Best Paper Award (The 4th International Tropical Renewable Energy Conference_i-TREC)

Hong, Ashley W. T. (Recipient)

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Awarded date	16 Aug 2019
Degree of recognition	International

Awarded at event

Event title	The 4th International Tropical Renewable Energy Conference (i-TREC)
Location	Bali, Indonesia, Bali, IndonesiaShow on map
Period	14 Aug 2019 → 16 Aug 2019

Keywords

Building Facade
Decision Making
Energy Saving
Green Building
Green Retrofit
Simulation

Documents & Links

The International Tropical Renewable Energy Conference (i-TREC) is a prestigious event organized with a motivation to provide excellent international platform for the academics, researchers, engineers, industrial participants and students to share their research findings with the global experts and establish relations to find global partners for future collaboration. The 4th i-TREC was held in The Anvaya Beach Resorts-Bali Indonesia from August 14-16, 2019. The event was hosted by The Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia and co-hosted by the Faculty of Engineering Chulalongkorn University. i-TREC is not only an annual conference series on tropical renewable energy, but also the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results about Renewable Energy in Tropical Countries. As in this year, the main theme of i-TREC is about Sustainable Energy & Environment for Tropical Climate. There are basically six (6) sub-themes in this conference i.e. 1) Smart Grid and Regulation, 2) Bioenergy, 3) Fuel Cell Technology, 4) Energy Storage, 5) Multifunctional and Advanced Materials, and 6) Eco Tropical Built Environment. I was proud to participate in this event as the main paper author and paper presenter under the scope of Eco Tropical Built Environment. I was also invited to chair a presentation session on the second day of the conference. There was a total of 280 participants presented their papers in the conference and only one (1) best paper was selected for each sub-theme. These award-winning papers were selected by professors of multiple International Institutions which including 1) Universitas Indonesia, 2) IMT Atlantique, France, 3) University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 4) University of Warwick, UK, 5) Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, 6) Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, etc. Finally, I won the only Best Paper Award under the sub-theme of Eco Tropical Built Environment with the title Urging Green Retrofit of Building Facade in the Tropics – A Review and Research Agenda. This is the second time I won a Best Paper Award, after my first round back in 2009 in the 4th ASEAN Post Graduate Seminar organised by University of Malaya. It was really a great honour for me to be given such accolades and award in writing research papers. The entire journey was a learning experience for me, and I am truly grateful for this given recognition.