University of Wollongong SBRC
The Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) is a multi-disciplinary facility that aims to be a leader in ideas and solutions that address the challenge of transforming our buildings and built environment into sustainable, resilient and effective places in which people live and work.
The SBRC is also the home of the Australian Power Quality and Reliability Centre. Through research, collaborations, and links with industry we aim to meet the challenge of improving the performance of our new and existing building stock focused on making buildings more livable, more sustainable, more cost-effective and kinder to our environment.
Tim McCarthy became the Director of SBRC in 2021. Prior to that he was Head of School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering at University of Wollongong. He was leader of the UOW Solar Decathlon Middle East 2018 project that built the Desert Rose Net zero energy home, a prefabricated cold formed steel frame house. Desert Rose won the Silver medal in SDME2018 and has been awarded the Australian Engineering Excellence 2020 award as well as the NSW Green Globe award for the Built Environment and for Regional Sustainability.
