Fleetwood Australia
Fleetwood Australia are Australia’s leading offsite manufacturing and construction partner with more than 55 years’ experience, trusted to safely and consistently deliver innovative and sustainable solutions for our communities.
We work in the education, commercial, mining and resources, defence, government, health, residential, tourism sport and recreation sectors, delivering spaces for people to thrive.
Our offsite manufacturing and construction method delivers quality building solutions in a fraction of the time, compared with traditional building processes.
Projects
- #10 Product Platform for Volumetric Building (Scoping Study)
- #21 Regulatory Reform for Industrialised Building
- #23 When prefab hits the ground: Barriers and opportunities in the Australian housing market
- #25 Operational Excellence framework of steel fabrication and processing in the OSM and prefabrication sector (Phase 1)
- #38 Victorian Government Digital Build – Translating theory into practice
- #48 Scoping Study for Building the Future – Circular Economy – Shared Interest Project
- #53 Process Engineering, and Design and Estimating Automation of Fleetwood’s Product Platform
- #66 Future of construction education
- Light House Project #3: NCHA Independent Living Lab
Research themes
- Platforms and Process (4)
- Building Design and DFMA (3)
- Sustainable Materials & Products (2)
- Policy and Regulation (1)
- Change Management (1)
- Construction Management (1)
- Housing and Urban Design (Affordability) (1)
- Business Model Innovation (1)
- Supply Chain Management, Logistics (1)
- Circular Economy (1)
- Computational Design (1)
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (1)
- Future of Work & Industrial Relations (1)
- Culture and Diversity (1)
- Prefabrication & Advanced Manufacturing (1)
- Customers and Markets (1)
Platforms and Process
Theme coordinator
Dr Duncan Maxwell
Projects
#93 US Research Tour 2024: San Francisco and Greater Bay area
#53 Process Engineering, and Design and Estimating Automation of Fleetwood’s Product Platform
#61 Building Productivity – Product, Process, People
Light House Project #6: Malvern East Apartment Development
#38 Victorian Government Digital Build – Translating theory into practice
Building Design and DFMA
Sustainable Materials & Products
Theme coordinator
Dr Philip Christopher
Projects
#93 US Research Tour 2024: San Francisco and Greater Bay area
#65 European Research Tour 2023: Berlin – Copenhagen – Malmö
Light House Project #7: Platform Delivery of Affordable Housing
Light House Project #6: Malvern East Apartment Development
#32 Acoustic flanking performance of mid-rise light gauge steel (LGS) structures
Construction Management
Theme coordinator
Dr Mehrdad Arashpour
Projects
#68 Development of a solution for high-rise mass timber residences through a Post & Plate system – Phase 1 feasibility study
Light House Project #7: Platform Delivery of Affordable Housing
#21 Regulatory Reform for Industrialised Building
#61 Building Productivity – Product, Process, People
Light House Project #13: Mixed Reality Carpentry Demonstration
Housing and Urban Design (Affordability)
Theme coordinator
Dr Lee-Anne Khor
Projects
#93 US Research Tour 2024: San Francisco and Greater Bay area
#32 Acoustic flanking performance of mid-rise light gauge steel (LGS) structures
#35 Prefab Housing Solutions for Bushfire & Disaster Relief
#23 When prefab hits the ground: Barriers and opportunities in the Australian housing market
Business Model Innovation
Theme coordinator
Robert Moehler
Projects
#93 US Research Tour 2024: San Francisco and Greater Bay area
#65 European Research Tour 2023: Berlin – Copenhagen – Malmö
#25 Operational Excellence framework of steel fabrication and processing in the OSM and prefabrication sector (Phase 1)
#3 Projects to Platforms: Investigating New Forms of Collaboration – Scoping Study
#31 Demystifying Volumetric Construction: A Study of the Bathroom Pod
Supply Chain Management, Logistics
Theme coordinator
Dr Wen Li
Projects
#93 US Research Tour 2024: San Francisco and Greater Bay area
#65 European Research Tour 2023: Berlin – Copenhagen – Malmö
Light House Project #7: Platform Delivery of Affordable Housing
#61 Building Productivity – Product, Process, People
#15 Using the Whole Tree for Future Timber-Based Construction – Scoping Study
Circular Economy
Computational Design
Theme coordinator
Dr Abdallah Ghazlan
Projects
#53 Process Engineering, and Design and Estimating Automation of Fleetwood’s Product Platform
#32 Acoustic flanking performance of mid-rise light gauge steel (LGS) structures
#59 Innovative Steel–Timber–Concrete Composite StrongFloor
#57 Wind Comfort Simulation and New Engineering Design Process
#4 Computational Design and Optimisation Tools for Prefabricated Building Systems – Phase 1 Scoping Study
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Theme coordinator
Dr Buser Say
Projects
#85 From Digital Design to Human Robot Collaborative Masonry Construction
Light House Project #28: The application of computer vision to measure productivity and enhance safety on construction sites
#53 Process Engineering, and Design and Estimating Automation of Fleetwood’s Product Platform
#50 Development of Artificial Neural Network and Automated Life Cycle Assessments for Cloud Based Residential Energy Estimations
#29 Real-time EH&S Intervention to Improve Site Safety (Scoping Study)
Culture and Diversity
Theme coordinator
Dr Gillian Matthewson
Projects
#66 Future of construction education
Prefabrication & Advanced Manufacturing
Projects
#93 US Research Tour 2024: San Francisco and Greater Bay area
#68 Development of a solution for high-rise mass timber residences through a Post & Plate system – Phase 1 feasibility study
Light House Project #7: Platform Delivery of Affordable Housing
Light House Project #13: Mixed Reality Carpentry Demonstration
Light House Project #3: NCHA Independent Living Lab
Collaborative partners
- Monash University (8)
- Sumitomo Forestry Australia (5)
- The University of Melbourne (5)
- A.G. Coombs (4)
- Lendlease Digital (4)
- Master Builders Association Victoria (4)
- Victorian Building Authority (3)
- Queensland University of Technology (3)
- BlueScope (3)
- Ynomia (3)
- Donovan Group (2)
- Holmesglen Institute (2)
- Standards Australia (1)
- Coresteel Buildings (1)
- Victoria State Government – Jobs, Precincts and Regions (1)
- Salesforce.com, Inc. (1)
- Hyne & Son (1)
- uTecture Australia (1)
- VIRIDI Group (1)
- Verton (1)
- Populous (1)
- Stockland (1)
- Nexans (1)