Street Furniture Update

Company-news-sc2

Senior Industrial Designer Shreyas Rane with a design thinking journey map.

Design Thinking:

Street Furniture Australia is undergoing a design thinking program with Indelibility and Blue Sky Creative. This is a transformational project that aims to align all aspects of a business with a set of core values and purpose.

It’s human-centric – design thinking will put our customers at the centre of everything we do, which will take effect in 2017.

Companies like Apple and Airbnb have been applying design thinking principles to not only create truly innovative products and services but change the way they operate across the board.

We’re looking forward to keeping you posted about exciting new things to come.

New Government Contracts:

Street Furniture Australia is pleased to have won two new major government contracts:

  • MAV Procurement (Victoria and Tasmania)
  • LocalBuy (Queensland and South Australia)

Contract-logos

You can find a list of contracts here. We are looking forward to working with our Council customers in 2017.

New Year, New Faces:

We welcome three new members of the Street Furniture Australia team.

Josine Denning comes to us as Business Development Manager for NSW, continuing an exciting career working with specifiers in the commercial furniture and flooring industry for more than 15 years.

Starting out on the factory floor where he built and assembled Street Furniture Australia products for more than two years, Kieran Bennett now brings his detailed knowledge to the New South Wales sales team.

Shreyasi Mukerji is our new Industrial Design Engineer. She has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in the US, and is already uncovering interesting findings about the properties of battens.

Josine Denning, Kieran Bennett and Shreyasi Mukerji.

Josine Denning, Kieran Bennett and Shreyasi Mukerji.

 

posted on

  • 23 January 2017, by Editor

topics


make an enquiry

Opening hours are from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

enquire now

recent news

Are you Mustard, Plum or Greige?

As a national partner Street Furniture Australia is proudly supporting the AILA 2023 Festival of Landscape Architecture UN/EARTH on Kaurna Meyunna Yerta (Kaurna People’s Country) and surrounding regions on 19-22 October 2023. Here are seven of our upcoming festival highlights: 1. UN/EARTH program now available The festival program brings together streams of thought that engage with the elements and life below and within the earth’s surface, with four themes: DEEP EARTH / RAW EARTH / FERTILE EARTH / SUBTERRANEAN EARTH. Theoretical conversations and talks, presented by international speakers during the conference at the Adelaide National Wine Centre, are enriched by walks and expeditions on Country. Date: Thursday 19 October – Sunday 22 October 2023.Location: Tours and fringe events – various. Conference – National Wine Centre.Cost: Purchase your ticket on the …

  • 27 sep 2023
read more

Trend Watch, September 2023

Three landscape architects share their thoughts on the Voice History is calling as Australians head to the polls for a referendum on October 14, 2023, to vote on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Constitution. The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) said it encourages all members to “engage deeply with the available information, contemplate its implications, and arrive at an informed stance that aligns with your values and beliefs. “As landscape architects, we often find ourselves at the intersection of nature, culture, politics and history, aiming to craft spaces that resonate with the stories and experiences of those who inhabit them. This unique position imparts a special responsibility upon us to be both informed and sensitive to the cultural dimensions of our work.” AILA has compiled referendum …

  • 28 sep 2023
read more

In Profile: Charlene Bordley, Addventageous

Charlene Bordley (photo: right), the visionary founder of Parramatta Bike Hub, Parramatta Bike Tours and Addventageous, creates programs for ‘hard-to-reach’ groups including First Nations communities, women, seniors and disadvantaged youth. She met with StreetChat writer Kari Hill at the new home of the Parramatta Bike Hub on Wangal country, along the Parramatta River in Sydney Olympic Park. Charlene’s passion for making a difference in the community can be seen across the many social enterprise programs she runs. Wearing her uniform of blue, yellow and green, each colour symbolises a program: Blue for Addvantageous, Yellow for Parramatta Bike Tours and Green for the Parramatta Bike Hub. Social enterprise Addvantageous started off as a school program when Charlene gained confidence as a returning cyclist later in life. She experienced the benefits of …

  • 28 sep 2023
read more

related news

In Profile: Linda Corkery

StreetChat interviews new AILA National President Linda Corkery. Linda is a highly respected landscape architect with a trifecta portfolio of responsibility: AILA National President, Associate Professor at UNSW and Director of Corkery Consulting. We chat about AILA, the future of cities and how women are faring in her industry. Can you tell us about your journey, from the US to Hong Kong, to Australia? My journey to landscape architecture started at Cornell University in upstate New York. At Cornell, I completed master degrees in urban and regional planning and in landscape architecture. There were a few international students in the program, including an Australian fellow I got to know quite well, Noel Corkery. I finished my studies and headed to Chicago, working first in an urban planning consultancy and then in …

  • 23 jan 2017
read more

Refugees Welcome Hatch Seat

Nicholas Camerer’s prize-winning Hatch Seat is the new centrepiece of a community garden for Karen refugees. Street Furniture Australia manufactured the seat as part of the Intergrain Urban Timber Project competition, which challenged graduate and student landscape architects to design a meaningful piece for the Historic Farm Precinct in Victoria. The resurrected kitchen garden is a place for Karen refugees from Burma to learn new skills and share their culture, the result of a volunteer program by Parks Victoria and Werribee Park in partnership with AMES (Adult Multicultural Education Services). Camerer’s design features red, white and blue panels to represent the colours of both the Karen and Australian flags. Robust timber cross beams double as a leaning rack for gardening tools when not in use as a seat. The landscape architect, from …

  • 18 jan 2017
read more

Reimagining Streets, Not Roads

by Jason Packenham. Urban leaders are reimagining Australia’s future cities, starting with Streets 2.0 – a cross-disciplinary forum held in Sydney – with the conversation to continue in March at the Cities 4.0 Summit in Melbourne. With autonomous vehicles on the horizon, now is the time for such events. Provocative discussions at Streets 2.0 raised as many questions as answers. In continuing this provocation, this piece is as much a recap as it is a wondering of where to from here. What do we mean by the street? What role do streets play in our cities today? What do we want and need from them? Looking forward, what is their role in a future with autonomous vehicles? How do we achieve some of the grand visions of Streets 2.0? Are they possible? …

  • 16 jan 2017
read more