After completing a BArch at the end of 1976, went on for a further year as a full-time research student developing one of the first prototypical CAD systems that explored the notion of building modelling. From 1978, worked as a professional architect in Melbourne for 3 years while completing the MArch dissertation. Became a registered architect in Victoria in 1980. Joined the Faculty at UNSW in 1981 as a lecturer specialising in computing in architecture. Have exercised active leadership in the Faculty since that time, establishing much of the IT curriculum and resources. From 1999 through to 2001, has served as Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies). From 2006 to present, am serving as Head of the School of the Built Environment.
Areas of special interest and expertise: computer aided design and information technology as applied in the professional design disciplines associated with the built environment.
Teaching
General computing skills across all faculty disciplines; computer aided design; information systems and technology; design computation
Research
Current research relates to the application and development of industry standard exchange formats to support all-of-life design, delivery and management of buildings through the maintenance of a full 3D model representation of the design, supported by a shared building information model hosted on an object model server. A particular application of that concept is to support collaborative design processes in the building industry. Have won a major ARC Linkage grant from July 2007 (worth $630K over 3 years) to extend the object-based information modelling concept to an urban domain in collaboration with the NSW Dept of Planning, the City of Sydney and Landcom.
Recent Publications
Papers
Plume, J., & Mitchell, J., (2007), “Collaborative Design using a Shared IFC Building Model - Learning from Experience”, Automation in Construction, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 28-36.
Vrcelj, Z., Attard, M. M., Margalit, H. & Plume, J., (2007), “New Civil Engineering with Architecture Program @ UNSW” in ConnectEd 2007, International Conference on Design Education, 9-12th July 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Mitchell, J., Wong, J. & Plume, J., (2007), "Design Collaboration Using IFC: A case study of thermal analysis" in Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2007: the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, 11-13th July, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Arjun, G. and Plume, J., (2007), "Agent Facilitated System To Support Conceptual Architectural Design As A Reflective Conversation", in InterSymp-2007, 19th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, Focus Symposium on Representation of Context in Software: Data - Information - Knowledge, 30th July-4th August 2007, Baden-Baden, Germany.
Hough, R., Downing, S. and Plume, J., (2007), "Digital Architecture and its Implications for Structural Engineering", in Proceedings of the 4th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference, Melbourne, 26-28th September, 2007.
Arjun, G., & Jim P., (2006), "Collaborative architectural design as a reflective conversation: an agent facilitated system to support collaborative conceptual design", in Computing in Architectural Design: Re-Thinking the Discourse, Second International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design, School of Architecture and Design, American University of Sharjah, UAE, 25-27 April, 2006.
Plume, J. and Mitchell, J. (2005), "A Multi-Disciplinary Design Studio using a Shared IFC-Based Building Model" in Bob Martens and Andre Brown (eds.), Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005: the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference, 20 - 22nd June, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, Springer Verlag, pp. 445-454.
Barton, J., Plume, J. & Parolin, B. (2005), "Public participation in a spatial decision support system for public housing, Computers", Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 29, Issue 6, November 2005, Pages 630-652.
Barton, J., Plume, J. & Parolin, B. (2004), "Public participation in a spatial decision support system for public housing", in Proceedings of the 24th Urban Data Management Symposium, Chioggia - Venice, Italy, October 27-29, 2004.
Yip, M. & Plume, J. (2001), "The use of digital spatial narratives to express design ideas and concepts", CAADRIA 2001, Conference for the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Sydney, 19-21 April 2001, pp. 351-356.
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Chapters
Barton, J. & Plume, Jim., (2006), “A Geospatial Approach to Managing Public Housing on Superlots”, in Alias Abdul-Rahman, Sisi Zlatanova & Volker Coors (Eds) Innovations in 3D Geo Information Systems, Springer, Berlin, Pages 615-628.
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