ResearchAugust 5, 2025

Massey University Research Seminar — School of Built Environment

Hosted by Dr. Eziaku Onyeizu Rasheed SFHEA, Massey University School of Built Environment.

On 5 August 2025, Adaptable Structures founder Murphy O'Neal presented a research seminar at Massey University's School of Built Environment. The session was hosted by Dr. Eziaku Onyeizu Rasheed SFHEA and attended by graduate students and faculty.

Murphy O'Neal presenting at the Massey University School of Built Environment Research Seminar, August 5 2025. Wireless mic transmitter visible on belt. Multiple attendees seated at tables with laptops open. Massey University HERE FOR WHAT'S NEXT branding visible on lecture room screen.

The lecture covered the Anyplace modular aluminum building system, the Design for Industrialization (DfIND) framework that distinguishes it from conventional Design for Manufacture and Assembly thinking, and the Divergent Resource Logic full-boundary lifecycle accounting framework that underpins the carbon performance argument.

The thesis

The core slide of the lecture was titled "Natural Resource vs Human Resource."

The lecture slide titled Natural Resource vs Human Resource visible on the projection screen behind Murphy O'Neal, who is mid-explanation. The slide contrasts cut timber end-grains showing the growth rings of mature trees with an aerial view of forest canopy below.

The argument: conventional construction treats timber as a renewable resource on a 25–30 year cycle. Under full-boundary lifecycle accounting, timber is revealed as a depleting natural resource that takes generations to grow. The alternative — recycled aluminum sourced through renewable-powered smelting — is a human-made resource that does not draw down the natural system to produce another building.

The credential

Beyond the seminar itself, Massey University is the host institution for an ongoing research programme using a physical Anyplace module — the same unit built in January 2023 that the Hon. Chris Penk inspected under live load — as a continuously instrumented research building. The unit is supervised by Dr. Rasheed and is the primary data source for an active masters thesis by Kris Wang, principal of uDream Ltd.

What the Massey seminar represents is independent academic engagement with the Anyplace system — not a vendor demonstration. Faculty selection of the system as the basis for a research programme is a higher-credentialed signal than any number of self-published claims about the technology.

Twelve Massey School of Built Environment attendees in a group photo with Murphy O'Neal at center holding the Massey faculty certificate. — Massey Research Seminar attendees with Massey faculty certificate — 5 August 2025.

A faculty certificate was issued by the School of Built Environment recognising the seminar contribution.