When the doors to the Boola Katitjin building opened at Murdoch University’s campus this February, it was a triumph for sustainable construction given its status as the largest mass engineered timber (MET) building in Western Australia.

The building, whose name means “lots of learning” in the traditional Noongar language, also incorporated a world-first technological innovation involving the use of a robot to install screw fixings during construction – a step that has the potential to change how buildings are designed and how construction sites operate.