Venue: Commonwealth Bank, 180 Ann Street, Brisbane

Time: 9:00am - 2:00pm

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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 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 - housing and tourist accommodation.

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, then the MMC industry can help resolve two issues at once.

Registrations open soon - seats are limited.