Assistant Professor
Department of Building, SDE1-04-07
School of Design and Environment
National University of Singapore
4 Architecture Drive
Singapore 117566
Tel: (65) 6516-1008
Fax: (65) 6775-5502

Email: bdgteoal@nus.edu.sg

 

 

 

Research Areas:

• LCC, Facade Maintenance, Construction Safety & Culture, e-Measurement
• Construction Diversification, Arbitration, Management, Economics & Standards

 

Teaching Areas:

• Measurement I & III
• Contract Administration

 

Academic/Professional Qualifications:

• DipQS, Singapore Polytechnic; B.Bldg (Hons), University of New South Wales
• PhD (CME), University of New South Wales; Teaching, (Higher Education), University of Sheffield
• AAIQS, The Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyor
• MSIB, Singapore Institute of Building Limited
• MSIArb, Singapore Institute of Arbitration

 

Awards Honours (Post-PhD):

• Overseas Leadership Award, 1999
• Excellence in Teaching Award, 2000
• 10DBMC Best Presentation Award 2005 (In recognition of the best presentation from a young researcher in the session on service life prediction methodologies, failure modes and risk analysis)
• Excellent Paper Award 2007,  CRIOCM 2007 Research Symposium,  (CRIOCM 2007 Conference Indexed by ISTP)

 

Career History:

• Quantity Surveyor, Senior Quantity Surveyor, Head of Department, Contract Manger, Contruction Companies
• Senior Contracts Engineer, Singapore Technology Construction Pte Ltd
• Lecturer, Singapore Polytechnic
• Singapore Content Manager, BCI Asia Construction Information Pte Ltd
• Senior Manager, School Development Office, Ministry of Education

 

Administrative Leadership:

• QS Core Leader of Department of Building, National University of Singapore
• Department of Building Public Talks/Seminars and Executive Courses Committee, National University of Singapore

 

Professional/Consulting Activities:

• Educational/Conferences Committee, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (2002)
• Publication Committee, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (2003 to 2006)
• IFC Implementers Work Group – Member, International Alliance of Interoperability Singapore Chapter
• Technical Coordinator, International Alliance of Interoperability Singapore Chapter

Major Publications:

Recent Publications

• Teo, A L, S L Han and P.H. Tan (2007), "Empirical Investigation into Factors Affecting Exporting Construction Services in SMEs in Singapore".  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management,  133, no. 8: 582‑91. 
  
  
• Teo, A L (2007), "Developing an Electronic System to Enhance the Building Safety Auditing Process".  Architectural Science Review (in press).
  
  
• Teo, A L (2007), "Risk Management and Analysis Tool for Construction Sites".  CME 25 Conference Construction Management and Economics‑"Past, Present and Future" (2007).  Reading/ UK: University of Reading.  (CME25 Conference, 16 ‑ 18 Jul 2007, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom)
  
  
• Teo, A L and A A Ajibade (2007), "Legal Framework for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR): an Examination of Singapore National Legal System for Arbitration".  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management,  133, no. 2: 148‑157. 
  
  
• Teo, A L and N. Harikrishna (2006), "Quantitative Model for Efficient Maintenance on Painted and Plastered Facades".  Construction Management and Economics,  24, no. 10‑12: 1283‑1293. 
  
  
• Teo, A L and Y Y Ling (2006), "Developing a Model to measure the Effectiveness of Safety Management Sytems of Construction Sites".  Building and Environment,  41, no. 11  (2006): 1584‑1592. 
  
  
• Teo, A L and K Phang (2005), "Singapore's Contractors Attitudes towards Safety Culture".  Journal of Construction Research,  157‑178.  (Publisher: World Scientific) was among the top accessed papers in the journal, October 2007).
  
  
• Teo, A L, Y Y Ling and F W A Chong (2005), "Framework for project managers to manage construction safety".  International Journal of Project Management, 329‑341. 
  
  
• Teo, A L, Y Y Ling and S Y Ong (2005), "Fostering Safe Work Behaviour in workers at Construction Sites".  Engineering, Construction & Architectural Management, 12, no. 4, 410‑422.
  
  
• Teo, A L and N Harikrishna (2005), "Maintenance of Plastered and Painted Facades for Singapore Public Housing: A Predictive Life Cycle Cost Based Approach".  Architectural Science Review,  47‑54.
  
  
• Imriyas, K, S P Low and A L Teo (2007), "Framework for computing workers' compensation insurance premiums in construction".  Construction Management and Economics, no. 25  (June 2007): 563‑584.    
               
• Imriyas, K, S P Low and A L Teo (2007), "A Decision Support System for Predicting Accident Risks  in Building Projects".  Architectural Science Review, 50, no. 2: 149‑162.