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Phay Ping Tan
Managing Director
Phay Ping is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Building System and Diagnostics Pte Ltd. BSD is a spin-off company of the National University of Singapore providing consultancy services that integrate environmental, energy management, sustainability, building performance simulations, research and development, knowledge transfer and creative disciplines. He has led the company to become one of the leading consulting firms in its field with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar and China and with a track record of more than 400 projects.
Phay Ping was also instrumental in transforming the use of high powered computational simulation tools for building applications in Singapore. BSD is currently one of the leading firms in energy, ventilation, solar/ daylighting, wind driven rain, pollutants and thermal dynamic simulations. He also participates in applied research and development. He was the Principal Investigator for close to 10 research projects funded by Governmental bodies and led them to successful completion. Of which the projects’ deliverables provided the platform for industrial companies to use in their product/ technology development and sales and also by the Government in setting guidelines and standards. Some of these included the study of Cool Paints, Photocatalytic Coatings, Cool Pavements and Green roofs. He is currently Co-investigator for 2 research projects collaborating with A-Star and funded by BCA.
In recognition of his contributions to promoting the green building efforts in Singapore, Phay Ping was conferred the prestigious Singapore BCA-SGBC Green Building Advocate award in 2012. Phay Ping is also board member of Singapore Green Building Council (2015-2017 and 2017-2019) where he serves as the Board Technical Coordinator. He is also a member of the BCA Green Mark Advisory Committee.



