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NewsAurecon partners with Australian universities to explore a brighter future

13 October 2021 | 2 min

Australian universities are facing major disruptions, not least due to the impacts of COVID-19. The post-pandemic campus, student experience, teaching and learning methods, along with ongoing needs to create high performance cultures and achieve sustainability and diversity and inclusion goals, are all areas currently challenging tertiary education.

These issues are explored at the Tertiary Education Management Conference 2021 and Aurecon has partnered with a number of universities to present industry/university collaborations that are addressing these and other challenges facing the sector.

Aurecon partners with Australian universities to address issues and explore options currently challenging tertiary education.

Aurecon’s integrated design approach helped bring the innovative Woodside Building for Technology and Design to life for Melbourne’s Monash University. Image courtesy of Michael Kai Photography.

The Woodside Building for Technology and Design provides significant sustainability benefits, including high indoor air quality, health and well-being. Image courtesy of Michael Kai Photography.

Aurecon as the sustainability consultants provide advice on the environmentally-sustainable design elements for the Melbourne School of Engineering.

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Aurecon partners with Australian universities to address issues and explore options currently challenging tertiary education.

Aurecon’s Education and Research Industry Leader, Susie Pearn, said that industry/university partnerships provided opportunities to explore options for innovation, research, learning, employment, and sustainability to address the most significant issues facing the world today, not just in the design and delivery of specific projects, but also aligned to organisational purpose and strategic goals.

“Aurecon is moving beyond the traditional offerings of engineering services to co-create solutions with our university clients that will not only benefit the sector today, but also leave a legacy for future generations,” Pearn said.

Aurecon partnered with the University of Queensland, Monash University and the University of Melbourne, along with other project collaborators, to deliver the following presentations at the Tertiary Education Management Conference 2021:

The pandemic and learning spaces of the future: Lessons from a corporate workplace – Associate Professor Remi Ayoko (University of Queensland) and Jared Lillywhite (Aurecon)
Delivering sustainability and wellbeing at Melbourne Connect – Dr Gerard Healy (University of Melbourne) and Jessica Bennett (Aurecon)
Monash Woodside Building for Technology and Design:

A transformational building for tertiary education and a Low carbon future – Andrew Cortese (Grimshaw) and Veronica Halupka (Monash University)
How to design net zero ready, Passive House certified, gas-free buildings for conventional construction budgets – Dr Rob Brimblecombe (Monash University), Jeffrey Robinson (Aurecon), Walter van der Linde (Aurecon)
How to construct the largest certified Passive House building in the Southern Hemisphere: The Builder’s Story – Alexis Kouts (Monash University), Ben Brown (Lendlease), James Wewer (Lendlease)

Exploration through design: Using industry partnerships and human-centred design to create novel learning opportunities – Tim Kastelle (University of Queensland) and Veronica Nolan (Aurecon)