The University of Wollongong will produce world-class research and teaching in infrastructure development with the opening of its new $62 million SMART Infrastructure Facility.

 

This state-of-the-art facility consists of 30 specialist research and teaching laboratories that focus on a wide range of infrastructure services such as electricity, energy, water, gas, transport and rail.

 

It will ensure that large scale infrastructure investments in Australia and public policy development are based on evidenced-based research.

 

The laboratories will include a simulation centre which can generate scalable models of various infrastructure services and how they interact.


Wollongong University is already home to two other technology facilities, the Innovative Materials Centre and the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre.

 

SMART stands for Simulation, Modelling, Analysis, Research and Teaching - and this shows the different ways infrastructure will be researched at the facility.