Second Thrive research team visit to the Iconic Council House 2 Building (CH2) in Melbourne

Members of the QUT (Queensland University of Technology) team – Prof Richard Brown, Ms Justine Hupkes, Dr Peter McGarry, and Mr Shajil Romeo – travelled...

Members of the QUT (Queensland University of Technology) team – Prof Richard Brown, Ms Justine Hupkes, Dr Peter McGarry, and Mr Shajil Romeo – travelled to Melbourne last month, to continue work on the Iconic Council House 2 Building (CH2) project in Melbourne.

They held a meeting with key staff from the City of Melbourne to discuss the campaign and coordinate logistics. Together with the University of Melbourne team Dr Xiangdong Li and Tony George, they installed and calibrated 99 monitors on the roof of the CH2 building. 

They also installed monitoring poles with CO2 sensors that are communicating to a base station and cloud, as well as tested the system to conduct preliminary data analysis of vertical profiles of CO2 and temperature in the building. The team continued to survey all CH2 floors for the future deployments of the monitoring system in the weeks ahead. This project is continuing.

Australian Research Council (ARC), Lidia Morawska, Jason Monty

The ARC Training Centre for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission is funded by the Australian Government and industry partners through the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre Program.