Study level

  • PhD

Faculty/School

Faculty of Engineering

School of Architecture and Built Environment

Topic status

We're looking for students to study this topic.

Research centre

Supervisors

Dr Madhav Nepal
Position
Senior Lecturer
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Engineering

Overview

Australia is facing an intense housing crisis. Access to affordable housing has sharply declined. Moreover, the average rental vacancy is at historically low, at around 1% in major cities. The  Australian government has unveiled ambitious plans to boost housing supply by building thousands and thousands of new homes within the next 10 years. However, the construction industry's capacity is severely constrained to build and supply such as the local industry relies mostly in traditional in-situ construction methods and techniques.

This research will do a comprehensive analysis of industrialised construction methods that other countries have adopted to provide affordable housing solutions and their applications to Australia. It will identify strategies that the government, industry, and social enterprises could adopt to enable increased use of industrialised construction for increase efficiency and productivity.

Research activities

In this project you will

  • carry out a critical analysis and review review of literature including synthesis of findings
  • prepare a final report that incorporates the outcomes of investigating the three research aims.

Outcomes

This project aims to:

  • conduct a comprehensive analysis of industrialised construction methods that other countries have adopted to provide affordable housing solutions
  • critically assess the feasibility of using those industrialised construction methods in Australia
  • identify strategies that the Australian government, industry, and social enterprises could use to enable increased use of industrialised construction methods for greater efficiency and productivity.

Skills and experience

You should have received a first class or upper second class honours degree or equivalent, or a masters degree with a GPA greater than 6, with at least a 25% of research component.

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