The 42nd Australasian Universities Building Education Association (AUBEA) 2018 Conference will be hosted by School of Design and the Built Environment of Curtin University (https://humanities.curtin.edu.au/schools/design-built-environment/) in association With AUBEA between 26-28 September 2018 in the Curtin Singapore campus.

The theme of the conference this year is Educating Building Professional for the Future: Innovation, Technology and Sustainability, in the Globalised Market. It looks specifically into the Joint efforts between universities and industry in educating future building professional chairs . in our increasingly globalised world. Joint effort requires a close collaboration between universities and industry in achieving a successful endeavour. 

The conference venue in Singapore was also carefully selected to highlight the globalisation phenomenon by showcasing the “Asian” part of the “Australasian” of AUBEA. The Construction industry in Singapore 

Provide an excellent success story of close collaboration with education providers by embracing innovation, technology and sustainability, in their industry that feed back to the education systems to better educate building professionals.

Selected high quality papers on a relevant theme may be invited to develop their papers eg based on further findings, analysis and significant conclusions, and to submit such developed papers for possible publication in a special issue of: 

The Construction Economics and Building journal, ISSN 2204-9029 [http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB]

The Journal of Built Environment Project and Asset Management (BEPAM), ISSN ISSN: 2044-124X [www.emeraldinsight.com/bepam.htm]

Publications in the special issue in these journals will be subject to the usual full double blind peer review process.