People + Partners

Banks urged to ease lending rules for flat-pack homes

Prof. Mathew Aitchison (Building 4.0 CRC) welcomes the Commonwealth Bank’s change to lending rules that make it easier to get homes loans for prefabricated houses.

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Urgent calls for a Building Research and Development Corporation to address national housing crisis

Building 4.0 Cooperative Research Centre CEO Prof. Mathew Aitchison called for urgent action to stand up a national building research and development corporation (RDC) to arrest declining productivity in the sector, a key contributor to higher costs and supply shortages.

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The answer to our housing crisis is structural reform

“Prefab alone can’t solve our housing crisis. We need to think bigger,” says Prof. Mathew Aitchison

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Like IKEA but for houses: Could Sweden’s housing revolution come to Australia?

SBS Dateline’s latest episode looks into Sweden’s prefabricated houses and whether they can be the answer to Australia’s housing supply crisis.

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How can the building industry overcome its ‘innovation problem’?

In this article for realestate.com.au, Vivien Topalovic reports on the Property Council of Australia’s National Housing Solutions Summit in Melbourne, Tuesday 1 April. A panel featuring representatives from Building 4.0 CRC, Woods Bagot, Mirvac and the Productivity Commission addressed the key issue of innovation in the construction sector.

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Advancing Education, Skills and Training for the Future of Building

The fourth industrial revolution (4.0) has brought disruption and advancement to the realm of building construction. This short video from Building 4.0 CRC and Holmesglen Institute explains what ‘4.0-ness’ means to the present and future of building.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle: Rethinking design approaches for a healthier future

Prof. Chris Knapp was guest editor of the March/April edition of ArchitectureAU, collating expert perspectives on ways to embed circularity in the building industry.

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Intro

Meet the people and partners who are helping to make Building 4.0 CRC possible.

Board

Board

Dr Bronwyn Evans AM

Chair

Prof. Mathew Aitchison

CEO

Prof. Shane Murray

Nominee Director

Prof. Ben Rubinstein

Nominee Director

Theodora Elia-Adams

Independent Director

Dr Steve Gower

Independent Director

Jan Bingley

Independent Director
Executive

Executive Team

Prof. Mathew Aitchison

CEO

Michelle Smith

Executive Assistant

Lisa Norden

CFO and Company Secretary

Prof. Chris Knapp

Research Director

Claire O’Leary

Industry Lead

Assoc. Prof. Duncan Maxwell

Program Leader (Monash University)

Prof. Tuan Ngo

Program Leader (University of Melbourne)

Dr Sara Omrani

Program Leader (Queensland University of Technology)

Nicklaus Mahony

Senior Research Administrator

Fraser Paxton

Research Development and Education Manager

ASSOC. PROF. DANE MILLER

Lighthouse Project Manager

Dr Chris Landorf

Project Milestone and Reporting Manager

Jenny Flynn

Communications Manager

Tony Ford

Senior Advisor
Partners

Partners

The CRC’s collaborative structure enables our partners to understand the value of new thinking and to integrate innovative practices in their work.

Commercial Industry Partners

Lendlease

BlueScope

Sumitomo Forestry

uTecture

Donovan Group

A.G.Coombs

Coresteel Buildings

Ultimate Windows

Hyne Timber

Fleetwood Australia

Taronga Group

Taphcore

Project Partners

Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre

Australian Building Codes Board

Blue IoT

Brickworks

BuildSkills Australia

Cedar Pacific

Cruxes Innovation

Everhard Industries

Homes NSW

LXRP

M80 Ring Road Completion

NASH

Nexans

NSW Aboriginal Housing Office

Populous

PT Blink

Self Storage Association of Australasia

Sightdata

Spark – North East Link

Stockland

Web3in Tech-Lab

Peak Industry Partners and Associations

Master Builders Association Victoria

Green Building Council of Australia

PrefabAUS

Standards Australia

Project Organisations

Research Organisations Partners

Monash University

University of Melbourne

QUT

Vocational Education and Training Partner

Holmesglen Institute

Government Partners

Victoria State Government

Jobs, Skills, Industry & Regions

Victorian Building Authority

FULL LIST OF CRC PARTNERS TO DATE

Theme Coordinators
Project Leads

Project Leads

Amin Heidarpour

Assoc. Prof. Duncan Maxwell

Associate Professor Hafizah Binti Ramli

Associate Professor Niharika Garud

Benoit Belleville

Claire O’Leary

David Burton

Diego Ramirez-Lovering

Dr Abdallah Ghazlan

Dr Behzad Rismanchi

Dr Camilo Cruz Gambardella

Dr Davood Shojaei

Dr Duncan Maxwell

Dr Felix Hui

Dr Hui Cui

Dr Kourosh Khoshelham

Dr Lachlan Robb

Dr Laura Harper

Dr Lee-Anne Khor

Dr Lyndall Bryant

Dr Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira

Dr Pari Delir Haghighi

Dr Philip Christopher

Dr Pierre Le Bodic

Dr Priya Das

Dr Rachel Couper

Dr Rackel San Nicolas

Dr Richard Nero

Dr Sahar Soltani

Dr Sara Omrani

Dr Siddhesh Godbole

Dr Stephen Whyte

Dr Steven Psaltis

Dr Tai Thai

Dr Tu Le

Dr Victor Bunster

Dr Wen Li

Dr Yihai Fang

Emeritus Professor Perry Forsythe

Fraser Paxton

Jacek Jasieniak

Jean-Paul Rollo

Prof. Chris Knapp

Prof. Frank Vetere

Prof. Mahen Mahendran

Prof. Mathew Aitchison

Prof. Robin Drogemuller

Prof. Tim Dwyer

Prof. Tuan Ngo

Prof Greg Qiao

Prof Leonie Barner

Robert Moehler
PhDs

PhDs ROUND 1

Dr Brandon Johns

Dr Fereshteh Banakar

Fernando Pavez

Karen Tanfield

Dr Kaveh Mirzaei

Dr Marko Radanovic

Mohaimeen Islam

Nazli Soltanmohammadlou

Peyman Jafary

Rebecca Dickson

Rinu Ann Sebastian

Sajjad Eini-Zinab

Dr Son Tung Vy

Dr Thais Goncalves Sartori

Dr Tobias Kramer

PhDs ROUND 2

Ali Pakdel

Cheng Zhang

Dilshi Dharmarathna

Fucai Ke

Dr Mohammad Sadegh Aslanpour

Nghia Phuc Tran

Dr Rajendra Prasad Bohara

Rozi Karimi

Dr Richard Nero

Shahed Khan

The Son (Tyson) Kieu

PhDs ROUND 3

Abdurrahman Beg

Aidan White

Darcy Zelenko

Duc Minh Le 

Fatheen Hisham

Gihan Ranasinghe

Hafedh Al-Mashgari

Hamidreza Rafizadeh

Hesong Jin

Lalita Lama

Mahdi Valitabar

Miyami Dasandara

Dr Sara Rashidian

Shabnam Lotfian

Sumit Saha

Tanghan Jiang

Kiran Tattukolla

Udathara Damsari

Yimin Li
Memberships

Memberships

Building 4.0 CRC is a proud member
of the Digital Twin Consortium.

Building 4.0 CRC is a proud member of MECLA

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