Dr Quah is the Director of the Real Estate & Construction Centre (RECC) and the Real Estate & Construction Academy (RECA) in Singapore. RECC and RECA is among the first to offer Outcome-Based Cleaning Services procurement training and the certification of Cleaning Auditors to support performance appraisal of outsourced cleaning services.
She has extensive regional and international experience in Project and Facilities Management & Maintenance research, advice and academia. She led the EU funded project BE4213 Condition Assessment and Maintenance Strategies for Buildings and Building Components, which among other things, sought to develop an objective building condition assessment system. This project formed part of ongoing research over two decades which culminated in Dutch Standard NEN 2767 ‘Condition Assessment Built Environment’ believed to be a ‘world first’ to address the subjectivity issues in condition assessments.
Dr Quah’s professional and research affiliations include being Coordinator of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) Working Commission 70 on Facilities Management and Maintenance for a decade and past President of the Chartered Institute of Building Singapore Centre. She was also a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Asia Board, Singapore Board and Asia Pacific Sustainability Board. She was conferred an Honorary Fellow by Oxford Brookes University for her work in real estate and construction education and the unusual impact her career has had on this particular academic field in Asia.