Centre of Excellence for Environmental Sustainability, Housing & Development Board
Mr Tan Sze Tiong graduated with an Civil Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore in 1997. He currently heads the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Sustainability Research in the Building & Research Institute(BRI), Housing & Development Board(HDB). His team drives and coordinates sustainable development efforts for new towns and estates through the implementation of new sustainability initiatives and urban solutions and conducting of macro scale environmental modelling at the planning and design stages. He currently manages a portfolio of research projects in collaboration with various agencies, academia and institutions. Key research interests include advanced modelling and environmental optimisation, resource efficiency solutions, floating structures, building acoustic solutions, and sky-rise greening solutions and systems to enhance the living environment. In the area of analytics, his team looks into multi-disciplinary research using new and emerging forms of data, alongside new computational approaches and techniques, to gain actionable insights to enhance the planning, design, and operation of towns.