NSW Aboriginal Housing Office
The NSW Aboriginal Housing Office (AHO) is a statutory authority established under the Aboriginal Housing Act 1998.
The AHO’s vision is to ensure every Aboriginal person in NSW has equal access to, and choice in, affordable housing.
To help achieve this vision, the AHO champions the use of innovative building methods and they have been delivering homes using modern methods of construction (MMC) since 2019.
MMC play a key role as part of the AHO’s new-build program and they are committed to maximising efficiencies in construction to deliver more properties for Aboriginal communities across NSW.
Research themes
Environmentally Sustainable Design
Theme coordinator
Dr Victor Bunster
Projects
#118 Featherweight Housing: Unlocking affordable, compliant and rapidly deployable walk-up housing through digital innovation and regulatory reform
#117 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Building
#106 Retrofitting Reimagined: Enabling circular economy with a Product–Service System Toolkit
#108 Project Circle Design Phase 1
#112 Flexible wet cores for volumetric housing construction
Indoor Environmental Quality
Theme coordinator
Dr Jenny Zhou
Projects
#58 The Retrofit Housing Atlas
#76 Thermally active floor panels for cost effective space cooling
#100 IEQ Monitoring of Aboriginal Housing Office 3D Printed Houses
Light House Project #1: Monash Smart Manufacturing Hub (mSMH) – A Digital Twin Living Lab
Light House Project #6: Malvern East Apartment Development
Building Operation and Performance
Theme coordinator
Dr Sara Omrani
Projects
#58 The Retrofit Housing Atlas
#76 Thermally active floor panels for cost effective space cooling
#55 Towards smart contracts and smart finance in construction – Phase 1
#105 Blockchain-powered peer-to-peer energy trading: Advancing sustainability and affordability in smart residential communities
#100 IEQ Monitoring of Aboriginal Housing Office 3D Printed Houses
Digital and Automated Fabrication (Robotics)
Theme coordinator
Dr Chao Chen
Projects
#100 IEQ Monitoring of Aboriginal Housing Office 3D Printed Houses
#86 Sustainable 3D printed concrete for bespoke infrastructure
Light House Project #13: Mixed Reality Carpentry Demonstration
#28 Componentised Internal Wall Systems for Multi-residential Applications
#17 The implication of Industry 4.0 for the construction industry: towards smart prefab