We are excited to be a part of another great project that has been approved. The $160 million development received the green light to add Towers 3 and 4 to the Burswood Peninsula. The development near Belmont Racecourse will include 204 apartments across the two towers and 385 parking bays.
It is great to see another of our community-based projects approved by the development assessment panel. The multi-million-dollar proposal to build an assisted living centre near Rockingham, for people living with neurological conditions was unanimously approved.
The 12-unit development will provide safe residences to those with multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions. Well done to those on the Level5Design team who recently supported this project! We are very pleased to announce that once again we will be working with Austroads, this time over the next 2 years, to support road managers to obtain accurate insights into current usage of their road networks for a range of different vehicle types and active transport modes. This includes obtaining valueable insights on the utilisation of evolving data collection technologies such as advanced video capture and analysis and AI. This major project also has an objective to identify suitable solution(s) for bicycle and micromobility detection systems at traffic signalised intersections. The project involves the field testing and analysis of proof-of-concepts for vehicle and non-vehicle classifications and the development of an updated Australian and NZ road classification scheme and guidelines. It builds on a previous L5D project we conducted with Austroads to develop the Austroads-23 classifications scheme - see AP-R695-23 | Austroads for a freely downloadable copy of the report.
The way we use our road networks and the vehicles and people travelling on them are continually changing. The project will enable road managers to adopt a uniform, consistent and up to date approach to the way we classify users of our road systems across Australia and New Zealand. What Does the Realistic Future of Transport Look Like?Level5Design's Managing Director, Peter Damen, kicked off the Innovation Summit yesterday on the Future of Transport. There was lots of interesting discussion around IA, Hydrogen, EV's, drones, human centric cities and the need for behavioural change.
Great event to be a part of and we look forward to supporting Innovate Australia's next event! Welcoming Carlos Rial as the new CEO of Level 5 Design for the East Coast as of 22 April 2024 We are very pleased to announce that Carlos Rial is joining Level5Design as our CEO for the East Coast of Australia commencing on 22 April 2024. Carlos will be responsible for leading all activities of the company on the East Coast from strategy through planning, design, and implementation.
Carlos is considered a national roads industry leader. He has most recently been the CEO of the Australian Flexible Pavements Association, and prior to that he succeeded in other senior roles with Transport and Main Roads Queensland (TMR), for the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) and as a State Government Transport and Roads Director. Carlos has a proven ability to successfully analyse an organisation's critical business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing competitiveness, increasing revenues, and improving customer service offerings. Carlos has been a key driver of roads engineering innovation having led the Queensland Local Roads Alliance, the Transport and Main Roads Research Program (NACOE) and been a key partner to Austroads and many others. A strong partner to local government, Carlos has previously led a $5 billion program between State and local government that drove enhanced road safety, asset management and roads engineering practice. Carlos will begin by focusing his activities on Qld, NSW and NT. If you would like to discuss opportunities with him then he can be contacted at [email protected]. Okay, so we will be the first to admit that we have been too busy these last few years cranking out good work to post much news. We have been doing some really great things and we would love to tell everyone about it. Maybe 2024 is the year for posting more news? We have some really positive announcements coming up soon so please watch this space for more updates.
In the meantime, we have taken the time to share some candid shots of the L5D team over the last few years. Enjoy! We were very pleased to be able to present to delegates at the Institute of Public Works Engineering WA (IPWEA) Conference last week on our successes with promoting and facilitating the use of sustainable recycled materials in rail projects in Western Australia. IPWEA provides an excellent forum to share information among industry and it was great to see such a large turnout at this session. Lots of great questions also...
If you would like to find out more about what we have been doing, then please contact us. A copy of the presentation slides that we presented on the day can be accessed by clicking on the image below. State Conference 2024. Collaborate, Innovate, Celebrate.
We’re proud to support the IPWEA Conference next week! 7th-8th March, 2024 @ The Esplanade, Fremantle. Click here for the full program. Our team at Level5Design were pleased to support Austroads again last year in the development of an Extended Austroads Vehicle Classification Scheme for Australia and New Zealand. Safe, efficient, and sustainable transport relies on the accurate classification and identification of vehicles operating on our road and pathway networks. More information on the scheme is contained in the recently published report ‘Background to the Extended Austroads Vehicle Classification Scheme for Traffic and Transport Surveys.’ The report details the research undertaken for the extended Austroads vehicle classification scheme to improve understanding and monitoring of the evolving vehicle mix on roads in Australia and New Zealand. The report proposes an extended scheme that provides greater granularity in the existing 12 classes. It also provides a new class for active transport to address the need to count people walking and using mobility devices, wheelchairs, and scooters.
The extended vehicle classification scheme will enable the Austroads member agencies to:
The changes to the vehicle classification scheme include:
We are pleased to announce that we will be working to support Austroads over the next year to deliver best practice guidance on heavy vehicle rest area (HVRA) facilities by updating the Austroads guidelines for Australia and NZ and improving the availability of data on rest area utilisation. We will be:
- Reviewing and incorporating best practice learnings to enhance both the strategic direction and the planning and design concepts of the guidelines. - Confirming the Strategic principles underpinning the Guidelines are reflective of Austroads members’ current and emerging priorities for heavy vehicle networks. - Ensuring the currency of references made in the Guidelines, such as AS1742.6:2014 Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices: Tourist and Services Signs. - Ensuring the strategic direction of the Guidelines is consistent with evolving fatigue management legislation and regulations. - Developing options to support and inform providers, other than road managers, around opportunities to provide heavy vehicle rest areas (such as in towns and at commercial facilities), including recommendations that Planning regulations set minimum standards for new HVRAs. - Incorporating case studies to support (1) users to develop complementary state and or local strategic policy documents, (2) planning and design concepts and (3) support communication and engagement with interested parties. - Ensuring the Guidelines provide recommendations which consider the needs of a diverse workforce when accessing heavy vehicle rest areas. This could increase the available driver pool, and potentially alleviate driver shortages. - Ensuring that the design specifications for heavy vehicle rest areas are reflective of the evolving fleet, including newly designed vehicles, low and zero emission vehicles, dangerous goods vehicles and oversize and overmass vehicles. - Summarising information sources available for road managers (including telematics and other technologies) on the location and attributes of rest areas and utilisation of heavy vehicle parking spaces in real-time. - Devising options to provide a data source for road managers and the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator to share with the heavy vehicle industry. - Determining the requirements of a service to provide road managers with insights into the use of rest areas to inform planning and investment decisions using data collected from vehicles in the National Telematics Framework and other sources. |
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