Jacquie Petrusma,Minister for Parks The Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) is preparing for the upcoming bushfire season with an extensive planned.
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Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre, designed by Cumulus Studio for Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Services, was named the winner in two categories at the 2021 Architizer A+ Awards.
The ninth edition of Architizer A+ Awards received over 5,000 entries from more than 100 countries worldwide. Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre won the award in two categories: Cultural > Cultural & Expo Centres, and Transportation > Transportation Infrastructure.
Designed to create a meaningful visitor experience at the iconic Cradle Mountain national park, the visitor centre is part of the masterplan for the precinct, and was completed in 2020 in the first stage of the development.
“As a studio we are really proud of what has been accomplished at Cradle Mountain. A huge amount of effort has gone into the Gateway Project, which was developed over six years ago through design from the initial masterplan through the construction to the opening in 2020 during Covid restrictions.
Jacquie Petrusma,Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Management
Tasmania Police’s new $2 million Radio Dispatch Centre has been officially opened as part of the Tasmanian Liberal Government’s plan to keep Tasmanians safe.
The RDS processes on average over 1500 emergency and inquiry calls a day, and had occupied the same workspace for more than 30 years since the original opening in July 1990.
We want to be able to provide our hard-working and high-quality RDS staff with best-practice technology and equipment and the new upgrade allows us to do that.
Funding was supplied via our $567 million TasGRN project, with the floor that RDS occupies redeveloped to create a new space for RDS operations together with development of a business continuity and training site specifically for Ambulance and Fire.
Australian Antarctic Division
Macquarie Island, and the steep underwater mountain chain from which it rises, have become a Southern Ocean seismic observatory to better understand earthquakes and tsunamis caused by the collision of continental plates.
Station plumber Neil Brown with an installed seismometer and solar panel on Macquarie Island. The solar panels were installed almost flush with the ground to protect them from the wind. Photo: Rob Dickson
The array of 32 seismometers, deployed across the tectonically active area known as the Macquarie Ridge Complex (MRC), are part of a project led by the Australian National University (ANU) – with help from Australian Antarctic Program expeditioners – to study the mechanisms causing submarine earthquakes in the region.
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