Congratulations to Prof. Kim Choon Ng for being one of the recipients of the Prestigious Engineering Achievement  Awards 2018 by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) in recognition of their outstanding engineering project, “4-in-1 Smart Utilities Plant Tailored for Tropics”. The award was presented by Senior Minister of State for Defence, Mr Heng Chee How on 26 July 2018 at the Raffles Convention Centre, Singapore.

The 4-in-1 SMART utilities plant paves the way for a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective way of producing key essentials for daily living, namely, electricity, water, air-conditioning and heat. This novel system is suitable for housing and building clusters, as well as underground cities, especially those in the tropics. Running four independent processes results in extensive energy wastage and such systems take up a huge floor area. With this smart plant, these processes are carefully integrated together such that waste energy can be harvested for useful output. Overall, this novel approach is able to reduce energy usage by 25 to 30 percent and the 4-in-1 plant is also comparatively more compact.