Whole Life Design of Carbon-Neutral Infrastructure

Project Member(s): Li, Y., Stewart, M.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres)
Australian Research Council (ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres)
Melbourne Water Corporation (Melbourne Water)
South East Water Limited

Start year: 2024

Summary: This Centre aims to transform the capability of infrastructure stakeholders to design, construct, operate and dispose of infrastructure in a carbon neutral way. Through training of students and postdoctoral researchers in the methodology and technology required to design out excess carbon of infrastructure in its whole life, this Centre expects to lead the world in design of carbon neutral infrastructure and enable a new generation of structural design in Australia and internationally. Achieving carbon neutrality will bring significant and far-reaching benefits, including equipping industry with tools required to meet the government’s legislated 43% carbon emission reduction by 2030 and resultant economic, environmental, and social gains.

FOR Codes: Structural engineering , Expanding knowledge in engineering

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.