RESEARCH · OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE
Public data.
Better construction decisions.
Planning, housing and construction information already exists in the open. Our research is about interpreting it responsibly, and making it useful.
The challenge is not access.
It is interpretation.
Large amounts of valuable planning, housing and construction information already exist in public sources. Knowing how to read them responsibly, and together, is the hard part.
Each source tells
only part of the story.
Planning records, government publications, development applications, satellite imagery, market data and infrastructure information each carry a fragment. The research question is how to combine them into decision-grade evidence while respecting legal and ethical boundaries.
What we're working on.
All research follows responsible data governance principles.
- Development intelligence: Signals of development activity, read from open sources.
- Planning analytics: Approval patterns and policy effects, measured.
- Housing supply monitoring: Supply tracked from application to completion.
- Spatial analysis: Geography as evidence: GIS and remote sensing.
- Market intelligence: Demand and pricing signals from public records.
- Infrastructure mapping: What's built, planned and funded, in one view.
- Public data integration: Heterogeneous open sources, one consistent model.
What this could change.
Public information becomes valuable only when it becomes useful.
- Identify development opportunities
- Understand planning trends
- Monitor housing supply
- Support strategic investment
- Improve evidence-based policy
Where this research connects.
Public-data research feeds the same decision chain as our operational systems: from site feasibility to published market evidence, always inside the governance boundaries.
- Feasibility & Site Intelligence: Open planning and market signals folded into site-level decisions.
- Big Data research: The sister direction: fragmented property data connected at scale.
- Industry Reports: Public-data findings, published through the RESI Knowledge Hub.
- Data & Methodology: The governance boundaries all public-data research follows.
- Digital Twin research: The sister direction: design, site progress and scheduling in one live view of a project.
- VR & AR research: Immersive technology research for design review and communication before a single slab is poured.
Let's research it together.
Universities, developers, builders, government agencies and industry organisations: we welcome research partnerships that improve how Australia's residential construction industry plans, builds and innovates.
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