From Vision to Reality: FM's Role in Building Melbourne Connect Innovation Precinct
Join us for a webinar on the exciting and ambitious Melbourne Connect Innovation Precinct and learn how bringing facilities management early into the design process helped to ensure the successful manifestation of this hugely innovative build. For this Trans-Tasman Facilities Management Alliance (TTFMA) webinar, we are joining forces again with the Facility Management Association of Australia (FMA).
Start
27 Jul 2023 01:00pm
End
27 Jul 2023 02:00pm
Member Cost
Complimentary
Non-Member Cost
$40 + GST
Event Type
Webinar
Location
Online
Course Level
All
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Event Description
From Vision to Reality: Facilities Management's Role in Building Melbourne Connect Innovation Precinct.
Join us for a webinar on the exciting and ambitious Melbourne Connect Innovation Precinct and learn how bringing facilities management early into the design process helped to ensure the successful manifestation of this hugely innovative build. For this Trans-Tasman Facilities Management Alliance (TTFMA) webinar, we are joining forces again with the Facility Management Association of Australia (FMA).
Melbourne Connect Innovation Precinct is a University of Melbourne initiative conceived in 2011 and brought to vibrant life in 2020. It is an ambitious and exciting answer to the need to bring together new horizon thinking in MedTech, policy, design, data, digital science, and engineering – as many fields and disciplines as can be covered by the umbrella thematic “digital transformation”.
As a crucial part of building operations, facilities management was included in the core thinking and engaged early in the design process to ensure the successful manifestation of these collaborative spaces. Setting up and operating an operation that invites industry to co-locate with university is complex. One of the outputs of the successful manifestations of this challenge is The Heart – an artwork, teaching tool and community touchstone which represents the Melbourne Connect precinct as a living lab and digital powerhouse. The heart represents the critical role that FM plays in the operation and guardianship of buildings, often unseen but essential, in a beautiful and engaging way. This work sits spectacularly atop the entrance to Melbourne Connect and invites visitors and residents alike to consider and wonder at the power of innovation in our lives. It is a way to break open the university’s rich research environment and make it more accessible to the public, investors, industry collaborators, and government in a precinct co-locating 3100 knowledge workers, students, and researchers.
It is a unique model in a public-private partnership that engages in creating a fertile environment to ease and enable research commercialisation and tech transfer – acknowledging the low Australasian level of this historically in OECD terms, in comparison to Israel, Singapore and other powerhouse innovation hubs like MaRS discovery district Toronto which formed one of the conceptual models.
SPEAKER
Phil Callaghan, Director (Operations) Melbourne Connect - University of Melbourne
Phil is an experienced Director Of Operations with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education sector, and a service and continuous improvement focus. Prior to the University of Melbourne, Phil worked as Director of Faculty Operations at the University of Swinburne. At the University of Auckland, Phil worked closely with FM and other core university services in the pan-university role of service improvement manager which was created for him based on the background he could bring from a 25-year career in airline operations and service and safety management with Air New Zealand.
CPD
This presentation accounts for 1 CPD point.
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY
Operations & Maintenance, Technology & Innovation
Join us for a webinar on the exciting and ambitious Melbourne Connect Innovation Precinct and learn how bringing facilities management early into the design process helped to ensure the successful manifestation of this hugely innovative build. For this Trans-Tasman Facilities Management Alliance (TTFMA) webinar, we are joining forces again with the Facility Management Association of Australia (FMA).
Melbourne Connect Innovation Precinct is a University of Melbourne initiative conceived in 2011 and brought to vibrant life in 2020. It is an ambitious and exciting answer to the need to bring together new horizon thinking in MedTech, policy, design, data, digital science, and engineering – as many fields and disciplines as can be covered by the umbrella thematic “digital transformation”.
As a crucial part of building operations, facilities management was included in the core thinking and engaged early in the design process to ensure the successful manifestation of these collaborative spaces. Setting up and operating an operation that invites industry to co-locate with university is complex. One of the outputs of the successful manifestations of this challenge is The Heart – an artwork, teaching tool and community touchstone which represents the Melbourne Connect precinct as a living lab and digital powerhouse. The heart represents the critical role that FM plays in the operation and guardianship of buildings, often unseen but essential, in a beautiful and engaging way. This work sits spectacularly atop the entrance to Melbourne Connect and invites visitors and residents alike to consider and wonder at the power of innovation in our lives. It is a way to break open the university’s rich research environment and make it more accessible to the public, investors, industry collaborators, and government in a precinct co-locating 3100 knowledge workers, students, and researchers.
It is a unique model in a public-private partnership that engages in creating a fertile environment to ease and enable research commercialisation and tech transfer – acknowledging the low Australasian level of this historically in OECD terms, in comparison to Israel, Singapore and other powerhouse innovation hubs like MaRS discovery district Toronto which formed one of the conceptual models.
SPEAKER
Phil Callaghan, Director (Operations) Melbourne Connect - University of Melbourne
Phil is an experienced Director Of Operations with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education sector, and a service and continuous improvement focus. Prior to the University of Melbourne, Phil worked as Director of Faculty Operations at the University of Swinburne. At the University of Auckland, Phil worked closely with FM and other core university services in the pan-university role of service improvement manager which was created for him based on the background he could bring from a 25-year career in airline operations and service and safety management with Air New Zealand.
CPD
This presentation accounts for 1 CPD point.
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY
Operations & Maintenance, Technology & Innovation
