First JTC Innovation Fund RFP 2010
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Project Title
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Reducing Urban Heat Within JTC Estates by Installing Subsurface Water Cooling Systems |
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Organisation |
NTU – School of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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Principal Investigator / Designation |
Qin Xiaosheng / Assistant Professor |
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Project Summary |
Feasibility study on using ground water for
cooling in JTC buildings or estates.
Benefits compared to conventional cooling
systems will be studied. |
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Benefits |
The proposed subsurface water (or other chilled water) cooling system, at building or estate level, could help to reduce energy required for air-conditioning and this could lead to cost savings to JTC and JTC's customers.
A reduction in energy consumption will in turn
mitigate the urban heat effect and reduce
environment impacts within JTC's estates. |
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Project Title
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Development of a User-Friendly Evaluation Tool for Design and Analysis of Building Energy Efficiency for Singapore |
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Organisation |
NTU - School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering |
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Principal Investigator / Designation |
Li Hua / Assistant Professor |
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Project Summary |
Available building energy usage evaluation tool will be modified for use in Singapore's climatic conditions.
Proposed tool will be user-friendly and include a recommendation function for the use of various energy saving technologies to enable easy performance evaluations. |
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Benefits |
Proposed evaluation tool can be used to give aquantitative evaluation of various energy saving technologies to aid building design, which can lead to more energy-efficient buildings.
This translates to lower carbon emissions and cost savings in terms of energy usage for JTC's customers. |
3
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Project Name |
Automatic Carbon Tool for Planning and Design of High- Density Industrial Estates |
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Organisation |
NUS - Department of Architecture |
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Principal Investigator / Designation |
Huang Yi Chun / Assistant Professor |
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Project Summary |
Development of a carbon calculation tool which is applicable for all stages of development at both building and estate level. |
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Benefits |
Proposed carbon tool allows for performance tracking and carbon calculation for JTC building and estates.
The tool is automated in nature and would reduce time and efforts needed for carbon assessment. |
Total grant amount for the 3 projects is more than $900,000.