Building the Future in Three Hours
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.
Modular Excellence: How Prefabricated Construction Delivered Quality Student Accommodation at University of Melbourne's Dookie Campus
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's Smart Building Revolution: A $9 Billion Opportunity Waiting to Be Unlocked - And More
Australia stands at the threshold of a construction industry transformation that could deliver $9 billion in annual economic benefits by 2033.
Victoria’s Largest Construction & Design Show Set to Launch at MCEC This October - Supported by the Premier of VIC and Lord Mayor of Melbourne
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’s Sustainability Awards and Summit announces strategic partnership with prefabAUS
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.
Autodesk partners with prefabAUS to present the Challenge Cup
The Autodesk Challenge Cup is a university-based team challenge for students in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction Management (AEC) disciplines.
Australia's Smart Building Industry Roadmap to Building the Future We Want
prefabAUS applauds the recent housing strategy announcements by the Australian, New South Wales and Victorian Governments.
Sydney Build Expo 2024: Championing Diversity, Inclusion & Innovation in the Built Environment
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.
The fast-build homes that could solve the housing crisis
Houses built within days instead of a year could supply the housing market fast and stem the worsening housing crisis according to experts.
Could prefab homes be future Australian houses
‘All of a sudden there’s a house’: could prefab be the future of Australian homes?
Queensland modular builder commits to provide social housing
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.
National regulator in the works for embodied carbon
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.
How digital twin technology can help solve Australia’s construction industry challenges – Sumit Oberoi
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.
Launching the Offsite Construction Guide
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.
Modular construction emits 45% less carbon than onsite construction.
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.)
Construction Sector Urged to Embrace Tech as Crisis Deepens
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.
Innovative robotics technology to power timber construction
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).
Is this the solution to our housing crisis?
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.
Designed for disassembly with modular construction
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).
Australia’s adoption of construction technology a gradual process
The Australian construction industry’s pivot towards utilising digital technologies has been a long time coming, but companies are slowly making the transition.