Key recommendations include doubling the number of “smart buildings” from 15% to 30% and increasing the penetration of prefabrication to cover 80% of all building elements in new construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also stressed the need to demonstrate cost, time and embodied carbon savings and the push to produce 10-start energy-rated buildings “through smart building and prefabrication.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Launched by Damien Crough, director of PrefabAus, and Lance Worrall, a leading analyst, it reports that Australia suffers from a low level of industrialisation, which Mr Worrall says “leaves us dependent on resource extraction and locked into commodities \u2013 some for which use will decline as international economies move toward decarbonisation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Worrall said Australia has “the opportunity to reindustrialise, linked to both renewable energy resources and the metals and minerals needed for a new economy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moreover, Mr Worrall said Australia is taking steps towards reindustrialisation through the National Reconstruction Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whilst smart buildings are not referred to in the fund by name, several sectors that have been a priority in the fund have connections with prefabrication. They include the forest and fibre with up to $500m available for ‘value adding’ in forestry and fibre<\/a>, along with agriculture, fisheries and food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Australia, according to the report, “has the right conditions to increase uptake in all these areas.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n These include an unmet supply of construction demand, a limited supply of skilled labour and a growing cohort of innovative businesses supplying quality solutions to the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1692766933190.jpg\")