prefabAUS 2017 Conference

Growing. Innovating. Revolutionising.

11 - 13 September 2017 | The Glasshouse - Olympic Boulevard, Olympic Park Melbourne, Victoria

TThank you to everyone who completed our online Conference Survey. The feedback received has provided us with a great insight into what you liked best, what we can improve, and what you’re looking for in 2018.

We’d like to announce the winners of the survey competition:

The complimentary prefabAUS 2018 Conference registration was won by Damien Lipp from Dindas

The 3 x dozen mixed wine cases were won by David Heath from ARC CAMP.H; Joyce Ferng from AECOM; and Steven Janssen from Laing O’Rourke

Congratulations to the winners!

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Conference Speakers

International Keynote Speaker

Featured

Ewelina Wozniak-Szpakiewicz

Ewelina is the CEO at DMDmodular, an award-winning company that offers unique volumetric modular solutions focusing on the hospitality, student living and housing industries.

Mark Farmer

Modernise or die: the construction industry's burning platform for change.

Confirmed Speakers

Featured

Kristin Brookfield

Kristin is the Chief Executive – Industry Policy for the Housing Industry Association (HIA). Having worked with HIA for 16 years, Kristen is an experienced advocate for Australia’s residential building industry. She leads a diverse national team of staff in planning, building, workplace health and safety, skills and training, industrial relations, business compliance and housing economics. She is also responsible for guiding HIA’s interaction with federal and state governments that address housing supply and affordability.

Lance Worrall

Lance Worrall, Economy and Industry Development Specialist

David Chandler OAM

David Chandler OAM is the newly-appointed NSW Building Commissioner. He provides strategic oversight of building regulation and regulatory changes, actively supporting the Government's commitment to ensuring the safety, amenity and sustainability of the built environment.

David has extensive experience across construction in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. He was the Construction Director for Australia's New Parliament House and has led enterprises involved in major projects, public capital works procurement, business transition and transaction due-diligence. He has also been Chairman and Director on a range of private and public boards, joint-ventures and enquiries into the performance of the construction industry.

Professor James Murray-Parkes

James is a Director of Science & Engineering at Brookfield. For Brookfield and its entities, James and his team offer complete, end-to-end design solutions, forensic investigation, technical strategy, design concepts, technical & computational peer review, standards and code interpretations.

James is widely regarded as a world leader in high-load connection innovation and design. His unique design capabilities have influenced over 800 projects in the construction, energy and defence sectors. The design solutions he developed with the Brookfield team resulted in lighter weight structures, which minimise materials and are easier, safer and faster to construct.

Darren O'Dea

Prefab – A simple Solution for High Performance, Passive House (Passivhaus) Construction?

Robert Beson

Design interpretation and detailing for fabrication

David Bylund

Beneath the Veneer - developing resilience in the Australian prefabrication supply chain

Nick Carter

Solar and battery solutions are set to add spark to the construction sector

Lauren Christie

What we can teach ourselves about encouraging technology uptake?

David Chuter

The Innovative Manufacturing CRC (IMCRC) and Industrial Transformation opportunities for prefabAUS members

Nick Deeks

Nick has 35 years of experience in the property and construction industries, 13 years in the UK and the past 22 years of which are in Australia.

Ross Harding

Self sufficient buildings and financial viability - are we there yet?

John Lucchetti

John is the Principal and Section Manager in the WGE Melbourne office. He is actively involved in the construction industry and is currently a director of Prefab Aus. In his tenure at WGE, John has worked in both the Perth and Melbourne offices establishing himself as a highly skilled Project Engineer and Project Coordinator across a variety of projects.

Mikael Ludvigsson

Smart housing in Sweden – the 'triple helix' approach driving innovations in glass and wood

Stanislav Martinec

Modularity for a future flexible world

David Michel

From builder to prefab modular manufacturer: mid-life crisis or no brainer?

Alexander Neuss

Prefab evolution in Europe

Tim Pallas MP

Tim was elected to the Victorian Parliament in 2006 and is the state member for Werribee. Following the election of the Andrews Labor Government in November 2014, he was sworn in as Victoria’s 50th Treasurer.

Mark Peters

Mark holds a bachelor of Commerce degree. He spent his former years working in the field of banking and finance in Australia. Specialising in off shore projects with majority of his banking career spent at JP Morgan.

Dr George Quezada

Navigating digital disruption and global change.

Adam Strong

Adam is Managing Director at Strongbuild

Industry Leaders Panel

Featured

Kristin Brookfield

Danni Addison

Danni is the chief executive officer of the Urban Development Institute of Australia in Victoria and one of Australia’s most recognised property experts.

Vanessa Bird

Vanessa is the Victorian Chapter President of the Australian Institute of Architects, and speaks on behalf of the Architectural profession in Victoria to numerous government and professional bodies.

Sally Capp

Sally is the Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia. She has extensive experience in CEO and executive leadership roles in the government and private sectors.

David Chuter

The Innovative Manufacturing CRC (IMCRC) and Industrial Transformation opportunities for prefabAUS members

Peter Malatt

Peter is the Immediate Past President, Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects.

Conference Program

Download Program

The experts who produced the Modular Construction Code will speak on why it was needed and how it was developed, along with insights into its design and construction elements. In addition, all conference delegates will receive a digital copy of the final Code handbook – the first time it will be released.

Featured

Professor James Murray-Parkes

Yu Bai

Dr Yu Bai received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, investigating innovative construction materials such as fibre reinforced polymer, and performing research into structural fundamentals which feed into modular construction methodologies.

Dynamic Steel Frame - Factory Visit

Dynamic Steel Frame designs and manufactures light gauge steel wall framing for roof trusses; floor cassettes for multi-residential, education and commercial projects; facades and a range of other applications. They also recently commenced manufacturing bathroom pods.

Impresa House - Factory Visit

Utilising world leading technologies and automation equipment, Impresa House produces precision manufactured panelised wall frames, both open and closed; floor cassettes and roof elements at its state of the art manufacturing facility based in Derrimut, Victoria.

Oakleigh South Childcare Centre: Australia’s first childcare CLT project

Oakleigh South Childcare Centre is Australia’s first cross-laminated timber (CLT) childcare centre. Constructed using approximately 260 XLam CLT panels (delivered in 10 x 40’ containers), it was installed in a little over ten days with an average team of four excluding crane crew. This is a Hume Property project, with the Atelier Projects as the main contractor. Works are still underway with completion expected later in the year.

Tullamore: Mirvac’s three-level panelised townhouses project

These townhouses are part of Mirvac’s 800 lot Tullamore estate project in Doncaster. The floor and wall panels are supplied by FutureFit’s panelised building system. Floor cassettes for this project are typically around six metres by 2.4 metres in size, and the panelised walls are up to three metres high and six metres long. This is a live site, with a bank of five townhouses currently being installed.

Conference Sponsors

Sponsorship opportunities are available. For a copy of the Sponsorship Prospectus please contact Brooke Adams, National Events Executive, on email brooke.adams@prefabaus.org.au.