Maged Khalil, Izabella Gadzuric, Jamie Griffin, Frans Murad and Matthew Manarang

The team comprised of Maged Khalil (captain), Izabella Gadzuric, Jamie Griffin, Frans Murad, Matthew Manarang; final year students of Building Design Management. The team was mentored by Amer Hijazi and Priyadarshini Das; doctoral researchers at the Centre for Smart Modern Construction in the School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment. Amer’s work is dominated by construction management research with elements of information technology. His research has been on BIM, Digital Engineering and Blockchain. Priya’s work is on Industry 4.0 transformation and strategy.

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Team Kit of Parts, Winner (Industry Award), Fleetwood Challenge 2022

The Western Residences on 2-3 Wilga close, Casula is a four-storey affordable housing project offering single bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom dwellings. The project demonstrates best use of offsite manufacturing and cross-disciplinary integration of architectural, engineering and construction-related disciplines. It was designed keeping in mind ‘net-zero’ and a commonality strategy using ‘kit of parts’. The team deconstructed ‘Net Zero’ for the proposed development in terms of north-facing daytime living areas, shallow building for natural ventilation and light, fabric, lighting analysis using Autodesk Green Studio plug-in Revit to simulate the amount of natural lighting for each unit and altering the design to allow for more and solar analysis to simulate the solar radiation that impacts the roof design and orientation thereby estimating the potential for PV panels. The ‘kit of parts’ approach ensures faster, safer, more sustainable construction while retaining creative freedom. It has enabled the team to identify manufacturers within a radius of 50 kilometres that would potentially supply the repeatable components of the building thereby integrating the entire construction value chain and ensuring design for manufacturing and assembly. The ‘kit of parts’ approach has enormous potential in the affordable housing market and is yet to be tried and tested in Australia. This is yet another outcome from implementing BIMed 4.0, a transformational pedagogy for BIM related curricula in Australian Universities to support transition to Construction 4.0 conceptualised by Amer Hijazi, Prof. Mary Hardie and Priyadarshini Das.

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