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Engineering revolutionary, rapid, resilient, recyclable buildings

New Zealand engineering researchers are working on an innovative modular system to revolutionise the way we construct buildings; not just more rapidly, but also more environment-friendly, quake-resilient and recyclable.

University of Canterbury Engineering Professor Rajesh Dhakal (centre) and Professor Geoff Rodgers (right), along with Dr Brian Guo (left), are developing a rapid, reduced-carbon, resilient and recyclable Modular Building System.

Along with fellow UC engineering academics, construction management expert Dr Brian Guo and structural modelling and analysis expert Dr Reagan Chandramohan, they’ve called their innovative project ‘Rapid, Reduced-carbon, Resilient and Recyclable Modular Building System’ – or R4MBS for short.

The engineering professors aim to develop a novel building system of standardised prefabricated structural modules connected using detachable low-damage steel connections.

“It will herald a paradigm-shift in the building sector by placing explicit emphases on construction efficiency and environmental impact, in addition to the building’s seismic resilience and reduced lifecycle carbon-footprint,” says Professor Dhakal.

Concrete buildings are traditionally cast monolithically, which renders them slow and expensive to construct, difficult to repair or strengthen, impossible to recycle, and prone to costly, hazardous and/or wasteful demolition.

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