Uniting NSW.ACT
Uniting NSW.ACT is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to create a better future for people and communities through services, social impact and advocacy.
It is a registered tier 2 community housing provider, with 778 social and affordable homes, as part of a 3,000+ housing portfolio mostly for older people. It seeks to grow affordable rental housing for young people – especially those leaving State care – and older people.
It has 12,000+ staff and volunteers. Its services and the buildings it owns and operates span a range of community services, as well as crisis and transitional housing, social, affordable and affordably priced rental housing, retirement and independent living homes, and residential aged care.
Research themes
Building Design and DFMA
Projects
#115 Performance, Productivity and Carbon Benchmarking of a Distributed Prefabricated Construction System
#116 MMC Pathways for Youth Housing Delivery
#110 Circular design strategies for future-proofing building services
#112 Flexible wet cores for volumetric housing construction
#71 Automated decision making for interdisciplinary coordination during early-stage building design
Building Materials & Systems
Theme coordinator
Dr Rackel San Nicolas
Projects
#123 Ready-to-Use Fire and Acoustic Certified Solutions for Off-the-Shelf CLT Construction
#115 Performance, Productivity and Carbon Benchmarking of a Distributed Prefabricated Construction System
#116 MMC Pathways for Youth Housing Delivery
#58 The Retrofit Housing Atlas
#76 Thermally active floor panels for cost effective space cooling
Prefabrication & Advanced Manufacturing
Projects
#115 Performance, Productivity and Carbon Benchmarking of a Distributed Prefabricated Construction System
#118 Featherweight Housing: Unlocking affordable, compliant and rapidly deployable walk-up housing through digital innovation and regulatory reform
#116 MMC Pathways for Youth Housing Delivery
#58 The Retrofit Housing Atlas
#104 Development of a solution for high-rise mass timber residences through a Post & Plate system – Phase 2 Numerical and experimental investigation