Research/Project Areas

Tang Weng Cheong Roy (C.U HEAD) Energy Efficiency in Buildings Green Energy Lightning Protection Systems Heating, Ventilating and Air-conditioning (HVAC)	Thong Yu Kiat Augustine (P.I.) Air-Conditioning & Ventilation, IAQ, Thermal Comfort,Computer Modeling, CFD Flovent, Sustainability & Building management, Water Creation & Conservation
Chua Kian Jon Ernest (P.I.) Renewable Energy Processes Heating Ventilating and Air conditioning (HVAC) Building Heat Transfer Processes Thermal Engineering	Unni Krishnan Building Automation Control & Instrumentation Computer Programming Building Robotic Technology
Phua Hong Aik Building Services and Systems Vertical Transporation in Buildings Building Electrical Services Building Technology	Lim Kok Hee Building Lighting Systems Building Low Voltage Electrical System Building High Voltage Electrical System Building Barrier Free Access Equipment
Wei-Wu Wen Ju Judy Building Wireless Communication Building Project Management LonWorks Technology Device Bus Technology	Hooi-Lee Yu Hong Building Management System Building Data Communication Building Networking Building Computer Aided Drawing
Papineni Satya Praveena Building Management System Building software development Building HVAC Building Energy Auditing	Goh Kek Meng Building Electrical Distribution Building Protection Systems Building High Voltage Financial Managment and Forecasting
Jin Xiao Qun Building Air Conditioning System Building Computer Aided Drawing Building HVAC Building Energy Auditing

Research/Project Collaboration Opportunities

IBCU, under the School of Engineering CU umbrella, offers significant and high impact collaborative research/project opportunities and development partnership with both local as well as international institutions and organisations.

Public and private organisations are invited to join us in the pursue of knowledge in science, technology and management in building design and performance, which is key to our nation progress and continuous development.

Click Roadmaps for the research/project directions that IBCU is pursing.

If you have any research/project proposals, please feel free to contact us at:

Intelligent Building Competency Unit
Location (Blk –Floor-Room): 25-06-170
School of Engineering
Temasek Polytechnic
21 Tampines Avenue 1
Singapore 529757
Tel: (65) 67806686
Fax: (65) 67870231
Email: tangwc@tp.edu.sg

Research Collaborations with Universities

2008 NUS-TP Microturbine Project

The microturbine project is a collaborative project between Natioanl University of Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Temasek Polytechnic, Intelligent Buidling Technology, to study the potential of applying microtuburbine for cogeneration in buildings. A state-of-the-art microturbine test facility is available at NUS. It comprises a microturbine, a lithium- bromide absorption chiller, heat exchangers and a CNG fuel supply system. Initial joint efforts focus on the performance characteristics of the cogeneration system to provide for electrical power and recovered heat under varying operating conditons.Results from the performance tests conducted on the cogeneration system showed that the microturbine electrical efficiency was 21% at near full load of 24 kW whilst the chiller operated with COP ranging from 0.5 to 0.58, depending on the electrical output. The overall system efficiency ranged from 40 to 49%. In addition, the performance of the cogeneration system under varying heat load in the cooling space and longer microturbine operating period were also studied. In addtion, detailed economic analyses have been conducted to study the life-cycle-cost of such a cogenerative system used for different building operating needs.

2003: eThermal

eThermal project is an ongoing collaborative effort between National University of Singapore, Temasek Polytechnic and novaCITYNETS. This project involves a study of the potential of mapping a building thermal simulation model with the IFC-compliant building product model of novaCITYNETS to demonstrate the seamless connection between the simulation model and product model for detailed building energy performance analysis. In addition to the mapping of the geometric properties, critical issues are also being identified. For example, the limitations of the current IFC product model in space representation as well as the incorporation of the material properties. This research is to address the above issues with the ultimate objective of integrating the commercial CAD packages with thermal simulations through the IFC-based product models.

2002: Semper2 Project

SEMPER, which was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), is an active, multi-domain, space-based, object-oriented design support tool for integrated building performance computing. SEMPER-II is a collaborative research project between National University of Singapore, Temasek Polytechnic and Carnegie Mellon University that realizes SEMPER on the Internet, toward supporting geographically distributed users in collaborative performance-based building design. The CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) technology is utilized in SEMPER-II system as the Internet communication framework. A multi-domain Thermal Suite, which consists of three simulation modules for building thermal analysis, HVAC system and building airflow analysis, respectively, has been developed for integrated thermal performance simulation. API add-ons have also been developed for a commercial CAD tool in order to export building information to SEMPER-II for simulation purpose. More information about SEMPER-II is available from Lam et al (2001) and Chan et al (2003) (Please refer to our Publications page for the references).