Professor Lam shares his views on Singapore’s progress towards its 2030 goal of having 80 per cent green buildings, as it moves towards a more sustainable built environment. In this interview, he weighs in on some of the challenges of reducing energy use, especially in Singapore’s healthcare sector.

He adds that digitalisation and data sharing will shape tomorrow’s urban design, and play important roles in improving energy efficiency and integrating building stock, says Professor Lam. Watch this video to find out more:

About Professor Lam Khee Poh, Provost’s Chair Professor of Architecture and Building, and Dean of School of Design and Environment

Professor Lam is an educator, researcher, architect and consultant who specializes in life-cycle building information modeling and computational design support systems for total building performance analysis and building diagnostics. He teaches architectural design (with a focus on systems integration), building energy modeling, building controls and diagnostics as well as acoustics and lighting. He has completed many major funded research projects in Singapore and the USA, and findings are widely published. He serves as a member of the Editorial Boards of Building Simulation: An International Journal (Springer and Tsinghua University Press), and Buildings (MDPI AG, Switzerland).

He is appointed as a member of the Singapore Future Economy Council Built Environment Sub Committee. He is currently an Advisory Board member of the Singapore Centre for Liveable Cities, the Singapore Sustainability Academy, and Management Board member of the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies and Smart Systems Institute in NUS. He is also as an Advisory Board member of Delos, USA, which established the world's first building standard focused exclusively on human health and wellness.

He is a building performance consultant for several major award-winning projects and certified green buildings in the private and public sectors in Singapore, China and USA. He was awarded the 2013 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation from the US National Science Foundation “for exemplary research contribution to technology innovation and positive impact on technology, industry and the society as a whole”. He also received an IBM Faculty Award in 2010. He was appointed Professor Emeritus by Carnegie Mellon University in August 2018.