Associate ProfessorLloyd Hock Chye Chua

Associate Professor Of Civil Engineering

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering

  • Associate Professor Of Civil Engineering
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering
  • +61 3 522 71348 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

water quality monitoring and modelling, rainfall-runoff modelling, watershed
management, water resources engineering

Knowledge Areas
water quality monitoring and modelling, rainfall-runoff modelling, watershed
management, water resources engineering

Projects
Funded Research:

Water Quality Monitoring, Modelling and Management of Kranji Reservoir/
Catchment Phase 2, Feb 06 - Dec 07, Public Utilities Board, Singapore.

Establishment of a Real Time Control Alarm and Management System for Marina
Ba, May 06 - May 09, Public Utilities Board, Singapore.

Nutrient Removal from Reservoir Inflows Using Floating Vegetation Mats, Aug 08
- Dec 10, CPG Consultants Pte Ltd, Singapore.

Characterization and Modelling of Storm Water Runoff from a Tropical Catchment
with Diverse Land Use, May 09 - May 13, Public Utilities Board, Singapore .

Particulate Size Fractionation in Urban Storm Water Runoff, Nov 10 - Apr 13,
Public Utilities Board, Singapore.

Identification of Bacterial Source and Quantification of Bacterial
Contamination in Singapore's Catchments, Apr 12 - Mar 13, Singapore-MIT
Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre.

Cloud Assisted Real-Time and Large-Scale Monitoring and Analysis for Water
Quality, Nov 11 - Nov 14, Environment and Water Industry Development Council,
Singapore.

Consulting:

Flood Inundation due to Dam Failure of Reservoirs in Singapore. Public
Utilities Board. 2005.
Field Surge Pressure Measurement and Analysis at Pasir Panjang Wholesale
Centre Sewerage Pumping Station. Public Utilities Board. 2005.
Numerical Modelling and Analytical Studies for the Lorong Halus Landfill Site.
CPG Corporation Pte Ltd. 2006.
Drainage Design Manual for the Nation of Brunei. CPG Corporation Pte Ltd.
2011.
Flood Inundation due to Dam Failure of Reservoirs in Singapore. Public
Utilities Board. 2013.
Flow Measurements at Drainages in Singapore. SysEng (S) Pte Ltd. 2013.
Numerical groundwater modelling for the Singapore Botanical Gardens. CPG
Corporation Pte Ltd. 2013.

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    APR Internship Multi-Hazard Climate Risk Assessment: A Critical Review (student Mohammad Rezaiebalf)
    30 Mar 2026 - 4 Sep 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - INT - 1456 - $16,500.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Enhancing and Future Proofing the Operation of Sparrovale Wetlands
    3 Jun 2025 - 3 Jun 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chua LHC
    City of Greater Geelong - $240,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Modelling of irrigation systems
    1 Jun 2021 - 30 Jul 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chua LHC
    Australian Processing Tomato Research Council Inc - $49,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Hydrology and water quality monitoring and modelling studies for Sparrovale treatment wetlands.
    19 Mar 2021 - 19 Mar 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chua LHC
    City of Greater Geelong - $180,000.00
  • GRANT
    Simulation of Urban Floods Using Spatially Distributed Rainfall Derived from Weather Radar
    5 Apr 2019 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chua LHC,
    • Irvine K,
    • Lariyah S
    AAS Regional Collaborations Programme - $30,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Cloud Enabled Real-Time Water Quality Forecasting for Marina and Kranji Reservoirs
    7 Sep 2017 - 15 Sep 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chua LHC,
    • Irvine K
    National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore - $32,414.44
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Monitoring and Modelling of Stormwater Runoff Quality and Treatment Performance within Constructed WSUD Assets - Using Novel Sampling and Analysis Techniques
    1 Apr 2017 - 30 Mar 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chua LHC
    City of Greater Geelong - Creative Communities Grants - $36,363.64
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Maximising on-farm irrigation profitability - southern connected systems
    3 Dec 2015 - 30 Apr 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    CRDC Grant - Research - Cotton Research and Development Corporation - RRDP1605 - $750,000.00