Green Finance for the Built Environment

COURSE DATE: 21 NOV 2025 | REGISTRATION CLOSING ON 17 NOV 2025
For enquiries: sgfin_education@nus.edu.sg | SSG COURSE CODE: TGS-2025056402

The Green Finance for the Built Environment module is built in collaboration with the NUS College of Design and Engineering (CDE) and is part of the comprehensive Sustainability for the Built Environment CDE programme, which aims at developing an understanding and appreciation of international and local developments in sustainability landscape and the latest innovative/cutting edge technologies in this space.

This one-day short course will cover the key cost and benefit items in the usual financial assessment of green projects. Then it will expand into the sustainable financing framework to incorporate the social and environmental externality generated by the project. The additional internalization of the externality will be incorporated into a more holistic valuation framework. Such consideration of the social and environmental value creation and destroying will assist for decision making by various stakeholders such as developers, users, the regulators, the government, and the general public. Such approach is at the cutting-edge of the incorporation of social and environmental externality into a financial valuation framework.

This course qualifies as part of a four-course requirement for the award of a NUS Professional Certificate in Sustainability for the Built Environment. The other three courses of the requirement for the certificate are Sustainability Landscape and the Built Environment, Embodied Carbon and Life Cycle Assessment and Operational Carbon and Smart Facilities Management.

TOPIC COVERAGE

At the end of the course, participants will:

  • Be able to bring economic value capture from sustainability initiatives
  • Be able to highlight the carbon impact and attract investor/private sector financing interest in agencies’ sustainable development projects
  • Understand how sustainability will be transformed from a cost item to a revenue item
  • Understand the use of carbon shadow pricing in public sector Cost-Benefit Analysis for sustainability projects

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

The targeted audience for this course are professionals who are involved in three broad functions - urban planning, engineering/building design, and facilities management.

PRE-REQUISITES:

Bachelor's Degree/ Diploma holders in Engineering, Science, Technology, and Bachelor's degree in Architecture preferred.

For Diploma holders, relevant work experience will be required.

FEES & FUNDING

  • This course is eligible for subsidies under SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG).
  • Singaporeans and PRs can enjoy up to 70% subsidies.
  • Singapore Citizens or PRs eligible for SSG grant must attain at least 70% training attendance and passed all prescribed assessments
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COURSE FORMAT

Classroom (In-person)

COURSE INTAKE

21 Nov 2025

COURSE DURATION

1 Day, 9am to 5.30pm

FOR MORE ENQUIRIES: 

contact us @ sgfin_education@nus.edu.sg

Self-Sponsored SME (ETSS Scheme) Company-Sponsored Non-SME Company-Sponsored
Course Fees S$1,144.50 S$1,144,50 S$1,144.50
Singapore Citizens & PRs aged 21 years and above S$619.50 S$409.50 S$619.50
Singapore Citizens aged 40 years and above S$409.50 S$409.50 S$409.50
The above prices are quoted in Singapore dollars (SGD), inclusive of 9% GST.

COURSE INSTRUCTOR

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Associate Professor Zhang Weina

NUS Business School, Department of Finance
Sustainable and Green Finance Institute

Associate Professor Zhang Weina is with the Department of Finance at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. She is also the Academic Director of MSc in Sustainable and Green Finance Programme and the Deputy Director of Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) at NUS. She obtained her Master of Science and Ph.D. in Finance from Kellogg School of Management at the Northwestern University, USA.

Weina’s current research and teaching focus on sustainable and green finance, fixed income securities, asset pricing and investment. She examines how ESG are priced in financial securities. She also explores the informational efficiency in various financial markets and the impact of different policies on financial instruments. She currently teaches courses such as Sustainability and Finance, Sustainable and Green Investment at the master's and undergraduate's levels. She also teaches lifelong learning modules and conducts executive trainings in the related areas.

Weina has published dozens of academic papers including Management Science and Review of Finance. She has also published more than 30 business cases with IVEY. Her papers have received several best paper awards and she is also a recipient of many teaching excellence awards both at the NUS Business School and the University levels.

Assoc Prof Zhang Weina