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A systematic review of criteria influencing the integration of BIM and Immersive Technology in building projects
No full textIntegrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Immersive Technologies (ImT) provides several benefits, such as the inclusion of clients in the design process, thereby improving construction management practices. BIM's propensity for digital data management, coupled with ImT's enhanced communication and coordination capabilities, addresses inherent issues like fragmentation and collaboration challenges in construction projects. While prior studies have primarily examined BIM and ImT individually, limited research has explored the synergistic integration of these two technologies and the potential benefits they can offer when combined in the context of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. This paper reviews strategies and prospects for integrating BIM and ImT in the existing construction management literature, aiming to identify and categorize key socio-technical criteria that support the successful integration of BIM and ImT. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was accordingly employed, following PRISMA guidelines, analyzing 56 academic journals from Scopus and the ASCE Library databases on BIM and ImT integration in building projects from 2013 to May 2023. The results reveal various attributes of BIM and ImT integration, including the use of BIM-related software like Autodesk Revit, ImT hardware like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, game engines like Unity3D, data standards like FBX, and collaborative platforms like Autodesk BIM 360 and Trimble Connect. Essential technical criteria were identified from these aspects: emphasizing software system integration and hardware optimization for seamless data exchange, alongside non-technical criteria focusing on user engagement, learning, and effective stakeholder collaboration. The study also highlights significant gaps, such as the need for standardized methodologies, more detailed technical discussions, and user-centric strategies, pinpointing areas for further exploration to refine BIM and ImT integration practices while providing valuable insights into the adoption and efficacy of digital transformation strategies in the AEC sector.</p
Thinking with Shells: Digital Culturescapes Decolonising Digital Heritage
No full textThis chapter ‘thinks with shells’ to consider how digital heritage practices may be understood as part of our ‘digital culturescapes.’ Expanding on Tasmanian shell-stringing practices and drawing on the shell-work of palawa elder Dr. Lola Greeno alongside Julie Gough’s concept of “culturescapes” (2014), the chapter elucidates how computational codework can be learned as embodied, hands-on forms of knowledge transmission within shared ecosystems. In doing so, it delves beneath the shiny watermark of Big Tech to resist digital colonialism, offering an alternative economy of lovingly hand-coded strings that emerge through the practices of sandbox communities and the tendrilled realms of kelp, shell, and seaweed.This text will appeal to students and instructors across disciplines as a provocative introduction to the social, cultural and ethical questions provoked by life in the Information Age.</p
Circular Economy in Modular Construction: An Australian Case Study
No full textThe global building and construction sector is known for its low resource efficiency which leads to a significant waste generation rate. Therefore, the management of construction and demolition (C&D) waste has become a priority issue in many countries. The use of products with recycled content (PwRC)-emerged from C&D waste materials-in modular construction is a sustainable strategy to enhance resource circularity and circular economy in the sector. Despite this, there are significant challenges in making this a reality. Hence, this study was conducted to explore the factors influencing the optimal utilisation of PwRC in prefabricated construction products. A case study approach was adopted to understand how the industry perceives the use of these resources in this construction methodology. The results showed that several factors influence their utilisation in Australian modular construction. This study proposes a framework developed to guide efforts in enhancing the uptake of PwRC in modular construction.</p
Planetary Pedagogies: Thinking with the planetary across one and many worlds
No full textThe planetary is a concept still being defined. Its current emergence marks the radical encounter of rapidly shifting ground conditions which defy dominant politics and practices. Climate change alters seasons and ecosystems, with animals – human and non-human alike – changing migration patterns in response. Pollution disperses and accumulates. Global economies and multi-national corporations influence local and international policy. AI models built and trained across multiple countries pose new influence on thinking and imagining. Satellites transmit continuous streams of data around the world, though unevenly. Across continents, Indigenous communities work to sustain, repair, and care for living cultures and homelands as their lands are cleared and extracted to fuel global technologies. This custodianship is undertaken within socio-political environments which have been responsible for and benefited from Indigenous people’s dispossession. Established national borders struggle to contain these events from spilling over while maintaining colonial programs in which the claim of national territory organises the extraction and possession of land, sea, air, energy.This paper is a front piece to the larger Planetary Pedagogies Initiative through which RMIT academics are exploring the impacts of planetary thinking across the higher education sector. Growing out of critical dialogues between authors from the fields of design, education, philosophy, geography, art, literary studies, communication, and urban research and political science, the paper also maps an evolving conversation with RMIT’s Indigenous leadership and our wider communities of practice on unceded Wurundjeri Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung Country within the context of regenerative futures.</p
The nature of the decentralised autonomous organisation
No full textThis paper examines the concept of decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), blockchain-based entities intended to operate without central authority or management hierarchy, through the lens of organisational economics. It compares DAOs with conventional organisational forms and explores whether DAOs represent a novel organisational form. The paper investigates DAOs in the context of the electronic markets hypothesis and applies theories from Demsetz, Jensen and Meckling, and Williamson to understand their potential long-term viability. A key finding is that for DAOs to function as claimed, they must effectively suppress agency costs through smart contracts and internal contestable markets. The paper also highlights the challenges DAOs face in maintaining adaptive integrity and fostering cooperative adaptation. While DAOs show promise in reducing certain transaction and information costs, their long-term viability depends on overcoming significant governance and participation hurdles.</p
Garment Repair Dataset Number 1: Collected 2023 as part of the Fashion Fix project
No full textThis dataset contains 119 records of garments repaired at seven garment focussed community repair events held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (listed below). Data collection was on an opt-in basis for repair participants, and as a result more garments were repaired at these events than are captured in the dataset. The clothing repair data is based on two data points, photo documentation and surveys. The photographic images record the garment as well as detail of its repaired portion. The survey collects “garment demographics” adding context to the images. The repair data aims to increase understanding of clothing use and repair from a material perspective specific to the conditions of contemporary clothing.The data was collected at the following events:1. Fashion Fix Workshop, Melbourne Fashion Festival program, 7 March 2023, approx. 40 repair participants2. PlaceLab Community Repair Workshop 1, 2 May 2023, 12 repair participants.3. PlaceLab Community Repair Workshop 2, 9 May 2023, 12 repair participants. Focused session: “Rips and Tears”4. PlaceLab Community Repair Workshop 3, 16 May 2023, 22 repair participants. Focused session: “Fastenings and Alterations”5. PlaceLab Community Repair Workshop 4, 23 May 2023, 24 repair participants. Focused session: “Darning and Knitwear”6. PlaceLab Community Repair Workshop 5, 30 May 2023, 18 repair participants. Focused session: “Denim repair”7. PlaceLab Community Repair Workshop 6, 8 June 2023, 19 repair participants. Focused session: “Alter your t-shirt”Events 2-6 were supported by RMIT PlaceLab as part of the "Wear and Care" project. For further outputs from that project see: Delly, Kiri (2025). The RMIT PlaceLab Collection. RMIT University. Collection. https://doi.org/10.25439/rmt.c.7769360</p
Digital reflective practice among new graduate nurses – A scoping review
No full textObjective: To scope the literature exploring the use of digital reflective practice for the professional development and wellbeing of new graduate registered nurses. Background: There is a growing interest in the integration of digital technologies in nursing education and practice. Digital technology encompasses electronic tools, devices, systems, and resources used by organisations for data processing, storage, monitoring, and information dissemination. Digital reflective practice has the potential to improve new graduate registered nurse well-being and professional development through real-time feedback, personalised learning experiences, and collaborative reflection opportunities. Design: A scoping review was conducted in accordance with the methodology outlined by Peters et al. (2020). The CINAHL, PubMed, Medline and PsychINFO databases were searched. Reference lists of included articles were hand searched to identify additional articles. A google scholar search was also conducted. Methods: Database searches between 2008 and March 2024 yielded 29 articles. Six duplicates were removed. The studies were screened in title and abstract with 10 studies excluded for not meeting eligibility criteria. A further six were excluded following full text review with the five remaining studies included in the review. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) was used to appraise articles. Data was extracted in a table and analysed thematically. Results: Five studies were identified from four countries using a mix of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The digital platforms used included video recording, instant messaging, digital journals, and WhatsApp groups. The digital platforms were heterogenous in duration and locations. Conclusion: Digital reflective practice appears to support knowledge sharing and the overall wellbeing of new graduate nurses. Digital reflective practice can contribute to a community of practice that offers opportunities for collaborative learning and shared experiences. However, a paucity of research exists concerning how digital reflective practice affects new graduate registered nurse's professional development and well-being. Further, there is not a specific tool that supports digital reflective practice for new graduates. The development and use of digital reflective practice tools for new graduate nurses needs investment and research.</p
Mechanical Properties of Graphene Origami and Its Reinforced Polyethylene Nanocomposites
No full textPolymeric nanocomposites reinforced with two-dimensional (2D) nanosheet fillers, such as graphene, exhibit excellent mechanical properties for load bearing and impact-resistant applications due to the remarkable properties of graphene. However, graphene’s intrinsic 2D structure leads to brittle fracture under external loading and significantly limits its reinforcement effectiveness in polymeric nanocomposites due to low interfacial load transfer efficiency. To address this challenge, this study focuses on the three-dimensional (3D) graphene origami (GOri) structure, to uncover its high flexibility under nanoindentation, reveal its evolution patterns under impact loading, elucidate the strengthening mechanism in polyethylene (PE) nanocomposites, and explore design strategies for GOri-based composites. The specific research works are as follows: (1) The high flexibility of GOri was significantly enhanced under nanoindentation by introducing the origami pattern. The results show that GOri sustains significantly higher indentation loads at larger depths than pristine graphene, with further improvements achieved in bilayer formats. The deformation capacity and strength of GOri can be effectively tuned by origami morphology, surface roughness, and stacking configurations, while maintaining its intrinsic stiffness. In addition, the auxetic characteristics of GOri enhance bending stiffness without compromising strength. These findings highlight the potential of GOri as a promising candidate for graphene-based impact protection applications and provide practical guidelines for the design of advanced protective systems. (2) In addition to static mechanical evaluation, the dynamic performance of GOri was also assessed under high-velocity ballistic impact. The results show that the threshold penetration velocity of GOri is significantly improved by 46.27% compared with pristine graphene. Depending on the initial impact velocity, three distinct penetration phenomena (i.e. bounce-back, capture, and perforation) are observed. At low impact velocities, GOri undergoes a unique unfolding process that increases the buffer distance and enhances impact resistance. The impact performance and energy absorption capacity of GOri can be effectively tuned by its morphology, surface roughness, as well as by impact velocity, projectile radius, and layer number. The investigation on the perforation behaviors and energy absorption of GOri offers useful guidelines for graphene applications in impact protection. (3) When 2D graphene transforms into the 3D origami structure of GOri, the resultant GOri/PE nanocomposite exhibits higher interfacial shear strength (IFSS), owing to the larger surface roughness of GOri and the associated stronger van der Waals (vdWs) interactions. The IFSS can be tuned by GOri morphology, with the roughest GOri achieving improvements of 680.5% and 551.8% along the zigzag and armchair directions, respectively, and showing sensitivity to matrix density but little dependence on polymerization degree. Beyond interfacial enhancement, GOri nanofillers endow PE nanocomposites with ultrahigh flexibility and a negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR), providing them with superior energy absorption and impact resistance for protective application. The unique combination of high IFSS, high flexibility, and intrinsic auxeticity makes GOri/PE nanocomposites an ideal candidate for many practical applications, such as impact protection, flexible electronics, and soft robotics.(4) Moreover, the out-of-plane impact resistance performance of GOri/PE nanocomposites under static and dynamic impact conditions was investigated. The results show that GOri can significantly enhance the fracture strength and specific penetration resistance of the nanocomposites, which is attributable to the strengthening effect induced by the rough surface of GOri. This roughness-induced improvement over conventional graphene can be further tuned by increasing the roughness of GOri. In addition, the presence of GOri restricts matrix diffusion during penetration, thereby stabilizing the nanocomposite under dynamic loading. These findings highlight the potential of GOri/PE nanocomposites as lightweight, high-performance protective materials and provide key insights into the nanoscale mechanisms governing impact resistance in polymer-based systems. This thesis systematically investigates the mechanical performance of GOri and GOri/PE nanocomposites using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The results show that the origami structure of graphene enhances its flexibility, IFSS, and impact resistance, while maintaining its intrinsic stiffness. GOri’s tunable morphology, roughness, and auxetic characteristics contribute to significant improvements in fracture strength, penetration resistance, and energy absorption under both static and dynamic loading. Furthermore, GOri restricts matrix diffusion during penetration, enhancing nanocomposite stability. These insights advance the understanding of nanoscale reinforcement mechanisms and provide effective guidelines for designing next-generation lightweight, high-performance polymer nanocomposites for protective and multifunctional applications.</p
FDI dominance and the scope for a modern domestic industry
No full textThis paper examines the “more is actually less” FDI argument in the context of a high-tech industry using Vietnam's electronics industry as a case study, where multinational corporations dominate output and capital investment. We connect Gereffi's global value chain governance framework with Meyer's country-of-origin perspective to analyze intra- and inter-industry spillovers. In doing so, we examine how FDI shapes domestic firms' managerial capabilities and technological upgrading. Using a ten-year firm-level panel and a metafrontier approach, we find that domestic firms achieve only 52 % efficiency in converting inputs to outputs and operate at just 64 % of the FDI technological frontier, with little improvement over time. Horizontal FDI enhances domestic management practices but fails to deliver meaningful technology spillovers. Its growing dominance also widens the technology gap, indicating the growing backwardness of domestic technology. Vertical FDI has mixed effects: upstream FDI supports managerial improvement, while downstream FDI encourages technological upgrading under competitive pressure. Spillovers vary by industry and FDI origin, with ASEAN- and China/Taiwan-based FDI offering modest technological and productivity gains. Our findings highlight the asymmetry between managerial and technology spillovers, suggesting that without stronger local linkages, FDI dominance may constrain, rather than enable, domestic upgrading in high-tech sectors.</p
Triple Bottom Line Sustainability Analysis: Does Ability Replace Apathy?
No full textThis study delves into the correlation existing between the managerial prowess of CEOs and the performance of sustainability initiatives, drawing insights from the upper echelon theory. Through a comprehensive triple-down analysis, we ascertain whether an augmentation in managerial capabilities expedites the adoption of practices promoting environmental, social and economic sustainability (recognized as the pillars of sustainability). Furthermore, the research delves into the impact of CEOs’ career horizons on the relationship between CEO’s managerial ability and sustainability performance. Employing a panel data methodology on a dataset encompassing Chinese publicly listed companies spanning the years 2010 to 2019, our findings reveal a positive influence of CEOs’ managerial competence on the overall sustainability endeavors of these firms. These outcomes maintain their robustness even after subjecting them to various alternative empirical examinations. The conclusions drawn from these findings substantiate the interconnection between managerial skill and sustainability performance, underscoring the discrete impacts on each facet of the sustainability pillars. The identification of the potential for fostering sustainability practices through the skillful dissemination of management skills stands as a pivotal inference with significant implications for practitioners in the field.</p