Venue: Commonwealth Bank, 180 Ann Street, Brisbane

Time: 9:00am - 2:00pm

Agenda:

Expert Presentation: Maximising MMC for Mega-Project Delivery and Legacy

Peter Zieth is a Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) professional who, over 40 years, has strived to find a balance between aesthetic, constructible, technically competent, and cost-effective solutions to complex design and construction problems.

Focusing on Industrialised Design and Delivery outcomes using modularisation and DfMA, he seeks to provide design and constructible solutions that can be delivered quickly, safely, and to a higher quality, and facilitate change (replacement, retrofit, or change in use) while limiting disruption to building users.

Peter has performed varying Design, Project Management, Design Management and Directing roles on projects in Australia, Canada, Brunei, Malaysia, UK, and Saudi Arabia.

The breadth of Peter's project experience includes transit-oriented developments, integrated transit facilities and stations, institutional, complex urban mixed-use, high-rise residential, cultural, commercial, sustainable community land development, resorts, building envelope assessments and rectification, a firehall, a winter Olympics sliding centre venue, and, most recently, NEOM's The LINE.

Peter has recently returned to Australia and is currently completing his PhD focused on Industrial Design at the University of Technology - Sydney.

Panel discussion: Leveraging DfMA (Platforms or Standard Designs) for major event infrastructure

P-DfMA-D (Platform (standard designs) -Design for Manufacture and Assembly- Disassembly). A Platform, or standardised approach to the pavilions, media booths, athletes’ village and referee accommodation among others is predictable, consistent, and can reduce costs to taxpayers. It can lighten the load on the trades needed to resolve the housing crisis and assist with the sustainability angle that Brisbane used to win their bid to host.

How can we leverage a standardised approach for a Games that puts sustainability truly at the forefront?

Panel host: Simon McCarthy, Founder and Director, Systemised Design Group and Director, prefabAUS with

Kunjan Ganatra, CEO, McNab

Filippo Silicato, Head of Product and Innovation, Fleetwood Australia

Sean Lees, Team Leader Toowoomba, Hutchinson Builders.

Expert Presentation: Economic Update

Trent Saunders is a Senior Economist in the Australian Economics team at Commonwealth Bank. He has over 15 years of experience delivering economic and market insights to diverse audiences across the public and private sectors. Prior to joining CBA, Trent was a Principal Economist at Queensland Treasury Corporation. He also spent eight years as an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia, where he published widely cited research on the Australian housing market and monetary policy. Trent holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) and a Bachelor of Business Management from the University of Queensland.

Panel discussion: The Legacy Piece - Temporary-to-Permanent Accommodation

There are two main issues where Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) will have the biggest impact in the lead up to the Olympics - tourist accommodation and housing.

A comparison of tourist accommodation with other recent Olympic host cities shows:

·       Paris has 133,000 hotel rooms per night

·       Los Angeles has 120,000 hotel rooms per night

·       Southeast Queensland has 46,000 hotel rooms per night.

With committed developments, capacity is expected to grow by 51,000 rooms by 2030, but we will still be significantly short - and that is in addition to the housing crisis.

If tourist accommodation can be modified to permanent housing, can the MMC industry can help resolve two issues at once?

Panel host: Grant Cairns, Executive General Manager – Business Lending, CommBank with

Damien Crough, Executive Chair, prefabAUS

Robbie Claase, New Business & Innovation Manager, Modscape + Modbotics.

Morning tea and lunch included. Registrations open - seats are limited.