Dr Arab Hoballah Chief of Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics United Nations Environment Programme

Dr Arab Hoballah is the Chief of the Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch in the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics of UNEP, since October 2005. Previously, he spent 14 years working in the UNEP Regional Seas programme, as the Deputy Coordinator of the Mediterranean Action Plan since 1998.  He was also responsible for the Secretariat of the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development.  Between 1991 and 1998, he was the Deputy Director of the Blue Plan, one of MAP's Regional Activity Centres.  Before 1991, he worked for several institutions, including several years with World Bank projects in developing countries. Sustainable development depends on consumption and production patterns through individual/collective decision/behaviour, promotion of a culture of change and adequate policy reforms, and a multi-stakeholders approach. Educated and trained in a multicultural environment in various continents, Mr Hoballah received qualifications in Paris in 1978-79 in Economic Tools and Prospective Analysis (MSc), in 1981 in International Relations (MSc) and in Economic Development (PhD).

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Maria Atkinson Global Head of Sustainability Lend Lease, Australia

As the Global Head of Sustainability for Lend Lease, Ms Maria Atkinson works across the organisation to shape Lend Lease's global business to epitomise sustainability. Ms Atkinson manages internal and external environmental and social performance reporting, and also develops and communicates advocacy positions that ready the business and property sector to capitalise on the business opportunities. A Life Fellow, co-founder and founding CEO of the Green Building Council of Australia, Ms Atkinson is a member of the Australian Building Codes Board, the City of Sydney Design Advisory Panel, the NSW Government Climate Change Council and the Federal Department of Climate Change Stakeholder Group. She is also a Director of the Banksia Environment Foundation. Internationally recognised, Ms Atkinson is a member of the Climate Change Think Tank of the United Nations’ Sustainable Buildings & Constructive Initiative, the Singapore Building and Construction Authority's International Panel of Experts for Sustainability of the Built Environment and the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Sustainable Construction. She is a strong advocate for incentives to drive emissions reduction in the building sector. Ms Atkinson was also a delegate to Prime Minister Rudd's Australia 2020 Summit in the ‘Sustainability and Climate Change’ stream. In 2007 former US President Bill Clinton invited her to join a high-profile panel to discuss ways to accelerate green buildings, as part of the Annual General Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.

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Ira Magaziner Chairman, Clinton Climate Initiative William J. Clinton Foundation, USA

Mr Ira C. Magaziner currently serves as the Chairman of the Clinton Climate Initiative and the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative.  He is also on the board of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative. From 1993 through 1998, he served as Senior Advisor to President Clinton for Policy Development at the White House.  In this capacity, he supervised the development and implementation of the administration's policy for commercialisation of the Internet and worked with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on the development of the President's Health Reform Initiative.  Mr Magaziner also chaired a joint National Economic Council/National Security Council Initiative to increase US exports and served as a member of the National Domestic Policy Council. Prior to his White House appointment, Mr Magaziner earned respect as one of America's most successful corporate strategists, building two successful corporate strategy consulting firms and assisting major corporations in developing their business strategies.  Prior to forming his own companies, he worked in Boston, London and Tokyo for the Boston Consulting Group. He also served as co-chairman of the National Commission on Skills of the American Workforce with former Labor Secretaries Bill Brock and Ray Marshall, co-authoring the landmark report "America's Choice - High Skills or Low Wages."  Mr Magaziner graduated in 1969 as valedictorian from Brown University and attended Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from Brown University, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maryland and the New England Institute of Technology. Mr Magaziner has served on the boards of numerous charitable and educational organisations nationally and in his home state of Rhode Island.

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Eddie Wong General Manager Head, Projects Division City Developments Limited

Mr Eddie Wong has been in the construction industry for nearly 30 years and is the Head of the Projects Division at City Developments Limited (CDL), Singapore, a listed international property and hotel conglomerate involved in real estate development and investment. CDL has also been listed on the FTSE4Good Index Series since 2002. Having overseen the design and construction of some 50 developments during his career with CDL, Mr Wong has been instrumental in helping the company realise its Green commitment and contributions in environmental protection and health and safety practices. CDL was the first Singapore private developer to achieve ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certification in property development and project management in 2003. Mr Wong was also instrumental in making CDL Singapore’s most decorated Green Developer with the highest number of BCA Green Mark Awards and the only Platinum winner of the pinnacle inaugural Built Environment Leadership (BEL) Award 2009, in recognition for the significant contribution towards shaping a safe, high quality, sustainable and friendly built environment in Singapore. In recognition of his contributions to the industry and community, Mr Wong was conferred the Eco Friend Award by the Singapore National Environment Agency (NEA) in 2008.

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Prof Kazuo Iwamura Principal and Founder Iwamura Atelier Co. Ltd, Japan

Prof Kazuo Iwamura is principal and founder of Iwamura Atelier of Tokyo. His practice focuses on urban and architectural research, design, implementation and consulting, based on a holistic environmental design approach by networking related experts or organisations according to project features. He is also a Professor at the Faculty of Urban Life Studies, as well as at the Graduate School of Environmental & Information Studies, Tokyo City University, Tokyo and Yokohama, with a special interest in environmental housing design for a sustainable future. Prof Iwamura studied architecture at the graduate school of Waseda University, Tokyo, followed by the internship at Agence Candilis in Paris receiving the scholarship provided by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He worked in urban and architectural design at Agence Candilis in Paris and Athens (1974-77), and co-founded AG5 (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Architektur und Städtebau) (1977-80) implementing the “Baubiologie” (Building and Biology) approach to town planning in Germany and the Middle East. He is Vice-president of the International Union of Architects (UIA), past Vice-president of Japan Institute of Architects, Co-director of the UIA work program Architecture for a Sustainable Future, a member of the board of directors of the World Green Building Council (WGBC), and Director of the ARCASIA (Architects Regional Council Asia) Committee on Green & Sustainable Architecture. He was awarded many prizes including World Habitat Award in 2002 by UN-Habitat, and recognised by the Architectural Institute of Japan in 2003 for a series of works regarding “Environmentally Symbiotic Housing”. His written works include Symbiotic Housing A-Z (1998), Glocal Document 2000, Forefront of Sustainable Architecture (2000), Towards Architecture for a Global Environment (2002), asian breezes (2005), Architecture for a Sustainable Future (2005) and many others.

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Lam Siew Wah Deputy Chief Executive Officer Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Singapore

Mr Lam Siew Wah is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer in Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA). He graduated with a civil engineering degree from University of Singapore in 1976, and obtained a Master of Science (Concrete Structures) from Imperial College, University of London in 1981, and an MBA from University of Hull in 1993. He also completed the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) at INSEAD, France in 1995. Mr Lam is responsible in BCA for shaping Singapore’s built environment in the areas of sustainability and quality, two of BCA’s core mission areas.   He played a key role in development of Singapore’s green building rating system - the BCA Green Mark – which was launched in 2005.  In 2006, Mr Lam spearheaded the development of the first Green Building Masterplan which led the implementation of the S$20 million Green Mark Incentive Scheme, offering monetary incentives to encourage developers to achieve higher Green Mark ratings in buildings.   In addition, a minimum certified level of Green Mark rating was legislated for new buildings in Singapore from April 2008. The second Green Building Masterplan soon followed in early 2009, which is a roadmap that sets out specific initiatives to achieve a truly sustainable built environment in Singapore by 2030. Mr Lam is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore and a registered professional engineer with the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore. He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) by the Singapore Government in 1993 for his contribution to public administration.

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Constant Van Aerschot Director Lafarge, France

Mr Constant Van Aerschot is in charge of the sustainable construction strategy at Lafarge, the world leader in building materials.  His role in identifying global construction trends directly shapes Lafarge's Research & Development portfolio. He co-chairs the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) “Energy Efficiency in Buildings” project, and also serves on the board of the UNEP “Sustainable Buildings and Construction Initiative”. Prior to joining Lafarge in 2005, he held business development and corporate strategy responsibilities at Alcatel, and was an Associate at Ove Arup & Partners Ltd, a global design and business consulting firm. He has a Master's degree in civil engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique in Zürich (ETHZ), Switzerland.  He also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Cranfield School of Management, United Kingdom.

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Kevin Hydes President and CEO Integral Group, USA

Mr Kevin Hydes is President and CEO of the Integral Group, a global engineering organisation that is committed to developing DEEP GREEN strategies for clients. He is building the Integral team to explicitly deliver on the current needs of the profession across the globe. Bringing over 30 years of experience to the engineering industry, Mr Hydes has spent the past 15 years focusing on green design and advancing its cause.  He is a long-time leader in the field of sustainability in North America and abroad - widely recognised for his contributions to the building industry. Over the past decade he has gained a reputation as both an innovator as an engineer and also a pioneer as a green business leader, creating transformative strategies as President of Keen Engineering and Vice President of Stantec.   As a pioneer and innovator, Mr Hydes has led teams to levels of LEED Platinum, Gold and Silver performance over the past eight years. He also worked on the Packard Foundation Project which introduced the idea of Net-Zero and Living Buildings to the industry at large. His project at York University was awarded “Green Building of the Year” from World Architecture. He is Former Chair of the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), Past Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council and a Co-founder of its Canadian counterpart, the Canada Green Building Council. He serves as a faculty member to the USGBC and CaGBC and is also an Honorary Member of both the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Architectural Institute of British Columbia. He is also an Adjunct Professor at McGill University, School of Architecture. He is currently a member of the BCA International Panel of Experts (IPE) on Sustainability of the Built Environment. Mr Hydes' personality can be defined as one of optimism. He believes every building can be green and should be greener, combining both innovation with replication to deliver high value solutions.

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Tan Swee Yiow CEO Singapore Commercial Keppel Land International

Mr Tan Swee Yiow joined the Keppel Land Group in 1990, and was appointed Chief   Executive Officer, Singapore Commercial on 1 January 2008. Prior to joining Keppel Land Group, Mr Tan was with a banking group, advising property valuation, taxation and investment. Mr Tan is also the Executive Director of K-REIT Asia, a commercial property trust listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. He is a Director of a number of subsidiaries and associated companies of the Keppel Land Group, including Asia No.1 Fund Limited, Sedona Hotels International Pte Ltd, and Raffles Quay Asset Management Pte Ltd. Mr Tan holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (First Class Honours) in Estate Management from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Business Administration Degree in Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University.

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Michael Ngu Chief Executive Officer Architects 61

Mr Michael Ngu joined Architects 61 in 1989 and was appointed as Chief Executive Officer from 2002.  He brings with him extensive professional experience having worked in New York City, United States of America, with I.M.Pei and Partners for 6 years and 2 years with KPF/Travis Partners JV in Sydney, Australia as well as other various architectural practices in the USA and Australia.  With nearly 30 years of design, urban/master planning and professional experience in USA, Australia, Asia and Singapore, he oversees the design direction of the rebranded “Boutique Corporate” architectural practice at Architects 61. With qualifications from Melbourne University (1980 Honours Class 1) and University of Pennsylvania (1983 Master in Architecture and Master of City Planning), Mr Ngu is licensed to practice as architect in three countries, namely New Jersey, USA, New South Wales, Australia and Singapore.  He is a member of the American, Australian, British and Singapore Institute of Architects as well as the Asia Council member of the Urban Land Institute. Mr Ngu served on a number of Public Body Committees including the Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Architectural Design Panel and Design Advisory Committee, REDAS Hononary Advisor (Architectural), Co-Vice Chairman Cheshire Home (Singapore), Vice President of Singapore Swimming Club, National Integration Council (Singapore) and Board member of GK Hope International.

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Manit Rastogi Managing Director Morphogenesis, India

Mr Manit Rastogi is a founder member and Managing Director of Morphogenesis which was formed in 1996 after completing his AA Diploma for which he was awarded Honours, and the Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Energy Design for which he was awarded distinction at the Architectural Association.  He has taught at the Architectural Association, London, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic Institute; and is presently the Director at Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon.  He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Committee to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India and is the Founder member of Association for Development and Research of Sustainable Habitats (ADaRSH), New Delhi. Morphogenesis is an association of architects, designers, urbanists and environmentalists.  The firm is based out of New Delhi and is handling projects across varied and complex typologies. At Morphogenesis, sustainability is a core creative value and is practiced in the evolution of the design.  The practice considers the widening scope of sustainability to be all inclusive; to include social, cultural, financial, technological and environmental sustainability. Morphogenesis, is recognised internationally as the leading Indian contemporary  design firm and the work of the practice has been exhibited at several venues globally including the Gallerie ROM in Norway and the Royal Institute of British Architects in London in an exhibition titled ‘Critical Projects’.  Mr Rastogi has also been invited as a speaker to various events like, Urban Islands (Australia), Green Building Conference (Hongkong), the first International Summit on Corporate Social Responsibility (New Delhi) and the World Architecture Congress (Dubai and Singapore). The practice has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including Good Design™ Award- The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum 2009, The Architectural Review Cityscape Awards for the Best Environmental Design internationally and the Residential (Built) category, Project of the Year in The AIQ Awards (Israel), The A+D Spectrum Award for ‘The Young Enthused Architect’, and the JIIA (Indian Institute of Architects) Award for excellence in architecture among others. The work has also been extensively published in both national as well as international publications including Architectural Design, Domus (Italy), Architecture Record, Spaces (UK), The Atlas of Global Architecture (Spain), Art 4D (Thailand), Contemporary Indian Architecture, The Guardian (UK) and 10+1 (Japan).

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Russell Drinker Managing Director Perkins+Will (San Francisco, California), USA

Mr Russell Drinker became Managing Director of Perkins+Will’s office in San Francisco, California, USA in November 2005.  He is also Managing Director of Perkins+Will Singapore Pte LTD. Mr Drinker leads teams for architecture and planning on a broad range of large-scale, innovative, technically challenging projects with an emphasis on sustainable design. His portfolio is notable for its globally recognised research and academic campuses, including master planning efforts for six of the University of California’s campuses and multiple projects at Stanford University.  His Stanford work includes the Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, the James H. Clark Center, and the Richard M. Lucas Center Expansion, all of which have received awards for innovative design.  Academic and corporate master planning projects include the Chevron Richmond Technology Center campus in Richmond, CA., the Genentech’s Singapore campus, the County of Orange’s South Court Facilities, multiple sites for United States Embassies including Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Damascus, a new Medical Sciences campus for King Saud University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the Master Plan for the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Mr Drinker is currently leading the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) project for the National Research Foundation in Singapore, and the Princess Noura University project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  CREATE will be a multi-national, multi-disciplinary research enterprise dedicated to stimulating innovation, discovery and entrepreneurship; this commission was awarded through an international design competition and will be the first Green Mark Platinum research facility in Singapore.  The Princess Noura University is a new 30 million square foot campus for 40,000 full-time female graduate and undergraduate students, including a College of Medical Sciences and a 300 bed hospital. The university will be the first fully LEED certified campus in Saudi Arabia. Mr Drinker has been a guest speaker at conferences on technological innovations and sustainable design for research laboratories at the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), Tradeline, Bio-Asia and the One North Lab Design Seminar in Singapore. In addition to providing clients architectural services, Mr Drinker has been a leader in Integrated Project Delivery, and is focused on developing strategic, collaborative solutions in partnership with his clients.

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Dr Lin Borong Associate Professor and Vice Director of Institute of Building Technology, School of Architecture Tsinghua University, China

Dr Lin Borong is currently the associate professor and the vice director of the Institute of Building Technology, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Dr Lin also worked in the BERC (Building Energy Research Center) of Tsinghua University and the Key Lab of Eco-planning and Green Building, Ministry of Education as the Head Secretary. Dr. Lin is the key member in many high profile government funded projects including 10th and 11th Five-year National Plan Research Projects and Beijing Olympic projects including green building assessment system (GOBAS), and Olympic building energy efficiency evaluation. He is the key editor for several national or local governmental standards for green buildings or eco-buildings. He received a number of awards for sustainable building research and practice such as the 1st-class Award of Green Building Innovation (China Ministry of Construction, 2007, Ranked 3/20); the 1st-class Award of Science and Technology for GOBAS (Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission), and 1st-class Award of Excellent Architectural Design by Ministry of Education, 2005. Dr. Lin is the Deputy Chairman of Green Building Labeling Committee, Ministry of Urban Housing and Construction, Deputy Secretarial of Beijing Green Building Council, Deputy Secretarial of Beijing Sustainable Council, Green Building Consultant for Shenzhen Building Energy Research Centre, Expert for State Environment Protection Agency Evaluation Centre and the Expert for Beijing Environmental Protection and Energy Saving Centre.

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Randy H. Knox III Senior Director, Global Workplace Solutions Adobe Systems Incorporated, USA

Mr Randy Knox oversees all aspects of real estate, facilities and physical security worldwide for Adobe Systems Incorporated.  In addition to Adobe’s corporate headquarters in San Jose, Calif., the company's real estate portfolio includes major software development centers in San Francisco, Calif.; Seattle, Wash.; Newton, Mass.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Ottawa, Canada; Noida, India; Bangalore, India; Beijing, China; Hamburg, Germany and Bucharest, Romania. Adobe has approximately 75 sites worldwide. Adobe’s headquarters is one of the largest corporate facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area, comprised of nearly 2 million square feet of office and parking space.  Spearheading Adobe’s efforts in conserving resources and increasing building efficiencies, Mr Knox introduced state-of-the-art technology enabling Adobe to achieve U.S. Energy Star qualification in 2005 – a status Adobe has achieved every year since.  More recently, Adobe became the first company in the world to receive four platinum certifications under the U.S. Green Building Council’s prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) programme. Mr Knox is an active member of CoreNet, an association for corporate real estate and related professionals, and in 2008 he was awarded the CoreNet Global, Executive of the Year for Northern California. He has a master’s degree in business from the University of Redlands and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Delaware.  He is a member of the Sustainability Roundtable and has spoken at Greenbuild and other prestigious venues around the world on the subject of green buildings and sustainability.

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Toby Bath Managing Director/ Senior Vice President HOK International (Asia/Pacific) Limited, HKSAR

Mr Toby Bath joined HOK in July 2004 as Managing Principal of HOK’s Asia/Pacific office where his goal has been to capitalise on the enormous opportunities in this region and take the firm’s growing presence in Asia to the next level. In the past 20 years of practice, as an Architect and Planner, he has led many multi-national teams to design, manage and deliver on a broad range of projects across the world.  Recent examples include: the Hyatt on the Bund in Shanghai, Motorola’s new 65,000sm campus in Beijing; the 420,000sm mixed-use Suzhou Industrial Park Time Square, ‘Uniworld City’ a residential mixed-use project in Noida, India and a prominent Government building headquarters in South East Asia. As the Managing Director of HOK Asia/Pacific and in line with the firm’s commitment to sustainable design, Mr Bath focuses on green development throughout.  Today, HOK Asia /Pacific is building a strong design force firmly committed to Asia Pacific’s future by creating the finest sustainable environments.  The design solutions reflect a unique combination of function, cost effectiveness and aesthetic balance whilst focusing on sustainability and ensuring that our Clients objectives are not only met but are exceeded.  Under his leadership, all six Asia Pacific offices continue to raise the bar in sustainability in Asia which includes the design of each studio – Beijing (LEED-CI® Gold), Shanghai (LEED-CI Silver), Singapore (LEED-CI Silver) and Hong Kong (LEED-CI® Gold). Mr Bath is a registered Architect in United Kingdom with Architects Registration Council of UK (ARCUK).  He also has memberships and affiliations with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the American Institute of Architect (Assoc. AIA), the Association of Project Managers (MAPM), Urban Land Institute (ULI), American Planning Association (APA), the Hong Kong Building Environmental Assessment Method (HK BEAM) and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).

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Prof Steffen Lehmann UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Urban Development for Asia and the Pacific Chair in Architecture The University of Newcastle, Australia

Dr Steffen Lehmann has been involved in environmental design scholarly research, teaching and consultancy since the mid 1980s.  He has lectured in 23 countries and his writings have been translated into several languages.  He is recognised as an international authority on sustainable buildings and cities. Dr Lehmann holds the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Urban Development for Asia and the Pacific; he is Chair and Professor of Architectural Design in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle (NSW); and he is the Founding Director of the s_Lab Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design (Sydney-Berlin). The s_Lab is an international interdisciplinary research and design cluster, based in Germany and Australia; Steffen founded s_Lab in 1993 to combine practice with research in pursuit of a sustainable design ethic. Dr Lehmann has achieved international recognition in the field of sustainable design, while he was instrumental in the construction of the ‘New Berlin’ during the 1990s.  His expertise is in sustainable healthy cities, ‘Green Urbanism’ and energy-efficient buildings, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches, new technology for energy and sustainability, and their social inclusion.  He has taught as a Visiting Professor at the TU-Berlin, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, the National University of Singapore, TU-Munich, Tongji University Shanghai, among other leading universities.  The s_Lab is active in urban design and architectural research and operates as an international research network, engaged in the creation of the next generation of cities and adaptive zero-emission buildings. Dr Lehmann’s work has been widely published and has received awards and prizes internationally.

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Tay Kim Poh Chief Executive Officer Housing & Development Board

Mr Tay Kim Poh is the Chief Executive Officer of the Housing & Development Board (HDB), Singapore’s public housing authority.  In this capacity, he steers HDB towards achieving its vision of affordable homes, vibrant towns and cohesive communities.  Under Mr Tay's leadership, HDB was conferred the 2008 United Nations Public Service Award for its Home Ownership Programme. HDB also won the prestigious Singapore Quality Award (Special Commendation) in 2008 and the Hewitt Best Employers 2009 Award, affirming its organisational excellence and outstanding people practices. A Public Service Commission scholar, Mr Tay graduated from the University of Singapore with first class honours in Mechanical Engineering, and holds Masters degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration and completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School in USA in 1993.  He is a Professional Engineer accredited by the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore.  Mr Tay began his career in the public sector in 1976. He joined HDB in 1986 and has held the key appointments of Chief Estate Administration & Property Officer, and Deputy CEO of the Estates & Corporate Groups.  Prior to his current appointment as CEO in 2006, he was seconded to the Ministry of National Development from 2004 as 2nd Deputy Secretary, overseeing the Ministry’s Housing and Strategic Planning Divisions. For his significant contributions to the public service and the labour movement, he was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 1994 and the NTUC Friend of Labour Award in 2003.

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Dr Qiu Baoxing Vice Minister Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, PRC

Dr Qiu Baoxing, a veteran in urban studies research and implementation, is the Vice Minister for Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and is in charge of urban planning, urban infrastructure construction, building energy saving and technology, natural and historical heritage protection, water pollution prevention and town and village development. He also holds positions as President of Chinese Society for Urban Studies and Chairman of IWA China Committee.  He has been the major leader in Leqing County, Jinhua City, and Hangzhou City of Zhejiang Province from 1984 and was Chairman of the 5th World Water Conference in 2006. He has received IWA Award for Outstanding Contribution. Dr Qiu studied in the Physics Faculty of Hangzhou University (now Zhejiang University), Institute of Economy of Fudan University and Architecture and Urban Planning Institute of Tongji University.  He received his PhD in Economics from Fudan University and PhD in Engineering from Tongji University.  He had also received training in Stanford University, University of Sydney, Environmental School of France Velia, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge, and participated in relevant research in Stanford University as a visiting scholar. He is a senior urban planner, as well as visiting professor, adjunct professor or PhD supervisor at Chinese Academy of Social Science, School of Management of Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, and Nanjing University of Finance and Economy. He has published over ten books and hundreds of academic papers. Selected publications include “China’s Urbanisation, Opportunity and Challenge”, “Property Ownership System Reform and Theoretic Research and Application”, “Let the Power Run Under Sunlight” etc. “Harmony and Innovation: Problems, Dangers and Solutions in Dealing with Rapid Urbanisation in China” was published in China and Europe in Chinese and English versions.

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Li Xun Secretary-General Chinese Society for Urban Studies, PRC

Mr Li Xun graduated from Architecture Department of Tongji University in Shanghai, majoring in Urban Planning.　He then joined China Academy of Urban Planning & Design as a professional planner.  From1994 to 2009, he served as Planner, Deputy-Director of the Overall Planning Department, Director of Overall Planning Department, Vice-President of China Academy of Urban Planning & Design, and Secretary-General of Chinese Society for Urban Studies.  In 1995, he was awarded Young and Middle-aged Expert with outstanding contributions in Science and Technology Management.  In 2004, he was selected as one of the first Candidates of "State Talent Programme in the New Millennium" and as the recipient of State Council special allowances. Mr Li chaired and participated in major projects including "Study of Urban Underground Space Planning” sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, “National Urban System Planning (Platform) 2000”, “Shenzhen City Development Strategy 2030”, “Tianjin Urban Master Planning 2005”, “Guidelines About Regional Planning of Small Cities and Towns” sponsored by the Ministry of Science & Technology, “2007 Sustainable Urban Development Project in China” commissioned by USA Energy Foundation, “Study of China's Future Urban Development Model” and “Post-disaster Restoration and Reconstruction Planning and Site Selection” commissioned by Chinese Association for Science and Technology, “Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Site Selection”, etc.

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Peter Head Director ARUP

Mr Peter Head is a champion for developing global practice that demonstrates that the way we invest public and private money in the built environment could be made very much more effective if the public and private sector adopted sustainable development principles. He is a civil and structural engineer who has become a recognised world leader in major bridges (he received an OBE for successfully delivering the Second Severn Crossing as Government Agent), advanced composite technology and now in sustainable development in cities. He has won many awards for his work including the Award of Merit of IABSE, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal and the Prince Philip Award for Polymers in the Service of Mankind. He joined Arup in 2004 to create and lead their planning and integrated urbanism team and now heads this team globally. He was appointed in 2002 by the Mayor of London as an independent Commissioner on the London Sustainable Development Commission and leads the planning and development sub-group of the Commission. He is the RAEng judge for the Prince Philip Designers’ Prize. Mr Head is project director for the planning and development of the Dongtan Eco-city demonstrator on Chongming Island in Shanghai, and the Wanzhuang Eco-City in LangFang near Beijing for the client Shanghai Industrial Investment Co. In July 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering at Bristol University, where he is a visiting Professor in Systems Engineering. In October 2008, Mr Head was appointed as Innovation Champion for Thames Gateway.  He is a 2008 Principal Voice on CNN and in the October issue of Time magazine, he was nominated as one of 30 global eco-heroes. Mr Head has also been awarded the 2008 Sir Frank Whittle Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering for his efforts to deliver an environmentally sustainable built environment in a rapidly urbanising world.  The Medal is a prestigious industry accolade, awarded for outstanding and sustained achievement which has contributed to the well-being of the nation.

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Tan Siong Leng Deputy Chief Executive Officer (URA Consulting & Corporate Development) Urban Redevelopment Authority

Mr Tan Siong Leng graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) (First Class Honours) from the then University of Singapore in 1975. He also obtained a Master of Science (Construction Engineering) from the University of Singapore in 1979 and subsequently a Master of Science (Soil Mechanics & Engineering Seismology) from the Imperial College, University of London in 1981. He started his career in the Singapore’s Public Works Department (PWD) in 1975 as a civil engineer and rose to the position of the Director of Building Control Division in 1992. In PWD, he was involved in various projects such as development of schools, government buildings, airport, roads, Sentosa and Jurong Road Link projects and other civil engineering projects as well as taking charge of building regulatory function. In Oct 1997, he was seconded to the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Co Ltd (CSSD) to assume the position of the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of CSSD. In this position, he was responsible for the implementation of infrastructure projects in the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) as well as land preparation, management and land sale work. On his return to Singapore in Oct 1999, he assumed the position of the Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority. In this position, he was responsible for the development of construction industry to promote construction quality, prefabrication, buildability, building technology etc as well as the regulation of building development works in Singapore. In Mar 2002, he joined the Urban Redevelopment Authority and served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer taking overall charge of Development Control function as well as Corporate Development of URA. From Aug 2007, he participated in the site assessment and selection for the Tianjin Eco-city and subsequently led a Singapore Planning Team to work with Chinese planners to draw up the master plan of the Tianjin Eco-city as well as the Urban Design and detailed plan of the 4 sqkm Start-up Area of the Tianjin Eco-city. He is currently the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Urban Redevelopment Authority responsible for the URA Consulting Group and the Corporate Development Group. He is also a registered professional engineer in Singapore and a member of the Institution of Engineers Singapore. He had served in the Singapore’s Professional Engineers Board as a Board Member and also in other professional committees.

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Prof Rolf C. Buschmann Prof. Aux., UCLV Managing Director Solar Info Center, Germany

Prof Rolf C. Buschmann is a civil engineer, architect and project developer.  He is the owner of an engineering firm for construction and architect's office for energy-optimised building, planungsgruppe buschmann in Freiburg, with emphasis on integrative planning activity and co-ordination in the conception phase of project planning. Prof Buschmann is the Managing Director at Solar Info Center GmbH (the first office complex in Germany totally emission-free heated), as well as at EnEd GmbH – Clean Energy Solutions, in Freiburg.  He is also Director of EnEd Asia Pte. Ltd. Singapore. Since 1998, he is university professor at the Universidad de las Villas in Santa Clara, Cuba, of the following subjects: energy-optimised architecture, integral planning and applied research. Since 2007, he is associate professor at the Hanyang University Seoul, South-Korea, in “Environment-friendly and Sustainable Construction”.

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Dr Wolfgang Kessling Principal Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH, Germany

Dr Wolfgang Kessling is principal of Transsolar Energietechnik, Munich, Germany.  He is working as Climate Engineer and expert for integral planning with special focus on low energy-high comfort concepts for buildings in hot and humid climates. Dr Kessling is consultant for architects such as Frank O. Gehry, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl and Foster and Partners, working on high profile sustainable projects throughout Europe, Middle East and Asia.  In 2009, two outstanding projects will be finished: the Headquarter of Novartis in Bale, Switzerland and the Edutainment Center Klimahaus 8° Ost in Bremen.  In Asia, he was involved e.g. in the innovative energy concept of the New Bangkok International Airport, the first Zero Energy Office in Malaysia and the climate and energy concept of cooled conservatories in Singapore. Dr Kessling is frequently lecturing at international conferences on sustainable design and integral planning.  He is founding member and lecturer for postgraduate Masters in Climate Engineering at the Donau University Krems, Austria. Dr Kessling made his master degree in Physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and specialised in active solar systems.  He finished his Doctor in Physics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg developing a new liquid desiccant system for solar air conditioning.

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Prof Zhu Yingxin Professor of Dept. of Building Science, School of Architecture Tsinghua University, China

Dr Zhu Yingxin is presently the vice-dean of School of Architecture, the head of Dept. of Building Science. She received her B. Sc. and Ph.D. degree in building services engineering from Tsinghua University, and has been working as a faculty member in Tsinghua University Since 1990. She has the experiences of working in Nagoya University, Japan as a JSPS fellow and a guest professor respectively. She is the Chair of China National Steering Committee for Education of Building Services Engineering, the Vice-Chair of China National Board of Education Accreditation for Building Services Engineering, Vice-Chair of Beijing Association of HVAC Engineers, the editorial board members of both ‘Journal of Asia Architecture and Building Engineering’ and ‘Building Simulation: an International Journal’. She is/was the leader or key member in a number of high profile government funded projects including 10th and 11th Five-year national plan research projects and Beijing Olympic projects including green building assessment system GOBAS, and Olympic building energy efficiency evaluation. She received a number of awards for sustainable building research and practice such as the 1st-class Award of Green Building Innovation (China Ministry of Construction, 2007); the 1st-class Award of Science and Technology for GOBAS (Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission), and UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation, 2005.

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Sangmok Kim Associate Architect and Digital Director Balmori Associates Inc, USA

Mr Sangmok Kim is Associate Architect and Digital Director with Balmori Associates, Inc.  Since 2003, Mr Kim has been involved with numerous international projects, including NYC 2012 Equestrian Center, Bilbao Park, Canary Island Port Redevelopment, and Masterplan for Public Administration Town in Korea.  Mr Kim was a lead project architect and urban designer for the Masterplan for Public Administration Town in 2007. The project provided a radical public image of how a sustainable city can look and perform and was awarded Best Design Award by the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies in 2008. To pursue a multi-disciplinary possibility between architecture and landscape, Mr Kim co-founded N.E.E.D., Inc. in 2007 with offices in New York and Seoul.  N.E.E.D. was internationally acclaimed through winning the First Place Emerging New York Architects Prize in the 2008 ENYA Biennial Competition, which called for re-envisioning the South Street Seaport of New York City with Community Center/Galleries for the Seamen’s Church Institute.  The winning scheme proposed an aquaculture-driven floating park in the East River, inlaid with combinational modules of indoor public programmes.  Recently, N.E.E.D. won an invited international competition to design the Seoul Performing Arts Center in Seoul with DMP Architects. Mr Kim is a member of the American Institute of Architects and a LEED Accredited Professional. He teaches as an appointed Critic at School of Architecture in Yale University.

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Prof Joachim Luther Chief Executive Officer Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore

Professor Joachim Luther has over thirty years of experience in physics and the development of renewable energies. Since 2008 he is the Chief Executive Officer of the newly founded Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS). The institute commenced operations on 1 April 2008 and is located at the National University of Singapore (NUS). SERIS conducts industry-oriented research and development as well as use-inspired basic research in the field of solar energy conversion. SERIS’ main focus is on photovoltaic devices and modules as well as on solar and energy efficient buildings. The institute is growing rapidly and, in 2010, will employ over 70 people and occupy over 5,000 m2 of space. Prof Luther holds a PhD in atomic physics from the University of Hannover, Germany. From 1974 to 1993 he was a full professor for applied physics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, where his main research topics were oceanographic laser remote sensing and the physics of renewable energy sources. From 1993 until his retirement in 2006 he was the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, Germany, and a full professor for solid state physics and solar energy at the University of Freiburg. From 1996 to 1998 Prof Luther served as member of the working group “Energy Research” of the Science Council of the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1997 to 2002 he was president of the European Association of Renewable Energy Research Centres and from 1999 to 2002 editor-in-chief of Elsevier’s journal Solar Energy. From 2000 to 2004 he was a member of the Advisory Council to the German Government on Global Change. In 2005 Prof Luther won the European Becquerel Prize “for outstanding merits in photovoltaics” and the German Environmental Award 2005 of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt. In 2006 he won the Fraunhofer Coin “for outstanding merits within the Fraunhofer society”. In 2008 he was recognised by the TIME magazine as a “Hero of the Environment”. Since 2005 Prof Luther serves as vice-chairman of the European Union Photovoltaic Technology Platform. In 2007 he joined the Expert Committee of the German Government on Science and Innovation. In 2008 he became a member of the International Panel of Experts (IPE) on Sustainability of the Built Environment for the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore (BCA). Prof Luther is also a member of the Steering Committee on Environmental Sustainability (CES) of Singapore’s Housing and Development Board (HDB).

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Lee Eng Lock General Manager, Energy Division Trane, Singapore

For the past quarter century, Mr Lee Eng Lock has been conducting energy audits, retrofits, and designing and building extremely energy efficient buildings and mechanical systems.  He is also the pioneer in very accurate long term measurement and monitoring for mechanical plants.  The 1985 HVAC system for AT&T Consumer Products Pte Ltd in Kampong Ubi achieved what is believed to be the world record for combined air and water side performance, at better than 0.70 kW/ton for air handlers, fan coils, chillers, pumps, and cooling towers.  Visiting scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were extremely impressed with the very precise monitoring and trending at one-minute intervals for all parameters, using software written in Singapore, with Laboratory grade instrumentation, and hand calibration of sensors using internationally recognised fundamental standards for thermometry.  This led to involvement in further R&D projects in USA funded by the US Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission. Two of the projects were put on the internet for professionals to study and analyse in real-time. For 3 years in the late 1990s, he was the only overseas engineer invited to sit on the IPMVP technical committee of the US Department of Energy.  His particular specialty is in high performance clean rooms and semiconductor wafer fabs, doing design build projects in Asia and USA, and energy audits and design charrettes for major semicon manufacturers such as STMicro worldwide, Texas Instruments USA, Sony Semiconductor in Kokubu, Japan, the Hsinchu Science Park wafer fabs for the Ministry of Energy in Taiwan, and recently the Chiang Kai Shek Airport in Taipei. In 1994, he was awarded the Association of Energy Engineers USA Energy Project of the year for the Western Digital factory in Kuala Lumpur, benchmarked as the most efficient of any disk drive factory in the world, including all services such as vacuum, compressed air, class 10 clean rooms, process cooling, and chiller plant. He would like to be remembered as the first engineer to, so to speak, break the four minute mile - i.e. incorporate the concept of high accuracy online real-time M&V at state of the art efficiencies with guaranteed performance for the life of the plant.

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Prof Ron Hui Professor City University of Hong Kong, PRC

Dr S. Y. (Ron) Hui received the D.I.C. and Ph.D degrees from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, U.K., in 1987. He was a Lecturer in power electronics at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., from 1987 to 1990.  In 1990, he went to Australia and took up a lectureship at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he became a Senior Lecturer in 1991. He joined the University of Sydney in 1993 and was promoted to Reader of Electrical Engineering in 1996.  Presently, he is a Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong.  From 1999 to 2004, he was an Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at CityU.  He has published over 200 technical papers, including over 120 refereed journal publications. He holds over 40 patents. Dr Hui received the Teaching Excellence Award in 1999 and the Grand Applied Research Excellence Award in 2001 from the City University of Hong Kong, and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE IAS Committee on Production and Applications of Light in 2002.  He is a Fellow of the IEE and IEEE, and has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS since 1997.  Since 2007, he has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.  He has been an At-Large member of the IEEE PELS AdCom since October 2002.  He has been appointed as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE PELS for 2004–2007.

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Ho Chow Jin Principal Consultant Professional and Government Standards Architectural, Engineering and Construction Autodesk ASEAN

A Principal Consultant at Autodesk, Mr Ho Chow Jin is responsible for developing relationships and strategic initiatives with local government and professional bodies in the ASEAN region.  Some of these initiatives include the BCA Green Mark and sustainable design initiatives in Singapore. His current charter is driving sustainable design via Building Information Modeling (BIM). He is also working with the integration of Autodesk BIM technology with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology.  Having been with Autodesk for more than 10 years, Mr Ho has taken on many roles.  Most recently, he was Senior Business Development Manager, Architectural, Engineering and Construction Industry, ASEAN.  He was also the Team Leader for the Application Engineers team in Southeast Asia. A Civil Engineer (Land Surveyor) by profession, Mr Ho had worked as a Land Surveyor for two years where he worked on survey and construction projects, which included Mass Rapid Transit stations, rail construction and airport infrastructures. He spent 5 years in the development of Geographical Information System (GIS) and 3 years R&D on Concurrent Engineering in the AEC space. He is currently a committee member of building SMART (formerly IAI) Singapore Chapter and has represented Autodesk in the IFC 2x2 and 2x3 certification of Autodesk Revit Architecture software.

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Ray Purvis CAD Manager, Design & Engineering Atkins Global, UK

Mr Ray Purvis is the CAD Manager, Design and Engineering Group at Atkins Global, one of the largest consulting engineers/architects in the world. His focus at Atkins is driving Building Information Modelling (BIM) initiative.  He is also Atkins’ CAD Manager for London 2012 Olympics (LOCOG). Mr Purvis has over 25 years experience in the consulting civil/structural engineering industry, starting as a civil/structural engineering technician/designer before moving into CAD in 1984.  He has been in the position of CAD Manager since 1985 combining both the day-to-day running of CAD systems/teams and the production of drawings within the bridges/heavy civil/highways/rail and building structure disciplines. Prior to joining Atkins, Mr Purvis spent over 12 years with Hyder Consulting where he grew his role globally within the business.  A driver for CAD continuous improvement/best practice and a keen co-ordinator, contributor to CAD technical forums and workgroups, he has successfully developed and implemented Global CAD Standards for Hyder Consulting. Projects that Mr Purvis worked on include Taiwan High Speed Rail (Taiwan), Bahrain 3rd Crossing (Bahrain), Tan De Bridge (Vietnam), Bangkok Expressway (Thailand), DD400 West Rail  (Hong Kong), Hung Hom Bypass (Hong Kong), Tagus Crossing (Portugal). Mr Purvis has been a supporter of offshore CAD work packaging over a number of years -undertaking overseas secondments and has developed CAD work packaging best practice.  He is also a committee member of Architectural/ Engineering/Construction (AEC) UK BIM Standards, an external group in the UK driving the development of a UK BIM standard.

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Dickson Mak Associate HOK Singapore

Mr Dickson Mak is a Registered Architect with over 7 years of professional practice in both Los Angeles and Hong Kong. He is currently the Design Architect/BIM Specialist for the Asia Pacific offices of HOK Inc., a global provider of planning, design and delivery solutions for the built environment.  HOK leads the movement of sustainable design and BIM in every part of the world, with over 600 LEED® AP and over 100 REVIT projects to date among 24 offices worldwide. Mr Mak has 5 years of in depth experience with REVIT Architecture and AutoCAD Architectural Desktop, and provided both technical and morale support in the AP offices' software transition from AutoCAD to REVIT.  Moreover, Mr Mak worked closely with an in-house sustainability specialist in 2008 and successfully integrated energy simulation and environmental design into the design process of their offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In accordance to HOK vision of BuildingSMART™, Mr Mak actively involves in the development of BIM in Hong Kong and had shared the company's success with private entities, professional groups, and government agencies in various occasions.  In October 2008, Mr Mak was invited by Autodesk to be a speaker at the Autodesk University China, the very first BIM convention in Mainland.  In March 2009, Mr Mak presented to the Hong Kong Housing Authority BIM Task Force and their Deputy Director, Ms Ada Fung, about the future of BuildingSMART™ and its potential impact on the AEC industries in both private and public sectors.

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Mr Eugene Seah Executive Director Davis Langdon & Seah Singapore

Mr Seah Hsiu-Min, Eugene graduated with a Diploma in Building (with Merit) from Singapore Polytechnic in 1995 and joined Davis Langdon & Seah Singapore the same year in May.  He left to further his studies in 1997 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (1st Class Hons) from the University of Reading, United Kingdom in 1999.  He re-joined Davis Langdon & Seah Singapore the same year in July as a Quantity Surveyor and was promoted to Senior Quantity Surveyor in January 2001.  In 2002, he graduated from the University of Portsmouth with BSc in Technology Management and Computing (1st Class Hons).  He was promoted to Associate in January 2003, an Associate Director in January 2005 and is now an Executive Director.  Mr Seah has also completed an MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration from the joint NUS and Kings College programme.  Apart from professional work, he is active in community service projects, touching on social and environmental issues. Besides the core project scope, Mr Seah is interested in research and development of contemporary and innovative management from America and the United Kingdom.  He writes papers to symposiums and journals on IT, Construction Law and Innovation Management frequently to share his knowledge gained in his various areas of interest and regularly lectures at seminars. He is currently heading the Knowledge of Value Management Department and the Sustainable team in DLS office. Mr Seah is also involved in various special services such as IT in Construction, Value and Risk Management, Sustainable Management and Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) management.

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Kenji Nakamura Senior Research Engineer, Institute of Technology Shimizu Corporation, Japan

Mr Kenji Nakamura has been with Shimizu Corporation for 22 years. He is currently responsible for research and development of urban greening technologies. Mr Nakamura has many years of experience as a Professional Engineer and an Environmental Counselor in the field of construction environment.  He specialises in urban greening technology, recycling technology of scrap wood and evaluation of biodegradability materials. Mr Nakamura developed the vertical greening system of unit type “Parabienta”, which will be installed in the Zero Energy Building in Singapore.  He has been studying the effect of this system in Singapore jointly with the National University of Singapore. Currently, he is studying how designs of vertical greenery can improve the urban landscape. In 2007, Mr Nakamura was awarded “Award for Excellence” for his technical development of vertical greenery from Japan Institute of Construction Engineering, and “Highest Award” for his paper from The Urban Infrastructure & Technology Promotion Council in Japan. He was also awarded “Award of Superior Lecturer” from Japan Society of Civil Engineers in 1997 and 1999. He holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Yokohama National University in Japan, and is now a Ph. D. candidate at Engineering Department, Yokohama National University.

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Ho Wan Weng Managing Director Zinco Singapore Pte Ltd

Mr Ho Wan Weng is the Managing Director of ZinCo Singapore Pte Ltd, a company that he started in March 2003 together with the world’s leading specialist in green roof landscape technology from Germany, ZinCo GmbH. From a small Sales & Marketing set-up, Mr Ho transformed the company to become the regional expertise-based hub serving the building & construction industries of the ASEAN countries as a Green Roof Specialist-Consultant. Through which, Asia witnessed the first drive-through rooftop garden at the Subaru Showroom (2005) in Toa Payoh Lorong 8; the Singapore public housing estates first experienced the full scale implementation of extensive-type of green roof (2007); the world’s third largest shopping mall, the SM City Mall North Edsa (2009), Manila, Philippines, launched the massive intensive-type rooftop garden; and of course, the Fusionopolis (Phase 1) – Singapore’s iconic earth-friendly, super skyrise greenery that adopted the latest in green roof technology. Mr Ho was an Invited Speaker at several milestone events, including the inaugural International Green Roof Congress organised by the Berlin-based International Green Roof Association (IGRA) and held in Germany in 2004 and again in 2009, Singapore HDB’s first seminar on Skyrise Greening (2005), NParks’ CUGE regional seminar on Skyrise Greenery (2008). Mr Ho and his works are also frequently featured in the professional trade publications - Southeast Asia Building, and Landscape Today.

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Yap Kheng Guan Director, 3P Network Department PUB

Mr Yap Kheng Guan has been Director, 3P* Network Department, PUB, since 1 October 2004.  He is also the director in charge of PUB’s Marina Barrage project which was completed in 2008 creating Singapore’s unique reservoir in the city. The Marina Barrage is a unique 3-in-1 project.  Beyond just a simple dam to create a reservoir to augment Singapore‘s water supply, it will also act as a tidal barrier for flood control and create a new body of freshwater at constant level that will be a major lifestyle attraction of Singapore’s city centre. Mr Yap is also involved in Singapore’s latest initiative to transform its waterways into active, beautiful and clean waterbodies.  The programme aims at turning Singapore’s network of utilitarian canals, rivers and reservoirs into attractive lifestyle venues for the community to enjoy. He graduated from the University of Singapore, with a Degree of Civil Engineering and a Master of Construction Engineering.  He is also a Registered Professional Civil Engineer with the Singapore Professional Engineers Board, a Member of the Institute of Engineers, Singapore and a Chartered Engineer with the Council of Engineering Institution, United Kingdom. During his career, he worked as a Civil Engineer from 1975 to 1988 with Drainage Department, Ministry of the Environment. He was subsequently the Resident Engineer in charge of the construction of the Senoko Incineration Plant. In 1992, Mr Yap was appointed as Head (Drainage Department) until 2001 when he became the Director of the Department until his latest appointment as Director, 3P Network Department.   As Director (3P Network), he takes on the responsibility of implementing PUB’s new approach in cultivating in Singaporeans a closer relationship with water and a sense of ownership towards our water resources. Together with PUB’s efforts to supply water through the four national taps, the 3P’s involvement is critical in ensuring the long term sustainability of our water resources, as embodied in the PUB’s tagline, “Water for all: Conserve, Value, Enjoy”. Mr Yap was awarded the Public Admin Medal (Bronze) in 1986 and subsequently the Public Admin Medal (Silver) in 1997. He has also received the National Long Service Medal in 2001. * 3P Denotes People, Private, Public sectors

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Sandamurthi Rethinam Deputy Director, Properties and Facilities Management National Library Board

Mr Sandamurthi Rethinam is Deputy Director of Properties and Facilities Management at National Library Board.  He received his BSc (Hons) in Building and MSc in Building Science, both from the National University of Singapore. Since joining the National Library Board (NLB) in 1999, Mr Sandamurthi had been involved in the development of new libraries and the upgrading of existing libraries. After the development of the National Library Building, he was also involved in overseeing the maintenance of the building. Currently, as the Deputy Director of the Properties & Facilities Management Division of NLB, he manages the operation of the division whose main duties are to develop and maintain all NLB premises. The division is also involved in providing library consultancy to local (outside NLB) and overseas organisations. Prior to joining NLB, he had worked in the Fire Safety Bureau (FSB), responsible for processing and approving of fire safety requirements in buildings. After FSB, he was in the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and DBS Property Services. In both these organisations, he was involved in managing building projects.

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Ding Hock Hui Deputy Director, Quality and Certification Department Building and Construction Authority

Mr Ding Hock Hui is the Deputy Director of Quality and Certification Department in the Building and Construction Authority (BCA).  The Department promotes and provides building quality assessment under the CONQUAS and Quality Mark Schemes and certification of quality, environmental, occupational safety and health management systems for firms in the construction industry. Mr Ding was the Commissioner of Buildings (2003 – 2007) with oversight of the legislation governing management of strata developments and maintenance of buildings in Singapore.  Prior to this, he was responsible for monitoring, review and administration of the building control system and legislation in Singapore.  This includes, among other things, building plan approvals and issue of temporary occupation permits and certificates of statutory completion.  He was also head of the Internal Audit function in BCA. Before joining BCA in 1999, he was the Assistant Chief Quantity Surveyor in the Public Works Department specialising in construction procurement, contract and claims management of building and civil engineering projects as well as assisting in the formulation of procurement policies for public sector projects. He is a Fellow in both the Society of Project Managers and Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers and a member of the UK Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.  He holds a masters degree in project management and an honours degree in building from the National University of Singapore. He is an accredited mediator and a member of the Singapore Mediation Centre’s Panel of Principal Mediators.

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Colin Tan Senior Project Manager Tiong Seng Contractors Pte Ltd

Mr Colin Tan is a Senior Project Manager in Tiong Seng Contractors Pte Ltd - a BCA Green and Gracious Builder Award recipient in 2009.  He is responsible for projects delivery in all aspects including design development and environmental consideration for the construction phase. He has gained experience in projects execution, planning, construction methodologies, foundation engineering, design management and sustainable building construction strategies. He is also the Green Champion tasked to drive Sustainable Building Construction in his organisation. Currently, he is involved in the design and build of high-end Eco-friendly residential developments that strive for sustainable and environmentally friendly working and living environment during construction and occupation by the users. Under his leadership, his projects have adopted the best practices in the design, procurement and maintenance for the building construction lifecycle.

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Dr Uma Maheswaran Executive Director ZEB-Technology Pte Ltd, Singapore

Dr Uma Maheswaran is currently theChairman of Chapter Technology Transfer Committeein ASHRAE Singapore chapter and a member under the Total Building Performance team in the Centre for Total Building Performance in Singapore. He was a member of Technical Committee, 24th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Singapore. He is the Author of Green Mark rating scheme for landed residential buildings version 1.0 (national rating scheme) for Building and Construction Authority (BCA), Singapore and a Technical Committeememberfor BCA guidebook “Design and Material selection for quality”, 2007.  Dr Uma was anAssociate Member, International Initiative for Sustainable Built environment, 2007 and is a Trainerof BCA’s Green Mark Professional Programme.  He has received the “Citation Award” under professional category for 2009, in “FutureArc Prize International Competition” for Green Building Design. He is instrumental in undertaking applied research projects with the Ministry of Education (MOE) and BCA, in the development of new generation Green Schools.  He has designed and developed “HELIOS – ETTV and RETV”, which are add-on tools to Autodesk REVIT architecture software that automatically computes and delivers heat gain through building facades for Singapore. Dr Uma, in collaboration with MOE, is involved in research projects such as “Phase Change Material Technology” and “Test Bud & Study of Cool Paints” to achieve cooler classrooms in naturally ventilated school buildings. His passion for sustainability and the green building industry, along with his architecture background, qualifies him as one of the most versatile Green Building Consultant across Singapore and regions around. His areas of specialisation include indoor air quality (IAQ) and performance technologies of building. He has completed 9 research projects and has released 21 research publications.

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Ari Nassi Managing Director Tekla (M) Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

Mr Ari Nassi is responsible for Tekla Corporation’s product development in Malaysia as well as Tekla’s business within the region. He has been working in the Middle East, China and South East Asia since 1986. He moved to Malaysia ten years ago to establish Tekla’s products in the region. Mr Nassi has over ten years experience in 3D modelling for the construction industry and he is an enthusiast BIM advocate and believes that BIM is a big step in the construction IT evolution, but can also be a “revolution” dramatically changing the dynamics within the industry.

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Dr Zhong Qi Managing Director of ASEAN, Korea and Greater China GRAPHISOFT

Dr Zhong has been actively involved in the domain of the BIM applications in the past 18 years. His PhD thesis in 1992 was entitled “Building Process Modeling Using Product Modeling Methodology and Its Application to Scheduling”. Dr Zhong has participated in the planning and implementation of the Singapore government’s IT master plan for the Construction Industry, Construction and Real Estate Network (CORENET), as the programme manager at the National Computer Board of Singapore.  As an academic staff at the National University of Singapore, his main research interest was in the IT applications and development in the construction industry. He was the project director for Singapore’s ePlanCheck under CORENET at novaCITYNETS. Dr Zhong has been invited to speak on the technology development in the AEC industry by US NCSBCS council, Norwegian Building Authority, industrial forums and conferences in APac region.

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Dr Wong Nyuk Hien Associate Professor, Department of Building National University of Singapore

Dr Wong Nyuk Hien is an associate professor in the Department of Building, National University of Singapore. Currently he is the Deputy Head (Research). He has been the Principal Investigator for a number of research projects funded by the various Singapore government agencies to study the Urban Heat Island effect in Singapore and to explore the various mitigation measures such as the effective utilisation of urban greenery and cool roof materials. He has also been researching on thermal comfort specifically for naturally ventilated environment in the tropics and has developed various thermal comfort prediction models for indoor and semi outdoor environment. Currently Dr Wong is working on a Zero Energy Building Project commissioned by Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. Dr Wong has been engaged as member of the advisory boards to the various government agencies in Singapore. He has also been involved in an international research project comissioned by the Planning Department of Hong Kong to develop an air ventilation assessment system which is now in place for Hong Kong. This project has since won numerous awards including the Special Research Award by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects and Grand Award by the Professional Green Building Council of Hong Kong. Dr Wong has also written 4 books and published more than 150 international referred journal and conference papers in these related fields. The latest book that he has published is titled Tropical Urban Heat Islands, Climate, Buildings and Greenery.

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Dr Johnny Wong Ag Director Building Technology Department Housing Development Board

Dr Johnny Wong Liang Heng is currently the Deputy Director (Sustainability & Building Research) in Building Technology Department, Housing & Development Board (HDB). He leads a team of engineers, architects and professionals to drive research studies on areas relating to new housing materials, prefabrication technology, urban solutions and systems, green construction technology, environmental sustainability, product development and information technology.  He is also in-charge of the R&D technology test-bedding at HDB's Centre of Building Research. Dr Wong is actively involved in promoting sustainable development initiatives in HDB buildings and estates.  Some of his key R&D projects in environmental sustainability include the development of the Prefabricated Extensive Green (PEG) tray system for green roof implementation, solar energy systems and applications in public housing, spiral connector development for precast application and hybrid green roof systems.  He and his team have been conferred the TEC Public Service Innovation Award 2006 and the Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2007 by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) for the development of the PEG Tray system. His team also won the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2008 and Asean Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award 2008 for the Spiral Connector invention.  He is also currently overseeing the development of HDB's first Eco-precinct project, Treelodge@Punggol, and the development of Punggol Waterway, HDB's effort to create a waterfront living concept at Punggol Town. Er Dr Wong is a Professional Engineer.  He has also been conferred the following awards: the Henry-Boot Award, Laverick-Webster-Hewitt Award, the Institute of Civil Engineers' Award and the National Day Awards 2008 - Public Administration Medal (Bronze).  Dr Wong also actively participates in the following committees: SAC-SINGLAS Council, Board member of Singapore Concrete Institute and Institute of Structural Engineers.

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Henry Steed President Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects

Mr Henry Steed, is the Principal Design Director of ICN Design International, a firm of Landscape Architects based in Singapore. During the thirty years that Mr Steed has practiced Landscape Architecture in Asia, he has established a reputation as one of the region’s foremost innovative landscape designers. ICN Design International has won numerous awards for their landscape designs. His work has taken him right across the Asian region to the Middle East from Egypt to China. Apart from his grounding in the heritage of European landscape and temperate climates, he has built up an expertise in arid, semi-arid, sub-tropical, tropical and equatorial environments. Mr Steed’s extensive experience of creating landscapes throughout the region, combined with a detailed technical knowledge of hard and soft tropical landscape, allows him to transform Client’s ideas into attractive landscapes of fine detail and quality. Mr Steed’s philosophy is “Man in Balance with Nature”, which can only be achieved when our rush to urbanise and develop is tempered by the conservation of natural environments and the re-introduction of Nature into our daily lives. His particular method is Integrated Environmental Design, where the design and function of all parts of the outdoor environment are co-ordinated by the Landscape Architect to mitigate the dominance of buildings and heavy engineering works. He is a keen bird watcher, photographer, painter of fantasy illustrations, and writes adventure stories for children of all ages. Title: Guided by Nature. The Greening of Buildings

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Joseph Goh Project Manager Bovis Lend Lease Pte Ltd

Mr Joseph Goh was awarded Bovis Lend Lease’s Asia Business Excellence Award for his dedication, commitment and delivery of his work in attaining the BCA Green Mark Award for the 313@Somerset project in 2008.  Mr Goh’s experience and qualifications as a Mechanical Engineer, along with his passion and diverse property experience has assisted him in taking the leadership role with sustainable property solutions.  His creative and strategic design features for 313@Somerset and Xilinx Asia Pacific in the Changi Business Park, Singapore have resulted in a number of BCA Awards including the Platinum BCA Green Mark for Xilinx Asia Pacific. Mr Goh’s role continues to evolve as the knowledge champion in sustainable practices for future Lend Lease projects.  As a key note speaker at many conferences, Joseph has represented Lend Lease and communicated sustainable initiatives at seminars hosted by Institute of Engineers Singapore and NEA/Energy Sustainability Unit. He has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Hons) and a Gold Medal Award for excelling in Energy and the Environment from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.

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Lee Boon Siong Honorary President Poh Ern Shih

Mr Lee Boon Siong practised law in Singapore till 1969 when he emigrated to Canada and practiced law as a litigation partner in a Vancouver lawfirm.  After his retirement as a lawyer in 1995, Mr Lee Boon Siong volunteered his services as honorary president at POH ERN SHIH (Temple of Thanksgiving), established as a Charity in 1950 and also as a Limited Company without shares (personally guaranteed by the Volunteer Directors).  Observing that the congregation of the Temple consisted largely of elderly female devotees who have difficulty negotiating up the steep slope of the temple - he vowed to upgrade the temple into a Senior-Friendly and Environment-Friendly place of worship. His sojourn in Canada had exposed him to green technologies, which was widely available to the community-at-large there.  He incorporated the green technologies into the temple design together with his architect friend, Mr LeeCoo.

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Prof Lee Siew Eang Associate Professor Department of Building, School of Design and Environment National University of Singapore

Dr Lee Siew Eang is the founding director of the Centre for Total Building Performance, a joint research centre of the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore and the National University of Singapore.  The Centre undertakes R&D work relating to building performance with particular reference to climatically responsive buildings in the Tropic. The Centre promotes the design and development of sustainable green building using a user-oriented integrated approach. This methodology is beginning to gain recognition in Singapore and the region. As the Head of the Energy Sustainability Unit (ESU), a unit fully sponsored by the industry, Dr Lee spearheads the development of energy services in Singapore through an Energy Services Company Accreditation scheme.  A web-based on-line benchmarking system has been developed to support research and industry development.  The ESU major sponsors include the Economic Development Board, National Environment Agency, the Energy Market Authority and companies from Singapore and Europe. Dr Lee is the principal investigator of the Zero Energy Building project at BCA Academy. He is also the lead consultant for environmental performance for major Green Mark Platinum buildings such as the National Library Building and the recent Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.

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William McNamara Project Manager Bovis Lend Lease Pharmaceutical

Mr William McNamara is a Project Manager with Bovis Lend Lease Pharmaceutical in Singapore.  He is currently leading the design, construction and commissioning of the new Alcon Singapore Facility in Tuas. He was also Project Manager for the recently completed Genentech E-Coli Modular Fermentation Facility. Other projects that Mr McNamara has worked on in Singapore include Schering Plough Biotech, Lonza Cell Culture Plant and Baxter Facilities.  His projects are regarded as some of the best in Bovis Lend Lease in terms of safety, quality, speed of delivery, reductions in capital and operational cost and use of construction materials. Mr McNamara’s background is in Building / Process Services for Industrial Manufacturing Facilties and he has worked in South Africa, Ireland and the U.K.  He is a member of both ASHRAE and the ISPE and is currently studying Sustainable Energy Systems and the Building of a Sustainable Future with a U.K University.

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Mr Wang Youwei Chairman China Green Building Council, PRC

Mr Wang Youwei is the Chair of the China Green Building Council.  Working closely with China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MHURD, former Ministry of Construction), Mr Wang has been leading the development of China's Green Building Evaluation Standards and the Green Construction Standards.  Mr Wang initiated and organises a series of systematic green building efforts in different sub-fields of building research, e.g., green building technology, green construction, green building education, etc., which involves researchers and experts both in China and from abroad. Mr Wang is also the Deputy Director of the Expert Committee of China Construction Industry Association.  He is promoting the green construction concept and strategies in China for both energy and material conservations and local environment protection.  His focus is on changing the status quo in China where there are no policy specifications or basic data on the management of the vast amount of resources consumed in the construction process, which poses significant challenge for sustainable development and building a resources-saving and environment-friendly society in China. As the Consulting Chief Engineer and former Vice President of China Academy of Building Research, Mr Wang has been devoted to China's building research for decades.  Mr Wang is also an expert of earthquake-resilient building, and has been a major contributor to enacting earthquake resilience guidelines for several cities in China to increase building safety.  Mr Wang is currently a member of the Science and Technology Council of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MHURD), a member of the Expert Consulting Group for Beijing Municipal Government, and executive member of Chinese Society for Urban Studies.

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Tse Chi Hin, Eddie Assistant Project Manager, Environment & Sustainability Gammon Construction Limited

Mr Eddie Tse is a Registered Asbestos Consultant and is specialised in sediment and land contamination assessment, remediation process design and operation, and waste/asbestos management. Mr Tse is also a Registered Environmental Auditor and has more than 10 years experience in the co-ordination and implementation of Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A), Environmental Management System (EMS), noise assessment and design of environmental mitigation.  He is also responsible for providing technical support to all operational and supporting units including planning and estimating, procurement and corporate communications in relation to any environmental issues and environmental training to all levels of employees. Mr Tse is an associate member of The Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK, a member of Hong Kong Waste Management Association and a member of Air & Waste Management Association, USA.

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K B Patali Project Manager Gammon Construction Limited

Mr K B Patali is a Project Manager with Gammon Construction Limited (Singapore Branch). He has 15 years of local broad based construction supervision and management experience and achievements. Mr Patali is currently leading structural design and consultant management in Gammon’s prestigious New ITE College West PPP Project after having successfully managed and delivered the Mole Project. Mr Patali received his B.E. (Civil Engineering) Degree in 1990 and MBA with specialisation in Environmental Management in 2007 from the University of Southern Queensland. In 2008, he obtained Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from Project Management Institute (PMI). Mr Patali has taken an active role within Gammon to promote and establish sustainable construction practices and initiatives. He sits in the in-house Green Group as a management representative to reinforce and drive Green Excellence within the organisation. In recognition of innovation and creativity accomplished in the Mole Project, the project was awarded the prestigious Jardine Pride In Performance Award in 2009. Outside work, Mr Patali is actively involved in imparting Human Values to children and volunteering as part of an international social service and spiritual organisation. He is a strong votary of CSR and has actively advocated CSR within Gammon.