Dr Sathees Nava - Research

Research interests

  • Prefabricated buildings and their structural and energy performance
  • Sustainable construction materials
  • Timber-framed construction
  • Mass timber construction
  • Structural and fire testing (material scale to full scale)
  • Structural analysis and design
  • Life-cycle assessment
  • Wind loading on a timber-framed house
  • Finite element model analysis
  • Automation in construction

Publications/conferences

Professional associations

  • Chartered Member of Engineers Australia
  • Editor: Buildings; Advances in Civil Engineering

Grants/awards

  • CRC-Project on “Upcycling solutions for hazardous claddings and co-mingled waste” (2020-2023)
  • Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) fellowship (2022-2023)
  • CSIRO Flagship Scholarship (2013-2016)
  • CSIRO Postgraduate Studentship (2014-2016)

Supervised projects

  • Life-Cycle Sustainability Analysis of Construction and Demolition Wood Waste to Achieve Circular Economy
  • Optimal Design of Prefabricated Timber Flooring System Based on Structural Performance
  • Investigation on Fire Performance of Prefabricated Modular Structures
  • Engineering Performance of Waste Material Blended Alkali-activated Slag Concrete
  • Structural integrity of prefabricated volumetric modular building system

Research higher degree completions

  • PhD - 4
  • MSc - 1