2015 Award Winners
ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Achievement Awards
| Innovative Hybrid Membrane Dehumidifier (MD)-Indirect Evaporative Cooling (IEC) System For All-Weather Airconditioning Without Compressor By NUS and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology |
| A game-changing air conditioning technology that improves building energy efficiency, reduces carbon emission, and produces better indoor air quality. An innovative cooling technology that reduces Singapore’s energy consumption to provide comfort air conditioning. A disruptive cooling technology for all weather application and one that provides sustainable air conditioning – a significant global impact since Carrier invented the mechanical cooling system in the year 1902. |
| Towards Better Living and Greater Sustainability through “Smart Planning” – Urban Environmental Modelling (UEM) By Building Research Institute, HDB |
| Smart Planning aims to help planners improve living comfort of residents and achieving sustainability goals set for towns. Through extensive research, HDB developed the Urban Environmental Modelling(UEM) technique to allow planners, architects and engineers better understand how urban forms interface with nature and how planning and design can be optimised to enhance the living environment. It allows planners to simulate the development plans on a “Virtual Platform”, architects and engineers to use the results to develop upstream measures to improve human comfort, enhance environmental qualities to achieve a sustainable and highly liveable residential town. |
| Jurong Rock Caverns By JTC Corporation |
| Jurong Rock Caverns (JRC) is located on Jurong Island and is South-east Asia’s first commercial underground facility for the storage of liquid hydrocarbons such as crude oil and condensate. JRC is located 150 metres below the ground and 130 metres below the seabed, making it the deepest known underground public works endeavour in Singapore to date. With its successful completion, JTC and Singapore is well positioned to explore more innovative solutions to further promote Singapore’s economic growth. |
| WSpeak to Me in My Language By Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR |
| ‘Speak to Me in My Language’ aims to develop and deploy machine translation technology to break down the language barriers for the text and voice communications among Southeast Asian languages. The technology represents state-of-the-art translation performance in US National Institute of Standards and Technology international evaluation. The technology has been adopted locally and internationally by leading internet companies. |
| Samwoh Eco-Green Building – First Building in the Region By Samwoh Corporation Pte Ltd |
| Samwoh Eco-Green Building is the first in the region to be constructed with up to 100% recycled concrete aggregate (RCA), which is derived from the construction & demolition waste. Extensive laboratory testing has been conducted to evaluate the performance of RCA concrete and the findings have been published in two renowned journals, namely, American Society of Civil Engineers and Magazine of Concrete Research from UK. The completion of this building has marked a breakthrough in concrete technology and paved the way towards greater sustainability. |