The delivery of construction projects is undergoing a major shift internationally with increasing utilisation of advanced information technologies. Increasingly in practice, immersive technology is being utilised to blur the lines between the physical world and the virtual world to design, visualise, simulate, deliver and manage the built environment.

The Lessons Learned are in both industry practice of industrialised building as well as academic research. We visited Harbin Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University and we shared each of our research programs and discussed potential future projects. An important difference between China and Australia is that off-site manufacturing (OSM) is termed Industrialised Building. In...