Implementation of structural soils and structural
cells for growing trees under constrained
conditions
Rain tree pull tests
Turf cultivars evaluation trial
13
Plant Growth Regulators application on turf
15
Current
status: Field
trials
Dec- 14
Current
status:
Initiating
field trials
Horticulture & Built Greenery
Developing a functional and sustainable nutrition
Dec-14
program for turf grasses in Singapore
Ongoing
Assessment of photosynthetically active radiation
Feb-15
under viaducts and flyovers
Field trials
Application of biochar for urban trees and shrubs
Mar-15
in parks and streetscape
Field trials
12
14
Oct-18
Dec-15
Field trials
Initiating
project
Social & Sustainability Studies
Development of Parks Mobile Lifestyle application App
for smartphones
development
Developing a framework on the benefits of parks
Framework
& greenery
development
16
Use of park horticulture waste for composting
Iniitiating
project
17
Urban Ecology
Bird and butterfly diversity on sky-rise greenery
Data
collection
The developed technology
can be used to grow trees
in constrained carriage
way conditions
Enhances understanding
of tree stability and saftey
Applications for the
industry
Space optimization by
greening of unused spaces
Enhanced greenery
growth under constrained
urban conditions
Optimized turf selection
for various conditions
Lowers needs for
maintenance
Contributes to enhanced
parks experience
Provides insights on social
values of parks and green
spaces
Decreases waste output
and enhances insitu re-use
of horticultural waste
Advances knowledge of
how to improve / maintain
ecological connectivity on
above and at ground level
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(B) National Biodiversity Centre
NBC Division headed by Dr Lena Chan, Director/NBC
NBC is responsible for:
(i)
The formulation of biodiversity-related policies which are science-based, and hence, we need to
ensure that scientific data are available;
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(ii)
(iii)
Technical evaluation of the biodiversity component of environmental impact assessments, and
hence, we require up-to-date data to carry out the assessments competently; and
Providing technical advice on biodiversity-related matters, etc., in NParks’ capacity as
Singapore’s Scientific Authority on Nature Conservation.
Branches in NBC:
1)
Terrestrial
2)
Coastal & Marine
3)
Biodiversity Information & Policy
4)
International Relations
Current NBC research projects & Researchers’ names and contact details
S/N Research Project
1
Native plant propagation and
conservation
Terrestrial Branch is working
with Temasek Polytechnic to
develop tissue culture and
propagation techniques for
selected native plant species,
and propagating them to
plant out in parks and
reserves. So far over 400
plants of 9 species have been
planted out in 9 parks, and
numbers will build up
progressively.
2
Assessment of Singapore
streams and drains to
balance freshwater
conservation, management
and disease risk. Terrestrial
Branch works with agencies
to assess drains listed for
reconstruction, repair,
weeding or no treatment,
taking account of malaria risk
versus the need to conserve
some drains for freshwater
crabs and other native
species.
3
Conservation and
significance of climbing
plants in Singapore
Native climbers are being
investigated in Singapore’s
forests.
Researcher details
Hassan Ibrahim (coordinator)
Email :
[email protected]
Tel : 64651676
Hort Champs (support, and
planting out)
Lua Hock Keong, Saifuddin Suran
(support)
Students and interns from
Temasek Polytechnic
Practical Outcomes
Anti-Malaria Task Force (NEA) (in
charge)
Cai Yixiong (support, contribution
of expertise on freshwater fauna)
Email
:
[email protected]
Tel : 64651695
So far we have identified
several drains that should
fall under the “notreatment” category,
including one newly
discovered population of
the endemic crab Johora
singaporensis (previously
3, now 4 known
populations).
Lua Hock Keong (main
researcher)
Email
:
[email protected]
Tel : 64651675
Saifuddin Suran (support)
Material has been
distributed to Pasir
Panjang Nursery, SBG and
Parks. This is a very understudied group, some
having horticultural
potential (e.g., Hoya,
Piper, Aeschynanthus) so
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4
5
6
Spiders
Spiders are a poorly studied
group with many species in
Singapore and many
unknown species. Studies are
being conducted in nature
reserves, parks and gardens
to give us a better
understanding of spiders as
they have conservation
significance and are potential
controllers of other
invertebrates.
Dragonflies
Important indicators of
limnology and water quality,
dragonflies can potentially
act as control agents for
aquatic invertebrates.
Taxonomic studies, DNA
collection, and investigation
of their environmental
requirements are continuing
Otter Feasibility Study
The status, distribution and
numbers of smooth-coated
otters are being investigated
throughout Singapore, with a
view to making
recommendations on sites
and methods for
enhancement
Cai Yixiong (main researcher)
Email
:
[email protected]
Tel : 64651695
David Court (volunteer)
Students and interns
Robin Ngiam (main researcher)
Email
:
[email protected]
Cheryl Chia (lead)
Email
:
[email protected]
Tel : 64651683
Subaraj Rajathurai
(implementation)
it is important to discover
what we have, their
growing requirements and
their potential.
Surveys completed in
various parks and gardens.
Continuing in Nature
Reserves. Various new
records and likely new
species will take time to
process.
Various new records from
Singapore, and links
made between adults
and larvae, so that full life
cycle requirements can
be known.
Completed with
recommendations for
management.
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(C) SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS RESEARCH & CONSERVATION BRANCH
SBG Division headed by Dr Nigel Taylor, Director/SBG
SBG Research & Conservation Branch headed by Dr David Middleton, Deputy Director/Research &
Conservation, & Keeper of the Herbarium
Synopsis of division’s research work and agenda
SBG's Research & Conservation Branch carries out research on the systematics and taxonomy of SE Asian
plant groups (involving flora writing, revisions, molecular phylogenetics, biogeography, and
conservation), including field investigations and activities hosted locally and internationally.
The botanical research ties in with the overall R&D programme planned for supporting the City in a
Garden (CIAG) thrust, through supporting the Singapore effort at managing an optimal biodiversity and
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conservation value at home. Collaborative research is carried out with neighbouring countries, pertinent
to exploration, discovery and documentation of the highly biodiverse SE Asian region.
Current SBG research projects
Provide support in biodiversity enhancement efforts by identifying locally rare and possibly endangered
species of plants, especially orchids and gingers whose conservation could benefit from introduction or
replanting programmes (e.g. in parks and nature areas, within roadside greenery, etc.). Provide inputs
to help enhance conservation trials for native species with propagation from local stock.
Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N Researchers Names
Email Address
1
Dr Yam Tim Wing
[email protected]
2
Dr Jana Skornickova
[email protected]
Other Contact details
64717332
64719877
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31. National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS)
Synopsis of Secretariat’s Work and Agenda
The National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) is a dedicated agency within the Prime Minister’s Office
which coordinates Singapore's domestic and international policies, plans and actions on climate change
so as to secure a sustainable living environment for our future generations. We achieve this by adopting
a Whole-of-Government approach and working with the People and Private sectors to devise and
implement cost-effective mitigation and adaptation solutions, reap the opportunities arising from
addressing climate change challenges and contribute towards global efforts to address climate change.
Current Research Projects
S/N
Research
Projects
Brief description
Estimated Date of Completion, Status of
Project, & Practical outcomes
1
C40
network
– as an
observer
city
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group On-going
(C40) is a network of cities taking action
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. C40 Status of Network:
harnesses the assets of member cities to
 C40 has regular dialogues through
address climate risks and impacts locally
web-based seminars (webinars) for
and globally.
knowledge sharing across C40 cities.
BCA has been participating in the
C40 is a useful platform for Singapore to
dialogues and webinars.
profile its achievements and learn from
other cities in climate change-related  C40 is currently working with the US
Green Building Council (USGBC) to
areas. We have been active in the
compile a set of case studies on the
following C40 networks:
current state of play in buildings
across C40 cities. BCA and NCCS
a) Private Sector Building Energy
have been providing inputs to the
Efficiency Network
secretariat for the case study on
Singapore’s green building policies.
 Support cities to develop/improve
their existing building challenge
 C40 is also working with the Tokyo
programme
Metropolitan Government (TMG) in
 Support cities to develop/improve
an ongoing process to develop case
their existing building codes, finance
studies on building energy efficiency
offerings and other regulated
legislation across C40 cities. These
programmes
findings were shared in a Tokyo
 Support cities to develop/improve
Workshop that was conducted in
their
existing
benchmarking
June 2014, which BCA had attended.
programmes
b) Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Network
 C40 has regular dialogues through
 Create a channel for jointweb-based seminars for knowledge
cooperation for cities to work on
sharing across C40 cities
reducing premiums for hybrid and 
hydrogen buses
 Recent discussions have been
 Create a platform for interested
focused on financing schemes and
cities to share information and
infrastructure for Bus Rapid Transit
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discuss bus retrofits and warranties
issues
c) Connecting Delta Cities (CDC)
(BRT) systems, which may not be
relevant in Singapore’s context.


Share best practices with other delta
cities on flood management and climate
change adaptation

d) Cool Cities Network
Help cities reap the economic, health,
social and environmental benefits of
reducing urban heat island effect
through: (i) tools and resources to
understand the causes and impact of
UHI and to design and launch successful
cool surface programs, (ii) support for
the development of city-specific action
plans, and (iii) peer-to-peer and expert
knowledge exchanges to share best
practices, proven strategies and data.
e) Green Growth Network
Focus areas:

Share best practices across cities to
help cities make the political case for
green investments

Conduct research on the use of
public procurement policies and
practices as a tool to drive and
enable green growth


New Initiation
Several cities (e.g. Copenhagen,
Stockholm, New York) have been
sharing their implementation
experiences in web-based seminars
(webinars). MEWR and MND have
been attending the relevant webinar
sessions and preparing a write-up on
Singapore’s resilience strategies at
the CDC website.
The CDC network secretariat (i.e.
Rotterdam) is organising a climate
change resilience and adaptation
workshop in Sep 2014 on “Deltas in
times of climate change2”.
Singapore, through PUB, will be
presenting a case study at the
workshop on our successful water
story.
Several US cities (e.g. Washington
D.C, New York, Baltimore and Los
Angeles) have been sharing case
studies on how they have managed
to address the urban island heat
effect.
C40 is also working with member
cities to develop case studies on
what cities are doing to reduce
urban temperatures (e.g. building
façade designs, green roofs)
Status of Network:
 Ongoing
 The network is focusing on
quantifying the economic benefits
and impacts of green city actions
and projects. This will produce a
concrete tool to help cities make the
political case to win the argument
for green policies.
 The network will next meet in
October, at the annual C40 Green
Growth Workshop. Topics that will
be discussed include working with
the private sector, and making the
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
Aggregate and share best practices
on regulatory framework, and
conduct research on finance models
to fund green growth initiatives from
both the public and private sector
Map out and share models of how
participating cities work with the private
sector through clusters, development
agencies, public-private partnership, etc.
2
Smart
Cities

Scope for more ideas or proposals
from the private sector and
academia on possible uses and
solutions which leverages on an
integrated
nationwide
communications
infrastructure
network (e.g. wifi, 3G/LTE, fibre
optics with sensors, cameras etc)

Smart & Connected Jurong Lake
District: Government and industry
will collaborate and conduct pilots
and trials of smart technologies in
JLD to gather and transmit big data
for
analysing

political case for green growth.
Singapore/NCCS will look to
augment its existing efforts in
quantifying and measuring the local
green economy, from the
experiences of peers in the C40
network
Singapore and other countries would do
well to refer methodologies utilized in
quantifying green actions
Countries will be able to formulate
mechanisms within policies that report
the benefit of proposed green action.
 On-going
 Implementation of projects starting
from 2014 - 2016
 IDA has announced W.O.G. plans to
establish Singapore as a smart nation
that taps the potential of infocomm
and media (ICM), and that nurtures
innovative talent and enterprises.

Part of this effort includes the launch
of new Smart Nation Platform (SNP),
which is built around three focus
areas: Connect, Collect, and
Comprehend. This will further
Singapore’s capabilities in pervasive
connectivity by building new
infrastructure and common technical
architecture to support a smart
nation ecosystem

Test bedding efforts in Jurong Lake
District provide a glimpse of how a
smart nation will take shape. These
pilots will assess the use of various
technologies such as video analytics
to more efficiently detect traffic
conditions at junctions, autonomous
vehicles to ferry passengers along
paths for the first or last parts of their
journeys.
[led by IDA]
At least 15 trials involving more than 20
partnering companies will be rolled out
from the third quarter of 2014, and will
see over 1,000 data sensors deployed in
three main areas: urban mobility,
sustainability, and improving sensing and
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situational awareness.
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Researchers’ Names and Contact Details
S/N
Researchers Names
Email Address
1
2
Jansen Toh
Asif Iqbal
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact
details
64300635
64390630
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32. Singapore Land Authority (SLA)
Synopsis of Centre’s Work and Agenda
Singapore Land Authority’s mission is to optimise land resources for the economic and social
development of Singapore. We balance our economic and social needs while ensuring the best use of
State land and buildings, providing an effective and reliable land management system, including the
issuance and guarantee of land titles and geospatial demarcation of land, and enabling the full use of
land information for better land management and creation of new business opportunities.
Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Projects
Brief description
1
Singapore’s
urban
built
environment is getting more
complex with increased multiple
land use below and above the
ground. Today’s 2-dimensional
(2D) maps and 2D location data
captured and used by agencies
are increasingly inadequate to
support their needs in managing
our city.
Mapping
Singapore in
3D
To address the issue, SLA leads a
whole-of-government
(WOG)
initiative to create and maintain
a geometrically accurate 3dimensional
(3D)
national
topographic map of Singapore.
The primary aim of this project is
to satisfy the increasing needs of
government and agencies in
operation, planning and risk
management. The project will
Estimated
Practical Outcomes
Date of
Completion
& Status
The 3D maps data created will
1st stage:
provide
2Q2015
fundamental 3D map
information to support:
1st Stage:
 Smart Nation’s needs
for location information
-Data
 Virtual Singapore R&D
collection
 Underground Master
completed
Planning activities
 Climate Change studies
-Data
 Agencies’ operation,
modelling
planning and risk
is in
management in
progress
1. Flood Risk Modelling – PUB
will use the terrain data
2nd stage:
(DTM) from the 3D
2Q 2016
mapping project to create
flood risk map. The flood
2nd Stage:
risk map is used to manage
storm water.
-Tender
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provide a high quality 3D map preparation 2. Flight Path Planning – CAAS
that captures fundamental aswill use the terrain data
built 3D information of buildings,
and 3D buildings data in
terrain and roads. .
flight path planning and
management to ensure
It will serve as the authoritative
flight safety.
base map which can be shared
across government agencies to
3. Land Management – Land
support the development and
Development Agencies (e.g.
operation of a Smart Nation.
SLA, HDB, JTC) will use the
3D map data for
Essentially, the map will consist
development planning and
of 4 major datasets:
operation planning.
 Digital Terrain Model (DTM);
4. Urban Planning – the 3D
 3D Buildings;
map provides a realistic as 3D Roads; and
built 3D environment of
 Coastline.
Singapore for planning.
The 3D mapping project will be
5. Environmental Studies –
carried out in 2 stages:
NEA and URA’s studies in
 Airborne imaging and laser
wind flow and urban heat
scanning; and
require 3D buildings data
 Land-based imaging and
and topographic data.
laser scanning
The 3D topographic map data
will be modelled into an advance
data format (known as CityGML)
which has the following
characteristics:
 International Standard
 Open Source (XML)
 Intelligent
6. Coastal Protection – BCA
requires 3D coastal profile
to plan for protection
against sea water rising.
The advance format allows 3D
spatial analysis, simulation and
visualisation which are essential
for development planning and
risk management. The format
also ensures efficient data
sharing among government
agencies. The datasets created
should be able to serve most of
the agencies’ 3D geospatial
applications and needs.
To ensure the currency of the
map data, SLA will develop
workflows and processes to
facilitate the continuous
updating of the 3D database
from topographic surveys
carried out by agencies in their
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operations.
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Contact Details
S/N
Contact persons
Email Address
Other Contact details
1
Soh Kheng Peng
[email protected]
64783699
2
Victor Khoo Hock Soon (Dr)
[email protected]
64783603
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33.Smart Nation Programme Office, Prime Minister Office
Synopsis of Department’s Work and Agenda
The Smart Nation Programme Office is coordinating a whole-of-government and whole-of-nation effort to
integrate IT, networks and data seamlessly to fundamentally transform our daily living, our communities, and
Singapore’s future. The presentation will give an overview of the national Smart Nation vision.
Contact Details
S/N
1
2
Names
Tan Kok Yam
Pui San CHAY
Email Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
Other Contact details
6211 0626
6211 1654
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34. Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)
Synopsis of Centre’s Work and Agenda
As the national land use planning authority, URA looks at the long-term opportunities and key
development challenges faced by Singapore to identify potential areas of research and knowledge
development that could help overcome these challenges. Through fostering collaboration amongst
government agencies, academia and industry in a range of R&D programmes and initiatives, URA aims
to support the development of innovative urban solutions that can be deployed in Singapore to create a
sustainable and highly-liveable city of the future.
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Current Research Projects
S/N Research
Projects
1
National
Innovation
Challenge on
Land and
Liveability
2
Sustainable
Urban Living
R&D
Programme
Brief description
Estimated Date of Completion &
Status
Practical Outcomes
The Land and Liveability National Annual Grant Call cycle
Innovation Challenge (L2 NIC), announced
on 16 Nov 2012, is a long-term R&D effort In Progress
that recognizes land as a precious
resource to Singapore, and seeks to The solutions developed through
leverage on R&D to provide sustained the Land and Liveability NIC can be
capacity and options for future implemented to achieve the
generations. The aim is to support an following:
economically-vibrant, highly-liveable and  develop ways of creating and
resilient city of the future with land
operating new spaces costcapacity for sustained growth, through 2
effectively;
inter-related thrusts: (a) creating new  develop ways of intensifying
space cost-effectively; and (b) optimising
the use of land in safe,
the use of space, while maintaining a
efficient and cost-effective
highly liveable environment. These
ways;
thrusts are supported by R&D on enabling  develop solutions to improve
Information
and
Communications
environmental quality and
Technologies (ICT) and platforms,
human comfort, enhance
embedded
with
capabilities
of
community well-being and/or
intelligence
gathering,
analytics,
improve
connectivity,
modelling and simulation, as well as
accessibility and mobility in
relevant social and behavioural sciences.
residential towns; and
 develop
supporting
ICT
The L2 NIC’s First Call for Proposals was
platforms
and
sociolaunched on 14 November 2013, and
behavioural science research
focuses on R&D in the following four
that can contribute directly to
areas:
land
creation
and
a) creation of space;
optimisation, and enhancing
b) optimising the use of land;
liveability.
c) creating
highly-liveable
housing
towns; and
d) supporting
Information
and
Communications Technologies (ICT)
and platforms.
The first Grant Call was closed on 24
January 2014 and 78 proposals were
received. Award of the first grant call will
be announced in 2H2014.
URA is supporting MND and NRF on the
L2 NIC programme.
URA supports MND for the Sustainable
Urban Living R&D programme (under
the MND Research Fund) by co-leading
the multi-agency work group to scope
2017
In Progress
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out Singapore’s R&D needs to address
key
challenges
in
sustainable
development.
The inaugural Sustainable Urban Living
Call for Proposals closed on 14
November 2012, and focused on R&D
that sustains Singapore’s long-term
growth through creating new space
cost-effectively and developing a
liveable, sustainable and resilient city.
After a 2-round selection process, 5
research proposals were selected for
awardwith a focus on underground
engineering, reclamation technology,
long-span bridging buildings, and
improving the quality of public space
and amenities:
 “Biogrouting for underground
construction – a new technology
to maximize the usage of
underground space in Singapore”
to identify and develop
appropriate organisms and
chemical reactions to fill narrow
fissures of rocks
 “Engineering Applications of New
Reclamation Technology with
Singapore NewSoil at Semakau
Landfill” to refine ways to combine
incinerator bottom ash with
marine clay for reclamation
material
 “GeoBarrier System for Use in
Underground Structure” to design
and test alternatives of layered
recycled material to act as
retaining walls for underground
construction
 “Intensification of Low-Density
Development: FUNCTIONAL
BRIDGING BUILDINGS” to develop
novel modular construction
techniques for long-span
structures, and testing for
structural and safety performance
 “Liveable Places: A Building
Environment Modelling Approach
for Dynamic Place Making” to
develop a new design tool for
planners and designers of public
space that integrates novel
information about usage patterns
The SUL projects will have practical
outcomes that can be applied in
Singapore in the near future:
 A new biologically-based
technology to stabilise rock
formations for safer, lower risk
underground construction
 A refined system to safely
reuse incinerator bottom ash
from Semakau as reclamation
fill material by mixing it with
marine clay, thereby reducing
Singapore’s need for imported
sand
 A more cost-effective
technology for building
retaining walls with natural
and recycled materials, which
lowers barriers to
underground development,
especially for carpark uses
 A set of new construction
techniques and methods to
build long-span structures
more cost-effectively, thereby
allowing development over
areas of low-density
infrastructure
 A new planning and design
tool to improve the quality of
public space by providing
access to real usage patterns
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3
Sustainable
Development
Research
Studies
from newly installed sensors, telco
data, and smartphone
crowdsourcing
URA collaborated with NUS, HDB and
LTA on a cluster of 6 inter-related
joint research projects on various
aspects of sustainable high-density
living:

“Urban Climatic Mapping
Studies” Planning and
designing the urban
environment to safeguard key
environmental corridors from
intensive urban development,
reduce heat island effects and
energy consumption, and
improve air ventilation

“Urban Space Planning for
Sustainable High Density
Environments” New typologies
of urban public spaces that are
environmentally considered,
and vibrant

“Urban Metabolism (Industrial
Ecology) Studies” Using
industrial ecology concepts to
generate scenarios for efficient
use and management of
resources and to re-examine
land use planning approaches
for resource conservation and
climate concerns

“Urban Transport Modelling in
High Density Environments”
Simulate and model transport
flow elements to develop
planning and design strategies
for better pedestrian
connectivity and greater use of
public transport

“Planning and Development
for High Density Living: HighDensity Threshold Studies”
Examine the impact of physical
and sociological variables of
different high density urban
forms on various aspects of
sustainability and liveability

“Benchmarks, Best Practices
and Framework for Sustainable
Urban Development and
Cities” Identify and analyse
2014
Completed
These projects have practical
outcomes that can be applied in
Singapore in the near future:
 Tools and principles to provide
a better understanding of the
relationship between thermal
comfort and the urban
environment

Detailed urban space
guidelines detailing
recommendations of design
parameters for different urban
space typologies

Provided insight on closedloop interventions most likely
to yield a reduction in
emissions and environmental
impacts, and increase the
diversion of waste from the
landfill

Development of an Activity
Based Transport Model for
Singapore’s localised context

Simulation toolset and case
database of high density
typologies that facilitates the
understanding of the
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existing international best
practices on sustainable
development to provide
benchmarks for sustainable
performance, and to develop a
comprehensive framework and
recommendations to achieve
greater sustainability in
Singapore
4.
ESRI-URA city
engine
collaboration
project
URA is working with ESRI Inc. to
explore the use of 3D Geographic
Information System (GIS) technology,
such as advanced rule based City
Engine software, for planning and
urban design simulation. The objective
is to explore building a 3D urban
simulation system that can simulate,
design, visualize and analyse various
planning scenarios efficiently. The
system would include a set of localised
rule templates to perform urban
analyses and simulation such as rule
based parametric simulation tools.
The system can potentially be
extended for other simulations such as
noise, flood BIM model integrations.
different building typologies
on the environmental
performance for four key
indicators- daylight, sky
exposure, insolation and wind
 Sustainable development
indicators and sustainability
assessment framework for
comprehensive tracking and
monitoring of Singapore’s
development and assessing
the outcomes of development
plans and strategies
2015
In Progress
This project will have practical
outcomes and improve the design,
visualisation and analysis of
various planning scenarios.
 Urban Design & Scenario
based planning simulation for
new towns: Allows architects
and planners to simulate,
design, visualize and analyse
various planning scenarios
efficiently. The system would
include a set of localised rule
templates to perform urban
analyses and simulation such
as rule based parametric
simulation tools
 Public Consultation: Allow
planners to articulate the
vision and plans for an area to
the public and stakeholders
effectively and seek their
feedback.
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Contact Details
S/N
Researchers Names
Email Address
Other Contact details
1
Elaine Tan
[email protected]
63218029
2
Stephanie Wee
[email protected]
66711078
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