AUBEA Conference 2019

Built to Thrive: Creating buildings and cities that support individual well-being and community prosperity

6 – 8 November 2019
RACV Noosa Resort, Noosa QLD, Australia

The Australasian Universities Building Education Association (AUBEA), a membership-based non-profit organisation, was established in 1975 to promote and improve teaching and research in building through communication and collaboration. It comprises of academics representing all universities throughout Australasia which provide education in building-related fields in Australasia and beyond. AUBEA maintains a strong connection to industry and professional associations, and since its inception has organised annual conferences. The annual conference brings together building and construction researchers, educators, students, and industry from Australasia and other regions, and provides them with a strong platform for knowledge sharing, collaboration, disciplinary reflections, institutional exchange, and collective growth. Papers submitted to this conference have been double-blind peer reviewed before final acceptance to the conference.

The Department of Built Environment from the School of Engineering and Technology at CQUniversity is delighted to host the 43rd Annual Australasian University Building Educators Association (AUBEA) Conference from Wednesday, 6 to Friday, 8 November 2019. The 43rd AUBEA conference is to be held in beautiful Noosa, an Australian resort area on Southern Queensland's Sunshine Coast, which is highly famous for its heavy surf and sunshine beach along with convenient cafes and boutiques. Noosa is a main tourist hub between Brisbane, capital city of Queensland, to Central Queensland in which the route covers more than 650 km. It has been a place to immensely creating a built environment to facilitate cafes, boutiques and hotels to meet with the flux of more than 2 million visitors annually.

The conference theme for AUBEA 2019 is 'Built to Thrive: creating buildings and cities that support individual well-being and community prosperity’. The theme explores various facets of creating built environment enhancing community satisfaction and social innovation. Various facets are captured through five sub-themes which include: 'People and Skills', 'Theories and Principles', 'Learning and Teaching', 'Processes and Economics' and 'Regulations and Policies'. We invite AUBEA participants to engage in discussion about 'Built to thrive' through these sub-themes to embed community prosperity and social innovation when creating built environment.

We look forward to welcoming AUBEA 2019 delegates to the Noosa region which offers an amazing range of activities, adventures, tours or programs in beautiful natural settings.