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CIOB and Built Offsite MMC Brisbane event highlights collaboration across platform, system and builder delivery models.
Three detailed presentations at the Constructive Change with Modern Methods (CCMM) event held at Bond University in Brisbane highlighted how companies like CSR, PT Blink and Integration Group are already delivering on the promise of modern construction. As Built Offsite and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) convened the July 17 MMC event, these case studies made clear that Australia’s prefab and offsite sector is not in pilot mode—it’s in delivery. (main image (L–R): Ryan Baxter, CSR; Wayne Larson, PT Blink; Brad Mayes, Integration Group.)
With each speaker—Ryan Baxter (CSR Prefab), Wayne Larson (PT Blink), and Brad Mayes (Integration Group)—sharing operational insights and outcomes, the focus shifted from policy to practice. The session illustrated how manufacturers, platform developers and builders are implementing standardised, scalable MMC systems across real-world projects.
CSR Prefab focuses on design standardisation and repeatability
Ryan Baxter, Segment Manager – Prefab/MMC at CSR Building Products, opened with a clear proposition: design standardisation is the key to delivering MMC at scale. Drawing on more than a decade of prefabrication projects, Baxter explained how CSR Prefab has evolved its systems around modular consistency and repeatable wall, floor and ceiling types.
“Prefab only works at scale if the design allows it,” Baxter said. “We need consistent stud lengths, standard wall types, optimised floor spans, and detailed junction logic.”
He outlined CSR’s work at Ingleburn and Port Kembla as formative experience, now feeding into panelised systems that align to 300mm grid patterns and allow optimisation across procurement, logistics, and QA. “We’ve developed modular wall systems with consistent baseplate geometry across ground and first floors,” he said. “It reduces waste, improves factory utilisation and simplifies transport.”
New developments include fire-rated floor junctions, multi-performance barriers, and CSR’s Glasroc X system. “We’re not just supplying materials. We’re designing systems to suit delivery models,” Baxter said. “If we can standardise it, we can scale it—and we’re committed to doing that across the sector.”
PT Blink MMC reframes delivery with platform-based model
Wayne Larson, CEO of PT Blink, delivered a sharp critique of traditional construction and set out PT Blink’s solution: a digitally-driven platform that delivers multi-storey buildings using a “kit-of-parts” structural system.
“Construction is unsustainable as it stands,” Larson said. “The industry is shrinking, productivity is flatlining, and we’re wasting time, materials and capital. Blink DMI is designed to fix that.”
The PT Blink MMC model—Design, Manufacture, Integrate—uses a parametric digital backbone to align all teams early in the process and enable concurrent manufacturing. “We’re not modular or volumetric. Our system removes the structural frame from the critical path and builds outward from a consistent chassis,” he said.
PT Blink’s Spring Hill case study delivered 32 apartments for essential workers in 35 weeks. “The IRR went from 7% to over 20%. That means the internal rate of return—how much the project earned relative to the investment—nearly tripled,” said Larson. “It proves that prefab can deliver faster, safer, more financially viable housing.”
The PT Blink ecosystem includes 60+ manufacturers in SEQ, with finance models based on product title transfer. “This isn’t just about technology—it’s about enabling small manufacturers to participate in large-scale delivery,” Larson said.
Integration Group focuses on builder-led MMC transformation
Brad Mayes, Construction Manager at Integration Group, brought a builder’s perspective grounded in 25 years of experience. He argued that Queensland is ready for MMC—and the shift is already happening.
“For years people told me we weren’t ready. But we are. Look at CSR, PT Blink, Modscape. We’re doing it already,” said Mayes.
He outlined a full project lifecycle model—“feasibility, concept design, MMC market test, construction, asset management”—and called for better QA, logistics planning and training.
“MMC isn’t about dropping boxes. It’s about designing projects properly from the start,” he said. “That’s how you reduce RFIs and deliver better outcomes.”
Mayes is establishing a new MMC hub in Burleigh Heads with Griffith University, featuring digital training spaces, fabrication zones, and supplier showrooms. “We need to train across trades and design,” he said. “MMC works when collaboration is built in.”
Anecdotes from site—including AI-assisted plan checking and smarter QA gateways—brought the message home. “Steve Jobs didn’t build the iPhone alone,” he said. “He coordinated systems. That’s what we need to do in MMC.”
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