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New era for Halse Lodge By Abbey Cannan Creative director Chloe Tozer spent her youth hanging out at Halse Lodge, and now alongside her family she’s helped bring the iconic Noosa Heads landmark back to its prime. Originally built in the 1880s, the heritage listed guest house is set to reopen its doors
on Saturday 30 November, honouring the past and welcoming a new era in 2024. “I feel very honored to be a part of the project,” Chloe said, who led the restoration process as the founder of CLO Studios. “It’s not every day you get the chance to work on a 1880 building and restore it and bring those elements back to life.” Continued page 4
Rae Rushton, Emma Smith, Tom Robilliard and Chloe Tozer at Halse Lodge. (Rob Maccoll)
It’s not going to pot Potholes and broken pathways are reportedly responsible for 20 to 40 per cent of resident calls to local councils. That represents a lot of annoyed residents, and many hours of council worker time spent dealing with a very common problem, not to mention a public safety concern. It also represents an opportunity for very big cost saving if the problems can be found and fixed more quickly. Noosa Council has partnered with Queensland-based innovator TechnologyOne to
bring to bear Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to address the problem on roads and paths across Noosa. Working with two Australian tech companies, Noosa Council installed a camera on a waste truck to identify and automatically kick off the process of getting damaged pavements fixed as the garbage trucks drive around their regular rubbish collection routes. The system scans all pathways and roads across the 871 square kilometres
council area in just two weeks. The solution’s innovative AI and ML software picks up defects, triages them so the most urgent are addressed first, and connects directly with the TechnologyOne Enterprise Asset Management system. From here, asset repair work orders are automatically created, including location data, work instructions, maps and photographs, enabling
problems to be identified and fixed quickly. Work crews are dispatched to the precise location of the problems, and armed with images to help them find what they are looking for. During the program’s first two months of operation, a record 4356 defects have been identified and rectified. Continued page 7
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