Our Vision
Innovative Decarbonised Infrastructure (IDI) is an initiative which aims to research, develop, and commercialise innovative ideas, services and technologies to help industry reduce emissions related to our infrastructure and primary industries. IDI will assist government and businesses towards a low carbon economy. Our vision is aligned with the NSW Government’s Net Zero by 2050. Our people are internationally recognised researchers in multi-disciplinary research areas of sustainability, decarbonisation, circular economy and climate-resilient infrastructure.
Research Strength
Our initiative covers a broad inter-disciplinary research disciplines including decarbonised construction materials and engineering to sustainable structures and cities based on the principles of circular economy and net-zero emission stategy.
Integrated sustainability assessment, environmental input-output analysis, and greenhouse gas accounting
Circular economy, resource recovery and waste utilisation
Innovative decarbonised hybrid structural systems e.g. insulating sandwich panels, timber, steel, and concrete composites
Carbon mineralisation and utilisation in concrete
Zero- and Low-carbon concrete (geopolymer, foamed concrete, hempcrete)
Low-carbon asphalt and bitumen
Scan-to-BIM and Digital Twins of construction and infrastructure
Sustainable construction techniques (modular and 3D printing)
Smart sensing for green construction applications
Sustainable and resilient underground structures and energy resources
Modelling and optimisation of energy geo-structures, shallow geothermal systems, urban subsurface and urban groundwater
Short and long-term behaviour and large-scale testing of decarbonised structures
Multidisciplinary characterisation of decarbonised construction materials
Environment and water engineering
Green and smart transportation
