Rate My Professor Victor Bunster

Dr. Victor Bunster serves as Senior Lecturer in Architectural Technology at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University. He obtained his PhD in Architectural Science and Technology from the University of Melbourne in 2016, an MPhil in Design Computing from the same institution in 2011, a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Architecture from Universidad de Chile in 2007, and a Licentiate in Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2005. As a registered architect in Chile, he contributed to building technologies for large-scale social housing projects before joining academia. Currently, Bunster is Associate Director of the Future Building Initiative, ESD, LCA, and Energy theme co-ordinator at Building 4.0 CRC, and Adjunct Researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS). His research employs digital technologies and ICTs to evaluate and optimize the environmental performance of industrialised building, spanning interests in environmental design, life cycle assessment, sustainable and industrialised construction, decision support systems, design computing, and building science. He supervises PhD students.

Bunster has earned prestigious awards such as the 2022 Graedel Prize for best paper from the Journal of Industrial Ecology (presented 2023), Dean’s Research Team of the Year 2025, FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2017, Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship in 2014, and ABP Research RHD International Conference Travel Grant in 2015. Key publications include “Barriers and drivers of sustainable building adoption and influencing factor dynamics: A systematic review and meta-analysis” (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2026, with Dharmarathna and Graham), “Additive Construction 4.0: a systematic review of 3D concrete printing for Construction 4.0” (Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2025), “A web-based tool for streamlining environmental decision-making in building design” (IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020, with Crawford), “Life cycle energy assessment of retrofitting alternatives for mass social housing” (ANZAScA 2020), and “Mass Personalisation” (ZEMCH, 2016). With more than 260 citations, his work influences sustainable architecture and construction.