Abstract: The University's Strategic Plan - Taking Deakin University Forward - which was released in April 2003 and updated in February 2004, identifies as one of Deakin's goals the development of the University's infrastructure. One of the strategies the University is pursuing is to develop and implement a Capital Development Program, including new buildings and refurbishments, directed at advancing the mission and goals of Deakin. Through this website, we will continue to update you on how Deakin is moving forward with this strategy in relation to our plans for the Melbourne Campus at Burwood.

Project architects H20 have a range of images and project details on their website.

Construction of the first two of four new multi-level buildings linked by a see-through atrium at Deakin University's Burwood, Melbourne campus is being fast-tracked using a design/construct methodology in which the design has been undertaken in tandem with the commencement of building.

32-page booklet covering design and construction using hollowcore floor planks. Contents include: Introduction, Design Approach, Pre-Planning, Preliminary Design, Final Design, Construction, Guide Specification, Bibliography, Sample, Calculation.

Dr Edward Harkness outlines how to combine geometry with the known location of the sun's orbit to design precast concrete sunscreens which reduce heating and cooling energy while improving the internal thermal comfort. (The Precast Concrete Manufacturer's Association of New South Wales has been consumed by the National Precast Concrete Association of Australia).

This briefing gives an overview of the principles of passive solar design and provide guidance on how to best incorporate these principles early in the design phase of buildings.

This reprinted and re-edited article from Constructional Review examines the criteria for the choice of concrete finishes, outlines methods, techniques of production, discusses advantages and constraints of the many types of finishes.

This Handbook covers all aspects of Australian precast concrete construction including design, specification, manufacture and installation. The Handbook reflects current industry best practice featuring the latest innovative applications of precast concrete. It provides guidelines in the form of graphs, charts and worked examples. The Handbook is intended for architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and students as well as those involved in the building, infrastructure and construction industry.

This paper provides the results of a survey of senior management involved in the Queensland engineering construction industry, concerning the usage of risk management techniques. These are described in comparison with four earlier surveys conducted around the world and indicate that: the use of risk management is moderate to high, with very little differences between the types, sizes and risk tolerance of the organisations, and experience and risk tolerance of the individual respondents; risk management usage in the execution and planning stages of the project life cycle is higher than in the conceptual or termination phases; risk identification and risk assessment are the most often used risk management elements ahead of risk response and risk documentation; brainstorming is the most common risk identification technique used; qualitative methods of risk assessment are used most frequently; risk reduction is the most frequently used risk response method, with the use of contingencies and contractual transfer preferred over insurance; and project teams are the most frequent group used for risk analysis, ahead of in-house specialists and consultants.

Available for sale through Standards Australia, or for loan through CCAA library.

Guide to Long-Span Concrete Floors has been produced to provide architects, building designers, structural engineers and architectural and engineering students and lecturers with an appreciation of the factors that should be taken into consideration in selecting a flooring system for a particular building. Covering major architectural, structural design and construction considerations this publication incorporates sketches and photographs and included graphs to enable designers to quickly identify appropriate floor systems to carry applied loading for the desired span and provide approximate dimensions for the preliminary design.

Precast concrete construction has managed to remain the least understood of the major forms of multi-storey building construction. Precast structures have been shown to be extremely cost effective, durable, stable, and of the highest quality and strength. Design, due to its specialised nature, often remains with the manufacturers and their personal engineers. This paper is designed to give further insight into the benefits of structural precast concrete design and construction, with particular emphasis on skeletal frame structures.

A general construction trend in Europe is an increasing degree of industrialization that minimizes the labour on the building site, cuts the construction time and increases the quality. In the Netherlands, precast is a highly successful building technology that that finds increasing use in tailor made buildings with irregular plans and high-rise. The 110m high "Waterstad Toren" that has been recently erected in the city of Rotterdam - the tallest, fully precast residential building not only in the Netherlands, but also in Europe.

Performance of advanced fabric energy storage systems has not been reported for Australian conditions. The influence pf slab thickness and air flow rate on the annual thermal load, and maximum heating and cooling demands for a typical office module using a ventilated hollow core concrete slab system has been investigated by simulation. Performance results for Melbourne are presented and comments made on other locations.

Recent design developments in load bearing precast concrete structural systems can be utilised very effectively to meet the challenges of multi-rise residential buildings, and provide significant benefits.

A major part of the Lavarack Barracks Redevelopment Stage 2 comprised 992 living units by the construction of 72 individual three storey buildings, spread over a site approximately two kilometers long. A precast concrete solution was adopted for the construction of the units to satisfy the structural, architectural and site construction requirements. All external precast surfaces were an off form colour controlled concrete finish and the precast floors were honed. All panels were factory cast, delivered on specialised transport and erected with mobile cranes, reducing site manpower and construction times. A new manufacturing facility was established near the site to reduce transport costs due to the large sizes of the panels.