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The Smart Places Customer Charter, launched by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment in November, invites place designers and custodians to commit to six principles guiding the creation and upkeep of smart city projects. Organisations involved with designing, creating or managing public spaces can sign up to the Charter to demonstrate a commitment to prioritising people, country, sustainability and resilience when creating and maintaining smart places. The six principles have been shaped by direct community input and suggest that “smart places should be built for people and designed with people,” and aim “to harness the potential of new technologies to meet the needs of citizens.” The Charter’s principles are: Co-creating smart places: giving custodians and customers a genuine voice throughout the smart places’ life cycle. Respecting local character: …

Street Furniture Australia is excited to announce that our stylish and robust Concourse Seat has been chosen to furnish more than 28 train stations across NSW. In a recent announcement by Gladys Berejiklian, NSW Minister for Transport, it was revealed that the NSW Government has committed $33 million to upgrading train stations across the state. Along with new lighting, landscaping and paintwork, train platforms will be furnished with a total of 800 Concourse Seats. Faced with the challenging task to produce 800 seats in 8 weeks, SFA approached the assembly process with Toyota lean principles at our Regents Park factory. Our two assemblers were tasked with building 20 seats per day (at 20 minutes per seat) to achieve our deadline. Read this Sydney Morning Herald article to learn more about …