prefabAUS Study Tours

Discover new approaches to prefabrication by signing up for a prefabAUS study tour.

These short overseas tours are designed specifically for prefabAUS members and give you the opportunity to learn about prefab industries in other countries.

 

ZEMCH Study Tour to Japan

1 - 5 July 2024

prefabAUS and the ZEMCH Mission invite prefabAUS Members to join our tour to Japan taking place 1 - 5 July 2024.

The tour will begin in Tokyo and end in Osaka taking in a number of prefabrication manufacturers, research institutes and more. See the flyer.

The Tour is available for prefabAUS Members only and a registration cost (to ZEMCH) will be applicable.

Please contact info@prefabaus.org.au to express your interest.


UK Study Tour : 1–8 June 2019

The first night accommodation commences in London CBD on Saturday 1 June with the program kicking off on Sunday 2 June at 9:00am and concludes in Aberdeen at our hotel on Saturday 8 June at 2:30pm.

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North America Study Tour: 9 - 15 June   |   SOLD OUT

Program commences on the morning of Sunday 10 June in San Francisco and concludes on the afternoon of Friday 15 June in Toronto. This Study Tour includes expert presentations, project/factory visits. 

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PrefabAUS Sweden Panelised Building Study Tour ( 5 - 13th May 2017 )

Note: This tour is now fully subscribed.  Registrations have now closed.

Study tour delegates will see the operations of a selection of Swedish prefabricated housing manufacturers from manually produced elements using ‘butterfly tables’ with very low capital investment through to firms utilising highly automated high volume production lines. Beyond the manufacturing processes involved, the program will also consider the initiation, design, marketing and delivery of panel system projects..