Built Environment Research Forum 2 Post-Forum Report
Arts, Design & Architecture - UNSW Sydney
Built Environment Research Forum 12.30 pm to 1:45 pm, Wednesday, 29 September 2021
The forum focuses on all relevant advances, challenges and opportunities related to the built environment, furthering interdisciplinary discussions and industry partnerships.
Arts, Design & Architecture - UNSW Sydney
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Research Forum Agenda Welcome, overview and outlines • Welcome to the Forum session • ADA Research • Research Forum overview Panel 1: BE research topics (Chair: Susan Thompson) [15 min] 1. Industry-driven research in construction management 2. (Computationally) Designing Out Waste 3. Garden Island Navy precinct: a story of political and BE transformations Panel 2: Academic-Industry partnership story (Chair: Elisa Palazzo) [20 min] 1. Smart Social Spaces: Smart Street Furniture Supporting Social Health 2. From class to commercialisation - how discussions in the classroom turned into two start-ups Informative session [10 min] Introduction to support services provided by Knowledge Exchange. Panel 3: BE HDR research (Chair: Paola Favaro) [10 min] 1. How to empower female students to be female professionals in the Indonesian construction industry. 2. Spatial Provocateur- questioning the status quo Panel 4: Interdisciplinary research (Chair: Gloria Pignatta) [15’] 1. Digital Twin with Engineering Analysis 2. Concessionary Imperialism: Infrastructure and the Making of the Contractable State in Post-Ottoman Syria
Built Environment Philip Oldfield, Head of School Michael J Ostwald, Associate Dean of Research Samad Sepasgozar, Deputy Head of School Research • • •
Riza Yosia Sunindijo, A/Prof, Construction Management Nicole Gardner, Senior Lecturer, Computational Design Paola Favaro, Senior Lecturer & HDR Research Co-ordinator
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Kate Bishop, Associate Professor and Director of Landscape Architecture June Lee Boxsell, Head of Marketing and Innovation, Street Furniture. M. Hank Haeusler, Director of Computational Design Rob Asher, CEO and Founder at Giraffe Technology
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Miranda Einstein, Business Development Manager
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Christina Liem, PhD candidate, People’s choice winner 3MT competition FADA 2021 Farnaz Fattahi, PhD candidate
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Chongmin Song, Professor and Director of Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES), Faculty of Engineering Stephen Pascoe, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laureate Centre for History & Population, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Thank you to all who participated in the BE Research Forum.
Organising committee members
Participants notes!
Number of participants: 83 Number of speakers: 17 Number of quiz participants: Forum duration: 1 ½ hours
Annual Forum 2021
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Date/time: 1st December, The plenary session will be from 12:30 to 1:45, and technical sessions will be held simultaneously from 1:45 to 2:30 pm. Registration link to receive more information: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/theannual-built-environment-researchforum-tickets-191494664697?keep_tld=1
The 3rd Built Environment Research Forum: Advances and Future Directions
Plenary sessions: Welcoming and opening Journal publication: trends and challenges from editors’ perspectives Academics and Industry partners Advances and future directions Technical sessions:
3301 Architecture 3302 Building and Construction 3303 Design 3304 Urban and Regional Planning
Philip Oldfield Head of School, Built Environment As we carry on through this lockdown, we don’t get to see what everyone is doing, particularly from a research perspective. That’s why I think these Research Forums are important
Michael J Ostwald Associate Dean Research It's been challenging creating a new faculty at short notice. But we are now a huge and powerful faculty. Last year the new faculty produced 1093 research outputs, BE and City Futures had 284 of these, which is more than a quarter of the total.
Samad Sepasgozar Deputy Head of School Research The forum is to learn from each other’s research outputs and best practices and also to extend the research network and identify potential opportunities that can support us.
Speakers and the summary of presentations
Dr. Riza Yosia Sunindijo, Associate Professor, Construction Management
Industry-driven research in construction management Construction is the third largest industry in Australia. Despite its significance, the industry is notoriously known for its poor health and safety performance. Addressing this problem, my first research area focuses on the need to develop safety culture through safety leadership and management system. This effort also involves improving the mental health of construction personnel. The industry is also fragmented due to the participation of various stakeholders with conflicting goals. My second research area, therefore, focuses on developing leadership strategies for promoting effective stakeholder management to achieve key project objectives.
(Computationally) Designing Out Waste Dr. Nicole Gardner, Senior Lecturer, Computational Design
Construction and demolition waste is a significant economic and environmental problem. In the AEC industry, waste is typically addressed in a building’s construction and demolition phase. Yet, architectural design decision making can significantly influence construction waste generation. Following the logic of zero waste, this research resituates the problem of construction waste within the architectural design process and investigates its reconceptualization as a data and informational problem in a design system. The research explores the possible roles that computational design decision support tools can play in raising waste awareness in design towards minimizing waste at the source.
Garden Island Navy precinct: a story of political and built environment transformations
Dr. Paola Favaro, Senior Lecturer & HDR Research Co-ordinator Garden Island Precinct was listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 2004 as a place of state significance for its naval history. The report includes the early naval buildings designed by the colonial architect James Barnet (1827-1904) and the Graving Dock infrastructure (1940-1942) described as ‘the greatest engineering feat in Australia’s history, surpassing even the Sydney Harbour Bridge’. Curiously, the Navy buildings developed in the 1980s by Sydney architects Harry Seidler (19232006), Ken Woolley (1933-2015), John Andrews (1934 -) and Philip Cox (1939 -) and realised with the support of prestigious engineering firms are not mentioned in the report.
Dr. Paola Favaro Senior Lecturer & HDR Research Co-ordinator
Garden Island Navy precinct: a story of political and built environment transformations
Smart Social Spaces: Smart Street Furniture Supporting Social Health Dr Kate Bishop is Associate Professor and Director of Landscape Architecture in the School of Built Environment. Her background in environment-behaviour research underpins her teaching and research and her particular areas of interest: children, youth and environments and people and place. Kate worked in private industry and government before becoming an academic.
From 2017- 2020, a collaboration including Street Furniture Australia, Georges River Council, and eight UNSW academics from five different disciplines within the Built Environment, completed two projects funded by the Commonwealth Smart Cities and Suburbs grant program. Both projects tested new smart products: 1): Healthy Living Hardware Pole 2): ChillOut Hub
June Lee Boxsell is Head of Marketing and Innovation, Street Furniture Australia. Her team’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, World Bank Report: The Hidden Wealth of Cities, Bloomberg CityLab, ArchDaily, ABC Radio and more. Awards received include the Good Design Award, National Smart Cities Award by Smart Cities Council, the German Design Award and the PIA National Award.
Both used social media mapping, behaviour mapping and digital IoT [Internet of Things] sensors installed on street furniture to record real time use of urban furnishings in several public spaces including parks, plazas and streets. A Smart Asset Management (SAM) system was also developed. The shared aims of both projects included: 1) enabling additional amenity and greater social engagement with everyday places and 2): enabling efficient and informed management of public space and its infrastructure in a local government precinct. https://streetfurniture.com/about /meet-the-team/june-boxsell/
Associate Professor M. Hank Haeusler is the Founding Director of Computational Design / Built Environment at ADA UNSW Sydney; Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing; Head of Research, Foresight and Innovation at Giraffe Technology; and known as a researcher, educator, entrepreneur and designer in media architecture and computational design through over 160 publications.
From class to commercialisation - how discussions in the classroom turned into two start-ups
Computational Design offers amazing opportunities for architects and designers to optimise, simulate, or analyse their design ideas. Yet it has one big problem - one needs to know how to program. Starting from this discussion in the classroom, a research funding application with Lucy Booth and Rob Asher at the time both working for Cox Architecture, led to ‘Urban Pinboard’ a web-based community engagement platform. Yet while Urban Pinboard was established we could see further potential for the development of a platform with even greater reach - ‘Giraffe Technology’ now a company with offices in the US and Australia. https://www.giraffe.build/about Rob Asher is CEO and Founder at Giraffe Technology. Prior to Giraffe he was an Associate at Cox Architecture with experience across multiple sectors and delivery phases, from design through to consultant coordination and delivery on site. Rob is active in the profession, giving talks and running courses at UNSW / Computational Design.
Miranda Einstein, Business Development Manager This short presentation is an introduction to support services provided by Knowledge Exchange. The presentation will give an overview of how Knowledge Exchange fits into the range of research support services available to researchers and explains why, when and how to work with Knowledge Exchange to drive impact and engagement in your research.
Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge Exchange
How to empower female students to be female professionals in the Indonesian construction industry The women’s empowerment in the Indonesian construction industry is in line with the Indonesian Government’s Long-term National Development Plan (2005-2025) and to solve the professional shortage in this industry. This qualitative research employs semi-structured interviews with three groups of informants from engineering students to the female leaders in the construction industry. The research finding contributes to advancing the theory of women’s empowerment measurement by Christina Liem, Oxfam (2017) and to initiating the PhD candidate, women’s empowerment framework in People’s the Indonesian construction industry. choice winner This research outcome is a starting point for future research to increase 3min competition the quantity and quality of FADA 2021 professional women in this industry globally.
Christina Liem, PhD candidate, People’s choice winner 3 min competition FADA 2021
Spatial Provocateur_ questioning the status quo
Farnaz Fattahi, PhD candidate
Responding to the continuous challenges faced by society, is a group of artist-architects coined in this research as the Spatial Provocateur. They question the status quo and challenge the established assumptions by creating disruptive typologies of spatial interventions and generating provocative narratives, through choreographing immersive experiences of collective interaction.
Chongmin Song, Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Director of Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES), Faculty of Engineering
Digital Twin with Engineering Analysis Digital images, point clouds and STL are becoming increasingly popular in geometry modelling and engineering owing to recent advances in digital technology. However, these data formats are not directly usable with technologies for engineering analysis, which have been mostly developed for use with Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models represented by continuous mathematical functions such as splines. We present a novel scaled boundary finite element framework to overcome this obstacle. It enables fully automated engineering analysis directly from common formats of geometric models. Its concept and potential are illustrated by several examples and a small demonstration.
Chongmin Song, Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Director of Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES), Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Stephen Pascoe, postdoctoral fellow in the Laureate Centre for History & Population Concessionary Imperialism: Infrastructure and the Making of the Contractable State in Post-Ottoman Syria
This paper presents a slice of my larger research project, in which I argue that foreign-capitalized infrastructure companies during the Age of Steam practiced a form of “concessionary imperialism”. By this term, I mean the attempt to engineer long-term contractual arrangements to build, operate and control vital urban and regional infrastructure (electricity, railways, roads, ports) understood to be indispensable to modern social and economic life. In this paper, I examine the relationship between the French imperial state and concessionary companies that had been active in Ottoman Syria prior to World War I. I argue that French imperial planners crafted a “contractable state”, which institutionalised the outsourcing of vital infrastructure via contracts intentionally drafted to outlive the temporary system of mandate government.
Event News
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The 1.5°C global warming forecast could be a reality in the next decade Limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C could be beyond reach
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Open until: 17 October 2021 • The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) opens the second and final consultation stage of the proposed update of the (NCC) 2022. • Some of the significant amendments proposed in the final stage of the PCD include: a stringent increase in the thermal performance of homes from
the current level introducing whole-of-home annual energy use requirements a new set of Deemed-to-Satisfy elemental provisions for Class 2 buildings new provisions designed to allow easy retrofit of on-site renewables and electric vehicle charging equipment for Class 2 to 9 buildings, and enhanced condensation management provisions
NEWS Congratulate Kristina Ulm for winning 3MT 2021 ASPIRE Prize.
The ASPIRE Winner is awarded by Liverpool Boys High School.
Kristina’s presentation was Veggies in
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Call for Papers
Architectural Science Review
Impact Factor 1.99; SJR: Q1 Guest Editors: Scientia Prof Deo Prasad; Professor Francois Garde; Dr Anir Upadhyay d.prasad@unsw.edu.au; anir.upadhyay@unsw.edu.au
The journal Architectural Science Review is currently running a Special Issue ‘Low Carbon Buildings and Neighbourhoods’. This Special Issue attempts to disentangle the complex relationship between carbon emissions, energy consumption, thermal comfort and health & well-being of occupants in the context of the built environment. You may send your Expression of Interest on email: anir.upadhyay@unsw.edu.au as soon as possible. The Special Issue Website is: https://anzasca.net/newsletters/2020/20203.pdf
Call for Papers Buildings
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The journal Buildings is currently running a Special Issue “Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in Smart Cities and Construction". This Special Issue invites all scholars of the field, who have investigated the following topics, to contribute through submission of articles. Implementation of innovative approaches, proposed novel methods, or tools that can be used for monitoring, measuring, and managing environmental issues (as well as social and economic challenges) in construction and cities at the construction, building, or city scale. Sustainable practices, case studies, technology development, and/or policies developed for smart construction and smart cities. Review papers and conceptual developments discussing the role of regulatory frameworks and complementary policies for further implementation of sustainable cities and building initiatives.
You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline: 30 November 2021. The Special Issue Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings/special_is sues/Sustain_Energ_Efficienc_Smart_Cit_Construct
Prizes Try to win a prize during the Forum by participating in a short quiz!
Five unofficial prizes will be awarded to five quiz participants in the Research Forum. The quiz will be open during the online session only, and winners will be selected randomly from the list of participants who answered the quiz questions correctly. A gift card valued at $50 will be awarded to each winner. Please note: there will be no appeal procedure and the winner selections are final. Please note: if the winner is a BE researcher and eligible based on the BE internal grant funding guidelines, they may be offered paper publication support for covering an article processing charge up to $1500 or editing expenses up to $700, subject to required approvals and availability of the fund at the time of request (no later than 30 October 2021).
Congratulations!!! To the quiz winners • Thank you to our participants in the BE Research Forum quiz. We had 38 entries for the quiz. The correct answers are: • What can knowledge exchange assist with? a. Contract and collaborative research, Tenders/ Bids and IP commercialization. • 2. How should you calculate budgets for externally funded research? b. Use the UNSW Pricing Tool. • 3. What does RGC stand for and what they do? c. Research, Grants & Contracts for all pre-awards and post award grant administration including compliance review, and contract management, sign-offs on grants, amendments.
• Three people below were selected as winners: cynthia.wang@unsw.edu.au k.ulm@unsw.edu.au e.julistiono@unsw.edu.au
• The main purpose of this quiz was to help you become familiar with Knowledge Exchange. If you have any questions about KE please don’t hesitate to contact Miranda Einstein.
Congratulations!!! To the winners of Abstracts
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Behnaz Avazpour Farnaz Fattahi Henrique Sala Benites Kristina Ulm Maziar Yazdani Kamyar Kabirifar
• 6 out of 12 abstracts were selected in the second research forum. • The abstracts were reviewed and selected by the organizing committee of the BE Research Forum. The selected abstracts will be awarded a gift voucher worth $100 each. • Please note: The winning selections are final, since there is no appeal procedure.
Thank you for your participation and see you in the annual forum!