DrSarah Shuchi

Associate Teaching Fellow

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Architecture and Built Environment

  • Associate Teaching Fellow
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Architecture and Built Environment
  • Geelong Waterfront Campus, 1 Gheringhap Street Geelong, Victoria 3220

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sarah's research interest covers multidisciplinary fields including energy-
efficient building design, sustainable construction, airport design, BIM in
higher education as well as application of BIM in architecture and
construction. She has advanced knowledge of various BIM tools including
Autodesk REVIT, Navisworks Manage, Autodesk Quantity Take-off, BIM 360, and
Solibri. She is also an expert user of 'Constructor' a fully integrated Sales,
Estimating, and Accounting software package for residential construction.

Sarah is also keen to exploit her design skills in other fields of science/
engineering. She also worked as a post-doc in the field of computational
creativity at UNSW (ADFA).

Knowledge Areas
Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Airport terminal design

Design Theory

Sustainable design and construction

Projects
Airports of the Future (AotF)

https://research.qut.edu.au/aotf/projects/airport-information-model/

One of the major aspects of myPh.D. was to investigate the suitability of
flexible design approach by analyzing historical case studies for airport
terminals and by thoroughly reviewing the underlying architectural theories.
As part of the research, I proposed a theoretical framework 'FlexDFA'
(Flexible Design Framework for Airport Terminals), which offers a roadmap of
how to airport terminal layouts to be planned and designed to adopt
flexibility.