The 3rd Built Environment Research Forum
the chairs
The Annual BE Research Forum registration link:
The 3rd Built Environment Research Forum (BERF#3) is to be held on 1st December 2021. Further information and links to all sessions will be provided by email via Eventbrite once registered.
The plenary session will be from 12:30 to 2:00 pm focusing on:
1. Journal publications from editor’s perspective (speakers: journal editors)
In this session you will hear from three (3) distinguished editors on the process of academic publishing, the role of journal editors, what makes a paper acceptable or not acceptable, trends in journal publishing, as well as challenges in recent years arising from Covid-19.
2. Industry-Academic partnership stories (speakers: both academic and industry partners)
In this session you will hear stories from two (2) distinguished researchers on their processes of innovation and leadership, as well as ways design and technology can enhance life for everyone. This will help provide advice to early career researchers.
3. Advances and future research directions (speakers: academics from different disciplines)
In the final plenary session you will hear from two (2) experienced researchers with a shared engineering background on their forward thinking developments and new technologies. They will look at innovative advances to solve current and future challenges.
This will be followed by four technical sessions that will be held simultaneously from 2:00 to 2:30 pm. The technical sessions are
• 3301 Architecture,
• 3303 Design,
• 3302 Building and construction, and
• 3304 Urban and regional planning (Urban Studies).
The forum welcomes all the researchers who are active in the Built Environment fields.
Call for extended abstracts and NTRO statements:
All researchers with the UNSW affiliation are invited to participate in the annual Built Environment Forum (BERF#3) by submitting NTRO statements or extended abstracts (up to 4 pages). The deadline will be 6 December, and the instructions for submissions will be communicated separately, once you are registered.
All the accepted items will be published in the Environ. Sci. Proc., 2021, BERF3 and/or an e-book (with an ISBN) available on Google Scholar to be citable. Due to individual URL/DOI, they can be shared via social media useful for team building or identity raising. Metrics on readership, citations, and mentions on social media can be tracked and available for authors. This can be beneficial to:
• Communicate the initial outcome or the progress of ongoing research projects related to the BE fields with our stakeholders;
• Demonstrate collaboration and track records, find potential team members and active researchers on specific topics.
• Document the BE projects if they are not fully published elsewhere (titles and abstracts should be different);
• Introduce investigators/researchers who are active in specific topics to academics with common interests;
• Address the need to communicate the outcome of ongoing projects via online platforms, if required by clients;
The BE Research on LinkedIn will help us to share our findings and achievements with the community, industry, government bodies, and our colleagues at other universities. The BE Research on LinkedIn has the potential to forge new research relationships with like-minded academics, different students, or professionals.
All the accepted abstracts are invited to be presented in one of the four technical sessions (3 minutes presentation): 3301 Architecture, 3303 Design, 3302 Building and Construction, and 3304 Urban Studies.
Please see Instructions for Authors, and download the template.
Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in Microsoft Word, the Environmental Sciences Proceedings Microsoft Word template file must be used. Please insert your graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) in the main text after the paragraph of its first citation.
Event Agenda
Meet the Event Chairs
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineDec 01, 2021
- Abstract acceptance notificationDec 01, 2021
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Michael Ostwald
Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Architectural Analytics. Co-Editor-in-Chief, Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics. CFRC Fellow, UNSW;
Michael Ostwald is Professor of Architectural Analytics and Associate Dean of Research at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics and on the editorial boards of ARQ and Architectural Theory Review and he was previously editorial advisor to the Columbia Journal of Applied Mathematics. Michael is Series Editor for Birkhäuser’s Mathematics and the Built Environment research monograph series. In 2021 he was awarded a Springer Esteemed Journal Editor Award for excellence in international scholarly leadership.
Prof. Hal Pawson
Editor- in-Chief (Australasia) Housing Studies, Professor Housing Research and Policy and Associate Director at the City Futures Research Centre, UNSW;
Hal Pawson is Professor of Housing Research and Policy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He retains an Honorary Professor position at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh where he was based until 2011. Both in Australia and the UK he has led numerous policy-relevant research projects, with funders including the ARC and AHURI, as well as many other local, state and national government entities in both countries. He is also a Managing Editor of the international journal, Housing Studies. His latest co-authored books ‘Housing Policy in Australia: A case for system reform’, and ‘The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Living with uncertainty’ were published in 2020 and 2021.
Dr. Danielle Joy Moreau
Editor-in-Chief of Acoustics Australia, Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering UNSW.;
Danielle Moreau is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of New South Wales. She obtained her BE(hons) and PhD from the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide in 2005 and 2010, respectively. Danielle’s research is in the field of aeroacoustics or the understanding and control of flow-induced noise. She investigates innovative noise control solutions for aircraft, wind turbines, propellers, fans, UAVs and submarines. Her major research contributions have been in (i) wall-mounted finite airfoil aeroacoustics, (ii) airfoil trailing edge noise production and control and (iii) bluff body flow noise. Danielle is the Chief Editor of Acoustics Australia. Prior to this appointment, she was Associate Editor of Acoustics Australia (2018 – 2020) and co-Editor of a Special Issue on Wind Turbine Noise (2018).
Prof. Vivian W. Y. Tam
Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Construction Management and Senior Editor of Construction and Building Materials. Associate Dean (Research and HDR), Associate Dean (International), Discipline Leader (Construction Management) at School of Built Environment, Western Sydney University;
Professor Vivian W. Y. Tam is a world-leading researcher in the field of construction engineering and management. Her findings have found applications and impact for tackling climate-change issues for green
buildings and recycled concrete. She is currently the Associate Dean (Research and HDR), Associate Dean
(International) and Discipline Leader (Construction Management) at School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia. She is nominated to the College of Expert, Australian
Research Council, Australian Government. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Construction Management and Senior Editor of Construction and Building Materials. She has published over 260
referred journal articles. She has been awarded fifty-three research grants (totalled over $4.5 million), including
six national competitive projects from Australian Research Council, Australian Government. Her work has been recognised by peers nationally and internationally, which has been exemplified by six Australian Research
Council projects and over 19,000 citations with a h-index of 72. Vivian is also named as 100,000 Top-Scientists (Top 2% Scientists) in the World for since 2017.
Dr. Simon Heslop
Senior Research Associate at the School for Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering UNSW;
Simon is a Senior Research Associate in CEEM and at the School for Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW. Simon's skillset and knowledge covers DER integration in LV networks, distribution network operation, as well as power flow analysis, energy control algorithms and optimisation, and energy data analysis.
Dr. Miles Park
Senior lecturer in Industrial Design UNSW;
Miles is an Industrial Designer with over thirty years experience in product design practice and education. His research specialisation is centred around product life spans. In particular, product durability, design for repair, design for end of life and e-waste mitigation. Aw well he contributes to a range of collaborative interdisciplinary research projects and has a proven track record in designing for production. Recent successful grants include Innovation Districts COVID-19 R&D Challenge (2020) and a series of Smart Cities collaborative projects with industry partners 2018-19).
Dr. Andrew Cook
Clinical engineer at Prince of Wales and UNSW biomedical engineering alumnus;
Andrew has recently completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering with a biomedical focus. His research interests are in answering current clinical problems with concise engineered solutions in minimal time.
His PhD focused on A-Typical methods for respiration monitoring during sleep, sedentary and high activity levels, along with energy expenditure monitoring with wearable technologies for clinical environments.
Dr. Pramond Koshy
Senior research fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering UNSW;
Dr Pramod Koshy is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering and has taught in the school since 2011 in a voluntary capacity. His primary research foci is on the development of advanced materials for environmental and biomedical applications and in the development of novel refractories for ferrous and non-ferrous metals industries, mineral processing, and the transformation of ceramic and polymeric waste materials for economical and industrially-viable high-performance applications.
Mr. Kurt Warren
National HSE & Quality Manager at Hansen Yuncken;
Kurt is a highly accomplished, insightful & business focused safety executive offering over 20 years’ experience in a range of safety leadership roles in Engineering, Nuclear, Aviation, Defence, Electrical, Rail and Construction. His career is focused on high risk industries with experience
across varying business models and organisational risk profiles. From shop floor to boardroom Kurt is an advocate of the application of risk management and looking at work differently.
- 3303. Design
- 3302. Building and construction
- 3304. Urban and regional planning
- 3301. Architecture
30/11/2021
We welcome Kurt Warren from Hansen Yuncken to present an insight into work as imaged versus work as done and to demonstrate Hansen Yuncken’s approach to greater success in Health Safety, Environment & Quality. Kurt will be presenting tomorrow in Panel 2: Academic-Industry partnership story. This event is available to UNSW students, staff and researchers as well as UNSW Built Environment industry partners. Event registration is compulsory for attendance.
29/11/2021
We are excited to hear from William Ward presenting his work with PCTE focusing on non-destructive testing (NDT) equipment for structures, industry and the laboratory. William is at the forefront of training and education at PCTE and is passionate about NDT as it ‘presents a unique opportunity for the construction industry to ensure the very best production quality, and to investigate and evaluate structures to support well informed decisions’.
26/11/2021
We welcome Jason Errey and John Noonan to present their highly innovative project MyGeoTwin defining digital geology acquisition and digital twin creation for industry 4.0. MyGeoTwin of the Sydney Harbour will be the largest uncoupled data acquisition program to collect engineering quality structural geology across a key public asset, to a depth of 40m. It will collect 2000 kilometres of data, 160 Million data points at 25cm resolution, to a depth of 40m, with all data to be collected in just 150 days. The Sydney Harbour data set will inform Sustainable Design and Environmental Management of all Infrastructure in and traversing the harbour as well as harbour management for hundreds of years to come.
21/11/2021
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED
All researchers with the UNSW affiliation are invited to participate in the annual Built Environment Forum (BERF#3) by submitting NTRO statements or extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) and/ or speaking.
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to the 6th of December.
9/11/2021
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED
All researchers with the UNSW affiliation are invited to participate in the annual Built Environment Forum (BERF#3) by submitting NTRO statements or extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) and/ or speaking.
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to the 16th November.
9/11/2021
We are pleased to welcome Dr Miles Park and Dr Andrew Cook to present their research on a new-generation ICU unit on wheels (pictured below).
A collaborative project between Industrial Design at UNSW and Clinical Engineering at Prince of Wales hospital. The collaboration commenced as a honours year studio project that has evolved over time. Coordinated and managed by Dr Miles Park, during the past two years UNSW, Built Environment, Industrial Design staff and students, and Prince of Wales Hospital Clinical engineering and ICU clinicians have been progressively refining the ICU Tower design.
An early prototype built by George Papadogiannis in the DFL:
Nicholas Matkovic’s design proposal:
Nicholas Matkovic presenting an ICU tower prototype at the hospital that was built in stainless steel in the DFL:
The ICU ventilator equipment trolleys, referred to as ICU towers, are essentially an ICU unit on wheels. They bring together vital life support and patient monitoring equipment together as a package on a mobile trolley. A key feature of the ICU Tower is that it enables life support equipment and patient monitoring to remain connected to the patient during transport - the transition from the ward to other specialist units within the hospital. By enabling life support and patient monitoring equipment to remain connected to the patient, it mitigates the risk of errors with connecting patient lines and infection control and offers a more efficient workflow for clinicians.
The 3rd Built Environment Research Forum (BERF#3) is to be held on 1st December 2021. Please register on Eventbrite page. Further information and links to all sessions will be provided by email via Eventbrite once registered.
2021 Built Environment Research Forum 2
The Built Environment Research Forum took place on 29 September 2021 and focused on all relevant advances, challenges and opportunities related to the built environment, furthering interdisciplinary discussions and industry partnerships. The Post Forum report is available here. Much like this event, the 3rd Built Environment research forum will allow researchers to learn from each other's research outputs and best practices to extend the research network and identify potential opportunities for support.