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HOW THE HODDLE GRID SHAPED MELBOURNE AND CBDS AROUND THE WORLD
When surveyor Robert Hoddle laid out the Hoddle Grid in 1837 , he designed what would become Melbourne ' s signature : wide boulevards , alternating streets and smaller lanes , all laid out in a northsouth grid across 1.61 km × 0.80 km .
The Hoddle grid forms the central business district of Australia ’ s southern city stretching from Flinders Street to La Trobe north-south , and from Spencer Street to Spring east-west , inclusive .
Robert Hoddle , established the first formal town plan for the city when there were just a few hundred settlers - there are now five million who navigate these streets by tram or car every day .
Today , The Hoddle Grid is known worldwide for construction terms for the central grid of streets that make up the central business district of a city and defines the buildings that lie along them .
Melbourne ’ s architectural history is quite rich . “ There ' s this preservation of the old - although modern Australia is not an old country – and a contrast with the new ; in a way it ' s almost as if the new has to try harder . Some of the jobs we ' ve done have used glass which is warm browns , hot pinks and bright greens . Aurora is made up of five different shades of magenta ,” said Simm , who confessed he was a traditionalist and likes to work with blue glass on his skyscrapers .
“ THE BUILDINGS THAT PROBUILD SHAPES AND BUILDS WILL HAVE A LONG LEGACY . WE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT RECYCLING AND WASTE MINIMISATION IN ALL THEIR OPERATIONS AND ALL BUILDINGS ARE NOW BEING BUILT TO PERFORM BETTER ”
ALEXEI SIMM PROJECT DIRECTOR , PROBUILD CONSTRUCTIONS
A move away from balconies is changing the focus of air-conditioning technologies . “ As apartment buildings have become taller , balconies have become less usable due to windy conditions . If you have no balconies , you ' ve got nowhere to put the outdoor part of your air conditioning unit . There ' s been a big shift towards a hybrid of part-centralised and part-localised air conditioning systems . Variable refrigerant volume cassette systems have become quite prominent in the residential high-rise market , as a result .”
Digital twins and 3D modelling As design and construct builders , Probuild extensively uses 3D modelling which has evolved into digital twins . Simm pointed out the benefits of this new way of envisioning the process to efficiently deliver a higher level of quality in the final build . They
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