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Smart Cities and Places

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Surviving and thriving in a rapidly changing world

The world is changing. Rapid urbanisation, technological advancement, changing market expectations, and expanding and ageing populations is putting pressure on natural resources and human infrastructure.

We support our clients across all aspects of cities to meet these challenges and deliver lasting community benefit through context specific Smart Cities and Places solutions. Our solutions allow city managers, infrastructure operators, precinct managers, property owners and developers to increase the pace at which they improve sustainability, reliability, resilience and quality of life for residents, businesses, workers and visitors.

We combine over 90 years’ experience in planning, building, operating and adapting cities and built environments with cutting-edge digital technologies. Our approach enables you to:

  • Bring together multi-disciplinary teams that draw on deep domain expertise in all aspects of planning, building, operating and managing cities and their component systems
  • Collaborate across and between city systems and sectors
  • Innovate with a range of city players to deliver new solutions to our most intractable city problems
  • Transform citizen and customer engagement and improve satisfaction ratings
  • Adopt agile methodologies to accelerate the plan-build-operate cycle
  • Deploy technology for the future that provides genuine benefit to city operators, customers and the community throughout the asset lifecycle
  • Mine existing data and develop new data sources to enable data driven decisions
  • Build sustainable, human-centred approaches to the design, construction, operation and adaptive re-use of buildings, places and city infrastructure

The challenges of the fourth industrial revolution are compounded by outdated and proprietary (as a pose to open-source) technology systems. Our extensive technology partner ecosystem provides robust platforms to manage the operations of buildings and cities that provide citizens and users with the best experience. 

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The main drivers within each market sector leading the need for Smarter Cities and Places are:

Energy & Resources
  • Data driven net zero carbon emissions strategies, monitoring programs and smart metering solutions
  • Renewable energy generation and storage design, approvals and operational management
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning for energy bill and peak demand management
 

Environment & Community

  • Digital citizen and customer engagement services
  • Real-time environmental monitoring solutions to manage construction and operating phase impacts and support urban liveability
  • Remote sensing and real-time monitoring for urban biodiversity and natural asset management
  • Natural hazard monitoring and real-time emergency warning systems to build community resilience
  • Urban heat modelling and adaptation insights
  • Climate change resilience support systems
Property & Buildings
  • Precinct strategies
  • Physical and digital place making
  • Interactive public art
  • Digital strategies for heritage city visitor services
  • Smart sporting venues and community spaces
  • Digital libraries and digital literacy
  • Smart commercial buildings
  • Smart wayfinding solutions
  • Asset management and operational dashboards
  • Outdoor workforce mobility solutions
  • Innovation hubs and digital incubators
Transportation
  • Electric vehicle strategies, charging infrastructure and monitoring
  • Smart parking and mobility solutions
  • Smart transport infrastructure
Water
  • Real-time catchment monitoring, advanced catchment simulation and analytics
  • Smart metering solutions
  • Water efficiency analytics and data driven demand reduction strategies

Featured Insights

  • Faster Smart Cities
  • Planning for tomorrow, today; Scenario planning for transport infrastructure

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Glenelg

Smart City Framework for Glenelg Shire Council

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