Victoria Draws up Plans for $35M Digital Duplicate
Victoria has bankrolled an ambitious $35.2 million (US$26.2 million) project that will see the state replicated digitally, speeding up the city’s urban planning and allowing government, industry, and the community to tour the state virtually and online. But the project opens up a new “attack surface” for bad cyber actors, a security expert has warned.
Unlike Google Maps’ Street View, which presents 2-dimensional images of streets and buildings, the Digital Twin Victoria (DTV) project seeks to allow users to fly around the state in 3-dimensional space.
This means planners, engineers, and builders will be able to access the digital landscape to see what projects might look like in the real world, drastically speeding up project feasibility studies, planning, and development all from the comfort of their own desk.
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VIC Premier
The Andrews Labor Government is urging all states and territories to put fairness first and consider the dignity of older Australians and people living with disabilities by supporting mandatory accessibility standards in the National Construction Code (NCC).
Minister for Planning Richard Wynne said mandatory standards would have a profound impact on the more than three million Australians currently living with a disability or with restricted mobility and would allow more Australians to age without seeking specialised care.
The call comes ahead of today’s National Building Ministers Meeting where Ministers will decide on an option to introduce mandatory accessibility standards in 2022 or continue with voluntary standards, which have failed to fix the lack of accessible housing across the country.
VIC Premier
Birrarung, with stronger, permanent planning protections.
The Minister for Planning Richard Wynne today announced permanent planning controls to protect the river and its surrounding lands from Richmond to Warrandyte. The controls will ensure the health and amenity of the Yarra River is safeguarded for future generations.
The changes lock in permanent landscape and built form controls, including height restrictions to prevent overshadowing, and setbacks to protect the river from inappropriate development.
Mandatory height limits of between 6 and 25 metres have been set along the Yarra River between Richmond and Warrandyte and a minimum mandatory setback of 30 meters means no development can occur on the sensitive riverbanks.
Jarrod Reedie
The Victorian Government has named the winners of its Future Homes competition, with four innovative apartment designs taking out the prize.
Designs from architectural practices including LIAN, Spiral Architects Lab, McGregor Westlake Architecture, and Design Strategy Architecture in collaboration with IncluDesign were all declared winners.
A partnership between the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and DELWP’s planning department, the competition is designed to create exemplar apartment plans along with a streamlined planning process to deliver more density in the suburbs.
Announced by Victorian Minister for Planning Richard Wynne, the competition sought designs that could be easily replicated across Melbourne. Wynne says the winners are benchmark designs for not only Victoria, but for the world.