Dr. KONG Kian Hau is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Dr. Kong graduated with a Bachelor Degree with First Class Honors and a Ph.D in Civil Engineering from NUS in 1999 and 2004 respectively. He completed his M.Sc (Course works) in Advance Reinforced Concrete Design, Advance Prestressed Concrete Design, Advance Structural Steel Design and Dynamics Analysis & Earthquake Design of Buildings with overall CAP of 4.75 (out of 5). He served as an NUS Graduate Tutor (2000-2002) and was awarded the NUS President Graduate Fellowship in 2002 for PhD candidates who show exceptional promise or accomplishment in research . His PhD Thesis focused on far-field effects of long distance earthquake tremors from Sumatra to Buildings in Singapore. This research work contributed a part to the development of BC3: 2013 and SS EN 1998-1:2013 (Singapore's National Annex to Eurocode 8). Dr. Kong also worked as NUS Research Engineer & Research Fellow (2003-2005) on the NUS-BCA collaboration Research Project on High Strength Lightweight Concrete with and without Aggregates.

Since 2005, Dr. Kong has been a practicing qualified engineer, specializing in Buildings & Infrastructure Projects (including Bridges). He is a Chartered Engineer & International Professional Engineer (UK) with 13 years of experience as a Site & Resident Engineer, Senior Design & Project Engineer, Design & Project Manager, Associate (Team Leader) & Senior Associate Consultant for many residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure and civil engineering master planning works in Singapore and overseas. He has passed all the Professional Engineers Board (PEB) Singapore prescribed Fundamentals of Civil Engineering (FEE) and Eurocode based 2017 Practice of Professional Engineering (PPE Part 1 & 2) prerequisite examinations for registration as a Professional Engineer in Singapore. In 2012, he was one of the invited speakers in the co-joint Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) & Institution of Structural Engineers United Kingdom (IStructE) Seminar for Design and Construction of Tall Building with the topic, "Basic General Analysis and Design Considerations for Tall Buildings". In 2017, Dr. Kong was invited to be one of the lecturers for the IES-IStructE Two Day Course on Seismic Design on EC8 with the topic, "Overstrength and Ductility of RC Shear-Wall Frame Buildings Not Designed For Seismic Loads". Dr. Kong has served one of the IStructE Panel Members of Global Seismic and Dynamic Events (2016-2022), as Editor (2012-2015) & Chief Editor (2016-Present) for "THE STRUCTURALIST" newsletter of IStructE Singapore Regional Group which he is one of its main commitee members. In 2019, he obtained AP LEED Green Associate Certification from US Green Building Council

In 2018-2020, Dr. Kong was appointed the Principal Investigator for a SMI R&D Project, "Characterization of Ultra-High Performance Cementitious Materials and Optimization of their Gel Transition Period at High Temperature/Pressure for Applications in Plug and Abandonment (P&A) of Oil Wells". Since 2020. he is also the Principal Investigator of MOE AcRF Tier 1 FRC Project "Development Of Sustainable Self-Healing Concrete By Use Of Recycled Materials"

Dr. Kong is currently serving as RILEM Senior Member in RILEM's Technical Committee 273-RAC on R&D of "Structural Behaviour and Innovation of Recycled Aggregate Concrete” since 2019. He is also serving in ASTM Technical Committee C09 on “Concrete and Concrete Aggregate” (Subcommittees: Lightweight Aggregates & Concrete; Performance of Cementitious Materials & Admixtures Combinations) since 2019.

Since 2020 to 2022, Dr. Kong is appointed a Member of Working Group (WG) for development of SS EN 13670: 2022 (Singapore Standard for Execution of concrete structures).

Since 2022 to present, Dr. Kong is a Member of Working Group (WG on review of SS 544, SS EN 206 and SS EN 12620), for review of inclusion of mineralisation of carbon dioxide for concrete and aggregates in the following Singapore Standards Code.
Concrete – Complementary Singapore Standard to SS EN 206 –
Part 1: Method of specifying and guidance for the specifier (SS 544-1:2019+A1:2021)
Part 2: Specification or constituent materials and concrete (SS 544-2:2019+A1:2021)
Specification for aggregates for concrete (SS EN 12620:2008)
Concrete – Specification, performance, production and conformity (SS EN 206:2014)

Since 2021 to present, Dr. Kong is a Technical Expert Listed with Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (ipos.gov.sg) related to Structures and Concrete Materials. He is also appointed as Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC)'s Technical Expert for Product Certification under BC1 (Design Guide for the Use of Alternative Structural Steel to Eurocode 3) and SSF (Structural Steelworks Fabricators) Schemes respectively.

On Structural Concrete R&D side, as of 2021-2026, Dr. Kong is Co-Principal Investigator: MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs)-HTX- NUS Grant Development of Design Guidelines for Precast Concrete Structures against Progressive Collapse. As of 2026-2029, Dr. Kong is appointed Co-Principal Investigator for MND City of Tomorrow R&D Programme working on "Improving the Quality and Durability of Mass Engineered Timber (MET) Structures using Regional Materials for Safe and Long-term Adoption in Tropical Climate"

R&D Areas:
Sustainable Building Materials
Advance Concrete Technology (LWC, HPC)

Structural Repair & Retrofitting
Structural Dynamics
Structural Engineering