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Collaborating with all levels of government to create spaces and places to enable people to be active, play, recreate and participate in community sport.

Smart Connection Consultancy has been working with local government for over two decades. We understand the challenges governments face and the opportunities that this creates.

We appreciate community challenges may be surrounded by complexity and involve three levels of government and funding with various required outcomes. To embrace these opportunities, we work with our connections and expertise to contextualise the vision and adopt a logical systems approach for project delivery

How We Service Government

Strategies

Smart Connection Consultancy have over 30 years’ experience co-designing strategies for local government, including:

  • Physical activity strategies
  • Recreation plans
  • Sport specific strategies, both facility and/or pathway driven
  • Facility strategies
  • Playing field strategies

If Government decides to externalise facility management, it is important to create a vision of the service and articulate the impact the service can make. It is critical the strategy should lead the function. With over 40 years’ experience in the UK and Australia, our process embraces many global quality, community, and procurement frameworks to ensure best practice is delivered locally and focuses on:

  • Impact – articulating what short, medium and long-term success looks like
  • Service delivery – identifying who the service is targeting in the community within the centre and the municipality and clearly articulating community impacts
  • Management best practice – embracing the Australian Quality Framework and eight other “Best Practice” models around people, planning, technology, customer focus, asset management, finance and operations to provide confidence, compliance and impact

Understanding how to develop facilities for the next generation of users is critical for all levels of government, and should be dependent on a detailed understanding of:

  • Community needs– through comprehensive consultation
  • Stakeholder consultation – to assist in priority development
  • Design and sustainability – to create functional facilities that are cost-effective, low impact on their environmental footprint
  • Business case – to ensure the facility’s whole-of-life costs and management costs are within the affordable budget
  • Facility type – include indoors and external facilities

The global recognition for our work in the strategic planning, design, procurement, and management of sports surfaces has allowed us to complete more projects than all of our contemporaries combined. We provide a ‘One Stop Shop’ with engineers, surveyors, and landscape architects.

Having completed over $200 million worth of projects over the past 15 years across Australia we bring the latest global knowledge and design to projects. This includes embracing the latest environmental sustainability principles into the design, procurement and management of the fields of play.