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