Architecture

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a transformative approach to designing, constructing and operating the built environment. BIM includes a wide range of concepts, tools and workflows which need to be learned and applied by industry stakeholders. BIM Education represents the process of acquiring the necessary knowledge and the required skills to generate BIM deliverables and satisfy their respective requirements. The documents gathered here stem from the efforts of the BIM Education Working Group (EWG). The EWG started its six month mandate back in December 2011 and included 11 members, equally split between industry (practicing professionals) and academia (university/TAFE lecturers and researchers). There are three documents in the BIM Education section. Read together, they represent the position of the EWG, an invitation for an open discussion, and a foundation for further work. Read separately, each document covers a specific aspect of our work: –– Document E1 introduces BIM...

The famous riddle by Lewis Carroll is not really intended to have an answer 1 , but rather to reveal the incomprehension Alice has of the world of adults. This paper is about a team of model-driven software engineers' concepts of "object" coming up against the building design sector's concept of "object", and challenging our assumptions about the clean and clever solutions that we can create with objectoriented metamodels and model transformation and code generation tools. However, the story has a happy ending in which the application of our tools in combination with pragmatic choices of representations of building designs still produces an outcome that meets our users' needs and avoids lots of bespoke programming.

Once upon a time, Australia was a terrific country. I remember being particularly fond of it in the mid-1990s when, as a nation, we were rocketing towards a number of quite spectacular milestones in our history and, indeed, in global history. We were looking forward to the Centenary of Federation, many thought we were looking forward to the republic, we were looking forward to putting out the welcome mat at the Olympic Games and we were The next step PHILLIP ADAMS 9 T he I de as B ook looking forward to a new century as well as a new millennium. This was a remarkable convergence and it was necessary to think about these things as a community and as a nation. What we needed at that time -as we still do -were ideas. We needed, and continue to need, interesting thinking in all aspects of this nation's life.

Women's participation in the workforce has increased over some decades. However, recent studies reveal that the structure of cities and the relationship between places of work and residence continues to impact on women's access to, and participation in, employment, particularly for women living in Melbourne's outer suburban areas. Recognising discrepancies between female and male workforce participation rates, this essay examines gender impacts of Melbourne's metropolitan planning and structure with respect to the everyday and spatiotemporal experiences of women. It observes a lack of gender awareness or gender mainstreaming in the city's metropolitan planning resulting in oversight of the differentiated ways in which men and women experience urban space. Without gender awareness and feminist analysis, gender roles can be affirmed and/or 'retraditionalised' in a shifting context through planning. Plan Melbourne's provisions are addressed in relation to emerging and flexible paradigms of post-industrial and knowledge-based urban development and planning, which support highly individualised and self-organising propensities such as 'anywhere working' and co-working. Such formulations tend to be 'gender blind' and opt for generalised ideas of work/life balance. Drawing on the Amsterdam experience, a case study of the development and use of flexible work centres, as an emerging service and planning and/or infrastructure typology, is presented. For gender equity in cities, flexible work centres may experience policy mobility to facilitate workforce participation through clustered services and proximity to places of residence. The essay proposes that Melbourne may be well positioned to investigate a program of flexible work centres across the city to make it more 'workable' for women who are endeavouring to reconcile the commuting, career and caring trilogy.

As an investigation of infrastructure decision-making and governance, this thesis undertakes a discourse and policy analysis to investigate intergovernmental dynamics. The intention is to consider the ways in which infrastructure decision-making is embedded in narratives of urban governance so as to investigate governance practice. The research is grounded in a phronetic approach and developed through two case studies in South East Queensland urban centres: Gold Coast Rapid Transit and Brisbane BaT Tunnel. Decision and policy making in relation to major infrastructure continues to hinge on political influences and intergovernmental relations. Drawing on complexity theory, planning theory and policy analysis, intergovernmental dynamics and power relations of infrastructure decision-making, as revealed through the case studies, will be examined. This will highlight the ways in which urban infrastructure projects are negotiated among government stakeholders and how governance processes take shape. A comparative examination of the case studies reveals that governance practices involving the levels of government tend to be hierarchical and political rather than networked. This thesis is principally concerned with the interactions and relations between Federal and State government with a view to ascertaining whether deliberative and discursive relations are impacting the processes of infrastructure governance; a changing narrative of infrastructure and governance is acknowledged. There is consideration of how policy deliberation can reframe infrastructure governance as well as trigger assessment of the role of government.

Urban morphology as a field of study has developed primarily in Europe and North America, and more recently emerging as a recurrent topic in China and South America. As a counterpoint to this centric view, the ISUF 2013 conference explored aspects of ‘urban form at the edge’. In particular, the conference examined ‘off centre areas’ such as India, Africa, Middle East, Central Asia and Australasia which require innovative approaches to the study of traditional, as well as post-colonial and contemporary, morphologies. Broader interpretations of urban form at the edge focus on minor centres and suburbia, with their developing and transilient character; edge cities and regional centres; and new technologies and approaches that are developing alongside established methods, tools and theories of urban morphology. This is the second of two volumes of conference proceedings.

The issue of whether improved building services such as air quality, provision of daylight, thermal comfort etc, have a positive impact on the health and productivity of building occupants is still an open question. There is significant anecdotal evidence supporting the notion that health and productivity of building occupants can be improved by improving the quality of the indoor environment, but there are actually few published quantitative studies to substantiate this contention. This paper reports on a comprehensive review of the worldwide literature which relates health of building occupants with the different aspects of the indoor environment which are believed to impact of these issues, with a particular focus on studies in Australia,

Traditional shading design principles guide the vertical and horizontal orientation of fins, louvres and awnings being applied to orthogonal planar façades. Due to doubly curved envelopes characterising many contemporary designs, these rules of thumb are now not always applicable. Operable blinds attempt to regulate the fluctuating luminance of daylight and aid in shading direct sunlight. Mostly they remain closed, as workers are commonly too preoccupied to continually adjust them so a reliance on electrically powered lights remains a preference. To remedy these problems, the idea of what it is to sustainable enclose space is reconsidered through the geometric and kinetic optimisation of a parametric skin, with sunlight responsive modules that regulate interior light levels. This research concludes with an optimised design and also defines some unique metrics to gauge the design's performance in terms of, the amount of exterior unobstructed view, its ability to shade direct sunlight and, its daylight glare probability.