Murdoch University’s (MU) Boola Katitjin is the first and largest mass engineered timber (MET) building in Western Australia
Boola Katitjin is WA’s first and largest massengineering timber building, achieving key sustainability, integrity and quality goals, and world-first innovation:
- It pays homage to traditional owners of the land and surrounding landscapes with its timber construction and its Noongar name Boola Katitjin, which translates to ‘lots of learning’. Using timber, embodied carbon is reduced by 55% and the health & wellbeing of occupants is enhanced through biophilic design. Using industrial-scale renewable energy and other low energy systems, operational carbon is reduced by ~90%
- It is a vehicle for innovation, deploying a worldfirst robot to construct part of the building, thereby improving OH&S, increasing productivity, reducing cost and demonstrating what could be achieved in construction across the entire industry.
- It is a platform for industry/academia collaboration, through the robotics trial involving Aurecon, MU and UTS and through collaboration with University of Queensland to conduct full Please explain why you think this project should receive an award? scale prototype testing of a connection of the long span structure, pushing the boundaries of engineering.
- It enabled upskilling of the local timber industry through early engagement. Due to the exemplar nature of this project, it is being featured as part of a BBC documentary to be aired during World Green Building week.
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Murdoch University’s (MU) Boola Katitjin is the first and largest mass-engineered timber (MET) building in Western Australia (WA), constructed from timber sourced from sustainable suppliers in Please provide a brief description of the project? Australia and Europe. Boola Katitjin, meaning “lots of learning” in Noongar - the language of the traditional owners of the land - transforms the campus experience. The timber structure reduces embodied carbon by ~55%, while operational carbon is reduced by ~90% due to industrial scale renewable energy production via PV cells and other low energy systems. The project was a vehicle for innovation, in partnership with MU and University of Technology Sydney (UTS), deploying fully autonomous robots on the live construction site, demonstrating how robotics can improve construction productivity and safety.
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