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ADVANCED DESIGN AND PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE

gchkp.com.au

Griffith University’s Advanced Design and Prototyping

Technologies Institute (ADaPT) will be an industry-focused

facility for advanced 3D digital design and functional

modelling, rapid prototyping and new materials development.

The state-of-the-art facility will be at the forefront of

transformative innovation in product development and

advances in materials science.

ADaPT will be located within the 200-hectare Gold Coast

Health and Knowledge Precinct (GCHKP), Asia-Pacific’s

emerging health and innovation hub, offering a globally-

unique location for high-tech industry development, research

collaboration and jobs of the future.

Key focus areas

3D design and functional modelling – ‘digital twins’

Enabling technologies – Big Data, Robotics and AI

Rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing

Advanced materials and nanotechnology

Next-generation electronics

Industry focus areas

Health and medical – medical devices, implants and dental

Marine and boat building

Automotive

Construction and infrastructure

Aviation and aerospace

Environmental management

Creative arts and film

Sports technologies

Humanitarian logistics

“Griffith is excited to be part of the rapidly growing

world-class health and knowledge precinct. The precinct

is allowing our students and staff to train, interact and

research in a modern, cutting-edge setting, offering huge

opportunity through business and industry linkage and

subsequent collaborative investment to accelerate the

growth of the city’s economy through the creation of jobs

and attraction of talent”

Professor Ned Pankhurst, Senior Deputy

Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice President, Griffith University

ADaPT is delivered by:

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Ormeau JacobsWell

Mudgeeraba

Nerang

Broadbeach

Southport

Helensvale

CoomeraUpperCoomera

SurfersParadise

Burleigh

Coolangatta

Robina

Varsity Lakes Heads

Elanora

M1

M1

50km (30mins)

Where will ADaPT be located?

A key feature of ADaPT is its ‘hub and

‘spoke’ model. Design, engineering,

testing, training and prototyping

activities are housed in the strategically

located Institute facility (hub), while

further production and implementation

of end products occurs in the spokes

located within industry.

This model provides significant value

to industry sectors through being able

to drive innovation within a secure and

collaborative hub environment.

ADaPT’s hub facility will be located

within the 9.5 hectares of greenfield

land approved for health and innovation

commercial investment in the GCHKP.

Its prominent 4,365m2, 8-10,000

GFA site offers direct access to Gold

Coast Light Rail and the Smith Street

Motorway (M1). The Precinct also

boasts the latest fibre optic cable

(864core) for ultra-high speed Internet.

ADaPT is co-located with Griffith

University’s Gold Coast campus, the

$1.76 billion Gold Coast University

Hospital and the Gold Coast Private

Hospital, along with the Precinct’s future

residential community.

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HUMANITARIAN PROJECT

Key strengths

Multi-disciplinary, industry-focused expertise

across digital and industrial design, functional

modelling, 3D scanning and visualisation,

product engineering, big data analytics and AI,

materials science and education

Integrated approach to partner projects and

university research

Co-location for collaboration with industry and

health services within the GCHKP

Greenfield land and leasing opportunities

available

Hub and spokes model to effectively engage

with industry spokes locally, globally and

virtually

Why do we need ADaPT?

The face of manufacturing in Australia is

undergoing a rapid sea change, with advanced

design and manufacturing the way forward to

capture opportunities in the global value chain,

utilising a highly-skilled workforce.

A number of disruptive fabrication technologies,

combined with 3D digital design, revolutionise

how industry (and consumers) develop,

prototype and manufacture products.

These include functional computer assisted

design models (“Digital Twins”) additive

manufacturing/3D printing and new materials

(including ‘smart’, nano and bio-materials).

To maximise this global growth opportunity, it is

essential businesses engage and have access

to collaborative R&D facilities to ensure product

designs can be rapidly commercialised and

the right business environment is created for

innovation.

ADaPT will include space for companies for

guided access to and training on the latest

design and fabrication equipment – which also

provides a unique opportunity to enter and

access the GCHKP.

ADaPT will host key Griffith research groups

that are prime clients and provide excellent

engagement between university students and

industry to meet future skilled workforce needs.

There will be a range of levels of

support and engagement available

for business including:

Trained autonomous access and use of facilities / equipment / technologies

training in the latest

manufacturing technologies

prototype development

testing and analysis

design optimisation

manufacturing process

optimisation and efficiency

Supervised access and use of facilities / equipment / technologies

testing and analysis

design optimisation support

manufacturing process

optimisation and efficiency

support

Projects

contract research

consultancy

grant-based partnerships

student projects

ADaPT facilities and equipment

approx 9,000GFA across 7 levels

computer aided design (CAD) suites

clean rooms for component assembly

3D scanning and fabrication including mixed

metal printing

host fabrication equipment, including

3D-printers, wire-cutters, lithography, and post-

fabrication processing

advanced materials fabrication and

characterisation facilities

industry training/conference/showcase space

dedicated industry research and production

suites

AUTOMOTIVE PROJECTS

CREATIVE AND ARTS PROJECTS

AVIATION PROJECTS

HEALTH AND MEDICINE PROJECTS

MARINE AND BOATBUILDING

PROJECTS

ADaPT HUB

Business Case

Visualisation

Design

Validation

Manufacturing

SPORTS TECHNOLOGIES

PROJECTS

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THE CO-LOCATION OF ADaPT, RESEARCHERS, CLINICIANS AND INDUSTRY WILL CREATE THE CRITICAL MASS THAT IS REQUIRED TO DRIVE THE GROWTH OF THE ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND.

Key personnel and expertise:

Professor Jin Song Dong – leads Griffith’s Institute for

Integrated and Intelligent Systems offering automated design

analysis and verification for advanced manufacturing

Associate Professor Bela Stantic – Big data and data science

Dr Sam Canning – industrial design focusing on digital

modelling for design and manufacture

Chris Little – 3D scanning and visualisation technologies

Professor David Thiel – Electrical engineering specialising in

sports technology and 3D printing of electronic circuits and

wireless sensor networks

Dr Hugo Espinosa – Electronic engineering specialising

in computational modelling, human monitoring (sensor

technology) and sports technology

Professor Hong Guan – Structural engineering and

computational mechanics

Professor Peter Tatham – expertise in supply chain

management. Leadership role in humanitarian logistics

harnessing 3D printing for remote services, disaster

management and humanitarian development.

3D INDUSTRY AND SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION

Griffith is an international leader in digitally-enabled device and product

design with high-value creative, industrial and medical applications.

Combining expertise in the innovative use of computational modelling,

advanced imaging and data analysis (digital twins) and transformative

business processes (digital thread), researchers break new ground with

broad industry applications.

3D MEDICAL

Griffith leads in developing 3D printing and related technologies

with advanced bio-engineering and biomedical informatics, and

applications including diagnostics, regenerative medicine, re-

habilitation, dentistry, cancer treatment, biomechanics, neurology

and medical implants.

Key personnel and expertise:

Professor David Lloyd – Creator of personalized, digital human

functional models to inform the design of custom, functionalized

solutions. Application in custom manufacture of orthopaedic

devices, orthopaedic surgery and soft tissue regeneration.

Professor Randy Bindra – clinical orthopaedic lead, 3D

regeneration of nerve and ligaments in wrist injuries

Dr Chris Carty – 3D surgical modelling for cerebral palsy

surgeries

Professor Geoff Tansley – Mechanical engineering specializing

in fluid dynamics to optimize the design of artificial hearts

which are then created using 3D printing

Associate Professor James St John – Regenerative medicine

for spinal cord and nerve injury repair, growing and bio-printing

3D cells to build nerve bridges.

Professor Nigel McMillan – Developing a novel nanoparticle

delivery system for siRNA treatments against viral infections

that cause cancer

Professor Nam-Trung Nguyen – Expertise in growing 3D cell

spheroids and toroids with application in 3D bioprinting for cell

therapy.

CORE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITIES

ADaPT will be will be built around a “Core” – a modelling, digital

design and prototype testing group - and host a number of R&D

groups, who access and contribute to the Core.

The Core will offer a workflow (“digital thread”) starting with data

acquisition, and proceeding through functional modelling (“digital

twins”), use of new materials, 3D digital design, virtual testing,

fabrication of prototypes to physical and functional testing of

prototypes.

The ADaPT Core will work as a service unit for internal and

external clients, consisting of non-academic staff, providing the

required staff, facilities, and equipment (including IT-infrastructure),

on a project by project base.

GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY’S 3D PRINTING PRECINCT NOW OPEN

Located on the Gold Coast Campus, Griffith’s 3D printing precinct

opened in April 2018 as a purpose-built showcase facility to

support a range of 3D printing design and prototyping research

and projects, as well as engagement with industry.

The state-of-the-art facility, which includes a medical grade metal

printer, is designed to encourage collaborative projects between

university researchers, students and industry, as a precursor to

the opening of ADaPT.

Key personnel and expertise:

Professor Huijun Zhao – Expertise in analytical chemistry,

electrochemistry, photocatalysis, functional polymer

materials, energy storage materials and secondary batteries.

Professor Zhao has developed water-resistant Perovskite-

based solar cells and carbonaceous nanostructured

materials for improved performance of Li-ion batteries.

Professor Nam-Trung Nguyen – Leading researcher in the

area of lab-on-a-chip and microfluidics for the past 20 years.

His research is focused on microfluidics, nanofluidics, micro/

nanomachining technologies, micro/nanoscale science,

with applications including biomedical, semi-conductor

processes, plasma technologies and wearable sensing

devices for new textiles.

Professor Sima Dimitrijev – Silicon carbide technologies

Professor John Dobson – Preparation, properties and

applications of graphene

Professor Evan Gray – Functionalized graphene sensors

Professor Qin Li – Carbon nanomaterials, opto-electronic

materials, nanophotonics and nanofabrications, with

applications including environmental toxin sensors.

NEW MATERIALS & ELECTRONICS

Nanotechnology and micro and nano electronics are being used

to support a wide range of new applications from environmental to

medical. Leading research includes enhanced energy storage, new

semiconductor technology, photonics, next-generation functional

carbon and graphene materials, industrial biotechnology and

advanced bio-mimicry and bio-engineering.

WITH A STRONG FOUNDATION IN KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES AND GROWING GLOBAL EXPERTISE IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS ARE DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW MATERIALS THAT ARE RESHAPING MANUFACTURING AND MEDICINE.

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A smart precinct within a city of opportunity

At the contemporary convergence of health, science and

engineering and empowered by digital technology, GCHKP

researchers, clinicians and companies collaborate at the cutting-

edge of innovation.

With a combination of expertise, infrastructure, land and lifestyle

unique in Australia, the GCHKP represents a smart investment in

Australia’s fastest growing major city.

The City of Gold Coast is committed to diversifying the economy

and investing in innovation, infrastructure, workforce and export

capabilities.

ADaPT will support economic growth through providing businesses

with a dynamic location to innovate, grow and develop the city’s

knowledge based workforce.

Residential Community

Gold CoastPrivate Hospital

Griffith University

Gold Coast University Hospital

ADaPT HUB

How can you be involved?

For more information on co-location, showcasing spaces,

customer experience centres, greenfield development,

partnerships and R&D projects please contact the GCHKP

Project office based within the precinct.

Manager Strategic Partnerships: Jo Cochran

P +61 7 5552 9673

M +61 0478 478 816

E j.cochran@griffith.edu.au

W gchkp.com.au

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