Spaces and Places

Exploring the effectiveness of design features to incite pleasure, satisfaction and motivation in Australian workplaces

Workplace designers contend the spaces they design deliver benefits to organisations and the people who occupy them.

Workplace wellness and Mass Timber Construction (#60 and extension)

Existing studies have indicated organisational and wellbeing benefits of mass timber buildings such as reduced illness, increased job performance and reduced stress and fatigue.

The post-COVID workplace: are (unhealthy) offices at risk of extinction?

The pandemic forced workers to experience the good, the bad and the ugly of working away from offices – and the evidence indicates most are finding it difficult to revert to pre-COVID working arrangements.

Supporting Social Capital in an Omni-Channel Workforce

This project investigates the emotional dimensions of social capital from occupant and organisational perspectives.

Future of Work

This project tracks the mix of organisational and physical workplace changes already implemented, changes being considered or tested, changes in employee’s sentiments and experiences.

Evaluating how we work during COVID-19

This project aims to collect relevant information about working arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results will identify key challenges faced by workers during the pandemic and inform strategies post-2020.

Understanding building performance during the 2019-2020 bushfire season

This projects aims to provide evidence about office buildings’ indoor environmental performance during the extreme bushfire season experienced during 2019-2020.

Workspace design and high performance environments

This project aims to map key design attributes shared by high performance, Activity Based Working (ABW) supportive workplaces.

Understanding the role of office design in government workers’ satisfaction and productivity

Understanding the role of office design in government workers’ satisfaction and productivity.

Designing offices Well

This project aims to describe, quantify and analyse the impact of workspace design on workers’ satisfaction, productivity and health.

Mould exposure in Australian homes: from remediation to prevention

Mould is a widespread and life-threatening problem, affecting one in three Australian homes.

Wellbeing outcomes following thermal-environment innervations in housing of older Australians

The proportion of older people (i.e., those aged 65 or over) in the world’s population is increasing due to historically low fertility rates combined with increased life expectancy.

Leveraging emerging technologies to deliver clean air in Australian homes

Addressing the Public Health Challenge of Mould in Homes 

This project focuses on reducing mould exposure for immunocompromised people and people living with respiratory conditions.

Feels like home: Evidence-Based Design for late life care environments

Each year, over half a million older Australians experience the upheaval of moving from their private home into a hospital or aged care facility.

Leveraging Students’ Experiences and Perceptions in Purpose-Built Student Accommodation in Melbourne

Over the past decade, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) has experienced rapid growth globally and in Australia, driven by increasing international student enrolments and rising demand for high-quality, well-located housing.

A validation study of damp and mould exposure in Australian homes?

The project investigates the nexus between housing and health over the life course and health benefits.

Indoor Comfort of Old Residential Buildings

The aim of this research is to collect crucial data of indoor thermal comfort in old residential buildings to inform the decisions of the sale and rental prices of these buildings.

Affordable Housing Tools

Inclusive Learning Environments in Universities: Survey Pilot Study 

Designing Learning Spaces for Diversity, Inclusion and Participation

This project aims to provide evidence-based guidance on how to design and/or modify mainstream schools to make it easier for students with disabilities to participate.

Designing Learning Spaces for Diversity, Inclusion and Participation – Pilot Project

In Australia and internationally, evidence-based school facility design has not kept pace with inclusive education policies and agendas during past decades.

Living Lab

The Living Lab project focuses on consolidating spaces as research ecosystems where short- and long-term investigations can take place.

Designing high-performance learning spaces

This project maps key design features of contemporary learning spaces, with emphasis on Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) performance and opportunities for reducing sedentary behaviour.

Architectural Acoustics

This research project aims to produce a theoretical framework for pedagogical approaches, research principles and computational tools for performance-based design focusing on architectural acoustics and structural behaviour, as both aspects are seen as opportunities for creativity rather than an obstacle to design imagination.

Liveable precincts

This project evaluates key challenges and opportunities regarding the design of employment precincts, including sustainability and health outcomes relevant to workers, buildings, organizations and the community.

AIRBOX, aerosol, and air pollution monitors

The value of digital tools that optimise and improve planning and design though to operations of buildings cannot be realised without fit-for-purpose (single-point of truth/as-built) data about, and models of, our buildings.