prefabAUS Events
Past Events
The Smart Building Industry Awards (SBIA) showcase and celebrate the excellence, innovation and sustainable practices of Australia’s prefabricated building industry.
For too long, "prefabricated" construction has been dismissed as substandard—cheap, ugly, and limited. This perception isn't just outdated, it's dangerous. It's actively preventing Australia's design community from accessing the only construction methods proven to deliver the environmental performance, quality, and precision our climate future demands.
Registrations now closed
This is the country’s biggest knowledge-sharing opportunity for the latest advancements in Passivhaus, featuring around 20 expert speakers sharing case studies, innovations, and design strategies.
This panel showcases Australia's manufacturing renaissance, bringing together leaders demonstrating that factory construction isn't about reducing design ambition, it's about amplifying it whilst fundamentally transforming our environmental impact.
Our panellists represent Victorian design-led innovation across building typologies:
Evissa exemplifies how precision manufacturing enables Passivhaus-certified architecture—buildings that deliver exceptional thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and virtually zero operational carbon.
Modscape+Modbotics demonstrates design-led modular construction across residential and commercial projects, proving that prefabrication enables bespoke architectural sophistication whilst reducing waste and build timelines.
prefabAUS, provides the industry perspective on how this transformation creates high-skilled Australian manufacturing jobs whilst establishing the circular economy principles that will define sustainable building for the next century.
Join us for the panel discussion followed by networking drinks nearby.
Thanks to RMIT Post Carbon Research Centre and Foundation Technologies Australia.
Australia's most important national forum for advancing productivity, technology and collaboration in construction
Melbourne Design Week (MDW) is Australia’s leading design festival, held annually over 11 days in Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Australia's Largest Construction & Design Show.
prefabAUS is proud to sponsor the MMC Stage at Sydney Build Expo 2026
Join pro clima as they unveil their new façade solution that gives architects, engineers and builders full design freedom while delivering reliable performance and compliance.
Presentation and discussion with key industry players on how the smart building industry can support SA's big infrastructure build and housing needs.
At this event we will be discussing how modular construction can meet the growing need for regional affordable housing and regional tourism accommodation in Western Australia. (Image courtesy of Fleetwood Australia)
At this event, we will learn from two international experts in sustainable building science and energy efficiency and the application of spray foam technology in prefab and modular building settings.
prefabAUS is excited to be partnering with Australia's largest construction and design show at ICC Sydney (May 1st & 2nd) once again in 2024!
Join us for an in-depth discussion about how to attract tech-focused talent to the smart building industry.
Join us for an in-depth discussion of the current opportunities and challenges for mass timber and stay to network with industry colleagues.
We invite prefabAUS members to join co-authors of Building the Future We Want, Damien Crough and Lance Worrall, to discuss the Roadmap, ask questions and provide your feedback.
Prefab to Platforms: Developing the standards & relationships to procure products & assemblies at the portfolio level - an industry breakfast event with Jaimie Johnston MBE, Board Director and Head of Global Systems at Bryden Wood
prefabAUS Focus Forums aim to:
Share genuine knowledge and data
Challenge the status quo and provide space for debate
Encourage collaboration
Inform prefabAUS advocacy to government, regulators and industry bodies
The formalities (presentations and panel sessions) are generally kept to the hour as the networking opportunity is given equal weight.
The challenges of fire separation for modular buildings and the National Construction Code (NCC)
Join us Wednesday 17 May from 5pm at Western Sydney University’s Parramatta campus.
We will be discussing horizontal and vertical fire separation in modular buildings with experts in the fire protection industry.
If you are a project manager, engineer, drafter, architect or site foreman, you will want to attend this event.
Join us on Wednesday 10 May from 5pm to learn about the intricacies of prefabricated mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) building services and the digital innovation that will put you ahead of the rest.
If you are a project manager, engineer, drafter, architect or site foreman, you will want to attend this event.
Senior industry members and decision-makers are invited to a workshop focused on the future of building, business model innovation and the impact that industrialisation and digitalisation can have on the industry.
If you would like to be a part of the project, please contact Damien Crough