Building 4.0 CRC led a delegation to Berlin, Copenhagen and Malmö, to provide delegates with firsthand experience of cutting edge technology and innovative building techniques. Delegates had the opportunity to engage with overseas teams from the Australian Government and embassy officials, learn from industry experts and researchers, exchange ideas and insights with peers and collaborate on research projects, leveraging the knowledge and expertise of several organisations to drive innovation and change within the industry.
Delegates consisted of industry representatives, government officials and researchers from Fleetwood Australia, Donovan Group, Verton, Property Council of Australia, ARUP Singapore, Finding Infinity, Inner West Council, Tech Central Alliance, Fishermans Bend Precinct, University of Sydney, Monash University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Melbourne.
Date commenced and duration
April 2023, 1 weekLead researcher
Industrialisation
- Environmentally Sustainable Design
- Supply Chain Management, Logistics
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Sustainable Materials & Products
- Business Model Innovation
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
Life Cycle Assessment
Theme coordinator
Dr Victor Bunster
Projects
#117 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Building
#106 Retrofitting Reimagined: Enabling circular economy with a Product–Service System Toolkit
#110 Circular design strategies for future-proofing building services
#65 European Research Tour 2023: Berlin – Copenhagen – Malmö
#50 Development of Artificial Neural Network and Automated Life Cycle Assessments for Cloud Based Residential Energy Estimations
Sustainable Materials & Products
Theme coordinator
Dr Philip Christopher
Projects
#118 Featherweight Housing: Unlocking affordable, compliant and rapidly deployable walk-up housing through digital innovation and regulatory reform
#113 Hyne Timber Resin Cleaning and Valorisation
#117 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Building
#106 Retrofitting Reimagined: Enabling circular economy with a Product–Service System Toolkit
#108 Project Circle Design Phase 1
Business Model Innovation
Theme coordinator
Robert Moehler
Projects
#118 Featherweight Housing: Unlocking affordable, compliant and rapidly deployable walk-up housing through digital innovation and regulatory reform
#112 Flexible wet cores for volumetric housing construction
#70 Building Circularity 4.0: First Steps to Adoption
#80 Why are insolvencies so high in the Construction industry and what can be done about it?
#95 The Homes NSW MMC Program
Keywords
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Affordable Housing
- Architecture and Building Design
- Artificial Intelligence
- Building systems
- Business Ecosystem
- Circular Economy
- Construction Management
- DfMA
- Digital Platforms
- Digitalisation
- Energy Efficency
- Industrialised Building
- Industrialised Construction
- Platforms
- Prefabrication
- Product approach
- Product Platform
- Smart Prefab
- Supply Chain Innovation