A collaboration focused on cutting delays, emissions and waste from building projects has received a grant of 28 million Australian dollars ($16.40 million) from the country’s government. 

The scheme, called Building 4.0 CRC, is made of up 30 partners including Lendlease, Monash University, the University of Melbourne and the Donovan Group.

In an announcement Wednesday, the University of Melbourne said the funding would leverage 103 million Australian dollars from research partners, government and industry.

While the University of Melbourne’s own statement did not go into specifics, it did lay out several aims for the research initiative. These include: Harnessing digital technology and off-site manufacturing to cut project costs by 30%; reducing construction waste by 80%; and lowering carbon dioxide emissions by 50%.

The collaboration will also look to use things such as artificial intelligence and data science. According to the Building 4.0 CRC website, other targets include training 36 PhDs and 1,000 Masters students as well as “training 7,000 apprentices in new technologies.”

In Australia, CRC refers to the Australian government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program, which backs research, industry and the community through grants.  

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