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ItemNo Preview AvailableSustainability and Health: The nexus of carbon-neutral architecture and wellbeing(The Architectural Science Association and the University of Tasmania, 2023)Within the imperative surrounding contemporary concepts for environmental and social sustainability and the affordable housing crisis, an opportunity exists to explore low-cost, low-skill labour use as a transferable housing solution to support vulnerable communities. In this scenario, recognising the intricate nature of the domestic construction industry is critical: involving the interweaving balance between material culture, the social networks of construction and the boundaries between architecture, structure, materials, and building in a digitally enabled domestic construction industry. Amongst the challenges this scenario poses is to broaden education modes, using technological enablement and aligning them to communicate architectural science in its application to political economy, societal equity and the environment. This paper explores ways to use a digitally designed and fabricated unit to embed youth training through participation in the assembly process and as future training ambassadors as the project develops. It enquires how digital tools engender new pathways for collaboration between designers and makers and incorporate end-users needs, facilitating the permeation of capacity-building access via a construction material (timber) that has traditionally circumvented formal-driven social structures.
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ItemHousing Prototypes, Timber Tectonic Culture and the Digital Age(SpringerLink, 2019)Arguably the balloon frame exemplifies the commencement of the embedment of structural performance within timber construction standardisation and a system innovation responding to socio-technical issues in domestic construction. Three recent residential architecture prototypes which embrace digital design to fabrication are discussed as continuing this tradition. Held as exemplars of the capacity potential of digital design to file-to-factory these projects offer an opportunity to reflect on questions related to material culture, the social networks of construction and the boundaries between architecture, structure, materials, and construction. This chapter raises a series of discussion points centred around the role of timber-based products, in a digitally enabled domestic construction industry.
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ItemKnowledge Management Systems in construction: a case study in the Portuguese industry(The Architectural Science Association and The University of Adelaide, 2016)Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) are a structured framework for the retention and application of organisational knowledge. The costs of investment in KMS can be high and such systems need to be well planned to increase the likelihood of success. KMS in construction companies have been analysed in the last decade by both industry and academia to identify the best solutions for successful implementation. This research reports on a comparative case study in Portugal on the perception of KMS by construction professionals, architecture and engineering consultants and consultants in the business, information technology, and communication sectors. This comparison helped to identify the lessons learned in sectors where KMS are successfully developed and transpose this learning to the construction industry. Research data was obtained through semi-structured interviews encompassing professionals, Operational Managers, Project Managers and technical experts to ensure that a broad range of views was obtained. Findings demonstrate that for a KMS to be effective and successful in the construction industry, the system should be seen as integrated rather than external. This paper identifies the need to prepare a successful KMS in organisational culture with a strategy and identification of values of knowledge into an integrated organisational process.
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Item“If you Cannot Measure it, you Cannot Manage it” – Buildability and Performance-Based Appraisal(Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference, 2017)Buildability has been a perennial issue in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry, with advocates arguing for positive benefits related to cost, time, quality and safety in project development. Evidently, buildability has been seen to offer broader industry gains and efficiencies, and its assessment has been encouraged as a criterion in the regulatory approval process of some countries. If buildability offers positive outcomes in project development, how can these be introduced, measured and assessed in the project development process? In the absence of mandated buildability appraisal systems, does the industry develop its market mechanism to leverage the gains that its consideration offers? Detailed coverage is systematically reviewed with the aim to identify the current trends in buildability. Based on a comparative analysis of existing assessment models of buildability, this paper reviews the suitability of this model, by highlighting the potential difficulties of its adoption, against the current deregulated and highly performance-based context of the Australian construction industry. The outcome of this paper is to provide a research methodology to develop a buildability assessment tool for Australia.
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ItemBuilt pedagogy and architectural design in the architecture library of the Melbourne School of Design(The Architectural Science Association, 2015)The Melbourne School of Design (MSD) located at the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus aspires to be a ‘pedagogical building’, with built-pedagogy a driving aspiration behind its design and construction. This paper reviews one programmatic component of the building, the library, and how notions of built-pedagogy were interpreted by the user-group and the project design and management team in the design of the library as one of the key learning spaces in the building. It investigates the nature of current thinking about tertiary education learning spaces and their design from the perspective of those tasked with delivering the Architecture Building and Planning Library as a response to the understanding of built pedagogy developed by the design team, project managers, and library management. It suggests that the notion of built pedagogy contains multiple interpretations, influenced by current tertiary education shifts towards student-centred pedagogic practice, consideration of campus spaces within their social settings and the facility for buildings to engage as reference exemplars in teaching and learning which is generating opportunities for campus-centred student experience within increasing availability of online and digitally enabled education.
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Item'Let’s be brief(ed)': Library design, education pedagogy and service delivery(Griffith University, 2015)University libraries are increasingly being reassessed in the role they play in supporting student learning and academic research, in managing evolving pedagogical practices in education and in service delivery modelling. The University of Melbourne for a number of years has embarked on a series of library refurbishments with the opportunity in 2010 via a new building programme to provide a purpose designed library facility embedded in the new Melbourne School of Design building for the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. This facility offered the opportunity to reflect on and consider the current and future role of a library embedded as it is in a faculty dedicated to built environment design research and education. This paper will discuss some of the issues that arise in the historic linkages that libraries develop with faculty-based programmes, as well as assessing library layout and design and integrating these with service delivery systems.
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ItemGlobality, Locality, and Freedom in the India of Satellier(Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 2007)
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ItemConstruction mediation in Australia(Routledge, 2010-07-11)
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ItemEvaluating the Industrial Potential of Digital Outsourcing in Architecture: Methodological Challenges and Choices(Technical University of Denmark, 2005)