The DAMiC-Lab will primarily focus on applied and innovative quantitative methods for systematic modelling, measurement, computation, assessment, analysis and optimisation in the construction-related areas that include, but are not limited to:
- Contemporary Industry Challenges: building defects, rising costs and skill shortages.
- Construction automation and data analytics
- Construction financing and planning
- Resources and constraints in construction processes
- High-performance buildings and construction processes
- Operation and maintenance of constructed facilities and assets
- Occupant-centric building performance and control
- Performance and productivity of construction companies
- Construction and economic, environmental and social development towards sustainability
- Emergent off-site design, manufacture and development engaging renewables.
- Responses of the construction industry to emerging macro events
- Diversity and innovation in the global construction
- Construction supply chain management
- Behavioural implications of human-construction interaction.