The Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) has some pretty impressive facilities, so who better to chair the 4th Annual Research Facilities Design and Development Summit than one of our own?

CHIRI’s Research Facility Manager, Dr Rob Steuart has been in Sydney chairing the 2-day summit, which ran from 30 April to 1 May 2018. Rob’s official duties include opening and closing the summit, and no doubt assisting with the odd speaker introduction, housekeeping message or IT solution in between.

This year’s summit covered topics including:

• innovation and finding the best designs for research facilities;
• construction strategies to boost operations of research facilities;
• maximising the use of space in the development of research facilities; and
• providing management advice to prevent return on investment losses.

You can find out more about the summit on the International Quality and Productivity Centre website https://researchfacilities.iqpc.com.au. Well done Rob!