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2021 Jun Wed Seminar: Living Forms: Cultivating Building Materials For Sustainable Urban Development
Title | Living Forms: Cultivating Building Materials For Sustainable Urban Development Speaker | Christine Yogiaman, Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design, SUTD. ABSTRACT Mycelium composites are being named a promising bio-fabricated material that is in line with a Cradle-to-Cradle approach and present environmental and sustainable possibilities that are in stark contrast to the exhaustive chain of extraction, processing, and subtractive shaping characteristic of current […]2306, 2021
WED Seminar Series: Sustainability and Circular Economy
From 2 June to 28 July, every Wednesday, you are cordially invited to 2021 June & July Wednesday Seminar Series on Sustainability and Circular Economy! A Better World by Design is our motto in Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) that is reflected in our teaching and research. A Better World in the 21st century must include sustainable development and human activities. Sustainability is a complex […]2306, 2021
2021 Jun Wed Seminar: The Metabolism of the Economies: From National to Urban Systems
Title| The Metabolism of the Economies: From National to Urban Systems Speaker| Paulo Ferrao, Professor, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. ABSTRACT Socio-economic metabolism dynamics are relevant to identify (un)sustainable development pathways in different economies, by quantifying changes in added value and material flow requirements of critical economic sectors, or the impact of different policy actions in resource consumption. Two models are provided to […]1606, 2021
2021 Jun Wed Seminar: Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment: Design-based and Data-driven Approaches
Title| Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment: Design-based and Data-driven Approaches Speaker| Michael Budig, Assistant Professor, Architecture and Sustainable Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). ABSTRACT Decarbonisation is one of the pressing challenges in the built environment as the unprecedented growth of cities, particularly in Asia will continue to have a massive environmental impact. Planners, construction industries, governmental agencies and stakeholders will require new […]906, 2021
2021 Jun Wed Seminar: Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Low-Carbon Powertrains for Medium-duty Urban Delivery Trucks: A Singapore Case Study
Title| Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Low-Carbon Powertrains for Medium-duty Urban Delivery Trucks: A Singapore Case Study Speaker| Lih Wei Yeow, Senior Research Engineer, Sustainable Urban Mobility Lab, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). ABSTRACT Carbon-friendly alternatives to conventional diesel medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks offer promising solutions to decarbonizing the challenging road freight sector. However, the life cycle impacts of alternative fuels and powertrains are context-specific […]206, 2021
2021 Jun Wed Seminar: Urban Metabolism in Cities
Title| Urban Metabolism in Cities Speaker| Lynette Cheah, Associate Professor, Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). ABSTRACT Urban Metabolism (UM) is fundamentally an accounting framework whose goal is to quantify the inflows, outflows, and accumulation of resources (such as materials and energy) in a city. This seminar offers an introduction to UM, reviewing the development of UM research and practice. […]109, 2020
DManD Symposium 2020 with Industry Forum co-hosted by NAMIC@SUTD
You are cordially invited to DManD Symposium 2020 with Industry Forum co-hosted by NAMIC@SUTD! Date| 1 September 2020, Tuesday Time| 0815 – 1240 Date| 2 September 2020, Wednesday Time| 0845 – 1140 & 1400 – 1600 Date| 3 September 2020, Thursday Time| 0815 – 1220 PLEASE JOIN US ONLINE VIA ZOOM! In the midst of the COVID-19 […]2207, 2020
KNIT COLOR RELIEF: New installation at The Cocoon Space @ Design Orchard
In collaboration with Textile and Fashion Federation of Singapore, TAFF (the cocoon space @ Design Orchard), Assistant Prof Kenneth Tracy and his team have used TENCEL™ branded fibers by Lenzing and were colored using Matex’s award winning Megafix® dyes, Megafix® ECO, and MegaPro® ECO Sustainable Colors to showcase the combination of new textile design technologies. If you are in the area you […]212, 2019
DManD / NAMIC Research Showcase
Visit SUTD Library to view and experience the exciting products and research outcomes from advances in Digital Manufacturing, coupled with the synergy between emerging technologies along the digital manufacturing workflow, that enables the acceleration of product development (Ideas-to-Things). Let us share with you our achievements that exploit new design windows to create unique, optimised and previously unobtainable products.1911, 2019