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Project reports and fact sheets

Project #1: ePlanning and eApprovals – Final report

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Project #1: ePlanning and eApprovals – Roadmap

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Project #2: Automated tracking of construction and materials for improved supply chain logistics and provenance – Scoping study – Final report for public

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Project #2: Automated tracking of construction and materials for improved supply chain logistics and provenance: scoping study – Final report executive summary

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Project #3: Projects to Platforms Scoping Study – Final report for public

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Project #6: Field data collation to support real-time operational management – Fact sheet

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Project #11: The environmental credentials for building technology platforms – Fact sheet

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Project #12: VR/AR technologies in vocational education and training – Scoping study – Final report for public

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Project #17: The implications of Industry 4.0 for the building industry

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Project #21: Regulatory reform for industrialised construction

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Project #23: When prefab hits the ground – Final report

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Project #26: New materials for windows of the future

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Project #28: Componentised internal walls for multi-residential applications – Final report for public

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Project #30: Critical Path IMPACT through Productisation – Final report for public

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Project #31: Demystifying volumetric construction: A study of the bathroom pod – Executive summary

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Project #33: Evaluation of emerging technologies for remote inspections of building work

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Project #35: Prefab Housing Solutions for Bushfire and Disaster Relief

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Project #37: Australian timber fibre insulation scoping study

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Project #40: Business model innovation

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Project #48: Scoping Study for Building the Future – Circular Economy

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Project #57: Wind comfort simulation and a new engineering design process

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Project #65: European Research Tour: Berlin – Copenhagen – Malmo 2023

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Project #93: US Research Tour 2024 – San Francisco and Greater Bay area

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Project #103: ABCB Prefabricated, modular and offsite construction – Handbook

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Lighthouse Project #1: Monash Innovation Labs Digital Twin (MIL-DT) – Design, Development and Case Studies

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Lighthouse Project #13: Mixed Reality Carpentry Demonstration – Final Report

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Lighthouse Project #28: The application of computer vision to measure productivity on construction sites

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Journal articles and conference papers

October 2025 – Numerical modelling of light gauge steel framed floors under standard fire conditions

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October 2025 – Unpacking the evolution of Green Start rating tools and their certification trends in Australian building projects

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July 2025 – Camera pose refinement for precise BIM alignment in mixed reality vizualisation

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October 2025 – Horizontal tying force design for new connections of cold-formed steel structures

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August 2025 – Assessing the performance gap in energy rating systems in Australian commercial buildings

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June 2025 – Effects of combustible electrical sockets on the fire resistance of LSF walls

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May 2025 – A contingency approach to platform implementation: platform types, attributes and value chain integration

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May 2025 – Optimizing building envelope retrofits under future climates: Integrating passive, active and renewable strategies

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April 2025 – Advancing prototyping pedagogy: a design-build studio approach

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April 2025 – Do we need watchful eyes on our workers? Ethics of using computer vision for workplace surveillance

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April 2025 – Ontology-based framework for enhancing safety in earthmoving operations: A socio-technical system approach in the Industry 4.0 era

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March 2025 – Experimental study of LSF truss floor-ceiling systems made of top hat sections

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March 2025 – BrickNet: A computational design framework for robust dataset creation for robotic fabrication and design automation (p 193)

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February 2025 – Simplified finite element model for screwed connections with clip angle

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February 2025 – Evolving business models in the construction industry: a comprehensive review and analysis

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February 2025 – Social media practices on construction sites: A new conceptual model of social media impact on team performance

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January 2025 – Sustainable utilisation of lead-smelter slag and copper slag aggregate in one-part geopolymer for enhanced high-temperature performance

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January 2025 – Fire tests of CFS stud walls with openings for combustible service pipes

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January 2025 – Numerical modelling of LSF floors under fire conditions

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December 2024 – An advanced exploration of technological functionalities addressing risk factors in earthmoving equipment operation on construction sites: a systematic literature review

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December 2024 – Comparative study on the fire performance of concrete-filled steel tubular and steel tube-confined reinforced concrete columns

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November 2024 — Towards a comprehensive definition of circular building through qualitative meta-synthesis

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November 2024 — A policy and roadmap review for building sector decarbonisation: Insights from Australia and New Zealand (p 93)

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November 2024 – Fire tests of short-span LSF floor systems made of lipped channel joists

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September 2024 – Analysis of bond performance of timber beam and CFRP rods bonded with different end conditions

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September 2024 – Analysis of bond performance of timber beam and CFRP rods bonded with different end conditions

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September 2024 – Fire behavior of ultra-high strength concrete filled steel tubular columns under non-uniform heating

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October 2024 – Data-driven strategies for affordable housing: a hybrid genetic algorithm-machine learning optimization model in the Melbourne metropolitan area

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August 2024 – Robotic prototyping for lightweight facade components

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August 2024 – An integrated Building Information Modelling, Integrated Project Delivery and Lean Construction Maturity Model

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August 2024 – Behaviour of modular building incorporating CFST columns subjected to compartment fire (pp 165–176)

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August 2024 – Enhancing construction efficiency through last planner system: a study of cultural integration and team feedback dynamics

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August 2024 – Environmental impacts of digital platforms for building design: A case study exploration using scenario-based EEIO analysis

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August 2024 – An experimental study of cold-formed steel connections with screwed clip angle under tension and shear loads

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August 2024 – Automated land valuation models: A comparative study of four machine learning and deep learning methods based on a comprehensive range of influential factors

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July 2024 – Considering gypsum ecologies in the life cycle of plasterboard construction materials

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July 2024 – Considering gypsum ecologies in the life cycle of plasterboard construction materials (p 114)

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July 2024 – Reliability framework of CLT floors in out-of-plane bending using Monte Carlo simulation

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July 2024 – Sustainability promotion though information provision: the perspective of Australian apartment owners and renters

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July 2024 – Lean Construction for innovation: a systematic review of IGLC proceedings

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July 2024 – HYDRA: A Hyper Agent for Dynamic Composition Visual Reasoning

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July 2024 – Exploring the benefits of mass timber construction in the workplace: A novel primer for research

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July 2024 – Global localization for Mixed Reality visualization using wireframe extraction from images

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June 2024 – Fire performance of an inter-module connection for steel composite modular buildings: A numerical study

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June 2024 – Towards a regenerative design project delivery workflow: a critical review

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June 2024 – A review of building life cycle assessment software tools: challenges and future directions

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June 2024 – Applying systems thinking to research into risk factors influencing earthmoving equipment operation safety in construction sites

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June 2024 – Systematic review and meta-analysis of drivers for sustainable building

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June 2024 – Automating property valuation at the macro scale of suburban development: A multi-step method based on spatial imputation techniques, machine learning and deep learning

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June 2024 – Nonlinear analysis and design of high-strength concrete filled steel tubular columns under nonuniform fires

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May 2024 – Analysing factors affecting land prices in urbanised areas using machine learning: A basis for future 3D property valuations

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April 2024 – Evolving architectural paradigms: a study of levels of automation in architecture

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April 2024 – Diatoma: a biomimetic fabrication-aware lightweight pavilion

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April 2024 – Taming stable diffusion for text to 360o panorama image generation

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March 2024 – RFID localization in construction with IoT and security integration

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February 2024 – Exploring the impact of social media use on team feedback and team performance in construction projects: A systematic literature review

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February 2024 – Crane payload localisation: Mid-air alignment of curtain wall modules (PhD thesis)

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January 2024 – High-temperature stability of ambient-cured one-part alkali-activated materials incorporating graphene for thermal energy storage

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January 2024 – Considering luminance and glare in-situ at properties frequented by ageing population (Paper ID 13)

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January 2024 – Handover in strata-titled residential apartment developments in Victoria, Australia: Providing for digitisation (Paper ID 59)

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January 2024 – Deep learning-based spatiotemporal analysis and clustering of house price fluctuations and appreciation levels in the different suburbs of Metropolitan Melbourne (Paper ID 21)

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January 2024 – Digital transformation in the construction industry: Applying a Knowledge Management System lens

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December 2023 – Continuous BIM alignment for mixed reality visualisation

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December 2023 – Enabling technologies for remote and virtual inspection of building work

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December 2023 – Reality capture methods for remote inspection of building work

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December 2023 – Robust design of CFS connections to prevent progressive collapse in mid-rise buildings

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November 2023 – Towards construction safety management maturity model in the Industry 4.0 era: A state-of-the-art review

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November 2023 – Personal differences in thermal comfort perception: Observations from a field study in Brisbane, Australia

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November 2023 – Business model innovation in the construction industry: emerging business model archetypes from bathpod modularization

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November 2023 – Crane payload localisation for curtain wall installation: a markerless computer vision approach

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November 2023 – Glass curtain wall installation dataset (companion to ‘Crane payload localisation for curtain wall installation’)

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October 2023 – On the potential use of copper-modified geopolymer incorporating lead-smelter slag for thermal energy storage

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October 2023 – Offset-based marker placement for BIM alignment in mixed reality

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September 2023 – The State of Industry 4.0 in the Australian Construction Industry: an examination of industry and academic point of view

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August 2023 – Modularity as an enabler of scalability in industrialised building platforms

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August 2023 – Can business models facilitate strategic transformation in construction firms? A systematic review and research agenda

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August 2023 – Automatic compliance inspection and monitoring structural members using multi-temporal point clouds

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June 2023 – A roadmap to a shared vision for platforms: the motivations and roles of stakeholders in the transformation from projects to platforms

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June 2023 – Exploring the role of Industry 4.0 in the building industry: A case study of emerging business models in the Australian construction ecosystem

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June 2023 – Dynamical modelling of boom tower crane rigging systems: model selection for construction

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October 2022 – Social media as a phenomenon in projects and the project management: A comprehensive literature review

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June 2023 – Full-scale tests of load-bearing LSF walls made of built-up CFS channel sections under fire conditions

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May 2023 – ISO 19650.3 and the digitisation of operations in residential apartment developments

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May 2023 – What’s it going to take? Lessons learned from COVID-19 and worker mental health in the Australian construction industry

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May 2023 – A multi-deformation stage auxetic structure for blast energy absorption

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April 2023 – Aligning the real and virtual world: Mixed reality localisation using learning-based 3D-3D model registration

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March 2023 – climateBOX: A low-cost and open-source monitoring device for personal thermal comfort evaluation

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February 2023 – Sustainability Information Provision (SIP) framework: A review of the promotion of sustainability in the residential sector

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January 2023 – End-to-end point cloud-based segmentation of building members for automating dimensional quality control

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January 2023 – Drivers and barriers for the traceability digitalisation in the Australian industry supply chain

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December 2022 – Automatic generation of structural geometric digital twins from point clouds

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December 2022 – BIM and real estate valuation: challenges, potentials and lessons for future directions

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December 2022 – Regenerative design performance assessment: a critical review

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October 2022 – A framework to integrate BIM with artificial intelligence and machine learning-based property valuation methods

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September 2022 – An holistic approach to product evaluation and selection in industrialised building: benchmarking of long span, low carbon floor systems

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July 2022 – A blended approach to concept transfer: Building platform-based Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA)

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July 2022 – Comfort data for Brisbane: Using data collected by low-cost monitoring devices to improve prediction accuracy

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May 2022 – Virtual element retrieval in mixed reality

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April 2022 – Performance evaluation of low-cost air quality sensors: A review

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April 2022 – Real-time monitoring of construction sites: Sensors, methods and applications

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January 2022 – 3D point cloud data processing with machine learning for construction and infrastructure applications: A comprehensive review

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September 2021 – A machine learning approach to enhance indoor thermal comfort in a changing climate

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Media

June 2025 – Rethinking Prefabrication: How System 600 is pioneering a new Kit-of-Parts approach to Australia’s Housing Crisis

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April 2025 – Urgent calls for a Building Research and Development Corporation to address national housing crisis

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April 2025 – The answer to our housing crisis is structural reform

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April 2025 – ‘Russian doll of issues’ to deliver housing

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April 2025 – How can the building industry overcome its ‘innovation problem’?

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April 2025 – Like IKEA but for houses: Could Sweden’s housing revolution come to Australia?

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February 2025 – Banks urged to ease lending rules for flat-pack homes

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November 2024 – Bold reform required to turn productivity around and get housing back on track

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September 2024 – Are people who work in mass timber buildings happier, healthier and more productive?

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August 2024 – Modern Methods of Construction experts unlocking the Future of Building

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July 2024 – What role can prefab homes play in the housing crisis? – Property Australia

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July 2024 – Innovation necessary in housing – Courier Mail

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July 2024 – Innovation is construction’s only saviour, industry warned – The Urban Developer

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June 2024 – Innovators present prefabricated solutions at Building 4.0 CRC Housing Innovation Showcase – Built Offsite

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May 2024 – Two-year housing wait list drives NSW’s prefab push – The Urban Developer

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June 2024 – The Australians hooked by glamorous ‘click-together’ homes delivered by truck – SBS News

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June 2024 – Building 4.0 CRC Annual Showcase and Forum 2024 media release

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May 2024 – $4 Million MMC research funding announced

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October 2023 – Desperate times need new ideas – Courier Mail

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November 2023 – How one CRC is trying to change the game in construction – several sectors at once – The Fifth Estate

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October 2023 – On the collision of ideas we need to have for buildings and construction – The Fifth Estate

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October 2023 – [+] Floors in Days – German Tech Takes Prefab to New Heights – The Urban Developer

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October 2023 – Housing crisis requires a multi-platform blitz – Property Australia

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September 2023 – Australia’s building industry: time to join the dots – The Fifth Estate

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August 2023 – Building 4.0 CRC Annual Conference 2023 media release

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June 2023 – Building in the same old ways won’t end the housing crisis. We need innovation to boost productivity – The Conversation

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April 2023 – Building 4.0 CRC and the net zero mission – The Fifth Estate

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March 2023 – Building 4.0 CRC Annual Showcase 2023 media release

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November 2022 – Building 4.0 CRC Energy efficient buildings media release

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November 2022 – Building 4.0 CRC Prefab for disaster media release

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August 2022 – Building 4.0 CRC Annual Conference 2022 media release

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October 2022 – Building 4.0 CRC Sustainable housing solutions media release

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CRC Resources

Building 4.0 CRC Annual Report 2024

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Building 4.0 CRC Author guide – December 2023

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Building 4.0 CRC Annual Report 2023

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Building 4.0 CRC Publications procedures – September 2023

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Building 4.0 CRC Annual Report 2022

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Building 4.0 CRC Annual Report 2021

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Project Partnering for SMEs and other interested organisations

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Customer-Centric Transformation

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Building 4.0 Quick Fact Sheet

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Industry Platform

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Key Partners

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Innovation Ecosystem

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