Smart structures, composites and prefabrication: engineering for environmental extremes

What this note covers

1. Innovation must solve an identified structural problem
2. Smart structures: sensing, response and energy demand
3. Composites: arrange constituents for the load and environment
4. Prefabrication, modular construction and on-site assembly
5. Automation and additive construction: inspect the whole process
6. Evaluate a technology against an environmental extreme
7. Worked concept screen: modular shelter for heat and cyclone recovery
8. Worked production audit: prefabrication saves time but shifts risk

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