Recent Research News

New Funding Furthers Structural Design in the School of Architecture
4 Jul, 2008
New technologies will be introduced to the teaching of structural design in Architecture at UTS with LTPF funding $10,000 to the project Tangible Digital Technologies driving Structures Learning .

A Fashion Guide for Any Moment in Time
23 Jun, 2008
Know your fashion for any historical occassion with Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources .

The major multi-volume of work, edited by DAB’s Peter McNeil, brings together over 100 key essays and articles covering fashion with a historical focus.

UTS Architecture Students the First in Venice
18 Jun, 2008
UTS Architecture students were this year, the first students to be asked to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition Abundant.

The School of Built Environment Staff Awarded by AIQS
17 Jun, 2008
Rick Best and Peter Smith from the School of Built Environment, have been awarded at the recent celebration for the Centenary of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS).

UTS Architecture and Construction Succeed in Equity and Diversity Grant Application
27 May, 2008
Naomi Stead recently lead a successful DAB team in applying for a UTS Gender Equity Grant for 2008.

Past Research News

2008

May

Chris Bowman Speaks Design in Chille
27 May, 2008
This week between May 27-30, Chris Bowman is off to Santiago, Chille to speak at the International Seminar New Opportunities for Technological Innovation.

Peter McNeil Promotes UTS Design Abroad
27 May, 2008
This month Peter McNeil burned a bigger campaign trail than the US democrats when he represented the faculty at universities across America, Sweden and the UK.

UTS School of Built Environment Chairs Annual Metropolitan and Design Summit
27 May, 2008

UTS Prof. Spike Boydell Talks on Carbon Offsets
27 May, 2008
Carbon Property Rights were placed firmly on the agenda for property and legal practitioners at a packed Forum held at Corrs Chambers Westgarth lawyers on 19 May.

Glen Searle Joins The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
27 May, 2008
Glen Searle has been appointed as a member of the Peer Review Panel in the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.

Dr Paul Luciani Awarded Doctor of Facility Management
27 May, 2008
The School of the Built Environment’s Dr Paul Luciani was awarded his doctorate at this month's recent graduation ceremony.

April

UTS and NSW Government to fight crime through design
29 Apr, 2008
In a first for New South Wales, UTS’s Designing Out Crime Research Centre will help reduce and prevent crime through the design of products, buildings and environments. The three year project has received over $1 million funding from both the Attorney General’s Office and UTS.

School of Design and Architecture Come Together for UTS Research Grant
29 Apr, 2008
Academic staff from both the School of Design and the School of Architecture are set to work together on the UTS Challenge Grant (Blueprints for Sydney) 2008-9.

John Sheehan is Appointed Adjunct Professor with the School of Built Environment
29 Apr, 2008
Professor Spike Boydell from the School of the Built Environment presented John Sheehan this month with his letter of appointment as an Adjunct Professor with the University of Technology Sydney.

Glen Searle Writes on Politics in Tourist Precint Development
11 Apr, 2008
Glen Searle has authored a chapter in recently published City Spaces - Tourist Places: Urban Tourism Precincts.

March

Professor Spike Boydell Speaks on Property Rights with Carbon Offsets
28 Mar, 2008
The explosion of carbon offset schemes throughout Australia has raised alarm over the lack of regulation and the prospect for huge financial losses by investors seeking to compensate their carbon emissions through the purchase of carbon offsets.
Professor Spike Boydell will represent UTS’ School of Built Environment as one of the five speakers in the forum Carbon Offsets & Trading Schemes: Challenges & Opportunities Forum to talk about how property rights in carbon might be achieved.

UTS Property Rights Research Group Attends International Academic Forum
28 Mar, 2008
John Sheehan recently represented the UTS Property Rights Research Group at the meeting of the International Academic Group on Planning, Law and Property Rights in Warsaw

Dr Glen Searle Co-Authors Chapter on Sydney's Knowledge Sector Development
17 Mar, 2008
Dr Glen Searle has co-authored, with Associate Professor Bill Pritchard of the University of Sydney, a chapter in newly published US book Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era.

February

Built Environment Academics Present at Malaysian Conference
28 Feb, 2008

The Faculty’s Associate Professor Angelo Karantonis, Dr Garrick Small, Dr David Higgins, Hera Antoniades and Vince Mangioni attended and presented at the 14th Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conference in Kuala Lumpur in January.

UTS are set to host the 15th PRRES conference in January 2009.

Is the IT Industry Holding Back Our Economy?
20 Feb, 2008
The health of the Australian economy is currently being jeopardised because the local IT industry has not achieved its full potential, a senior university academic has said. Dr Glen Searle, Course Director of Planning at the University of Technology, Sydney claims, with IT industry imports growing as a major contributor to the balance of payments deficit, all aspects of Australian industry are under threat.

OCEAN comes to Sydney

12 Feb, 2008
UTS School of Architecture Academics Dr Charles Rice, Anthony Burke and Adrian Lahoud have been invited to join the international design research network OCEAN.

UTS Academics Debate Architecture and Authorship

12 Feb, 2008
School of Architecture academics Dr Naomi Stead and Dr Charles Rice presented papers at a symposium on Architecture and Authorship at the KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm in early February.

Walter Benjamin and Architecture

12 Feb, 2008
Andrew Benjamin and Charles Rice have recently edited a special issue of the Journal of Architecture that addresses the importance of German cultural critic Walter Benjamin’s work for the interpretation of modern and contemporary architecture.

January

A New Vision for Design Research at UTS
22 Jan, 2008
The University of Technology, Sydney will receive a new vision from 2008 with the addition of Dr Kees Dorst as Associate Dean, Research within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.

2007

December

UTS Researchers Attend the State of Australian Cities Conference in Force
5 Dec, 2007
Eight UTS Researchers presented eight collaborative and individual research papers at the biennial State of Australian Cities Conference in Adelaide, 28-30 November 2007.

November

Dr Garrick Small published in social justice book
23 Nov, 2007
Dr Garrick Small has contributed to the book Life To The Full: Rights and Social Justice in Australia which contributes to the debate on social justice in our community. The book will be launched on 25 November 2007.

MOU signed with University of Wisconsin Plateville
15 Nov, 2007
UTS and the University of Wisconsin Plateville have this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

October

Placing commercial property in the Australian capital market.
31 Oct, 2007
David Higgins, Senior Lecturer, School of the Built Environment, has written a new report “Placing commercial property in the Australian capital market”, which has been published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Dual book launch for Architecture academics
29 Oct, 2007
Dr Charles Rice and Anthony Burke both from Architecture will host a dual launch to celebrate the recent publication of their books, "Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity" by Dr Rice and "Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design" an collection of essays co-edited by Anthony Burke.

Gerard de Valence asked to write book chapter
2 Oct, 2007
Gerard de Valence, Course Director Postgraduate Property Development Courses, who has been asked to expand a conference paper into a chapter for a book to be published by Taylor & Francis in 2008, titled 'Developments in Procurement Systems'.

Built Environment academics secure AIQS commission
2 Oct, 2007
Peter Smith and Rick Best, from the School of the Built Environment, are to produce a teaching resource based on a 3D CAD model of a small building project

Dr Garrick Small wins API medal
2 Oct, 2007
Dr Garrick Small was awarded the SF Whittington Memorial Gold Medal

August

Residential property valuations need broader focus for investment purposes, says UTS Property Economics expert
2 Aug, 2007
New research from University of Technology, Sydney property economics expert Vince Mangioni reveals that property valuation advice may be failing investors, as the advice is asset focused, while valuers have a property focus. From a consumer perspective, valuers fail to link the specific attributes of a property to the specific investment objectives of the investor.

June

Darrall Thompson awarded internal and external grant!
12 Jun, 2007
Senior Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Design, Darrall Thompson has been awarded the Carrick Priority Project grant and a grant from the UTS Learning and Teaching Performance fund.

ARC industrly linkage grant win for DAB
12 Jun, 2007
The Head of School of Architecture, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady and Martin Kornberger, have been successful in their ARC Industry Linkage grant application with collaborating partner Woods Bagot for "The Architecture of Academic Research".

UTS challenge grant research project
12 Jun, 2007
A DAB research team which consists of Professor Spike Boydell, Peter Rickwood, Leena Thomas and Garry Glazebrook is involved in a collaborative research project titled 'Integrating Urban Models for Improved Decision Making'.

UTS academics win competitive research grant from RICS Education Trust
6 Jun, 2007
The Education Trust of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has awarded funding of $18,321 to three members of the UTS Property Rights Research Group (PRRG), Professor Spike Boydell, Dr Glen Searle and Dr Garrick Small, for their research "Defining Property Rights in the Contemporary Urban Commons: a case study of Darling Harbour, Sydney".

April

Property Tax - Risk Free Profit
26 Apr, 2007
Associate Professor Angelo Karantonis recently revealed that the three levels of Government receive over 60% of the total money generated by property development.

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