WCFS2019 Presentation Titles and Brief CV of Speakers

Design guidelines for upgrading living conditions in wetslums

Koen Olthuis (born 1971) is a Dutch architect. He studied architecture
and industrial design at Delft University of Technology. Olthuis is
founder of the Dutch architectural firm, Waterstudio.NL, which
specializes in floating structures to counter concerns of floods and
rising sea levels. The firm is currently based in Rijswijk, The
Netherlands. In 2005, together with Paul Van de Camp, Olthuis co-
founded a company that specializes in developing floating structures.
In 2007, Olthuis was ranked #122 in TIME Magazine’s readers’ poll of
“the most influential people of the year”, with a rating of 45 out of 100 possible points. In 2010,
together with David Keuning, Olthuis authored a book called Float, which discusses
construction on water. Olthuis is currently a member of the Flood Resilience Group UNESCO-
IHE. The Flood Resilience Group (UNESCO-IHE / TU Delft) focuses on establishing resilient
urban water management. Often partnering with both private and public organisations, the
Flood Resilience Group takes a trans-disciplinary approach to enhance resilience of cities to
extreme weather events by incorporating urban water system planning, design, and governance.
Koen Olthuis owns patent rights on the method for producing a floating base.

Repurposing Jack-ups, Semi-submersibles and Super-barges into

Offshore and Nearshore Settlements
Dr Joseph Lim is Associate Professor with NUS Architecture. He has
a special interest in prototypical structures addressing emergent spatial
and environmental need. His design projects have won SIA Design
Awards and international awards including an Honorable Mention for
Lee Treehouse at the Kenneth F. Brown Asia Pacific Culture and
Architecture Design Award in 2003; and a Merit Win for Dragon
Bridge in URA Southern Ridges Bridge International Design
Competition in 2004. He was appointed architect by Mercy Relief
for the post-Tsunami rebuilding efforts and his self-sufficient
housing proposal won an Honorable Mention at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of
Catalonia in 2005. Joseph’s focus in Industry and Infrastructure explores land
intensification through architectural investigations, which have significant implications on
the planning of future settlements, townships and infrastructure. In 2008, he pioneered
corporation-funded design research studios, collaborating with JTC in 2008-10. MPA-
funded research studio followed in 2014, which explored an urban design study for Tuas
Port 2027 and was exhibited at the Singapore Maritime Week Exhibition and SG50 NUS
Exhibition in 2015. The research studio was also featured in a Channel News Asia
documentary - Futuropolis Episode 2: Keeping Afloat televised in 2017 - on the effects of
rising sea levels and the viability of floating settlements. Joseph is the author of Bio -
structural Analogues in Architecture (2010) and Eccentric Structures in Architecture
(2012); both publications are in their third reprint and have been translated in Korean and
Chinese languages. His latest publication, Skybridge I investigates forms of air rights
structures built over Ayer Rajah Crescent and the research conclusions were presented at
the JTC i3C Symposium on Industrial Infrastructure Research in 2017. The forthcoming
Skybridge II publication explores new R&D typologies in Greater One North.
 Floating infrastructure: Large scale public spaces on water

Petar Lovric is Business and Development Manager SEINE DESIGN.

Born in Senta, Serbia in 1983, studied electrical engineering and
economics in Rijeka, Croatia, before graduating in 2012 as Master of
Business Administration at MIB Trieste, Italy. Starting from year 2006
Petar provided project management services and technical support to
the diverse fleet of vessels ranging from sea going ships to luxury mega
yachts. In 2013, he was invited to join the Adriatic Croatia International
Club where he took charge of technical management of the company
which at that time owned and operated the largest chain of nautical tourism ports in the
Mediterranean. Following the set of different technical rolls in Croatia and Ireland, in 2015 he
joined City Cruises London, the largest passenger boat operator on the river Thames, where he
took charge of delivery of company’s strategic projects. The following year he moved into the
role of Head of Engineering for City Cruises which now expanded the scope of responsibility
onto 40 boats and floating structures in several different locations across the United Kingdom.
In 2018 he received an invitation from Gérard Ronzatti to join Seine Design as the person
responsible for general business management and business development. During the course of
his career Petar received multiple recognitions and recommendations from both academic and
business related colleagues, clients and partners.

Floating Shipyard Design Concept and Application

Dr. Cliff Ohl is a principal maritime engineer with Royal
HaskoningDHV and has over 20 years of experience in design and
construction of marine structures, including floating structures such as
floating docks, pontoons, barges and modular floating structures. He is
a member of the task group currently revising and updating British
Standard 6349 Part 6 (Floating Structures and Inshore Moorings).

Floating Bridges and Submerged Tunnels in Norway: the History

and Future Outlook
Torgeir Moan is Professor Emeritus of Marine Technology, NTNU;
former Director of Centre of Ships and Ocean Structures at NTNU; the
inaugural adjunct Keppel professor in offshore engineering at NUS;
member of the Royal Inquiry Commission of the Alexander L. Kielland
accident and other accident inquiries, as well as advisor to the industry,
standardization organisations (e.g. Eurocode, ISO, PSA, Norsok, IEC)
and universities. Professor Moan has carried out research as well as
engineering design and analyses of oil and gas platforms, floating
bridges as well as offshore wind turbines and FPSO ships. He has (co-)authored more than
700 journal and peer-reviewed conference publications, delivered more than 40 keynote
lectures at major conferences, supervised more than 400 MSc and 80 PhD graduates and
received several international awards, from e.g. MIT, ASME; the Offshore Energy Center Hall
of Fame; Petroleum Safety Authority, several best paper awards and honorary professorships.
He has been elected Fellow of three Academies in Norway and the Royal Academy of
Engineering, UK.

Dynamics of Super-Scale Modularized Floating Airport

Professor Daolin Xu obtained his PhD degree from the University

College London (UCL) in 1996, and specializing in nonlinear
dynamics. He worked as a senior research fellow at the Centre for
Computational Mechanics and then as a division manager at the
Institute of High Performance Computing at the National University of
Singapore. In 1999, he joined the Nanyang Technological University
Singapore as an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering. In 2009, he joined the Hunan University in China, appointed as a
Professor and Director of the Centre for Marine Technology. His present research interest is in
Nonlinear Network Dynamics with applications in marine engineering. He has conducted a
number of research projects from the National Natural Science Foundation, Naval Department,
State Key Laboratory, National Research Programs of “863’ and ’973’, and industrial R&D
projects. He has published over 100 academic papers in prestigious journals, received over
2600 citations and his H-index stands at 25. He co-authored a book entitled Line Spectrum
Chaotification for Vibration Isolation System of Onboard Machinery. He was awarded the Best
Paper Prize in IEEE conference in the United Kingdom. He also serves as a panel member of
several expert committees in China, including the National Natural Science Foundation, State
Key Laboratories and other professional bodies.

Design and potential applications of floating structures in Singapore

Associate Professor K.K. Ang is a Faculty member in the Department

of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of
Singapore. He received his B.Eng from the University of Singapore,
M.Eng from the National University of Singapore and Ph.D from the
University of New South Wales, Australia. He has assumed various
senior management positions at the Faculty of Engineering, including
Vice-Dean of Outreach and Vice-Dean of Student Life. His research
interests include Computational Mechanics, Dynamics of High-Speed
Rails and Design of Very Large Floating Structures. He has published about 180 technical
papers in these areas. Presently, he is the Principal Investigator of a research project on Multi-
Purpose Floating Structures funded by the Land and Liveability National Innovation Challenge
(L2 NIC) Directorate and JTC Corporation. Professor Ang is a Singapore registered
professional engineer since 1991 and has been active in providing consultancy services for the
local industries.
 Hydrodynamic responses and loads of a model floating hydrocarbon
storage tank system for concept validation and numerical
verification

Mr. Zhang Chi is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil

and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore. He
graduated from Wuhan University of Technology, China with both
Bachelor and Master of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
degrees. His research mainly focuses on the wave-structure interaction
of multi-module large floating structures, hydroelastic response of ship
structures, and global strength & fatigue strength of ship structures.

Wave Induced Motions of a Floating Mega Island

William Otto has been educated as a naval architect at the TU Delft with
a specialisation in ship hydrodynamcis. His main field of expertise is the
dynamic behaviour of moored constructions. This expertise has been
obtained by performing numerous model test campaigns at MARIN for,
among others, FLNG’s, FPSO’s, semi-submersibles, drillships and
floating wind turbines. Lately his focus has been shifted to large scale
flexible, or piece-wise flexible, floaters. The application of these are in
the field of floating islands creating multi-purpose deckspace. Next to model test campaigns,
William Otto is involved in the development for complex mooring simulations for flexible and
piece-wise flexible floaters with many-bodies in the Space@Sea EU project.

Fish farming in floating structures

Tor Ole Olsen is a structural designer specialized on marine concrete

structures, conceptual and detail design, including some 3 million cubic
metres of built concrete marine structures. Advisor to several projects
on research and development of marine concrete structures; oil and gas,
renewable energy, infrastructure, housing, recreation and farming.
Convener of fib Task Group 1.2 Concrete structures in marine
environment, soon to release the state-of-the art report on floating
concrete structures. Honorary member of the Norwegian Concrete
Association, Deputy President of FIB (2017-2018).
 Technology-driven sustainable aquaculture for eco-tourism
Tan Hoon Kiang is a Co-founder and Director at Nature Resources
Aquaculture Pte Ltd. He is an experienced technologist with
extensive experience in R&D, design & detail engineering in the Oil
& Gas and Marine & Offshore industries.
He previously led the R&D activities in Lloyd’s Register as Head of
their Global Technology Centre in Singapore.

Floating Forest: A Novel Concept of Floating Breakwater-

Windbreak Structure

C.M. Wang is the TMR Chair Professor in Structural Engineering at the

School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia.
Prof. Wang is a Chartered Structural Engineer, a Fellow of the Academy
of Engineering Singapore, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers
Singapore, a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers and a
Fellow of the Society of Floating Solutions Singapore. His research
interests are in the areas of structural stability, vibration, optimization,
nanostructures, plated and shell structures and very large floating
structures. He has published over 420 journal papers and 9 books in the aforementioned areas.
He has been listed in the in the Most Cited Researchers for Civil Engineering in the Shanghai
Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 conducted by Elsevier. According to
Google Scholar, his h-index is 57. He is the Editor‐in‐Chief of the International Journal of
Structural Stability and Dynamics and an Editorial Board Member of several journals including
Engineering Structures, Ocean Systems Engineering, Structures and International Journal of
Applied Mechanics. His many awards include the Minister for National Development’s R&D
Awards 2017, IStructE Structural Award for Sustainability 2016, Monash Civil Engineering
Alumnus of the Year 2015 Award, Keith Eaton Award 2014, Lewis Kent Award 2009, the IES
Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2013, the US$1 million Grand Prize in the Next
Generation Port Challenge, and the IES/IStructE Best Structural Paper Awards.

DemoSATH Project - Demonstrating technical feasibility of

disruptive concrete floating offshore wind solution
David Carrascosa has a Master in Civil Engineering from the
University of Cantabria, Spain. He started his professional career as
structural engineer with a strong focus on structure dynamics. In 2014,
he joined Saitec as Offshore Engineer becoming later the Head of the
Offshore Wind Department. Now, David holds the position of Chief
Technology Officer at Saitec Offshore Technologies, the spin-off from
Saitec’s Group created to develop the Offshore Wind Business.
 Design and Construction of Concrete Floating Pier in Golden
Harbor, Incheon
Dr. Kwanghoe JUNG is a general manger and a chief structural engineer
of HDEC (Hyundai Engineering and Construction). He has almost 20
years of experience in designing and construction of harbor structures as
well as bridges. Recently, his research and projects focus on concrete
floating structures. He had technically supported and provided advice on
the design and construction of the concrete floating pier at the Incheon
International Passenger Port. He is the principal investigator of the
collaborative research (with the Nanyang Technology University in Singapore) project on the
development of precast module and mooring system for offshore floating platform. Moreover,
he is currently a co-investigator in the Floating Forest (a mega floating breakwater-windbreak
structure) project with the University of Queensland and Monash University in Australia.

Seasteading = More Floating Singapores

Joe Quirk is President of The Seasteading Institute and co-founder of
Blue Frontiers. Joe Quirk is also a science writer, novelist, and memoir
ghostwriter, with a national bestseller in each category. He is co-author
with Patri Friedman of Seasteading, an amazon bestseller in the
category of marine engineering Joe leads a team of lawyers, engineers,
business leaders, artists, and investors to establish the first floating
community with unprecedented political autonomy in the waters of a
host nation.

Classification Principles for Very Large Floating Structures

Chun Wee is a Senior Engineer at DNV GL Approval Centre Singapore
with speciality in marine, process and safety systems onboard ships
and offshore rigs. He was involved as the Project Manager for class
approval of several complex and harsh environment mobile offshore
units like drilling jack-up, floatel, FPSO undertaken in Singapore
shipyards in the recent years and sees the benefits of implementing the
class concept for VLFS. ChunWee obtained his BEng in Marine
Engineering from Newcastle University and thereafter MSc in
Maritime Studies and Offshore Technology from NTU and NUS
respectively. He is also a UK Chartered Engineer and an active member of Institute of Marine
Science and Technology (IMarEST).
 Mooring Systems for Very Large Floating Structures
Aditya Sankalp is Technical Manager in DEEPBLUE Pte Ltd. Aditya
has a BTech in Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture from IIT
Kharagpur, India and an MSc in Offshore and Subsea Engineering from
NUS, Singapore. He has carried out mooring analysis and Naval
Architectural studies for various types of floating structures. He is
actively involved in design and installation of floating structures. He is
an associate member of RINA and IMarsEST.

Floating Concrete Platforms

Dr Sabet Divsholi Bahador is Managing Director of Global
Engineering Creators Pte Ltd. He is concrete technology specialist with
more than 15 years of experience in concrete related research and
practice. Dr Sabet actively participate in design and construction of
floating concrete platforms. He was part of a team to build a large
concrete dry-dock (138×46 meters) for ship-repair. Dr Sabet has more
than 50 keynote presentations and publications in relevant journals and
conferences. Dr Sabet is President of Singapore Concrete Institute and
2nd Vice President of Society of Floating Solutions Singapore.

An Integrated Floating Community Based upon a Hybrid Water

System: Toward a Super-Sustainable Water City -

Toshio Nakajima obtained a M.S. degree from the University of

Hawaii, Dept. of Ocean Engineering in 1976. He earned his doctorate
from the University of Tokyo, Dept. of Naval Architecture in 1981. He
has a wide-ranging background, having served as an architectural
designer at Kiyonori Kikutake Architects & Associates from 1977 to
1978, among other activities. After this he gained over 10 years’
experience as a researcher on the offshore structures at Sumitomo
Heavy Industries Ltd., driven by his passion for innovation, research
and development for semi-submersible type platforms. Here, he originated a mooring dynamics
using the lumped mass method which he developed single-handedly. After retirement from his
subsequent position at the research institute Riken, he has been a visiting lecturer teaching a
course on ocean development and engineering thereto at Tokyo Metropolitan University for
more than 10 years. He is a 1st grade registered Architect of Japan (1994), in addition to being
a member of the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers as well as the Tokyo
Society of Architects and Building Engineers.
 Floating Clean Multi-Energy Systems Towards Driving Blue
Economic Growth
Dr. Narasimalu Srikanth is the Program Director and Senior Scientist
leading the offshore renewables in ERI@N (NTU). Earlier to NTU, he
was the Technical director and Senior Specialist at Vestas Wind
Energy Systems and has overall 25 years of industrial research &
development experience. Presently he is leading industrial research
projects on offshore turbine and floating solar system development and
investigates the related environmental impact and structural integrity
studies towards floating energy system deployment in Southeast Asian
remote coastal locations. His areas of research interest are offshore
renewables, floating structural dynamics, advanced composites,
additive manufacturing, failure analysis and environmental degradation. He leads projects
involving offshore renewables and towards floating structure design in collaboration with
multinationals and supervises several doctoral level studies towards developing industrial level
solutions. Further, he leads the working group in offshore renewables group as part of SG
Enterprise’s offshore renewables standards development efforts.

Floating Offshore Wind Turbines in Goto Islands, Nagasaki, Japan

Tomoaki Utsunomiya is currently a professor at Department of Marine
Systems Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. His research interests
have been in the areas of fluid-structure interactions, dynamics of
offshore structures, hydroelastic analysis of Very Large Floating
Structures (VLFS), dynamics of floating bridges, and dynamics of
floating offshore wind turbines. He has been actively working for
development of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs); the developed
FOWT of a hybrid-spar type has been commercialized as the first grid-
connected floating wind turbine in Asia-Pacific. He is now serving as an
Associate Editor for journal of Applied Ocean Research.

The dawn of floating solar – technology, benefits, and challenges

Thomas Reindl is Deputy CEO of the Solar Energy Research Institute
of Singapore (SERIS) and Principal Research Fellow at the National
University of Singapore (NUS). He started with photovoltaics (PV) in
1992 at the SIEMENS Corporate R&D Labs. After holding several
management positions at SIEMENS and running one of the leading
German PV systems integration companies as Chief Operating Officer,
he joined SERIS in 2010 and soon became Director of the Solar Energy
System cluster. During his time at SERIS, he won public research grants
in excess of SGD 20 million, founded 2 spin-off companies and authored strategic scientific
papers such as the "PV Roadmap for Singapore". Dr. Reindl holds a Master in Chemistry, a
Ph.D. in Natural Sciences and an MBA from INSEAD, all awarded with highest honors. His
research interest are high-performance PV and embedded systems, techno-economic road-
mapping and the reliable integration of renewable energies into power systems.
 Seascape the Landscape in Singapore: Repurposing Land in a
Land Scarce Nation
Lim Soon Heng had a long career in the marine industry much of which
with Keppel Corporation. He is always fascinated by the opportunities
that mega floating structures can offer to solve so many of humanities
problem just by leveraging the knowledge that marine engineers and
naval architects now possess. He believes floating structures are
economically attractive if proper life cycle analysis is made in
comparison with landed structures. He has been engaged as consultant
to other consultants in the design of docks, and quays in a number of
countries. He believes if Singapore cannot get it right in two important challenges, the future
ahead is one slippery slope. Those two challenges are the need to find viable strategies to
resolve its energy and land crunch.

Floating solutions: The new meaning of mobility

Milica Simovic is an architect holding an MSc from the Faculty of Civil
Engineering and Architecture, University of Nis, Serbia. She gained
educational and professional experience by studying and working in
Poland (Bialystok) and Turkey (Istanbul) and working as a teaching
assistant at the Residential Building Department (FCEA, Nis).
Currently, she works for a Slovenian architectural office BIM Team
Studio (Ljubljana) on different types of projects. She has recently
started research on different issues that have an effect on floating
structures designing approach within architecture and urbanism. In her PhD course she is
developing the design methodology specializing in floating architecture.

Driving Innovations in Support of Greenery, Biodiversity

and Clean Energy Initiatives in Singapore
Tan Sze Tiong graduated with a Civil Engineering degree from the
National University of Singapore in 1997. He currently heads the Centre
of Excellence for Environmental Sustainability Research in the Building
& Research Institute (BRI), Housing & Development Board (HDB). His
team drives and coordinates sustainable development efforts for new
towns and estates through the implementation of new sustainability
initiatives and urban solutions and conducting of macro scale
environmental modelling at the planning and design stages. He currently
manages a portfolio of research projects in collaboration with various agencies, academia and
institutions. Key research interests include advanced modelling and environmental
optimisation, resource efficiency solutions, floating structures, building acoustic solutions, and
sky-rise greening solutions and systems to enhance the living environment. In the area of
analytics, his team looks into multi-disciplinary research using new and emerging forms of
data, alongside new computational approaches and techniques, to gain actionable insights to
enhance the planning, design, and operation of towns.
Potential of floating urban development for coastal cities
Ms Karina Czapiewska is the co-founder of Blue 21, DeltaSync and
INDYMO.