Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design Max has doctorate-level expertise in sustainable design, computational modelling and data analysis. His work at Aurecon sits at the intersection of technical design, digital delivery and decision support:
Qualifications and Professional Memberships PhD (Architecture), RMIT University, 2021 Dipl.-Ing. (Architecture and Urban Planning), Berlin University of the Arts, 2016 Information Management Practitioner – BIM according to ISO19650, 2024 Certified Passive House Designer, 2023 Specialisation Computational Design Façade & Environmental Performance Parametric Modelling Daylight, Glare & Solar Analysis Building Performance Simulation Sustainable Design Data Analysis & Visualisation Automation Years of Professional Experience 10
Technical Design & Decision Support: Max applies computational methods to complex design and planning problems, from early sustainability strategy and building-performance simulation to large parametric studies, infrastructure optioneering and quantitative decision support. He translates technical analysis into clear recommendations for clients and multidisciplinary design teams. Max has contributed to Green Star, LEED and Passive House projects and is a Certified Passive House Designer. His technical work regularly integrates energy, thermal comfort, daylight, glare, solar exposure and other environmental-performance metrics into design decision-making. Digital, Data & Automation: As regional lead for computational design and automation, Max has led the development of custom digital tools, automated workflows, dashboards and data-analysis processes, while supporting adoption across markets and disciplines. His work spans Python-based analysis, parametric modelling, interactive visualisation and practical tools designed for non-specialist users. Leadership & Capability: Max has managed small to mid-sized projects, acted as discipline lead on large multidisciplinary projects, supported design management and project controls, and mentored emerging professionals. He has also helped shape computational-design strategy and capability development within Aurecon. His experience across both architecture and engineering consulting enables him to bridge conceptual design, technical analysis and digital implementation.
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Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design
Technical Design & Decision Support Buildings Ngurra Cultural Precinct | Canberra | DCM | AIATSIS | 2025-2026 | Integrated Design Consultant The Ngurra Cultural Precinct is a nationally significant project comprising the National Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Centre and the National Resting Place in Canberra. Aurecon was engaged by DCM Architects to develop the sustainability strategy and concept design for the precinct. Max led a two-stage study of the "Cultural Weave", the parametric shading skin wrapping the building. After an initial typology screening, he developed a novel method that derives shading geometry directly from climate data. He then swept more than 9,400 configurations across façades, room types and geometric parameters to assess glare, solar control and heating/cooling trade-offs. Max authored the Weave section of the Concept Design Report, derived façade shading factors for the mechanical team, and presented the findings at client and partner workshops. New Mandurah Hospital | Architectus | 2025-2026 | Passive Design Study Lead Aurecon provided sustainability and engineering services for the New Mandurah Hospital development. Max led a computational passive design study investigating how façade and shading design could improve daylight access, visual comfort, thermal comfort and views within patient accommodation and public entrance areas. Using Ladybug Tools with Radiance and EnergyPlus, Max assessed building-wide daylight, glare and direct solar exposure and undertook detailed sensitivity studies of representative patient rooms. The analysis identified the influence of façade orientation, window geometry, glazing performance and external shading on occupant experience, and informed orientation-specific façade recommendations. He also assessed alternative entrance shading arrangements, demonstrating opportunities to improve visual and thermal comfort while maintaining high levels of daylight. Reimagining Arts Centre Melbourne | Melbourne | Fender Katsalidis | LendLease | 2024 | Integrated Design Consultant Reimagining Arts Centre Melbourne involved the refurbishment and redesign of existing public-facing areas of the Arts Centre, including changes to the canopy and its relationship with the occupied spaces beneath and around it. Aurecon supported the design team in understanding the environmental-performance implications of the proposed design changes. Max led a multidisciplinary computational design study to compare canopy design options across energy consumption, thermal comfort, daylight access and glare. He coordinated the modelling approach and team delivery, using parametric analysis to expose trade-offs between competing performance objectives and translate simulation results into clear design guidance for the wider project team. PassivHaus in CSIRO’s ESD Policy | Australia | CSIRO | 2023 | Passive House Consultant CSIRO engaged Aurecon for a research investigation to assess the Passive House standard in terms of its potential to serve as a guideline or target to be applied for future CSIRO developments, as well as retrofitting the institute’s current building stock. Max formed part of the team that did a top-level investigation of the Passive House standard, and an analysis of what its implementation might mean for CSIRO.
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design Queen Victoria Market (QVM) Passive House Tower 3 | Melbourne | KTA | SCAPE | 2023 | Sustainability Consultant & Computer Simulation Modeller QVM Tower 3 is a student accommodation building scaling 54 levels and totalling over 43,000m² of floor area. The tower aims to achieve a 5-star Green Star rating and Passive House certification. At this scale, this project will be the largest Passive House project in the southern hemisphere. Max led studies involving 3D modelling, simulations, and calculations to optimise daylight levels for Green Star compliance, and energy efficiency for Passive House compliance. Adelaide Aquatic Centre Development (AACD) | Adelaide | JPE Design Studio | 2023 | Daylight and Glare Study Lead Aurecon provided all engineering services for an aquatic centre encompassing several pools (including an Olympic pool), a gym, and wellness areas. Max collaborated with the project architects and Aurecon’s specialist Lighting Design team to run detailed computational studies to optimise the architectural design for a safe and comfortable indoor environment, by increasing daylight access while reducing glare. Australian Institute for Infectious Diseases (AIID) | Melbourne | Woods Bagot | The University of Melbourne | 2022-2023 | Integrated Design Consultant The AIID is a world leading facility supported by the Victorian Government to enhance research, public health, educational, and translational capability in infectious diseases, including COVID-19 and other major global health issues. Max helped facilitate user engagement meetings to develop the ambitious sustainability targets for embodied and operational carbon, circular economy, water, and health, including the use of Green Star, WELL, and Passive House to drive design and construction quality. This was supported by an advanced parametric modelling methodology which was presented at the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) 2023 symposium. Geelong Convention and Exhibition Centre (GCEC) | Geelong | Hassell | 2022 | ESD Lead Aurecon supported the Hassell/Lendlease team for the invited competition for the Geelong Convention and Exhibition Centre, providing sustainability advice to evaluate the client's proposed environmental initiatives and incorporate them into the developing design response. Max led Aurecon's ESD contribution to the competition, assessing the feasibility and design implications of the proposed sustainability initiatives. This included modelling operational energy performance and the energy-generation potential of roof-mounted photovoltaics, allowing strategies to be tested quantitatively rather than adopted as standalone aspirations. Max helped develop the overall sustainable design response and co-presented the proposal with Lendlease as part of the competition submission. Home of the Matildas | Melbourne | Populous | Football Victoria | 2022 | Computational Designer Aurecon provided services for the La Trobe University Sports Park Stage 3 - Football Victoria State Football Centre and Home of the Matildas. This included an ESD scope to explore sustainable design options and achieve Green Star certification. Max helped the ESD team conduct simulations and visualisations of solar radiation, daylighting, and access to views. He presented the findings to the project architects to inform design decisions to meet the project aspirations for sustainability and occupant experience.
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design Ngā Kāinga Anamata | Auckland | CONTEXT | Kāinga Ora | 2021 | Simulation & Modelling Lead 5 Systems is a pioneer project targeting Passive House certification for social housing and is being utilised as a flagship research experiment to test the implications of Passive House for a range of building types across New Zealand. Max conducted detailed energy modelling to test the building design for risk of overheating, following the international standards CIBSE TM52 and TM59. He used computational design methods and cloud computing to run multiple façade design options and conducted data analysis to enable deeper insights from the results. This methodology led to two scientific, peer-reviewed publications: in CAADRIA and IJAC. Aboriginal Art & Cultures Centre | Adelaide | Woods Bagot | Department for Infrastructure and Transport | 2021–2022 | Computational Designer The Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre, later named Tarrkarri, was a major cultural project proposed for Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen precinct. Aurecon’s integrated-design work included daylight, solar exposure, pedestrian wind and outdoor thermal-comfort analysis to help the design team balance artwork conservation, visitor comfort and the environmental performance of public and gallery spaces. Max contributed to a series of computational studies examining daylight and outdoor comfort. The daylight work assessed direct-sun exposure and cumulative annual light exposure in gallery spaces against artworksensitivity thresholds, as well as solar exposure in non-gallery areas. Max also co-developed the project’s outdoor-comfort analysis, combining CFD-derived wind conditions with UTCI to investigate strategies including shading, vegetation as a wind sink, evaporative cooling, high-albedo surfaces and the amphitheatre’s potential to act as a sheltered “cold pool.” ECU City Campus | Perth | Lyons | Edith Cowan University | 2021 | Building Performance Modeller ESD recommendations and Green Star advisory was provided for Edith Cowan University’s 73,750m² campus. Max ran numerous building performance simulation studies to assess the impacts of different ESD design parameters on energy consumption and occupant thermal comfort. Point Nepean ESD Consultancy | Victoria | Hassell | University of Melbourne | 2021 | Sustainability Consultant and Project Controller Max conducted 3D modelling and parametric building performance simulations in the early design stage for this project. As of the Detailed Design phase, he acted as the Project Controller and represented the Aurecon team by attending fortnightly design coordination meetings with the project team. Rostrevor High School Development DPSC | Adelaide | Brown Falconer | 2021 | Computational Designer The Rostrevor High School development involved a new learning environment in Adelaide, with Aurecon supporting the design team in establishing an integrated sustainability approach considering energy, thermal comfort, daylight, views, indoor air quality and embodied carbon. Max co-developed the sustainability start-up workshop with the wider Aurecon team, helping define key performance metrics and trade-offs between daylight, solar gain, energy use, comfort and carbon. He also introduced a parametric-study approach for rapidly exploring design options and embedding measurable performance criteria into early design decisions.
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design UoM Red Cross Site Project | Melbourne | JCB | University of Melbourne | 2021 | Computational Designer The University of Melbourne Red Cross Site project involved the development of a new campus building, with Aurecon supporting the design team in assessing façade and environmental-performance strategies during early design. Max developed a parametric building-performance study testing combinations of window-to-wall ratio, external shading depth, wall insulation, glazing U-value and solar heat gain coefficient. He compared their effects on heating and cooling demand and peak loads, and supplemented this with façade solar-radiation and daylight analysis to assess alternative void and north-façade configurations. The work helped expose trade-offs between envelope performance, solar control and daylight access and provided the design team with a quantitative basis for façade development. Building 173 “Old Engineering” | Melbourne | University of Melbourne | 2020 | Sustainability Engineering The University of Melbourne sought to refurbish its iconic, heritage-listed “Old Engineering” building, to improve its energy efficiency and occupant comfort. While the initial project brief merely sought to upgrade the building’s mechanical systems, the team identified opportunities to implement passive strategies as a more sustainable long-term solution. Max’s responsibilities involved the digital modelling of several passive strategy scenarios, from natural ventilation to structural improvements including double-glazing, cavity insulation and airtightness measures. An important component of the methodology was the use of Max’s graphic design capabilities in preparing engaging infographics and data visualisations to communicate the ideas to a broad audience. Multiple Public Schools Capital Work | Adelaide | DasStudio | 2020 | Computational Designer A project for the sustainable design of modular school buildings. The transdisciplinary approach with sustainability experts, mechanical engineers and applied science professionals, helped design several passive and active strategies from an early stage of the project. The design included active mechanical systems as well as a novel concept for stack-driven natural ventilation, sensor-driven night flushing and thermal labyrinths. Simulating the interplay between these systems is not possible through conventional software, and therefore Max’s job included the development of custom software-embedded coding scripts to model the unique design. A special achievement of this project was his seamless integration of several modelling scales and disciplines, most notably the interfacing of computational fluid dynamics simulation results as inputs to the building energy modelling.
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design Infrastructure & Advisory Reid Highway / Erindale Road Grade Separation | Perth | Main Roads WA | 2026 | Impact Assessment Study Lead The Reid Highway / Erindale Road Grade Separation is a major road upgrade in Perth's northern suburbs, replacing an at-grade intersection with a grade-separated interchange. Aurecon was engaged to assess how the proposed changes to ground cover, tree canopy and built form would affect urban heat and outdoor thermal comfort for surrounding communities and pedestrians. Max led a three-tier assessment spanning site, neighbourhood and street scales. He screened proposed ground cover against Green Star urban heat island criteria using GIS land-cover data, then modelled neighbourhood-scale air temperature effects with the Urban Weather Generator, critically testing the model's applicability to a linear, low-density road corridor against its published validation basis. He also produced spatial UTCI thermal comfort maps for pedestrian areas using Ladybug Tools, EnergyPlus and Radiance, supported by analysis of local climate and seasonal wind patterns. Max presented the findings to the client and design team, framing results as defensible, evidence-based guidance for design development. Olympic Dam - Power Identification Phase Study | South Australia | BHP | 2025 | Computational Design Lead Max led the computational design for a study to advise BHP on investment options to upgrade their transmissions network supplying their remote copper mines north of Adelaide. Max originated the algorithmic methodology for a Python-based framework to screen and rank investment alternatives for generation and transmission augmentations. It generates all feasible investment pathways across various future demand scenarios, consolidating multidisciplinary team and client data into a unified, automated workflow. He validated model outputs through interactive dashboards and manual cross-checks, and conveyed results and insights directly to the client through interactive workshops. This framework now underpins BHP’s Copper SA Power Strategy, providing a transparent, data-driven basis for long-term infrastructure investment aligned with reliability and decarbonisation targets. Sydney Trains MSA SEPP Assurance Review | Sydney | Sydney Trains | 2025-2026 | Technical Assurance Reviewer Under Sydney Trains’ Major Services Agreement, Aurecon provides technical assurance reviews of planning and design documentation for developments affecting the rail environment. The reviews include assessment of façade reflectivity and glare studies prepared to demonstrate compliance with relevant SEPP requirements and Sydney Trains criteria. Max reviewed consultant reflectivity and glare assessments, interrogating modelling assumptions, façade geometry, material reflectance, assessment locations and mitigation measures. He focused on identifying material risks and gaps rather than generating unnecessary review comments, including checking the traceability of design revisions and whether conservative screening assumptions adequately enveloped later design changes. His reviews translated complex simulation outputs into concise, actionable assurance comments, helping Sydney Trains determine where clarification, further validation or design controls were warranted. Central Precinct Program TA | Sydney | Grimshaw | Transport for NSW Infrastructure and Place | 2022 | Computational Designer Aurecon acted as Technical Advisor to Transport for NSW for the transformation of Sydney's Central Station precinct, including the historic Terminal Building and surrounding public spaces. The work sought to improve
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design the performance and passenger experience of the station while responding sensitively to its existing architecture. Max supported the ESD team through a parametric study of redesign options for the roof of the historic Central Hall. He modelled daylight availability, solar exposure and thermal comfort across alternative configurations, allowing the team to understand how architectural changes affected multiple aspects of environmental performance simultaneously. Max presented the findings and worked directly with Grimshaw to use the analysis as an evidence base for design development and option selection.
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design SKA-LOW Infrastructure Professional Services Contract (PSC) | Western Australia | CSIRO | 2022 | Climate/Comfort Modeller The SKA-LOW project required accommodation and supporting facilities to perform in the extreme climatic conditions of its remote Western Australian site. Aurecon's work included assessing how site planning and built-form decisions could improve environmental conditions for occupants. Max undertook climate and building-performance modelling to compare alternative village layouts and quantify their relative ability to provide comfortable conditions in the site's harsh desert climate. The analysis allowed environmental performance to be considered during layout optioneering, providing the design team with an evidence base for understanding how early planning decisions affected occupant comfort. Suburban Rail Loop | Melbourne | Suburban Rail Loop Authority (SRLA) | 2021 | Computational Designer The Suburban Rail Loop was a large infrastructure project, including the construction of several new train stations for Melbourne. Aurecon’s contribution to the project was an interdisciplinary collaboration aimed at reducing energy consumption and increasing occupant thermal comfort and well-being. Max provided consultations to the project architects on daylighting. By conducting parametric simulations, he tested design options to bring natural daylight into the underground stations, with the goal of increasing wellbeing and wayfinding within the stations, as well as striving to achieve Green Star certification.
Data Centres “Data Centre Projects in Tullamarine and Truganina” | Melbourne | “Client X” | 2023-2024 | Design Coordinator & LEED Lead Max was the Design Coordinator for two large confidential data centre projects in construction. The role required the ad-hoc coordination of solutions to complex and specialised, live construction issues. The reason Max was chosen for this role was due to his ability to facilitate collaborative design and problem solving; this skill was demonstrated on previous projects, especially in the context of meeting sustainability requirements that require cross-disciplinary coordination. Later, he led the ESD team to deliver LEED Gold certification. Project MacGyver | APAC | “Client Z” | 2023 | Project Controller This confidential project is a reference design for a data centre typology to be implemented by a client across the APAC region. Engineering delivered all engineering services associated with the design. Max’s role on this project was as a project controller. As such, he set up the project digitally and helped manage and report on the project’s project management activities and commercials.
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design
Digital, Data & Automation Digital Tools & Computational Workflows “Aurecon Buildings Carbon sketcher” (“ABCs”) | ANZ | Aurecon | 2021-2024 | Initiative Lead Max led the development of the “Aurecon Buildings Carbon sketcher”, an in-house, early design stage carbon calculator for buildings. The user-friendly tool estimates structural element sizes and energy consumption which allows designers to make top-level, order-of-magnitude assessments of different structural and mechanical solutions based on the impact on the carbon footprint of the building. To achieve an industry-leading product that considers carbon accounting holistically at concept design, Max coordinated a collaborative workflow between engineers across disciplines to develop a modular tool that assesses the interdependencies between design decisions across different disciplines. This work has led to a scientific, peer-reviewed publication presented at the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) 2023 symposium. EnergyPlus Verification Initiative | ANZ | Aurecon | 2023 | Study Lead While IES is the official and approved energy modelling software across Aurecon, it has limitations in terms of how it can be used for automation and large-scale parametric studies. Especially for early design stage ESD studies, parametric modelling has become an increasingly important and valuable exercise to set up projects from the outset in a way that sets the project up for success in terms of building performance, occupant comfort, and affordability. Another software that does allow for increased customisation and automation is EnergyPlus. It integrates well with other modelling software like the Rhino/Grasshopper environment for parametric design. In order to facilitate the adoption of these novel computational methods across Aurecon, Max led a detailed study to verify EnergyPlus against IES, and to formulate a lessons learnt report that sets out recommendations and processes for Aurecon engineers to use EnergyPlus in a way that Aurecon can have confidence in the modelling results and accuracy of recommendations ensuing from these studies. “Aurecon DesignSpace” | Global | Aurecon | 2021-2022 | Initiative Lead Large parametric design studies can generate hundreds or thousands of potential solutions, making the interpretation and communication of results as important as the modelling itself. Aurecon DesignSpace was developed as an internal web-based environment for interactively exploring these multidimensional design datasets and supporting option comparison and optimisation. Max initiated and led the development of DesignSpace, adapting the open-source Design Explorer platform to Aurecon's requirements and data-management policies. The tool combined interactive parallel-coordinate plots, scatter plots and other visualisations, enabling project teams to filter large option sets, identify relationships between variables and explore trade-offs between competing design objectives without requiring specialist data-analysis software.
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design Data Analytics & Visualisation Commercial Dashboarding | ANZ | Aurecon | 2025-2026 | Designer & Developer Aurecon's commercial teams on two major health infrastructure projects in ANZ – the New Women's and Children's Hospital (Adelaide) and the New Mandurah Hospital (WA) – needed real-time visibility over project financial performance. Max designed and built an end-to-end commercial dashboarding system comprising a Python data pipeline and Power BI front-end, covering forecast hours and fees, baseline budget, actuals (labour and expenses), cost rates, margin, escalation, work-sharing, and contingency – across multiple disciplines and project phases. Max was the sole designer and developer of the entire system. He built the Python pipeline from scratch to ingest, clean, and reconcile data from multiple source systems (Workday actuals exports, PDT forecast files, baseline budget workbooks), resolve worker identities and cost rates across a 177-person resource pool, and write structured output tables back into a shared Excel workbook for Power BI consumption. The system replaced manual consolidation work, introduced automated override and validation workflows, and was extended to support a second project with a substantially different WBS structure – ultimately enabling the wider commercial team, including non-technical stakeholders, to run refreshes independently. UOM SCEU Economy Cycle Energy Optimisation | Victoria | University of Melbourne | 2025-2026 | Data Analyst Aurecon supported the University of Melbourne in assessing the operational performance of multiple campus buildings as part of its net-zero program. The work involved analysing extensive BMS sensor records spanning several months, including environmental conditions, energy consumption, flow rates and other building-services data, to inform mechanical engineering recommendations. Max developed an AI-assisted data-processing workflow to clean, validate, standardise, analyse and visualise the disparate source data. He converted large volumes of granular sensor logs into consistent, quality-controlled and appropriately downsampled datasets structured for straightforward use in Excel, significantly reducing manual data preparation and allowing the mechanical engineers to focus on interpreting building performance and developing recommendations. MEL05 MPFR | Melbourne | AirTrunk | 2025 | Webapp Designer & Developer The MEL05 MPFR project involved the assessment of thermal performance and airflow conditions around critical data-centre equipment across a range of operating scenarios and site configurations. CFD simulations were used to test how equipment arrangements, ambient conditions and building orientation affected local temperatures and cooling performance. Max designed and developed an interactive web application to make the CFD study results easier to interrogate and communicate. The tool consolidated simulation outputs into a visual interface that allowed users to explore thermal conditions around individual equipment items across different building orientations and simulation scenarios, rather than reviewing results as isolated model outputs. This enabled engineers to compare scenarios more efficiently, identify orientation-dependent thermal risks and use the simulation results more directly to inform design decisions.
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design La Trobe University Net Zero Owners | Melbourne | La Trobe University | 2023-2024 | Data Analyst Aurecon supported La Trobe University in evaluating options to upgrade fume cupboards across its laboratory portfolio, with the mechanical engineering team assessing the performance and implications of alternative upgrade strategies across multiple buildings and laboratory spaces. Max consolidated and restructured the engineering calculation and simulation outputs into a consistent dataset, then developed a lightweight dashboard-style reporting interface within Excel. The tool enabled rapid comparison of upgrade options and key performance indicators without the overhead of developing a separate BI platform, making the analysis easier for the project team to interrogate, communicate and use in developing recommendations. Mt Piper BESS Tech and Enviro | New South Wales | EnergyAustralia | 2023 | Data Visualisation Aurecon supported EnergyAustralia in the site selection, approvals and technical development of a proposed 500 MW / 4-hour Battery Energy Storage System at the operational Mt Piper Power Station. The engagement began with a baseline coal-dust investigation and approvals scoping and expanded to include the State Significant Development Environmental Impact Statement, multicriteria site-selection analysis and technical studies supporting the proposed BESS. Max developed visualisations combining measured particulate-matter concentrations with the wind conditions recorded at the time of each monitoring event. By bringing otherwise separate environmental datasets together spatially and temporally, the analysis helped the team interpret potential relationships between dust concentrations and prevailing wind direction and communicate findings from the baseline investigation more clearly.
Research & Applied Innovation Daylight Levels in Victoria Building – Modelling Research | Victoria | Municipal Association of Victoria | 2022-2024 | Project Manager & Study Lead Max was the main contributor and project manager leading a simulation research study to critically evaluate the daylight modelling standards set out in the current Victorian Planning Provisions (VPP) and the Built Environment Sustainability Scorecard (BESS). Max designed the exceptional study involving daylight simulations of ~140,000 room types, requiring cloudbased simulations and advanced data analysis of the calculation results to help the Municipal Association of Victoria to rethink current provisions. Research Study on Indoor Environmental Quality | Melbourne | Swinburne University of Technology | 2022 | Research Supervisor Swinburne University’s Internship program seeks to link academia to industry by organizing placements of students as internships within companies. This gives businesses the opportunity to pursue research, while the students benefit from supervision and mentoring from industry professionals. Max led one such initiative on behalf of Aurecon. He led two student interns to conduct a study in a realworld environment; the team set up environmental sensors in an operational, naturally ventilated school building, and then set up feedback devices in the rooms to inform the occupants of indoor CO2 levels. The study successfully demonstrated that such feedback devices are effective at keeping CO2 levels within acceptable ranges in rooms that are not mechanically ventilated, by encouraging occupants to open windows. The study results were published in a double-blind, peer-reviewed paper presented at the 26th International Clean Air and Environment CASANZ Conference in Adelaide.
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design
Leadership & Capability Employment history
Aurecon | Lead Consultant, Computational Design | 2024-present (full-time)
Swinburne University of Technology | Sessional Lecturer | 2023-present (sessional)
Aurecon | Senior Consultant, Computational Design | 2021-2024 (full-time)
Aurecon | Consultant, Computational Design | 2020-2021 (full-time)
Aurecon | Digital Specialist (Computational Design) | 2019-2020 (part-time)
Aurecon | Digital Specialist (Computational Design) | 2017-2019 (research intern)
Bollinger + Grohmann | Computational Designer | 2018–2019
RMIT University | Lecturer | 2017–2018
HENN Architects | Architect | 2016–2017
Berlin University of the Arts | Lecturer and Research Assistant | 2014–2016
gmp Architekten | Student Assistant | 2013–2014
Technical skills
Advanced 3D modelling and parametric design capabilities
Site-specific climate analysis and outdoor comfort modelling
Advanced building performance simulations using Radiance and EnergyPlus
Data analysis, visualisation, and the development of custom digital tools in Python
Leadership skills
Project management
Project controls
Design coordination
Software development lead
Mentoring (computational design, simulation, parametric modelling, data analysis)
Max Marschall Lead Consultant, Computational Design Strategy, Learning, and Eminence
IALCCE 2025: On behalf of Aurecon, Max was invited to present at the International Association for LifeCycle Civil Engineering. His talk was titled "Embedding Sustainability through Advanced Lifecycle Assessment Techniques: Challenges and Opportunities in the AEC Industry".
Exemplar Forum 2024 – Generative AI: Max was accepted to participate in Aurecon’s annual digital forum. In 2024, the topic was on how generative AI can be utilised across the AEC industry for automation as well as to create new value streams for our clients.
Exemplar Forum 2023 – Sustainability in Design: Max was accepted to participate in Aurecon’s annual digital forum. In 2023, the topic was on how to use digital tools to bring insight to complex sustainability challenges.
Cybersecurity, 2023: Max completed Aurecon’s internal learning pathway on securely managing Aurecon’s internal as well as client data.
Digital Champion, 2021-2023: Max held the “Digital Champion” role hat for Aurecon’s Buildings team across Victoria. The purpose of this role is to facilitate digital transformation across the teams.
Leadership Foundations Program, 2022: Max participated in this 12-month leadership development pathway by Adeption, for emerging professionals to embed the mindsets and behaviours to support ongoing leadership growth and impact.
pmX, 2021: Max completed Aurecon’s internal learning pathway for project management.
Scientific publications
Marschall, M. G., & Sepulveda Corradini, J. P. (2023). An industry case study using parametric modelling to facilitate Passive House design. International Journal of Architectural Computing.
Marschall M, et al. (2023). Aurecon Buildings Carbon sketcher: A cross-disciplinary webtool for carbon neutral building design. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2023 Integration of Design and Fabrication 10–14 July 2023, Melbourne.
Yu C, Farrant T, Marschall M (2022). Impacts of COVIDSafe practices and CO2 feedback devices on CO2 levels in classrooms. CASANZ22 26th International Clean Air and Environment Conference. Adelaide.
Dong, B., et al. (2022). A Global Building Occupant Behavior Database. Scientific Data, 9(1), 1-15.
Gao, N., Marschall, M., Burry, J. Watkins, S., & Salim, F. D. Understanding occupants’ behaviour, engagement, emotion, and comfort indoors with heterogeneous sensors and wearables. Sci Data 9, 261 (2022).
Marschall M, Sepulveda S (2022). How to prevent a Passive House from overheating: An industry case study using parametric design to propose compliance strategies. Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2022 .
Marschall, M., 2020. Humans in the Loop: Incorporating Occupant Behaviour in Building Performance Simulation. PhD Thesis, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Marschall, M., Burry, J., & Tahmasebi, F, 2020. Simulating Natural Ventilation in Early Stage Design: Combining an Occupant Behaviour Model with an Airflow Network Approach. Impact: Design with All Senses, 2018, 119–131.
Marschall, M., & Burry, J., 2019. Can the use of stochastic models of occupants’ environmental control behaviour influence architectural design outcomes? Intelligent and Informed - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2019, 1, 715–724.
Marschall, M., Tahmasebi, F., & Burry, J., 2019. Including Occupant Behaviour in Building Simulation: Comparison of a Deterministic vs. a Stochastic Approach. 2019 Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture & Urban Design (pp. 161–168). Georgia Tech, College of Design, School of Architecture.
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