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Vol. 11, No. 2, May 2015Newsletter of IStructE Singapore Regional Group
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New route to membership …
The New IStructE Chartered Membership Singapore
Supplementary Examination
In November 2014, IStructE worked with Singapore PE Board to facilitate an alternative route to Corporate
Membership of the Institution of Structural Engineers involving a Singapore Supplementary Examination. This
new alternative route would apply to Structural Engineers who have passed the Singapore Professional
Engineers Board Examinations, namely, “Fundamentals of Engineering Examination”, “Professional Practice
Examination” and the Professional Interview. There are currently more than 400 of such successful
Professional Engineers who are eligible to apply to sit the IStructE Singapore Supplementary Examination.
On 14 April 2015, the first Chartered Membership (CM) Supplementary Examination was held in Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore. Eight candidates sat for the first CM Supplementary Examination. The
IStructE Supplementary Examination comprises a 1.5-hour written exam and an interview conducted jointly
by Senior Members of IStructE and PE Board. The 1.5-hour written exam comprises typical CM Examination
questions, such as identifying two distinct and viable solutions to the problem. The problem requires
candidates to use sketches and text to illustrate the schemes. Since the candidates are experienced
practising Professional Engineers in Singapore, they could estimate section sizes based on “rules of thumb”
instead of detail calculations on sizing. The candidates then compare the proposed two structural schemes
and choose more economical and/or easier-constructible option. The interview lasts half- to one-and-a-half
hours depending on the candidate’s solutions and questions by Examiners. The general questions by
Examiners could focus on:
• Presentation of the two proposed but different solutions.
• Explanation of load path transfer for gravity and lateral loads for the two schemes.
• Explanation of the stability of each scheme at the location and the proposed type of bracing.
• Possible questions on requests by the client for changes or alterations of the building, while the
candidates provide possible impact of the changes to the structural scheme, load path, construction
sequence, costs, etc.
• Presentation of construction method and construction sequence including safety, stability, and other
issues.
• Estimated construction schedule of each stage of the construction activities.
The Chartered Membership Singapore Supplementary Examination focused mostly on the overall structural
concept, capability of PE in providing different solutions to the structure, in understanding and meeting the
various site constraints, comparisons of different structural schemes, selection of a better solution, and the
knowledge of construction safety, sequence, and schedule.
The next Chartered Membership Singapore Supplementary Examination will be held in September 2015.
Professional Engineers who satisfy the requirements described above are invited to apply to IStructE to seek
Chartered Membership of the largest professional institution in the world dedicated to the art of structural
engineering and to enjoy the privileges that they are entitled to, as a Chartered Structural Engineer.
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IStructE Membership in the Singapore Regional Group
Only 29% have taken and qualified for the coveted Chartered Membership (Members
and Fellows). Why? Is it the rigorous exams? Or the fees? Or its relevance in
Singapore?
In Singapore, IES members enjoy a 33% discount on IStructE fees. The fee structure is shown
in the table below. IES members also pay almost £90 for IES fees. For members of both
IStructE and IES, this discount effectively makes the IES membership ‘free’.
Fellows - 24 (4%)
Member - 146 (25%)
Associate - 29 (15%)
Associate -Member - 1
Honorary Fellow - 1
Graduate - 118 (21%)
Student - 258 (45%)
Breakdown of the 577 Membership in the IStructE Singapore Regional Group
as at March 2015
Fellow Member Associate Honorary Fellow Associate-Member Graduate Student
Membership Grade
UK Subscription
2015
Joint IES-IStructE
Subscription, payable
with effect from 1st
January 2015
1 Fellow £383 £256.61
2 Member £299 £200.33
3 Associate £299 £200.33
4 Associate Member £195 £130.65
5 Technician Member £151 £101.17
6 Companion £146 £97.82
7 Graduate 1st year after studies, 2nd
year, 3rd & subsequent years £49(a), £97(a), £146 £32.83, £64.99, £97.82
8 Student £0 £0
Fees paid in the IStructE Singapore Regional Group
The Structuralist Editorial Committee
Editors: Dr Kong Kian Hau
Er Leonard Heng
Advisors: Prof Wang Chien Ming
A/Prof Lok Tat Seng
Dear Readers,
Thanks for taking time to read this newsletter.
We appreciate your continued support and
would also like to hear from you for whatever
reasons. Please direct all your
correspondence and inquiries to:
Disclaimer:
All views and opinions expressed therein are
solely those of the writers and its publication
does not necessarily imply that such views and
opinions are endorsed by the IES, IES/IStructE
Joint Committee and the editorial committee of
The Structuralist.
Copyright:
The reproduction in whole or in part of any
material in this publication must obtain written
permission from the editorial committee of this
publication and/or from the respective author(s).
IES/IStructE Joint Committee
Prof Wang Chien Ming (Chairman):
Er. Dr. Ho Kwong Meng (Vice Chairman):
Er A/Prof Lok Tat Seng (Hon. Secretary):
Dr Boh Jaw Woei (Hon. Treasurer):
Er Reve Chin (Asst. Hon. Secretary):
Er Ms Jeslin Quek (Asst . Hon. Treasurer):
Er Wijaya Wong
Er Mak Yew Cheong
Er Mah Guan Pang
admin@mabaengineering
Er Ang Chee Keong
Er Steve Yeung
Er Ms Cong Zheng Xia
Er Kang Jianhan
Er Sam Tan Gak Peng:
Dr Kong Kian Hau
Er Michael Sien
Er Leonard Heng
Ms Liu Ziyue
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So, if fees were the motivator for attaining membership grades,
and one assumed that in the idealized journey to become a
Chartered Structural Engineer, undergraduates would ‘rush’ to
become Student Members for free. Then when they started
work, grew and developed as engineers, they would progress
through the various IStructE membership grades. In such an
idealized world, the distribution of membership should be
inversely proportional to the fee.
Let us examine the effect of fees in greater detail:
Fellow 12%
Member 16%
Associate 16%
Associate Member
24%
Graduate 3rd &
subsequent years 32%
The fee effect - theoretical distribution of membership
based on fee paid (where membership is assumed
proportional to 1/fee)
In the idealization above, the coveted Member and Fellow fees
form 28%. It just happens that the real Singapore membership
breakdown does in fact have 29% from the Member and Fellow
groups. But then, the 1/fee plot above did not consider students
who pay no fees, simply because one cannot plot 1/0 = infinity.
So if the Students were removed from the membership plot at
the start of this article, then 54% of the Singapore Regional
Group would be made up of fellows and members. This is
shown in the next plot below.
Fellow8%
Member46%
Associate9%
Graduate37%
Breakdown of the Actual Membership in the IStructE
Singapore Regional Group, less students
The adjusted chart on the right seems to
indicate that higher fees alone cannot
dissuade people from trying to become
(Chartered) Members.
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Then again, whilst in reality 37% of the members are in the ‘Graduate’ grade, the ‘fee effect’ seems to infer
32% would be found in the Graduate grade. On closer examination, there are many rather ‘mature’
engineers amongst the ranks of the Graduates. The 1/fee proportion for Graduates, of 32%, seems to
indicate that the people in this group are more ‘cost sensitive’.
But is money the main factor driving membership? Perhaps the answer lies beyond statistics, in something
deeper that drives and motivates people to take the grueling exams leading to Chartered Membership. To
find out, we interviewed two structural engineers in the IES/IStructE Joint Committee on what drove them to
take up Chartered Membership.
Wijaya Wong Back in 1999, a young engineer with a degree from a private university in Jakarta
bravely took the challenge to move from his Jakarta office to Singapore. It was a
challenge at that time to prove that he was not inferior to engineers with a degree
from Singapore universities or overseas universities. Although he could prove it,
the ‘piece of paper’ still mattered. He tried to apply for an interview for the
Singapore Professional Engineer qualification but the registration was immediately
rejected by an administrative officer at the application booth. It was ironic at that
time (before 2009) that there was no avenue for Indonesian degree holders (nor
for degree holders from China and India), to register unless they sat for and
passed prescribed degree course examinations in NTU or NUS. So again a ‘piece
of paper’ mattered. He then applied for Professional Review Interview and
Chartered Membership Examination of the internationally reputable and
prestigious Institution of Structural Engineers, passed, and obtained a Corporate
Membership as MIStructE. This new qualification has opened up opportunities to
work internationally, and the recognition to as a Qualified Structural Engineer.
Michael Sien Michael became a Chartered Engineer partially due to influence from his late
father, who used to work as a Structural Engineer in Hong Kong and Singapore.
He had once asked his father during his childhood days why one would want to
become a Structural Engineer, and his father’s response was that anybody
regardless of his/her social and economic position will need a roof above their
heads. His belief was that Structural Engineers contribute enormously to society by
providing a safe shelter for everyone and are a catalyst for the economic
development of the country. And Chartered Engineers are engineers who have
reached a high level of professional competence. Achieving the status of
Chartered Engineer is a demonstration of personal achievement and professional
competence. MIStructE is widely accepted by employers as personal commitment
to professional excellence, and as an international passport to practice. Clearing
the grueling 7-hour Chartered Membership Examination was no easy feat
(everyone who sat for it said it was equivalent to finishing one week’s work within 7
hours!). Michael took it upon himself as a challenge and a test of his technical
competence. That is why he chose to sit for the Institution’s Chartered Membership
Examination in 2011, and became a Chartered Engineer.
So for Wijaya and Michael, they were not attracted by discounts in total (IES + IStructE) fees, nor were they
demotivated by a ‘fee effect’. When it came to Chartered Membership – money was simply not the issue. They
became Chartered Structural Engineers because it was an honor and recognition of their engineering ability,
and as a personal commitment to the professional life of a Structural Engineer.
But when all is said, do engineers in Singapore really need to go through that 7-hour exam to ‘prove’ that they
are worthy engineers? Not everyone agrees. After all, in Singapore, it is the Singapore Professional Engineer
license that allows engineers to practice, and which enables engineers to ‘bring home more bacon’. IStructE
has recognized this. Hence, the launch of the new IStructE Chartered Membership Singapore
Supplementary Examination. Perhaps this will enable more to become Chartered Structural Engineers, a
sizable portion of whom may be from the 118 graduate members, who form 21% of the membership, of the
IStructE Singapore Regional Group.
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In and about Singapore …Bridge Design Competition 2015
Students of the Civil and Environmental
Engineering Club at Nanyang Technological
University organised a two-day Bridge Building
Competition on 14-15 March 2015. The
Competition was jointly sponsored by the Building &
Construction Authority of Singapore and the
IES/IStructE Joint Committee. The competition was
divided into two distinct categories – the University
Category and the Polytechnic Category. Students
from all the major Institutions of Higher Learning
were represented at the competition. A total of 48
Teams, each comprising two students from any
discipline of study, participated in the competition.
In the Polytechnic Category, the following
Institutions of Higher Learning participated in the
competition:
Singapore Polytechnic
Nanyang Polytechnic
Temasek Polytechnic
Republic Polytechnic
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
BCA Academy
The participating universities were:
Nanyang Technological University
National University of Singapore
Singapore University of Technology and
Design
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Day One was reserved for briefing and discussion
amongst team members. The fabrication of the
structure and preparation for a short presentation
were carried out on Day Two.
Teams working on structural concept and
load transfer
Each Team has 3 minutes to present their concept
and 2 minutes to answer questions from judges
The Teams were briefed to prepare for questions by judges on the evolution of their structural
concept and on their possible performance under load. Finally, load tests were conducted. The winner
is the bridge design with the least weight supporting the greatest load.
Four judges were appointed to consider aesthetic assessment of the model bridges and assessment
of presentation. The judges were appointed from the major institutions. They were:
• Mr Clement Tseng, Director of Bridges and Structural Steel Department, Building and Construction
Authority
• Assistant Professor Low Ying Min, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National
University of Singapore
• Associate Professor Yang Yaowen, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Nanyang
Technological University
• Associate Professor Li Bing, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological
University
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And the winners of the competition …
1. Polytechnic category1st prize – Singapore Polytechnic
2nd prize – Singapore Polytechnic
3rd prize – Singapore Polytechnic
2. University category1st prize – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2nd prize – Singapore University of Technology and Design
3rd prize – National University of Singapore
Winner of the University Category Winner of the Polytechnic Category
Acknowledgement – The Organising Committee of the CEE Club in NTU wishes to acknowledge
the financial support from the Building & Construction Authority of Singapore, IES/IStructE Joint
Committee and other contributors and sponsors of this competition. They also wish to thank the
faculty of NTU and NUS for their time and effort acting as advisors and judges. Lastly, they are
grateful to Prof Wang Rong, Chair of CEE, for her guidance and approval of this activity.
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Continuous learning … Workshop on Avoiding Design Errors
How to avoid design errors? This has been the most relevant question in many engineers’ minds ever
since their undergraduate days in the engineering faculty, and later in their engineering career. It has
become increasingly important in a fast paced commercial environment where engineers are subjected
to constant time pressure and perform structural design for large, challenging and complex structures.
And one that many engineers have been looking for an answer.
Prof Wang (center) and IES-IStructE committee
members together with Dr Sean Brady (second
from right)
IES-IStructE committee members together with Dr
Sean Brady (second from left)
On 13th March 2015, 33 participants attended the one-day Workshop on Avoiding Design Errors at
Kent Ridge Guild House, National University of Singapore. Owing to the interactive nature of the
workshop, the workshop leader had requested to keep the number of participants to not more than 30
people (hence due to overwhelming response, the workshop had reached full capacity and more!).
The participants came from a wide spectrum of background - design consultants, contractors,
developers, government agencies, and officers from the Building and Construction Authority of
Singapore. The workshop leader, Dr Sean Brady, is a forensic structural engineer specializing in
identifying the cause of engineering failures and unsatisfactory performance in steel and concrete
structures. He is the Managing Director of Brady Heywood Pty Ltd and has investigated the cause of
engineering failures on a wide range of structures both in Australia and internationally. He has over
15 years of experience as a structural engineer, and he has published and presented internationally
on the subject of engineering forensics. He is an Editorial Board Member of the ASCE Journal of
Performance of Constructed Facilities and the ICE Forensic Engineering Journal. Sean is no stranger
to The Structural Engineer as he contributes an article every month there.
Dr Sean Brady had initially been invited by the IStructE to deliver the Workshop on Avoiding Design
Errors in London. His original plan was to do a stop-over in Singapore for a few days before flying to
London. The IES/IStructE Joint Committee approached and invited him to deliver the Workshop on
Avoiding Design Errors in Singapore. Singapore became the first stop in his international series of
workshops and lectures, after which he would deliver the same workshop in London, and lecture in
Hong Kong the following week.
The workshop started with the introduction of forensic engineering and case studies for various
structural failures around the world. Participants listened attentively as the workshop leader discussed
each case study in great depth and detail. The workshop focused on the sequence of events that had
triggered the structural failure - not only technical issues but also the human errors and omissions
involved. He went on to show how human nature played a major part in contribution to the final
collapse of a structure. He summarized the case studies and introduced the Swiss Cheese model
where a structural collapse would happen if several extreme events and design/construction errors
occur at the same time and place. The workshop was conducted in an interactive manner where
participants could readily contribute to the discussions that followed - a feature which many
participants enjoyed and felt that it distinguished the workshop from the usual workshops and
seminars.
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The Marshmallow Challenge: workshop
participants constructing their tallest structure
using their knowledge of engineering principles
Teamwork in progress: another team in a bid to
construct the tallest structure in a race against
time!
In the afternoon, Dr Sean Brady introduced everyone to an interactive game - the Marshmallow
Challenge. Teams of four were formed at each table in the room and every team were given the
same resources - a bag of spaghettis, a long string, a roll of masking tape, and a ball of
marshmallow. The mission is to build the tallest structure with the marshmallow at the crown of the
structure within 18 minutes without borrowing any support from the room’s ceiling! Many teams
started constructing the structure without careful planning. They underestimated the impact of the
self-weight of the marshmallow and did not consider slenderness of the spaghettis strands. As the
time passed, teams were anxious to complete the structure. Many teams hastily constructed the
structures to suit the stipulated time limit, only to witness their structures fail in the last few remaining
minutes. In a post mortem analysis, the workshop leader pointed out that many teams were focusing
too much on completing the “project” within time limit but did not do careful planning or evaluate the
impact of the self-weight of marshmallow on the structure. It showed the effect of time pressure on
human behaviour, which is often the deciding factor in structural failure in the real world.
Er Michael Sien presented the Certificate of
Appreciation to Dr Sean Brady
Dr Sean Brady with the Workshop participants in a group
photo after the successful completion of the Workshop
Er. Michael Sien presented the Certificate of Appreciation to Dr Sean Brady on behalf of the
IES/IStructE Joint Committee for the successful completion of the Workshop on Avoiding Design
Errors. It was truly a successful workshop as participants’ feedbacks were positive, and as many had
indicated that they enjoyed the workshop. Forensic engineering is relatively new to many engineers in
Singapore and they are interested to find out more. In view of the overwhelming response by
Singapore engineers, Dr Sean Brady has been invited to do a re-run of the workshop on 10
September 2015.
Article by Michael Sien
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Continuous learning … Course on Seismic Design with EC8 and Course on
Sustainable Concrete
Prof. Costas Georgopoulos
EC8What do earthquakes and sustainable concrete have in common?
A. Both are topics that Singapore is trying to grapple with
B. One other commonality - Costas Georgopoulos
On 19th March 2015, 82 participants attended a Course on Seismic Design
with EC8 which was conducted by Prof. Costas Georgopoulos at the
Novotel Singapore, Clarke Quay. The participants were keen to learn how
to handle earthquakes the Eurocode way.
Participants at the Novotel Singapore, Clarke Quay
The next day, 38 participants, many from the earthquake
course the previous day, gathered at the same venue to
learn about sustainable concrete from Prof. Costas and
local experts - Mr. Low Giau Leong from the BCA Centre
for Sustainable Buildings and Construction on Singapore
government’s approach to sustainability in building, and
Prof. Gary Ong of NUS, about the latest technologies and
standards surrounding the sustainable use, and reuse of
concrete in Singapore.
Prof. Costas brought a fresh perspective to earthquake
engineering, with the personal touch of one from an
earthquake-prone country (Greece), who has seen how
earthquakes can be managed. As an engineer he had assessed if buildings were safe to use or to be
repaired after earthquakes. Now from his base in Kingston University London, he has dedicated himself to
teach engineers from the world over, so that more buildings would be safer from earthquakes.
The course was filled with accounts of real earthquake effects and damage, supported by pictorial
evidences. From these examples, participants leant why buildings had to be designed in particular ways in
order to survive earthquakes better. Many of the detailed damages caused by earthquake were not intuitive
to practicing engineers trained in non-seismic regions like Singapore. For example, damage such as “short
column effects”, which could arise from well-intentioned addition of masonry infills between frames.
Earthquakes could cause buildings idealized in one way, to separate into other parts and move in different
ways, with the parts knocking into and damaging each other. Earthquake-induced building movements in
some building components, could cause different emergent behaviours from other building components. For
example, varying displacements to foundations and columns of buildings as the ground moved over time
caused slabs, which may have provided a stiff diaphragm against wind and storms, to move out-of-plane
and tear like paper.
Time was too short to learn all about EC8. So Prof Costas focused on the essentials and taught participants
more on ‘Concepts in Design’. But he gave generous notes and references, all in pdf files and spreadsheets
bundled into a thumb drive for all participants. By the end of the course, almost everyone knew more about
designing against earthquakes, but they also learnt how much more they did not know and needed to learn.
Sustainable Concrete
On the next day, Prof. Costas switched topics and taught Sustainable Concrete from the UK perspective,
including what motivates UK and how it implements sustainability. Participants received a copy of his book
“Sustainable Concrete Solutions”. Local experts , Mr. Low Giau Leong from the BCA presented Singapore’s
motivation and approach to sustainability. Prof. Gary Ong from NUS, showed ways to measure, control and
implement sustainable concrete. Thus participants were able to compare how sustainable concrete solutions
were approached in Singapore and in the UK.
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Both Singapore and the UK did not focus on concrete alone when approaching sustainability. Instead they
looked across the entire building life cycle from planning and design, to construction, use, reuse and finally
recycling after demolition, and to refine processes and materials. Both looked at a host of factors affecting
sustainability, from reducing Green House Gases (GHGs) to reducing energy and water usage.
In spite of the best intentions, the Singapore and UK efforts would not leave a large dent in global
sustainability levels. The UK’s consumption of concrete was only about 0.5% of the global whole and
Singapore’s was much less. Thus, the Singapore and UK contributions would be meaningful only when
viewed from their commitment as members of larger wholes. The island of Singapore aims to be a “global
citizen” and much larger UK made considerable efforts to be aligned to, and to fit into, Europe’s sustainability
commitment.
However, Mr. Low also pointed out that Singapore’s motivations for sustainbility also arose from the desire
to have diversified, secure and stable sources of raw materials for buildings. This desire had been
accetuanted by sudden shortfalls in the supply of sand in 2007 and sudden shortfalls in granite aggregates
in 2014. This motivation for sustainability did not exist in the UK’s case.
Prof. Costas pointed out that the following embedded CO2 (ECO2e) in concrete was much more than that in
steel. Thus the drive to use concrete smarter and less. At no time did he suggest the abandonment of
concrete as a building material. Perhaps it was because the UK intrinsically recognized that people were
comfortable with certain usages of concrete for the built environment, and would be likely to continue to
desire some inclusion of concrete into their environment. And hence the drive towards more efficient use of
concrete and the development of better, greener, concretes, which eventually would lead to less use of
“unsustainable” traditional concretes.
Finally, Prof. Gary Ong provided participants with details of how to assess aggregates for reuse. He also
provided overviews of newer techniques available in Singapore for treating and recycling aggregates,
including the use of microwaves to remove cement mortar stuck to aggregates.
Prof. CM Wang presenting speakers with
Certificates of Appreciation. Clockwise from top
left: Prof. Costas Georgopoulos, Mr. Low Giau
Leong and Prof. Gary Ong
Prof. Costas left participants with notes and his book, detailing
ways to measure sustainability efforts; such as ways for
computing thermal mass by mixing building cladding layers,
ways for computing service life of claddings, ways to estimate
relative benefits of material and reuse, provided quick charts to
optimize concrete material element sizes in design, and
detailed ways to compute embedded CO2.
The two days certainly enriched all participants, leaving all
feeling that they had learnt to practice engineering better
locally, being glad that they were members locally through IES.
At the same time, participants could be members of the larger
global network of engineers though IStructE, practising
regionally and globally, if and when called upon to.
The IStructE Singapore Regional Group is most grateful for the
knowledge and experiences shared by Prof. Costas
Georgopoulos, Mr. Low Giau Leong and Prof. Gary Ong.
Having a joint committee between IES and IStructE brings opportunities for richer and greater diversity in
activities organized. On 24 March 2015, one such opportunity came...
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SEMINAR ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING
A one-day seminar on “Infrastructure and Building Engineering, 2015”, was
jointly organized by IES/IStructE Joint Committee and IES’s Overseas
Chapters Committee at the Furama City Centre (Hotel) Singapore. 115
participants attended the Seminar. The Morning Session was chaired by the
Er. Dr. Ho Kwong Meng (Vice-Chairman of Joint Committee) and Er. Jeslin
Quek (Asst. Hon. Treasurer of Joint Committee) chaired the Afternoon
Session.
The 7 presentations in this seminar showcased the rich diversity of Civil and
Structural engineering projects in the region, and were presented by leading
engineers from the region. These were :
1. “Concept of Integrated Design and Examples for Potential Applications in
Singapore” presented by A/Prof. Chu Jian of Nanyang Technological
University. SMART tunnel in Kuala Lumpur which combines both traffic and
flood discharge functions into one, Below Sea Level Cities and Suction
Caisson Method were presented and discussed.
2. “Importance of Instrumentation for Deep Excavations” by Er. Lim Peng
Hong, Managing Director of PH Consulting Pte Ltd.
The Participants
Er. Lim Peng Hong
Er. Lim Kok Kim
Er. Dr. Ho Kwong MengChairpersons, Speakers and Sharon Er. Jeslin, Er. Lim and Er. Dr. Ho
From Paper of A/Prof. Chu Jian From Paper of Er. Dr. K.M. Ho
3. “Engineering 3 Tall Buildings in Jakarta in 3 Different Decades” was
presented by Er. Lim Kok Kim of K K Lim & Associates Pte Ltd.
4. “Structural Design Considerations for Open Piled Wharf Structures” was
presented by Er. Dr. Ho Kwong Meng. Green Port and Futuristic Offshore
Cities were also discussed.
5. “Fast Track Design & Build Procurement - The Metropolis” was presented by Er. Yeo Choon Chong of KTP
Consultants Pte Ltd.
6. “Stabilization of Reclaimed Land in Singapore” was presented by Dr. V. R. Raju, Managing Director for
Keller in Asia.
7. “Press-in Engineering Technology – Innovations in Design Concept and Work Approach” was presented by
Er. Dr. Goh Telk Lim.
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Coming soon …
IStructE Singapore Members’Night
The IES/IStructE Joint Committee is organizing an IStructE Members’ Night on Friday, 9 October
2015 at the Raffles Town Club at Level 1, Dunearn Ballroom 3. This members’ night provides a
great opportunity for members of IStructE Singapore Regional Group to get to know each other in
a relaxing ambience and to receive an update on the IStructE Singapore Group activities from the
Joint Committee Members. Also it is an opportunity for the committee to obtain valuable
members’ feedback on the activities and suggestions for future activities to meet members’
needs. We have invited Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng who was former Dean of Faculty
of Engineering, NUS to speak on “How to live beyond 100 years with health?” A sumptuous sit
down dinner will be provided free of charge.
For Enquiries & Registration:
Please contact Ms. Angela Loke for more information at Tel: +(65) 6516 5408, Fax: +(65) 6775 4710
or E-mail: [email protected]
The Institution of Structural Engineers will host an International Conference in
Singapore on 3-4 September 2015 at The Grand Hyatt Hotel.
The Conference, ‘Innovate, Create, Inspire – Structurally Engineering a Modern World’, is intended for all
those with an interest in structural engineering and its impact on the modern built environment. The event
will feature expert keynote speakers drawn from nations around the world including China, Germany,
Australia, Canada, Singapore, Japan and the United Kingdom. Featured topics will include tall buildings,
bridges, tensile and compressive structures, architectural engineering, seismic, wind and extreme
loading, emerging materials and technologies, repair and strengthening, and construction innovation.
Tim Ibell, 2015 President of The Institution of Structural Engineers said: "This Conference is an absolute
must for anyone interested in hearing from world-leading engineering professionals about the cutting edge
innovation which is helping to shape our structural engineering profession. The event is also a wonderful
opportunity to network with members of the Institution, and to collectively ensure that the remarkably
innovative, creative and inspiring work of structural engineers is celebrated.“
Martin Powell, Chief Executive of The Institution of Structural Engineers, said: "Singapore is at the
forefront of urban development and renewal, offering breath-taking examples of innovative structural
engineering and a perfect location for our latest International Conference. This really is an essential diary
event for anyone interested in learning more about structural engineers’ role as creative, innovative
design professionals and the guardians of public safety around the world.“
For more information and to buy tickets visit the website
http://www.cvent.com/events/international-conference-2015/event-summary-
ab6314ee1c7841f0af1a7692a2738310.aspx?RefID=news