LAUNCHING THE IES GREEN PLAN 2030 AND CELEBRATING ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS AT IES 56TH ANNUAL DINNER

Marking a significant moment in IES’ history, the IES Green Plan 2030 was launched on 17 January 2023 at the IES 56th Annual Dinner, which took place at Marina Bay Sands.

Ms Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, was the guest-of-honour, where she launched the Green Plan together with Mr Dalson Chung, IES President, the project team, and advisors.

The IES Green Plan 2030 aims to provide national-level institutional support to advance Singapore’s sustainable development imperative. It lays out concrete engineering-centric action plans from 2023 to 2030 to support the Singapore Green Plan 2030, structured along according to the stakeholder groups that IES interacts with: Internal, national and international, to drive action and inculcate a strong sustainability mindset amongst engineers. The Plan will also enhance collaborations between IES, government agencies and the industry in areas such as professional development, through training and upskilling in sustainability.

In support of upskilling engineers in the sustainability space, IES also partnered SkillsFuture Singapore to release the Jobs-Skills Quarterly Insights (JSQI) publication. This issue of JSQI highlights a suite of green skills highly sought after by employers for engineering work, such as energy management and audit, environmental sustainability management and sustainable engineering.

JSQI also observed an emergence of newer “green” roles in areas such as solar photovoltaics and energy sustainability, requiring engineers to be well-versed in skills related to clean technologies and ming and coding, and big data analytics, among others.

“Climate change is an existential threat to humankind and we must act immediately. As engineers, we can contribute to the goals set in the Singapore Green Plan with our expertise, innovations and creative solutions.

“The IES Green Plan is a bold, yet necessary plan to act as a springboard for future green initiatives and inspire more engineers to step forward to contribute towards Singapore’s green aspirations,” said

The same evening, IES celebrated exemplary contributions and achievements in engineering with several award presentations.

Mr Chee Hong Tat, Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport, was conferred the title of IES Honorary Fellow in recognition of his significant contributions to the public and private sectors and the engineering community.

Mr Seah Moon Ming, Chairman of SMRT Corporation, was presented with the IES Lifetime Engineering Achievement Award for his extraordinary leadership and sustained, outstanding contributions that immensely benefited the industry and community.

NTUC clinched the IES Outstanding Partner Award for its significant contributions to IES and for making a profound impact on the practice of engineering in Singapore.

The IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards were also presented to five engineering teams in recognition of their contributions to engineering practice. The teams and projects are detailed in the following page.

Lastly, to support brilliant engineering students in the pursuit of their studies, the IES-Yayasan Mendaki Scholarship Awards were presented to Muhammad Raqib Rifai Bin Fadli, a third-year Electrical & Electronic Engineering student at Singapore Polytechnic, and Muhammad Nur Hazwan bin Mohamed Haron, a third-year Aircraft Systems Engineering student at the Singapore

Institute of Technology.

The dinner was attended by close to 1,300 guests and also featured two energetic dance performances, one a joint segment by the IES Young Engineers Committee and NUS, PSB Academy, SIT, and Temasek Polytechnic student chapters, and the other by Dancin Plus Academy.