NUS Department of Building

Senior Lecturer
Department of Building, SDE1-05-31
School of Design and Environment
National University of Singapore
4 Architecture Drive
Singapore 117566
Tel: (65) 6516-3549
Fax: (65) 6775-5502

Email: bdggohbh@nus.edu.sg

Research Areas:

Building tender price index construction
Building tender bid analysis and price prediction
Time series modelling and forecasting of construction industry productivity, demand and price levels
Construction industry applications of artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms
Information technology for the construction industry
Intelligent construction-sector enterprises

Undergraduate Teaching and Graduate Teaching:

Information Processing
Measurement
Construction Industry Economics
Development and Building Economics
Information Technology in Construction
e-Project Management

Academic Qualifications:

Singapore Polytechnic, Diploma in Building (Merit)
National University of Singapore, B.Sc.(Building)(Hons, 2^nd Upper)
National University of Singapore, M.Sc.(Building), by Research
University of London, Ph.D.(Building Management)

Employment Record:

Singapore Engineering and Consultancy Services Pte Ltd, 1984-85 (Asst Quantity Surveyor);
L&M Prestressing Pte Ltd, 1989 (Quantity Surveyor);
National University of Singapore, 1989-91 (Research Assistant), 1993-97 (Senior Tutor), 1997-98 Lecturer, since 1998, Assistant Professor

Scholarships and Awards:

Certificate of Merit & Olivetti Prize, 1984
NUS Research Scholarship, 1991
Equity and Merit Scholarship, 1992
NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship, 1994
Friend of Labour Award of the NTUC May Day Awards, 2007
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award of the International Federation for Information Processing Technical Committee 8.9, 2007
Merit Award of the Standards Council of Singapore, under the auspices of the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (SPRING Singapore), 2007

Selected Publications

“Tender bid patterns in public industrial contracts”, Construction Economic Report, Construction Industry Development Board, Singapore, 1992.
"Building tender price index and forecasting model in Singapore", the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Occasional Paper Series, UK, 1993.
“Residential construction demand forecasting using economic indicators: a comparative study of artificial neural networks and multiple regression”, Construction Management and Economics, E & FN Spon, 14(1), 1996.
“Forecasting residential construction demand in Singapore: a comparative study of time series, regression and artificial neural network techniques”, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 5(3), 1998.
“Estimating willingness to pay for urban water supply: A comparison of artificial neural networks and multiple regression analysis”, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 17(4), Beech Tree Publishing, 1999.
“Evaluating the performance of combining neural networks and genetic algorithms to forecast construction demand: the case of the Singapore residential sector”, Construction Management and Economics, 18(1), E & FN Spon, 2000.
“Forecasting construction industry demand, price and productivity in Singapore: The Box-Jenkins approach”, Construction Management and Economics, 18(5), E & FN Spon, 2000.
“Developing national standards for the classification of construction information in Singapore”. In proceedings of the CIB W78 Conference 2002, Distributing Knowledge in Building, Aarhus, Denmark, June 2002.
“The dynamic effects of the Asian Financial Crisis on construction demand and tender price levels in Singapore”, Building and Environment, Elsevier, 40(2), 2005.
“Beyond standards: A new vision for IT in the Singapore construction industry”, Synthesis Journal, ITSC, SPRING Singapore and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, 2004.
“Creating intelligent enterprises in the Singapore construction industry to support a knowledge economy”, Building and Environment, Elsevier, 41(3), 2006.
"Translating standards into ICT adoption by SMEs in the construction industry", Synthesis Journal, ITSC, SPRING Singapore and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, 2005.
"Towards iN2015 - Implications for the construction industry on its future standardisation and ICT programmes", Synthesis Journal, ITSC , SRING Singapore and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, 2006.
"Applying the strategic alignment model to business and ICT strategies of Singapore's small and medium-sized architecture, engineering and construction and enterprises", Construction Management and Economics, 25(2), Taylor & Francis, 2007.
"An intelligent rule-based system for whole-life cost and sustainable building decisions - Adopting the CP80: 1999 Standard", Synthesis Journal, ITSC, SPRING Singapore and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, 2007.
"e-Government for construction: The case of Singapore's CORENET Project". In proceedings of the IFIP TC 8 WG 8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems, Beijing, China, October 2007.