IPWEAQueensland has developed Guidelines for Urban Street Design based on the standards presented in IPWEAQ’s Queensland Streets. The publication entitled Complete Streets: Guidelines for Urban Street Design enables and encourages good design where pedestrians, cyclists and public transport patrons have equality of access in and around their communities and are not disadvantaged relative to motorists.
It is available as an online publication or in hard copy and is offered to IPWEAvic members at a reduced price. Download brochure here and Purchase form can be downloaded here
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The Department of Finance and Deregulation has released a guide to assist agencies in conducting financial viability assessments. The guide Assessing the Financial Viability of Tenderers , Good Procurement Practice 8 is now available in the Good Procurement Practice section of the Procurement Policy and Guidance Internet site. Access the guide here
The guide provides information that will assist agencies to decide the need for, and the type of, assessment to be undertaken in determining a potential supplier’s financial viability.
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View the media release for the 2010 IPWEAvic Awards for Excellence here.
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Take a look at the photo gallery of the 2010 IPWEAvic Awards for Excellence Gala Dinner held on 13 May 2010.
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Shire of Campaspe has engaged with its community to establish a star-rating system for its local road network that defines service levels and prioritises maintenance tasks. An article explaining the challenges, methodology, community engagement process, star rating model and cost of service published in the Public Works Engineering Journal won Jon Aujard, the Assets and Planning Executive Manager at the Shire of Campaspe, the Best Journal Paper Award at the IPWEAvic Awards for Excellence.
Visit the dedicated Awards for Excellence website for further details and to view other finalisits in ths category http://www.ipwea.com/awards2010/
Read the full media release MEDIA RELEASE30May2010
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Reduced costs as well as better health outcomes are amongst benefits expected for the residents of Darebin City Council as it transitions to a lower energy future. Development of an innovative Adaptation Strategy for Climate Change and Peak Oil won Darebin City Council the 2010 IPWEAvic Innovation/Service Delivery Award for Excellence. The plan’s innovation lies in the combining of adaptation strategies for both climate change and peak oil across the organisation and externally, including significant engagement and education. The development of this plan puts Darebin at the forefront of the industry in identifying and planning for risks in relation to both Climate Change and Peak Oil.
Visit the dedicated Awards for Excellence website for further details and to view other finalisits in ths category http://www.ipwea.com/awards2010/
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An innovative Resource Recovery Centre has won the Capital Project Award for the Wellington Shire Council at the Annual Public Works Engineering Excellence Awards held by the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia, Victoria Division. The new Kilmany Resource Recovery Facility is already generating greater than 40% recovery of waste disposed at the facility having significant environmental and financial benefits for the residents of Wellington Shire. A key feature is the “walking floor” component, a slow moving variable rate steel conveyor allowing for detailed sorting and removal from the waste stream of material prior to the residual waste being transported via skip bins to the landfill. The project has sparked interest in using these engineering concepts in other regional centres.
Visit the dedicated Awards for Excellence website for further details and to view other finalisits in ths category http://www.ipwea.com/awards2010/
Read the full media release MEDIA RELEASE30May2010
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The IPWEAvic North-East Regional Group met on27th May at Wangaratta. Angelo D’costa from DPCD, LGV, presented to the group on Councils Reforming Business.
Councils Reforming Business (CRB) is a funded program looking to assist Councils in achieving their objectives through greater collaboration.The Procurement Excellence Program was launched April 2010. This includes helping Councils through a self assessment process and providing better access to procurement. As part of the Procurement Excellence Program CRB are helping to expand the Engineering Standards Project started in Shepparton, Campaspe and Bendigo Councils. The uniform standards are intended to give Councils more opportunities for collaborative procurement as well as providing more consistent guidelines for developers. The standards also allow Councils to minimise the risk and share the costs of upkeep of engineering design standards.
To get involved in the project contact Angelo at CRB – his details are
Angelo D’Costa – Senior Project Officer
Councils Reforming Business – Local Government Victoria
Department of Planning and Community Development
Level 8, 55 Collins St, Melbourne
www.dpcd.vic.gov.au
T: 03 9651 7051 F: 03 9651 7629
angelo.d’costa@dpcd.vic.gov.au
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IPWEAvic Murray-Goulburn Regional Group met in Bendigo on 2 June 2010. At the conclusion of the meeting the group undertook a site visit to the $4.65 million Bendigo Chinese Precinct development funded:-
$1.9 million from the Federal Government,
$1.6 million from the State Government and
$1.15 million from the City of Greater Bendigo.
More than 3000-square metres of paving is being placed to create an upper and lower plaza spanning across the Bendigo Creek. The paving recognises the valuable contribution the Chinese community had made to the region and is a mix of Pyrenees slate, Harcourt granite and Chinese granite cobbles.
The lower plaza features several colours of Chinese granite cobbles. The 104,599 cobbles cover 1131-square metres and feature paving designed to depict China’s Pearl River Delta.
The upper plaza is created through the use of Pyrenees slate sourced from Avoca. The stone is flecked with pyrites (fool’s gold). There are 9970 tiles used to cover 1750-square metres. More than 620 pieces of Harcourt granite are used as edging.
Several sculptures are incorporated into the community space. Quite an impressive project.
For more information contact Brett Martini at Greater City of Bendigo
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EPA Victoria has released a new draft guidance document in its Best Practice Environmental Management series, Siting, design, operation and rehabilitation of landfills (the Landfill BPEM, EPA publication 1337), which gives direction on the best practice for the relevant standards for landfills.
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