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Understanding hazards, vulnerability, recovery, and the capabilities needed to create safer built environments.
2 projects
Our research
Research
Our research works across disciplines and scales, from buildings and construction sites to infrastructure systems and communities.
Research themes
02
Developing practical responses to flooding, extreme weather, and long term climate pressures.
2 projects
03
Advancing worker centred safety, wellbeing, and resilient practices across construction and infrastructure.
3 projects
04
Exploring robotics, sensing, artificial intelligence, and decision support for safer, smarter environments.
5 projects
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Strengthening critical infrastructure, such as power and transport networks, to withstand, recover from and finance the impacts of disasters.
2 projects
Theme 01
Disaster risk and resilience
Understanding hazards, vulnerability, recovery, and the capabilities needed to create safer built environments.
Theme 02
Climate change adaptation
Developing practical responses to flooding, extreme weather, and long term climate pressures.
Theme 03
Safe and resilient construction
Advancing worker centred safety, wellbeing, and resilient practices across construction and infrastructure.
Theme 04
Technology for resilience
Exploring robotics, sensing, artificial intelligence, and decision support for safer, smarter environments.
Theme 05
Resilient infrastructure
Strengthening critical infrastructure, such as power and transport networks, to withstand, recover from and finance the impacts of disasters.
Projects
Safety · Technology
OngoingA Privacy-Preserving Digital Twin for Real-Time Prediction of Worker Silica Dust Exposure on New Zealand Construction Sites
Developing a privacy-preserving digital twin that predicts workers’ silica dust exposure in real time on New Zealand construction sites.
Infrastructure · Technology
OngoingAI-Integrated Construction Project Management, Infrastructure Damage Assessment and Disaster Risk Financing Framework for Resilient Infrastructure
Developing an AI-integrated framework that brings together construction project management, infrastructure damage assessment and disaster risk financing for resilient infrastructure.
Disaster risk
OngoingBridging Culture and Practice in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Two-Way Interaction Framework for Culturally Adaptive, Community-Based Resilience
Developing a two-way interaction framework that bridges culture and practice in disaster risk reduction, for culturally adaptive, community-based resilience.
Infrastructure
OngoingEmpowering Aotearoa: A Framework for Resilient Power Transmission System
Developing a framework for a resilient power transmission system in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Disaster risk · Technology
OngoingImproving Disaster Preparedness in New Zealand: A Machine Learning Approach to Multi-Hazard Risk Perception
Using machine learning to understand multi-hazard risk perception and improve disaster preparedness in New Zealand.
Safety · Climate
OngoingInvestigating the Effectiveness of Integrating Resilience into Green Buildings with the focus of Construction Practices in the Construction Industry
Investigating how effectively resilience can be integrated into green buildings, with a focus on construction practices in the construction industry.
Technology · Safety
OngoingRobotic systems for construction site safety
Examining the readiness, opportunities and challenges of deploying robotic dogs on New Zealand construction sites, including autonomous navigation, site trials and industry readiness.
Climate · Technology
OngoingSmart Property-Scale Sustainable Drainage for Multi-Hazard-Resilient Homes in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Integrated GIS, Hydrological Modelling and Explainable Machine Learning Approach
Developing smart, property-scale sustainable drainage for homes in Aotearoa New Zealand that are resilient to multiple hazards, using GIS, hydrological modelling and explainable machine learning.
Projects in this theme are in development.
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