In a Queensland factory, two workers assemble what would traditionally take a team of skilled welders an entire day to build. No sparks fly, no heavy machinery groans—just the methodical click of components slotting into pre-punched tabs. Within three hours, a 12-metre modular chassis emerges, ready for transport.

The University of Melbourne's new student accommodation at its historic Dookie Campus demonstrates how prefabricated construction can deliver both architectural excellence and practical efficiency.

Australia stands at the threshold of a construction industry transformation that could deliver $9 billion in annual economic benefits by 2033.

On 22 & 23 October, Victoria’s largest construction and design show, Melbourne Build Expo, is set to be the most exciting construction trade show launch in Australia.

Architecture & Design is proud to announce a strategic partnership with prefabAUS, Australia’s peak body for prefabricated and off-site construction, for the upcoming Sustainability Awards and Summit. 

The Autodesk Challenge Cup is a university-based team challenge for students in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction Management (AEC) disciplines.

prefabAUS applauds the recent housing strategy announcements by the Australian, New South Wales and Victorian Governments.

Australia’s leading construction and design show is proud to announce its return with an array of groundbreaking initiatives and partnerships aimed at driving positive change across the industry.

Houses built within days instead of a year could supply the housing market fast and stem the worsening housing crisis according to experts.

‘All of a sudden there’s a house’: could prefab be the future of Australian homes?

Eco Cottages applies to Noosa Council to build 34 modular homes to address housing crisis

Motivated by the lack of affordable housing in Cooroy, Queensland, Greg Phipps of Eco Cottages has applied to Noosa Council to build 34 modular houses on a six-acre block contributing to a private social housing endeavour.

A number of construction industry bodies are currently assisting the federal government in developing frameworks for measuring, certifying, and benchmarking emissions from construction and building materials, in a bid to reduce embodied carbon.

The phrase “digital twin” regularly comes up in forward-thinking conversations about construction innovation and technology, making it one of the most talked about topics in the industry.

OPV is excited that the Treasurer is launching the Offsite Construction Guide today at the CIB World Building Congress to help Victorian project teams make decisions regarding the use of Offsite Construction practices and deploy solutions that add value.

Report finds 28,000 tonnes of carbon were saved on two modular-constructed builds in UK.

According to a study published from the University of Cambridge and Edinburgh Napier University, modular constructed factory-produced homes can produce up to 45% less carbon than traditional methods of residential construction. (main image: 44 and 38-storey Ten Degrees towers in Croydon, London.)

The Australian construction industry is proving its own worst enemy due to the slow adoption of technology that would go a long way to dealing with the current building costs and labour shortage crisis.

Robotic technology has been trialled on a Western Australian construction site in a world-first project at Murdoch University, in conjunction with major partners Aurecon and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

3D Printing is regarded in some circles as the fourth industrial revolution. Able to solve issues in medicine, manufacturing and construction, the industry is expected to go from being valued at $7.3 billion at present, to a staggering $100 billion by 2028. 3D Printing has been in the spotlight for sometime, but it could be argued the technology wasn’t ready to step into it at that time. It is only now that it is being regarded as a mainstream manufacturing process, and won’t enter the homes and lives as it was anticipated until far off into the future.

New thinking inspires Design for Disassembly for built environment utilising modular construction

Whatever is built, will at some stage, be torn down(Designed for disassembly) and largely consigned to the tip. However, in Canada a housing corporation has taken a more ‘holistic’ view of the entire lifecycle of a building and has instituted strategy for sustainable buildings called Design for Disassembly (DFD).

The Australian construction industry’s pivot towards utilising digital technologies has been a long time coming, but companies are slowly making the transition.