S.K. Chou, Ph.D.

S.K. Chou is a professor and vice president, External and Industry Relations, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has taught air conditioning and energy analysis and modeling of buildings for more than 20 years. He pioneered the use of Department of Energy-2 computer simulation for energy analysis in Singapore. Chou recently oversaw creation of an energy efficiency index (EEI) for non-residential buildings, developing EEI bands to use as a guide in building design and operation. Use of the bands for energy standards will be a first for Singapore. Based on a system analysis approach and designing to an energy budget, Chou wrote the BEST (Building Energy Standard) code for making energy standards compliance calculations. BEST is the first locally developed software recognized as having satisfied the requirements for use in energy standards compliance calculations.