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MR BLAIR GARDINER



Contact Details

Organization: Architecture, Building and Planning
Position: LECTURER IN CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY
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Homepage: http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/staff/gardinerb.html
Work: 46939
Room: 131
Level: 01
Building: Architecture And Planning Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Sustainability in design Australia
Construction and management systems in architectural practice Australia
Occupational Health & Safety and the design professions Australia
Architectural outsourcing Australia, India, Viet Nam, Philippines

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1994
Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 31-Dec-1989

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Institute of Architects Member, Victorian Practice Committee 01-Jan-2000

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Sisalation Prize, Royal Australian Institute of Architects ($ 10,000) with Blair Gardiner and Tony Mussen 31-Dec-2005

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
DIGITAL OUTSOURCING IN ARCHITECTURE:OPPORTUNITIES FOR AUSTRALIAN FIRMS OR PERILS FOR AUSTRALIAN WORKFORCE? Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
FROM FINGER POINTING TO LIFE SAVING: DEFINING PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION DESIGN Chief Investigator RMIT Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 16/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Books

  • Take 5. Looking ahead: defining the terms of a sustainable architectural profession
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Royal Australian Institute of Architects(Melbourne)
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Book Chapters

  • A trade to retool? Architectural practice and digital modelling
    Year: 2007
    Book: Take 5. Looking ahead: defining the terms of a sustainable architectural profession
    Publisher: Royal Australian Institute of Architects(Melbourne)
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  • Agencies of central design intelligence: From workforce generation to knowledge production
    Year: 2007
    Book: Take 5. Looking ahead: defining the terms of a sustainable architectural profession
    Publisher: Royal Australian Institute of Architects(Melbourne)
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  • Architecture in Government
    Year: 2007
    Book: Take 5. Looking ahead: defining the terms of a sustainable architectural profession
    Publisher: Royal Australian Institute of Architects(Melbourne)
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  • Back to the future
    Year: 2007
    Book: Take 5. Looking ahead: defining the terms of a sustainable architectural profession
    Publisher: Royal Australian Institute of Architects(Melbourne)
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  • Factors of production
    Year: 2007
    Book: Take 5. Looking ahead: defining the terms of a sustainable architectural profession
    Publisher: Royal Australian Institute of Architects(Melbourne)
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  • Guilty in theory or responsible in practice? Architects and the decisions affecting occupational health and safety in construction design
    Year: 2007
    Book: Take 5. Looking ahead: defining the terms of a sustainable architectural profession
    Publisher: Royal Australian Institute of Architects(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Out of Flatland
    Year: 2007
    Journal: TAKE
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 10-22
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  • Rules of Engagement: Testing the Attributes of Distant Outsourcing Marriages
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Architectural Engineering and Design Management
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 49-64
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Globality, Locality, and Freedom in the India of Satellier
    Year: 2007
    Event name: XXIVth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2007
    Conference Publication: Panorama to Paradise: Scopic Regimes in Architectural and Urban History and Theory. Proceedings of the XXIVth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2007
    Page numbers: 1-15
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Adelaide)
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  • Upstairs/Downstairs: India, Australia and the changing division of labour in 'offshore' architectural production and education
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Fourth International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia
    Conference Publication: Techniques & Technologies: Transfer & Transformation. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia
    Page numbers: 226-231
    Publisher: University of Technology Sydney Press(Sydney)
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    URL - open access http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2100/501/3/eBook%20Oct07%20AASA.pdf

Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Understanding qualitative drivers in distance collaboration for architectural services
    Year: 2006
    Book: Digital Architecture and Construction 2006. WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, Volume 90
    Publisher: WIT Press(Southampton)
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Journal Articles

  • Looking Ahead
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Architecture Australia
    Volume: 95
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 47-50
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Digital outsourcing in architecture: Sifting through promises, problems and myths
    Year: 2006
    Event name: IT Solutions for the Design & Management of Infrastructure Construction Projects
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the World IT Conference for Design and Construction, INCITE/ITCSED 2006
    Page numbers: 257-270
    Publisher: Construction Industry Development Council (CDIC)
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Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Evaluating the Industrial Potential of Digital Outsourcing in Architecture: Methodological Challenges and Choices
    Year: 2005
    Event name: CIB W096 Architectural Management November 2005 - Denmark
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of CIB W096 Architectural Management
    Page numbers: 441-450
    Publisher: Technical University of Denmark(Copenhagen)
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Publications in 2001

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Design Fee Reduction: does public work have a role in it?
    Year: 2001
    Event name: CIB W96 Architectural Management and Design Research Society Conference
    Conference Publication: Value through Design: CIB W96 Proceedings of the Architectural Management and Design Research Society Conference
    Page numbers: 63-69
    Publisher: CIB, International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction(Rotterdam)
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