Ignition Insights
Transport and Infrastructure Analytics: When Does a Data Pipeline Stop Being Reporting and Start Being R&D?
Pipelines and dashboards ordinarily fail the core R&D test because the outcome is known. Where transport and asset analytics may cross the line.
Smart Buildings and IoT Infrastructure: Are Sensors, Controls and Predictive Maintenance R&D?
Installing sensors and integrating a BMS is rarely core R&D. Where smart-building controls and predictive maintenance may be eligible, and where not.
Scanning the Site Is Service Delivery: Where the R&D Sits in Turning Point Clouds into Decisions
Capture by established methods is ordinarily predictable. R&D may sit where the achievable detection performance was genuinely unknown. You self-assess.
AR on Site and Digital Twins: Which Part of an Immersive Construction Workflow Is Eligible R&D?
Deploying AR or a digital twin on site is generally implementation. Core R&D may sit where achievable accuracy, robustness or latency was unknown.
Novel Structural Systems and Difficult Sites: When Does Solving a Hard Engineering Problem Count as R&D?
Reactive soils, deep basements and complex forms are hard, not automatically R&D. The test is whether the outcome was unknown to the state of the art.
Modular and Prefabricated Construction: Where Is the Experiment in a DfMA Project?
Prefab novelty is not technical uncertainty. Where a core R&D activity may sit in a modular or DfMA project, and where the activity boundary falls.
BIM, Clash Detection and Project Controls: Which Parts of Construction Digitisation Can Go in an R&DTI Claim?
Most BIM and project-controls work is implementation, not R&D. Where clash resolution may be core — and what the s 355-25(2) exclusions rule out.
Automating Structural and Engineering Analysis: When Does a Faster Design Workflow Become Eligible R&D?
Automating a validated analysis is generally not core R&D. Where a surrogate's achievable accuracy was genuinely unknown, it may be. From an RSP.
Event Recap | Australian Property Development Sharing Session Successfully Concludes, Exploring Planning, Design and Innovation Across the Full Project Lifecycle
Highlights from our property development sharing session exploring planning, architectural design, R&D incentives and project coordination across the full development lifecycle.