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AR. TAN SZUE HANN, SIA
DEPUTY HEAD (SUSTAINABLE URBAN SOLUTIONS) & PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT
SURBANA JURONG PRIVATE LIMITED
CPD Seminar 6
Smart & Green: The Future of Architecture!
Tan Szue Hann is Singapore’s 2015 Young Green Architect of the Year (awarded by BCA and SGBC). He is currently Head of Sustainability and Principal Architect at Surbana Jurong, Singapore. He is also a Registered Architect with the Board of Architects, Singapore, and a Council Member of the Singapore Institute of Architects, as Chairman of both the Institution Thrust and the Sustainability Committee.
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Szue Hann graduated with a Master of Architecture and a BA Arch (First Class Honours) from NUS, completing his Masters at UCLA on a visiting scholarship. On graduation, he was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Medal, Board of Architects Prize and Medal, Architecture Alumni Association Gold Medal, and ICI-Dulux Gold Medal.
Szue Hann has also been a reviewer at the key architecture institutions in Singapore, including NUS, SUTD and SP, and a speaker at several conferences. In 2016, he was appointed a World Cities Summit Young Leader by the Ministry of National Development, and elected as the Chairman of the ARCAsia Committee for Young Architects.
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Professionally, Szue Hann has been involved in several award-winning building projects, such as the ParkRoyal on Pickering and the SPACE Asia Hub with WOHA. His current work with Surbana Jurong is in sustainable and smart urban environments in Singapore and the region, including the recently-launched BCA SkyLab, a state-of-the-art rotatable test bed for future smart and sustainable building technologies; as well as a new cycling park network in Singapore.
As the built environment industry moves towards the notion of resilient cities, sustainable and smart infrastructure, as well as a high-productivity design for manufacturing and assembly, the role of the Architect has expanded to include curatorship of not only building design, but also innovation, engineering, planning, and research and development.
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In working in a multi-disciplinary environment and through integrated architectural design and sustainability engineering projects, the role of the Architect thus escalates to include holistic management of buildings and urban environments that look good, work well and are environmentally-conscious.
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The sharing focuses on key projects which look at the design of buildings and environments through a multi-disciplinary lens, and explores how the Architect’s role has become even more important. It also includes a segment on “Things they never taught us in Architecture School”, where the speaker will share some tools of the professional trade.
Seminar details
Tan Szue Hann is the first speaker in the morning on this jam packed session on Day 3. His talk will start 30 minutes earlier than the previous day so come early and do not miss the opportunity to hear his talk on Saturday, April 29.
Saturday, 8:00am, SMX Function Rooms 1-5, 2/F
CPS Seminar 6 Smart & Green: The Future of Architecture!
1 Credit Unit