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Singapore, October 18, 19 and 20, 2011

BRAF Visit Programme, October 18-‐20 •  Today, October 18

– Morning in SDWA •  General Introduc3on, some science

–  Lunch –  AKernoon in SDWA’s Aqua3c Science Centre at Sungei Ulu Pandan

•  Research and specialist consultancy •  Light refreshments

–  Evening: free

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BRAF Visit Programme, October 18-‐20 •  Tomorrow, October 19

–  Morning with EWI and PUB •  Public U3li3es Board •  EWI funding schemes •  Courtesy Call on PUB Chief Execu3ve

–  Lunch –  AKernoon

•  Marina Barrage •  Punggol-‐Serangoon

–  Evening: dinner at Sentosa

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BRAF Visit Programme, October 18-‐20 •  Thursday, October 20

– Morning with Na3onal Environment Agency •  Boat trip to Semakau and St. John’s Island (Tropical Marine Science Ins3tute)

– Boxed Lunch – Evening: dinner by Singapore River

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SINGAPORE DELFT WATER ALLIANCE

Singapore Delft Water Alliance

NUS

Deltares

PUB EWI

BACKGROUND

SDWA started in February 2007

HISTORY

•  Following Delft Hydraulics advisory work on Marina Lake (2005), an idea developed (in May 2006) to establish joint research centre

•  In June 2006, task force established to develop research agenda and request for funding

•  In late December 2006, Environmental Water Industry Development Council (EWI) grants S$ 24 million to National University of Singapore (NUS) to establish Singapore Delft Water Alliance

•  SDWA inaugurated on February 23, with official start of activities on April 1, 2007

•  SDWA is 5 year programme, with key intention to evolve self-funded institute during the perion

FINANCIALS

•  EWI provides S$ 24 million •  Deltares S$ 18.7 million (in kind) •  PUB S$ 6 million •  NUS S$ 14.8 million (in kind) •  Grand Total = S$ 63.5 million

EWI, 24

PUB, 6 Deltares, 18.7

NUS, 14.8

GRANT REIMBURSEMENT MECHANICS

EWI (40%) SDWA Partners (60%)

Deltares S$ 18.7m

PUB S$ 6m

NUS S$ 14.8m

S$ 24m

Grant is made available on reimbursement principles

For every S$ 6 by partners EWI provides additional S$ 4

Grant is available only “up to” S$ 24 m

Most of grant is dedicated to locally executed research (people and expenditures)

NUS Deltares PUB Total Commi3ed Input (:ll 31 Mar 2012) 13,377,768 21,334,674 5,949,873 40,662,315

Actual Input (NUS :ll 30 Jun 2011, DelK :ll 31 Mar 2011)

9,313,302 (69.6%)

19,297,962 (90.5%)

4,740,000 (79.7%)

33,351,263 (82.02%)

SDWA Input for Research Projects Un:l 30 Jun 2011

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Deltares NUS EWI funding Cum Deltares Cum NUS Cum PUB

SDWA Overall Programme

REIMBURSEMENTS, MORE DETAILS

•  Deltares contributes S$ 18.7 million (in kind) –  S$ 1 million in value of software –  S$ 17.7 million in terms of manpower

•  S$ 17.7 million generates S$ 11.8 million of EWI funds –  1/3rd of S$ 11.8m = S$ 3.93m back to Deltares for additional research –  2/3rds of S$ 11.8 = S$ 7.87m to SDWA to fund local research (EOM+ OOE) –  S$ 1 m software reimbursed in terms of maintenance fee (S$ 0.6 m)

•  NUS S$ 14.8m generates S$ 9.87 million of EWI funds, entirely goes to SDWA (EOM+ OOE)

•  PUB S$ 6m generates S$ 4 million of EWI funds, entirely goes to SDWA (EOM+ OOE)

REAL GRANT BENEFICIARIES

•  Deltares S$ 4.53 m (S$ 3.93 m + software maintenance) •  SDWA S$ 19.47 m

In reality, most of EWI grant is de facto investment in establishment of research team, which should be able to continue operating on self-funded principles after SDWA research programme is over

Singapore Delft Water Alliance

S$ 54 + 10 million [12 postdocs]

[24 PhD Students]

ASC Pandan S$ 7.57 + S$ 5.15 million

4 Postdocs 8 PhD

ASC Upper Peirce S$ 3.75 + S$ 2.43 million

4 Postdocs 4 PhD

Integrated Reservoirs

S$ 5.56 + S$ 3.16 million 2 Postdocs

5 PhD

Peatland S$ 2.83 + S$ 1.89 million

3 Postdocs 2 PhD

MH Box S$ 4.82 + S$ 3.21 million

4 Postdocs 2 PhD

Marine Programmes

Abiotic S$ 2.0 + S$ 1.33 million

1 Postdocs 2 PhD

Corals & Seagrasses

S$ 1.27 + S$ 0.85 million - Postdocs

2 PhD

Mangroves S$ 3.12 +S$ 2.08 million

1 Postdocs 3 PhD

Freshwater Programme Saltwater Programme Peatland

SDWA RESEARCH PROGRAMME

Central 13%

Education 10%

Freshwater 42%

Peatland 7%

Saltwater 28%

ALLOCATION OF SDWA FUNDS

Research Facilities 6% Admin Support

5% Management

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Software 4%

Education 10%

Upper Pierce 9%

Pandan ASC 18%

Adap.Multi.Res. 12%

Peatland 7%

MH Box 12%

Marine 15%

GOVERNANCE

•  Board of Trustees (3 members) •  Management Board (4 members) •  Director •  Principal Investigators (2 per project) •  Project Teams

LEGAL STRUCTURE

•  EWI grant awarded to the National University of Singapore, making NUS solely responsible (including claw-back) and grant manager

•  To regulate alliance NUS, PUB and Deltares developed –  Master Research Project Agreement (MRPA) –  Financial Rules Agreement

•  MRPA provides backbone for conducting research projects, IP ownership, rights and obligations, unfulfilled and “default” situations

•  Individual project agreements are executed under MRPA –  light (3-4 pages) spelling out project-related specifics: duration, exchange rate,

KPIs •  FRA outlines reimbursement principles and flow of money

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EXCITING GROWTH

Plus: •  18 Research Engineers •  7 Senior Researchers/Visiting Professors •  21 Academic Staff at NUS from 16

department and RICs •  19 Researchers/Engineers in Deltares •  Developing/finalising 2 senior

appointments through NUS and EWI VPP

71 Researchers 7 Admin support

“PYRAMID OF SKILLS”

EDUCATIONAL INTIATIVES

•  Double M.Sc. Degree with TU Delft

SDWA DELIVERS

S/N Details

(for that year) Year 3

(FY 2009) Year 5

(FY 2011) Year 7

(FY 2013) Total Achieved

(As of 30 June 2011)

1 Postdoctoral (for the year) 11 13 15 20

2 PhD (research & intake) 25 25 20 33

3 * Masters (research & intake) 80 40 80 26

4 No. of papers submitted for publishing/ Patents generated 80 180 260 173

5 No. of Joint Projects with other research centres 1 5 7 6

6 No. of Executives trained from executive programs 150 250 350 392

7 No. of Executives Programs conducted 7 10 15 13

8 * No. of Joint R&D Projects with companies 1 5 10 13

9 * Incremental external funding generated $1m $7m $16m * S$12,563,191

10 No. of SDWA events 46

11 No. of SDWA Weekly Research Team meeting 133

Year 3 KPI (FY 2009)



$ 1 million $ 7 million $16 million

SDWA External Funding Generated A)  Completed Projects ($738k) 1) BCA course ($43,506) 2) HDB course ($28,622) 3) HDB: Delft 3D course ($26,750) 4) HDB : Punggol Waterway ($52,965) 5) NEA-Jambi ($481,500) 6) JTC: Water Energy Nexus + VO ($96,247) 7) ERM Jurong Outfall Study ($8,827) B) Projects in progress ($11.8M) 1) PUB: Punggol-Serangoon ($3,315,930) 2) NParks / CUGE: Plant Selection Study ($276,168) 3) NParks / CUGE: Water Quality Monitoring ($177,179) 4) Flinders: Modifying & Improving Porous Sol-Gel Materials for Water Purification ($1,476,028) 5) JSMP: IDS Phase 1 ($2,310,000) 6) EcoShape: Service Support for Building with Nature ($64,200) 7) Aqleo: Support for Hydroinformatics ($60,000) 8) Nparks / CUGE East Coast Park Pond Study ($396,711) 10) Nparks / CUGE Ecological Guidelines ($144,594) 11) PUB / Marina Barrage Sea Water Intrusion $(80,000) 12) NEA / Project Neptune $ (3,500,000)

Projects under in the pipeline (~$30m) 1) ADB Climate Adapta3on Course 2) BCA Climate Adapta3on Study ($5.0m) 3) CREATE Megaci3es ($ 350 k) 4) EWI Visi3ng Professor Scheme 5) HDB Polder Studies ($6.0M) 6) JTC Treatment of contaminated marine spoil ($300K) 7) JTC Value Added Infrastructure and Porous Pavements (S$ 1.2 m) 8) JTC Soil Strengthening Studies ($1.0M) 10) CUGE Marina Bay, Gardens on the Bay (S$ 125k) -‐ awarded 11) PUB Bioremedia3on Study 12) PUB Lorong Halus Floa3ng Island 13) PUB Lake Restora3on Studies 14) PUB Modeling of Salinity Intrusion in the Johor River 15) PUBC Teaming on water management studies in the region 16) Thai MNR&E Capacity Building 17) NCCS Singapore Agencies – course on Climate Adapta3on 18) PUB-‐HDB Punggol ABC Development for HDB ) (S$ 60 k) -‐ awarded 19) SCELSE Microbial Ecology (S$ 300 k) ) -‐ awarded 20) NCCS / Planet Urgence – REDD+ and Wetlands 21) NPARKS / Emerging Contaminents and Mangroves ($200K) 22) NEA / Heavy Metal Monitoring at P.Semakau ($250K) 23) NEA / Dispersion of mangrove Propagules ($150K)

All good news, but manpower capacity

and QAQC

are main concern

MEDIA ATTENTION

SOME VISITORS

AQUATIC SCIENCE CENTRE @ SUNGEI ULU PANDAN

Some of our activities extend beyond boundaries of traditional research

Singapore-Netherlands Water Challenge ► Enabling Open Innovation

► Inspiring Young Talent

► Promoting Sustainable Solutions

Programme Partners:

Award Sponsors:

MARCH 31, 2012

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BACKDROP FOR SDWA FUTURE

•  Research Innovation and Enterprise Council (RIEC) announced S$ 16.1 billion investment in R&D for 2011-2015 period

•  Emphasis on R&D conducted in close cooperation with the industry (70% of the funds)

•  Multi-disciplinary projects will be given priority •  Commercialization of technology, application and export of knowledge •  Attracting talent, nationally and internationally •  Specifically for Water Sector: growth of water sector to S$ 1.7 billion (0.6%

of GDP) and 11,000 jobs by 2015

SDWA V2.0

JV functions as a vehicle enabling assembly of fit-for-purpose teams composed of NUS and Deltares staff

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�  JV is envisaged as ‘light’ entity with less than 5 employees �  Managed by Director & Governed by 3-person Management Board

(Deltares; NUS and Independent Director). Board governs on principles of unanimity

�  JV is contracting vehicle & risk management structure �  JV fulfills number of Business Development objectives & supports user

inspired R&D function

“Joint Venture”

NUS (RIC?) NUS- provide people- execute tasks shareholder

B A

PROJECT-CONSORTIUM C JOINT VENTURE D CLIENT

NUS+DELTARES

B A

DELTARES (BO?) DELTARES- provide people- execute tasks shareholder

CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS:

A: JV CONTRACT IN WHICH SHAREHOLDERS AGREE HOW TO ENABLE AND CONTROL THE JV

B: CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT IN WHICH NUS AND DELTARES AGREE HOW TO EXECUTE PROJECTS FOR THE JV

C: MASTER AGREEMENT + WORKORDERS BETWEEEN JV AND NUS/DELTARES WHICH SET THE CONDITIONS FOR SUBCONTRACTING THE NUS/DELTARES CONSORTIUM BY THE JV

D: GENERAL CONDITIONS TO BE USED FOR JV-CONTRACTS WITH CLIENTS

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Opportunities and Risks �  Risks: ◦  The availability of people as key resource; ◦  The ability to retain talented people; ◦  The ability to sustain commitment of parent organisations; ◦  The ability to diversify range of services; ◦  The ability to diversify client base;

�  Success: ◦  The push of water knowledge into industry and the community; ◦  Mobilizing capability to address large-scale interdisciplinary water problems; ◦  Penetration and integration in the Region; ◦  Success of the JV measured by Parent organisations; ◦  Success measured by key stakeholders and clients.

EVOLVING RESEARCH AGENDA •  Societal questions are

interdisciplinary •  SDWA v2.0 is means for

remaining relevant while reaching out to public and private contract research market

•  Real-world problems feed into fundamental research agenda

•  Stakeholders appreciate such convenient access to applied research and have endorsed the idea

•  Reaching out into the region

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And now some science…