Major new hub for sustainable chemistry opens at Monash
Green Chemical Futures
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Honourable Scott Ryan, today opened Monash University’s new Green Chemical Futures building.
Green Chemical Futures is a multidisciplinary innovation hub dedicated to supporting researchers and industries innovating within the chemicals manufacturing sector. It also offers exceptional learning spaces for students.
The new building acts as a catalyst for new ideas, providing a stimulating environment where industry and academia collaborate. The design of the building itself is intended to stimulate innovation with features such as a spiralling staircase and inspiring wall art.
Opening the building, Monash University President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Gardner AO said the building is a dynamic area connecting industry with researchers and students.
“As part of the second largest manufacturing sector that employs more than 60,000 people in highly skilled jobs, chemistry is central to the country’s societal, environmental and economic well-being,” Professor Gardner said.
“The opening of the Green Chemical Futures hub signifies Monash’s position as a world leader in sustainable chemistry research and teaching. It provides an engaging and high-tech environment in which students, academics and industry professionals teach, learn and collaborate to help make the world a better place.”
The first two levels of the building house innovative teaching and collaborative learning spaces, encouraging active learning and creative problem solving. The building also includes top class research laboratories and facilities on the upper levels.
Also in the building is the Victorian Centre for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing, the Graduate Research Interdisciplinary Program, and the Training and Innovation hub of the Chemicals and Plastics Innovation Network.