Practice and Construction Innovation
Rapid technological advances in building design, construction, fabrication and project management are issuing great challenges and opportunities for innovative and sustainable practice.
Given this context, we aim to carry out research that has significant impact on the way professionals are educated and trained to create productive and effective practices. Selected projects and researchers here are engaged in research into practice and construction.
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Advancing new home sustainability through demand-side empowerment
Investigating homebuyer decision-making. Monitoring of energy efficiency and sustainability communication on volume home builder websites and social media.
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Belyuen Community Project
Partnering with communities to develop solutions
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Building with Drones
Experimenting a new ‘flying’ construction technique for cable-beam and tensile structures.
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Community Activated Placemaking Spaces (CAPS)
The project harnesses community-based participatory research to evaluate existing use patterns of playgrounds and ancillary public spaces as intergenerational spaces to inform improved design for social inclusion and community wellbeing.
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Cross-cultural analysis and capacity building in construction management
Practices focusing on housing and infrastructure sectors in Assam and Australia – An initiative of ‘Smart Villages” research
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Experiential, Adaptive Learning Tools for a Resilient Built Environment
Globally, the annual frequency of recorded disasters has increased fourfold since the 1960s. The effects of climate change, inappropriate use and management of natural and human made resources, have combined with increases in urban populations interacting with natural hazards.
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Glass at Work
The construction industry has the reputation to innovate slowly in time. Technological retrospectives, therefore, have the potential to help to identify how strategic changes can affect the built environment.
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Global supply chains, incomes and jobs
A preliminary analysis of the Australian construction industry.
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Improving Environmental Performance in Construction
Dr. Robert Crawford is the Chief Investigator on a 2015 ARC Discovery project, Improving the Environmental Performance of Australian Construction Projects.
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Integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation in built environments
This project aims to facilitate climate change adaptation and mitigation across Australia’s built environment: progressing climate change action, informing investment decisions and reducing harm and cost of climate change impacts.
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Intelligent Estimator
Leveraging on Artificial Intelligence Technology for Effective Forecasting and Management of the Cost of Building Services Elements at the Design stage of Building Projects
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Parametric Adjustable Mould (PAM)
PAM is a computer numerically controlled (CNC) mould frame design which produces double curvature concrete panels.
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Parlour shortlisted for RIBA President's Award for Research
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced that the Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture initiative has been shortlisted for the Outstanding University-located Research category of the President’s Awards for Research 2015.
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PARLOUR: women, equity, architecture
Expanding the spaces for women in Australian architecture
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Performance Analysis of Cool Roof Products
Evaluating the effectiveness of cool roof coatings
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Procuring innovation or triggering fragmentation?
A multiple case-study analysis of the interactions between construction design and façade specialist sub-contractors in Australia.
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Rapid Sky-View Factor Modelling using Global Illumination
This project aims to respond to the growing issue of heat retention in dense urban centres – urban heat island effect (UHI) and the associated heat related morbidity, by developing a new analysis model.
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ROOM: Digital design to fabrication in temporary accommodation options for youth homelessness
ROOM harnesses digital design to digital fabrication and building optimisation to produce a customised performance-efficient, low cost ‘self-build’ unit - offering training opportunity - in producing external living space as reusable temporary accommodation.
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Seacombe West – Australia’s First Regenerative Community
The Seacombe West site is significantly degraded as a result of salt water entering the Gippsland Lakes system in the late 1800s.
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The Digital Provide
Can the use of mobile communication technologies improve the work and home life of construction site staff?
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Transforming Building Environmental Design
Buildings are responsible for significant environmental impacts. Only with considerable improvements to the design, construction and operation of buildings can ambitious national environmental goals be achieved.
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Transforming Housing: Affordable Housing for All
Transforming Housing: Affordable Housing for All is an action-research project focused on influencing and supporting the transformation of the housing policy and delivery environment in Victoria.
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Urban planning for natural hazard mitigation
Integrating urban planning and disaster risk reduction
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Wave Hill Walk Off Trail
The Wave Hill Walk Off Route is a National Heritage Listed site that is associated with the events that took place in 1966 -1975 which saw the Indigenous Gurindji people, led by Vincent Lingiari, take a stand against oppressive working conditions and maltreatment.
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Women in Transport Leadership in Australasia Knowledge Network
Creating knowledge, fostering partnerships and empowering women and women leaders in transport for positive change in Australasia
Researchers
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A/Prof Ajibade Aibinu, Associate Professor in Quantity Surveying and Construction Economics -
Leire Asensio-Villoria, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design -
Dr Behnaz Avazpour, Postdoctoral Research Associate -
Professor Donald Bates, Associate Dean (Engagement) -
Dr Jessica Borg, Lecturer in Construction Management -
Dr Karen Burns, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design -
Xavier Cadorel, Lecturer -
Dr Sofia Colabella, Lecturer in Architectural Technology -
Professor Robert Crawford, Professor in Construction and Environmental Assessment -
Dr Kirsten Day, Lecturer in Technology and Practice -
A/Prof Hemanta Doloi, Associate Professor in Property and Construction Management and Technology -
Professor Valerie Francis, Chair in Construction -
Blair Gardiner, Senior Lecturer in Construction Technology -
Professor Philip Goad, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Chair of Architecture -
Dr James Helal, Lecturer in Construction Management -
A/Prof Chris Heywood, Associate Professor in Property and Management -
Dr Olivia Ho, Lecturer in Property -
A/Prof Dominik Holzer, Associate Professor in Digital Architecture and Associate Dean (Academic Resources) -
A/Prof Rory Hyde, Associate Professor in Architecture (Curatorial Design and Practice) -
Dr Chris Jensen, Lecturer in Construction Management -
Dr Huey Wen Lim, Mckenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow -
David Mah, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design -
Dr Giorgio Marfella, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Construction -
Professor Brendon McNiven, Enterprise Professor, Architectural Engineering -
Dr David O'Brien, Senior Lecturer -
Dr Timothy O'Leary, Lecturer in Construction Economics -
Dr Mehran Oraee, Lecturer in Building Information Modelling -
Professor Alan Pert, Deputy Dean -
A/Prof Peter Raisbeck, Associate Professor in Architectural Practice -
Dr Hannah Robertson, Lecturer -
Dr Stanislav Roudavski, Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design -
Dr Djordje Stojanovic, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design -
Professor Piyush Tiwari, Professor in Property -
A/Prof Jillian Walliss, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture -
Professor Julie Willis, Dean -
Dr Hao Wu, Senior Lecturer in Property -
Dr Wei Yang, Lecturer in Construction Management